Home Defense Home defense and protecting your family is essential – but, believe it or not, there actually are laws restricting it. The law varies from state to state, but in most states you are allowed to kill in self-defense, defense of others and defense of property. (If you don’t know what the law says, you’d better check.) But even in states where you are allowed to kill, the law has one huge caveat. That is, the courts have to agree with your actions, after the fact. In other words, the courts have to agree that your life truly was at risk and you had to kill. The term that they use is ..read more

winter concealed carry News flash: There’s been almost a century-long debate on which is the best caliber for CCW. Groundbreaking stuff, right? Well, if I’m going to contribute to the conversation on this one, then here’s my thoughts: There is no single perfect round, in the same way that there’s no single perfect survival knife. If anything, perfection in this case is situationally dependent — meaning that perfection in a CCW round for one person may be the exact opposite to what perfection means for someone else. Additionally, one of the variables in our ongoing search for personal CCW per ..read more

Walther PPQ M2 is one of my top five guns. If you could own only five guns, what would they be? I recently asked myself this question and the task proved surprisingly difficult, because there are a lot of different guns that I like — and it’s not easy making sacrifices. In the end, though, I was able to narrow my selection by first determining the five basic types of guns that I would want to own before choosing the specific models for each of those types. So what are the five types? They are: 9mm semi-automatic pistol .45 ACP semi-automatic pistol .22 semi-automatic rifle 12-gauge pump act ..read more

Bullet selection is vital when it comes to self defense shooting Few topics can light up a range-side or gun store discussion like handgun caliber. Most every long-time handgun owner feels strongly about one caliber or another being the best. When speaking of self defense use, the term “stopping power” almost always enters the discussion. Is there a best caliber for self defense shooting? This article looks at both professional opinion and conventional thinking to answer that question. Lets talk primarily about the differences between two common choices for a self defense handgun. The 9mm Lu ..read more

Taking advantage of some unique hiding places when concealing your guns could help you to avoid illegitimate confiscation efforts. The recent shooting of Gary Willis has shown that the liberal left is still hell-bent on taking away our guns. Gary’s only crimes were to get in a disagreement with a distant relative and then not be willing to turn over his guns to law enforcement officers when they came to confiscate them under a red flag order. The same could happen soon to any of us. How Do We Resist Gun Confiscations? This raises the question of how to resist such confiscations effectively ..read more

Situational Awareness – The Simple Way To Avoid Being Robbed Let me start this out with a bit of a test for you. Try to answer the following questions: The last time you stopped for gas, how many other cars were getting gas? What color socks was your boss wearing today? What did the people in front of you and behind you at the grocery line look like? How many of your neighbors left this morning, before you did? Were there any unusual cars parked on your street when you got home today? If you can answer any of those questions, without it being pure guess work, you’re doing good. The truth i ..read more

Mistakes Gun Owners Make Gun ownership is a fundamental civil liberty, but just like all rights, it requires responsibility. Here are five mistakes that some gun owners make, and how you can avoid them:   Mistakes Gun Owners Make 1. Poor Storage Choices Don’t store your weapons out in the open, where children have access to them, or where burglars in a potential break-in could easily find them. Keeping your guns locked in a safe or high in the closet are better locations. Of course, keeping them in easy-to-access areas for emergencies will require you to be a little more creative to kee ..read more

Homemade Melee Weapons Guns have been referred to as “the great equalizer,” and there’s no weapon which can come close to them in that regard. A lot of the popularity of firearms is due to the fact that anyone can use them effectively, not only the strong and agile. The young, the old, men, women and child can take up firearms in defense of home and family and do so effectively. But what do you do if you can’t use a gun – or if you don’t have a gun — to protect yourself? It only makes sense to have a backup plan. That way, in the case that a firearm malfunctions, you run out of ammunition or ..read more

Children self-defense Every day we make decisions to protect our children. We decide what they eat, where they go to school, and even influence who their friends are. We see that they get to the doctors when they are sick or injured and we teach them what’s right and wrong. But have we taught them what to do when we are not there? There are plenty of situations where our children need to make wise decisions and should they ever be followed or attacked by someone, they need to know how to respond. While we do everything we can to protect our children, we haven’t done our job if we haven’t tau ..read more

Are you stockpiling ammo? Amongst all the critical supplies that survivalists stockpile, there is nothing more controversial than ammunition. When it comes to food and water, you never hear someone saying, “That’s too much.” But you can hear that with ammo. You can also hear a lot of people spouting off about how you need 10,000 rounds, without a whole lot of justification for it. Part of the problem, as with everything else in preparing for an uncertain future, is that none of us really know what we need. We’re trying to define how much inventory to invest in, without really thinking it thr ..read more