The 1986 Miami Shootout
April 11, 1986 was an important date for gun nuts. On that date a unit of FBI agents were involved in a hellacious firefight with two military-trained armed rob...
Category: self defense
Self Defense in Chicago, an Unarmed Gun Girl
I’ve been working hard lately to regularly carry concealed. While spending a week in an unfamiliar Georgia city my CCW was in my purse every day. When run...
The Capacity Question – Part 2
The capacity question is not defined entirely by the speed with which you can pull the trigger when you believe someone is trying to kill you. There are other c...
The Capacity Question – part 1
Last week Caleb posted a little article on the obsolescence of revolvers that mentioned the capacity of the revolver as one of the factors working against it in...
Revolvers are obsolete
I really like revolvers. I like shooting them, I like carrying them, and I enjoy working on them. I also know that for modern self-defense, they’re obsole...
Handguns vs. long-guns for home defense
We’ve talked Rifles vs. Shotguns for home defense, and now it’s time to take a look at the other end of the spectrum: handguns. Specifically, if you...
Competence vs. Excellence – Round 2
I threw out a lot of words trying to quantify the concepts of competence and excellence in last week’s post, but this week thanks to the joys of the inter...
Handgun over-penetration
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: “You shouldn’t use projectile XYZ because it will punch through the badguy and kill a bystander behind him.&...
The great Tactical Reload Debate
There is a huge, 11 page thread going on over at Pistol-Forum about Tactical-Reloads. The only time I’ve ever gotten into a debate about whether or not a ...
Shotguns vs. rifles for home defense
In the post “Revolvers and Shotguns don’t jam” I mentioned that I would prefer to recommend a semi-automatic rifle to an inexperienced shooter...