Personal Defense

How to Use a Flashlight for Armed Self-Defense

Courtesy Jeff Gonzales At a recent class, a student asked me about using a flashlight for self-defense while carrying concealed. My first response: are you carrying a good handheld light? My second: do you understand its…



Following Indictment, Missouri Governor Parson Again Vows to Pardon the McCloskeys if Convicted

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) After St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner had sent police to confiscate the guns that Michael and Patricia McCloskey used in their much-photographed defense of their St. Louis…


BREAKING: McCloskeys Indicted on Charges of Displaying Weapons, Tampering With Evidence

Mark and Patricia McCloskey, stand in front their house along Portland Place confronting protesters marching to St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson’s house in the Central West End of St. Louis. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson told…



After 2020, the Anti-Gunners’ Rely-on-the-Police Argument is Null and Void

Rioters outside of a burning liquor store near the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct, Thursday, May 28, 2020 (AP Photo/John Minchillo) Proponents of the right to private gun possession have long noted that the police are…





America’s Big City Mayors Have Been Working Hard to Create Millions of New Gun Owners

(AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill,File) The long-term mismanagement of America’s big cities, now exacerbated by Covid and their accommodation — if not outright encouragement — of rioting and looting — has done more to create new…