First Person Defender
Check out this new web series from Gun Talk, called First Person Defender. It’s a really neat look at real life defensive scenarios.
Category: self defense
Dear gunstore lawyers: Shut. Up.
When you write for a firearms blog, often you will receive questions from the public seeking advice on any number of subjects ranging from a potential purchase ...
Self Defense and the Single Girl
I talk a lot about couples that bond over guns. They enjoy going to the range together, cleaning their guns together, or some other guncentric activities. IR...
Get Ready
Six months ago, I wrote a post called “a day in condition yellow” which talked about the color coded conditions of readiness. Then a couple of days ...
More on Disparity of Force
Tim’s excellent post on the “dangers of fists” has attracted attention from lots of corners of the internet, and it’s become apparent th...
The danger of fists
The endless blathering out there about George Zimmerman’s verdict is really beginning to annoy me. I’ve grown up admiring those who make the effort ...
Thinking Defensively
The whole country is abuzz after the verdict in the George Zimmerman case. The airwaves and the internet are thick with punditry, some of it cogent and some of ...
Meggitt’s FATS “Firearms Training Simulator”
While in the process of attempting to recreate real-life defensive shooting scenarios for our learning pleasure, I thought back to some training I received abou...
Home invasion risk mitigation
By now you’ve seen the horrible video of the violent home invasion/assault of a New Jersey woman. After watching that video, there’s a lot of armcha...
What’s at stake in a home invasion
Often discussions related to self defense are conducted in the theoretical. Every now and then, though, something horrible gets captured on video and theory is ...