Another summer, another season to riot and set things on fire. Last year, it was anti-Israel demonstrations, this year, it’s pro-illegal immigration demonstrations. Next year… who knows? For starters, next year is the sesquicentennial of our nation, so I’m guessing…
Michael Bane recently made an interesting point on his podcast: Firearms training is based on lagging indicators. We study crime statistics and we say "Ah-ha! Carjackings are up 35%, I need to take a vehicle defense course!" But that desire…
Right now, the Overton Window on political violence wide open and there’s a healthy breeze blowing through it. Someone tries to burn down the Pennsylvania Governor’s Mansion. Tesla dealerships are getting trashed. An active shooter kills two and wounds others…
A few years ago, the then-current head of marketing* for SIG Sauer came up with the idea of a “store within a store,” with display cases just for SIG Sauer guns and accessories. Not a bad idea, but the problem…
Many, many years ago, when I first started gunblogging, I wrote about the idea of the “Not Glock,” the polymer, striker-fired pistol you’d choose if you didn’t choose a Glock 19. At the time when I first wrote about this,…
Let’s go back 40 years to a magical time that I like to call “The Mid-80s.” The Kevin in that time really wasn’t amounting to much. He was working dead-end retail jobs and the only thing that mattered in his…
Believe it or not, there was a time here in America where karate dojos were few and far between. They weren't in every other strip mall, they were in the seedier parts of town, where the rents were cheaper. Then…
“A man alone is a target.” - Clint Eastwood I re-upped my CPR certification over the summer, and one thing our instructor stressed was building a team as a response to a cardiac incident. CPR is exhausting, and unless you…
Yeah, I know, this is more inline with the stuff I post on my firearms training website. Indulge me. Let’s assume for a minute that concealed carry is the American martial art, and that it’s a weapons-based martial art. First…
Two things recently happened on Facebook which got me thinking a bit about the state of the firearms training industry. The first is this post from Duane Thomas about how good is “good enough.” “Years ago two friends of mine,…