Personal Defense

California Man is Wounded While Shooting and Killing an Early Morning Home Invader

California legislators are working hard to double the tax on firearms and ammunition. When they couldn’t get the support they need (!) for the bill, they amended it to exclude long guns sold to anyone…



Oregon Homeowner Shoots a Home Invader After Being Forced to Make Him a Sandwich

Apparently breaking into residences and victimizing innocent people can work up an appetite in fugitive on the run. Terry Lee Martz was feeling a might peckish on Saturday after broad daylight home invasion at a…



Woman Taking a Shower Hears Her Children Screaming, Then Shoots Home Invader Dead

  We’ve run a number of posts in the past on the benefits of home carry and even shower carry. Yes, shower carry. We’re not crazy enough to think that many people actually do that…


Home Invasion: Colorado Man Emptied a .40 Caliber Pistol Into a 400 lb. Black Bear Found in His Dining Room

By Jesse Bedayn, AP Ken Mauldin was jolted awake last weekend with his wife screaming incessantly in their split level home in Colorado’s mountain town of Steamboat Springs where their three children were sleeping one…



Does Using an NFA Item in a Personal Defense Situation Put You in More Legal Jeopardy?

Does the kind of firearm you use in a self-defense situation matter? If you shoot a home invader to protect your family with a suppressed handgun, does that present legal problems you wouldn’t face if…


Amazon Driver Shoots a Knife-Wielding Attacker Who Charged Him Shouting ‘Knife Fight!’

Delivery drivers are at more risk than many people realize. Approaching hundreds of strangers’ houses delivering anything from pizzas to potentially valuable packages can draw the attention of criminals and crazies. That’s apparently what happened…


How To Do The ‘Dicken Drill’ At Night (Long Range, Low Light With a Pistol)

While many defensive shooters have recently discovered longer range pistol shooting after the Greenwood Park Mall shooting, the one where Eli Dicken stopped mass shooter from 40 yards away, some of us have already been…