Training & Technique





Basic Malfunction Clearing Drill: Learn the Tap, Rack, Bang

If you have a semi-automatic pistol, you’ve experienced a stoppage. If you just bought your first, give it time. It will happen. It may be a failure to fire, a failure to feed, a double…


EDC Greatness: The J-Frame Revolver for Deep Cover Concealed Carry…Still

In today’s world, the semi-auto pistol reigns supreme. It seems that in a world with 11+1 micro-compacts, people today often turn their noses up at small-frame revolvers. Make no mistake, small-frame revolvers still have their…


The Basics: 7 Things Every AR-15 Owner Needs to Know How to Do

While driving to an open shooting position on a recent range trip, I saw AR-15 type firearms in every bay as I looked around. Some bays had as many as 10 different varieties of the…




Practical Lessons From Videos of the Hamas Attacks on Israel

Having taken graduate-level courses in emergency management and homeland security, watching people argue online about the Hamas attack on Israel and the Israeli response can be maddening. Instead of embracing the complexity and trying to…