Open Source Defense breaks down the steps to make something that once was forbidden and illegal into something normal. They list four steps: Forbidden, Aberrant, Accepted, Unnoticed. The move from the second to third step caught my eye: "Aberrant→Accepted: this…
My friend Michael Bane (along with another friend, Paul Earhardt) came up with the idea of “Gun Culture 2.0” to describe the shift they were seeing in American society. The previous gun culture, version 1.0, was all about hunting and…
Open Source Defense churns out some of the most thoughtful, engaging content in the world of armed self-defense. It’s not about training or gear, but rather, how that training/gear/lifestyle is impacting American society. Their latest article, on how guns are…
I sort of got my start in this gunwriting thing by making the (weird at the time) assumption that a .38 Special with pink grips might not be the right gun for a woman. That article took off, and was…
I was at my local gun shop this week, waiting to pick up a gun to test for the day job, and I watched as another customer bought a gun for his wife. And I mean that quite literally: she…
SHOT Show is over for 2023, and I saw four trends: An utter lack of new G48/P365-sized guns. Like nobody came out with anything new this year to play in that market space, which was a bit of a surprise.…
I had a chance this weekend to talk at length with Michael Bane, my good friend and mentor in this industry. In just a few hours, we managed to solve all the world's problems, and we both agreed that we…
A few years ago, I made up my mind to learn firearms training from as many original sources as possible. I was too late to the game to learn from people like Jeff Cooper, Jim Cirillo or Todd Louis Green,…
I've enrolled in the Firearms Marketing Secrets program that Brian Sweeney is running, and it's an interesting class. Most of it, quite frankly, is stuff that I know (hey, I have a degree in internet marketing, after all), but honestly…
A bunch of friends of mine were recently at a firearms training summit where they got to learn from and train with some of the best minds in the business, as well as train with each other in order to…