Knowledge to make your life better. If you have some free time, check out some of these links this weekend.
Level 4 Plates: Body Armor Buyer’s Guide
An excellent review of plate body armor options.
Shelley Hill: Recognizing Types of Smiles to Trust
Being able to effectively “read” facial expressions is a critical self defense skill.
Magazine Fatigue?
Best practices for storing loaded magazines.
Anatomy of an Assault: The 5-Step Attack Cycle
Steve Tarani identifies the ways criminals evaluate their victims and how they set the victim up for attack. If you can short circuit the process, you will prevail.
How Fast is Too Fast?
My smart readers will read and heed this advice.
On Training: Volume 1
What I’m reading…
Wonderful Wadcutters:From Target To Tactical
Exploring self defense wadcutter options.
Optics In Adverse Condtions: Trijicon Acog, Red Dot, Variable, and Iron Sights
How rain, snow and fog affect your optics. For more optics information, read Open Or Closed? Your Choice Of Emitters as well as LPVO vs. Magnifiers: What Works Best?
Living The Cocked-And-Locked Lifestyle
Massad Ayoob’s thoughts on “Condition One” carry. You should also read his article Mistakes Made Defending the Innocent.
Don’t Forget to Have Fun
“Having fun matters. It fuels passion. It motivates us. It helps us grow and improve.”
I truly believe this and strive to structure my classes to allow my students to have fun while they are learning new skills.
STOP Wearing your duty rig until you do this test!
All of you cops should stop right now and check your duty rigs. If you are aware of any incidents like the ones Craig describes, please share the details with him.
Testing The Effects Of Moisture On Ammunition
I think quirky little experiments like this are incredibly awesome to read. This info might be useful for those of you who get your guns and ammo wet on a regular basis.
Essential Gear to Escape Your Captors
Counter-kidnapping gear.
POM Pepper Spray Flip Top Pocket Clip – Maximum Strength OC Spray for Self Defense
A rare sale on the small pepper spray containers I carry and recommend to others. Buy the six-pack and hand them out to your friends and family members. 33% off today.
New Information Emerges About Buffalo Mass Shooter’s Connection to Satanic Online Communities
A very deep dive into the online influences of the Buffalo active killer from a couple years ago.
12 Gauge Buckshot Range Report
A lot of you have patterned your defensive shotgun loads for common (inside the home) gunfight scenarios. Have you ever tried to pattern your defensive load at a longer distance? This article patterns two different buckshot loads out to 35 meters. It’s a useful exercise in the fact that you will know at exactly what distance your pattern size starts to exceed the width of the target you are shooting. That’s your maximal effective range unless you have an impeccable backstop.
For more shotgun content, check out Evolution of the Fighting Shotgun.
Gunfighter Challenge
A classic shooting drill you all should try. If that’s too simple for you, try Gabe White’s Technical Skills Tests either dry fire or with real ammunition.
The Most Dangerous Man in the World
You should read everything Kelly McCann writes.
Best CCW Insurance: Protecting Yourself After You Protect Yourself [2024]
A comparison of self defense insurance options. Although it is not an insurance product, I carry coverage from The Armed Citizen Legal Defense Network to help me defray the legal costs of a self defense claim.
Crimson Trace Lasergrips For Revolvers
The history about how lasers ended up on pistols and what opportunities those devices create for us today.
TSA Keeps Breaking Into Gun Cases (And Now My Accounts About This Involve Police Officers)
This is a legitimate problem. I first wrote about it several years ago when it happened to me. I’m not sure if this dude’s solutions are the best way of preventing problems. I’ve also written about my solution (using TSA locks on the gun case) and it inevitably enrages lock nerds and people like the man who made this video. I haven’t had a case or lock broken since I pushed the easy button by using TSA locks.
Self-Defense and the Law: Is Shooting Long-Distance in Defense Defensible in Court?
How long is too long for self defense?
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