The police aren’t the bad guys
Today there is news of yet another police officer murdered, this time in Fox Lake, Il. This follows news of Deputy Goforth, a father of two, being straight up e...
Author: Tim
The Grudge
I had plans to write about something else but yesterday’s events have left me unable to think very much about anything else. If for some reason you haven&...
Welcome to the Jungle
“Welcome to the jungle it gets worse here every day Ya learn to live like an animal in the jungle where we play If you hunger for what you see you’l...
Don’t be an idiot
It’s time for another rant. Some time ago I got together with my brother and a friend of his because he asked me to do a bit of training with them....
Why I’m buying a Gadget
A few weeks ago Baxter wrote a piece on the release of The Gadget, a device that allows someone using a Glock pistol to block the striker mechanism when holster...
Hard lines
Last week an interesting story with some important lessons on self defense received significant media coverage: “When a woman in Charleston, West Virginia...
It’s not “senseless” violence
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that last week four Marines and one Sailor were fatally wounded in what a large chunk of the political an...
Magazines and reliability
Handguns are machines made up of a number of individual parts all working in harmony to achieve a particular goal. If we use these machines with any frequency, ...
Book Review: Fighting Smarter by Tom Givens
Apparently June of this year set new records for firearms sales. I’ve mentioned before that I have encountered a surprising number of people with a very r...
Class Review: Intensive Pistol Skills with Tom & Lynn Givens
If you are a regular reader of this space, you may remember mention of the name Tom Givens from previous articles, but you probably don’t know a whole lot...