Faux president Jotato Biden likes to make references about the Second Amendment being for hunting even though that has nothing to do with it. The word “hunt” appears nowhere in the Amendment. So what is it for then? The 2A was penned to give Americans the right to fight against a tyrannical government. Here it […]
Why Won’t My Pistol’s Slide Lock Open on The Last Round? (Video)
There are certain malfunctions that are human error, and others that are mechanical in nature. Just about every type of firearm malfunction can be caused by either. When we’re troubleshooting these sorts of malfunctions, we always look at it from a top-down approach. What I mean is that we need to look at the operator, […]
Why I’m Cutting My Collection And Preparing For The Future
We have uncertain times ahead, unlike anything any of us have ever seen before. There is a polarizing division in our country that has only gotten worse. The left wants to rule over the right, and the right refuses to be ruled. I also believe very strongly that we’ve been in a cold civil war […]
5 Controversial Handgun Skills You Should Still Practice
Having been a firearms and tactics trainer for decades now, you might imagine that many defensive firearms training topics and techniques have changed over the years; some are even downright controversial. In the last few weeks you may have read my articles concerning pistol training for self-defense, phase-1, phase-2, and phase-3. Interestingly there are a few concepts and […]
Defender’s Gun Jams After First Shot
Yesterday I shared an article that was a defensive gun use. The accompanying video is excellent in more ways than one. You can see the moment the defender pulled his gun and fired the shot. From the other angle you can see the bullet impacting the glass as it whizzes right past the alleged robber’s […]
Does My Self-Defense Gun Need A Safety?
I saw a question posted recently in a Facebook gun group that caught my eye, mainly because it’s not a topic we’ve covered on this blog before. The question was something like this: How many of you have a manual safety on your carry gun? If so, why? I’ll attempt to answer this question in […]
The Year of The Hi Power
2022 is shaping up to be quite the year for the gun industry at large. So far there have been some tremendous releases from S&W to Taurus and everyone else in between. There have also been several new gun manufactures that nobody has ever heard of before enter the market, as well as old makers […]
BRG9 First Impressions
There were quite a few new guns this year at SHOT Show 2022. While this is usually the time when guns are released, I was surprised at just how many of them actually came out. I was surprised at the number because there just wasn’t really a huge turnout for the conference this year. Several […]
Springfield Armory SA-35 Review
John Moses Browning is a name that almost all firearms fans are familiar with. Everyone who loves firearms is familiar with the M1911/M1911A1 pistol, one of many achievements of the world’s most prolific firearms designer. Most firearms fans are also familiar with his last design, the Browning Hi-power. A Brief Hi-Power History: Belgian firearms manufacturer […]