Many years ago, at my first major practical pistol match, I was struck by all the banners set up around the range and how many shooters were wearing shirts festooned with NASCAR-style advertising. And none of it was appealing to…
I’m doing more videos for work, and rather than do them at my home range, I’m filming them inside of my local indoor range, because that’s the type of range where most of our readership goes to shoot. This range…
With the tax on suppressors, short-barreled rifles (SBRs) and short-barreled shotguns (SBSs) set to expire in January, things are looking mighty fine for anyone who makes cans. This is a good thing, because a suppressor is nothing more than a…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
Anyone who's ever debated guns from the pro-Second Amendment side of things is familiar with the phrase "have a conversation about guns." What this usually means is that those of us who believe in the individual right to keep and…