Setting Yourself Up For Success
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…
Seen In A Gun Shop
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…
Seen At SHOT Show
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.…
What Is It With The AR-15, Anyways?
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…
Source Material
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,…
Fear Factor
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 Student of What
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…
Invest In Yourself
We talked about how for Gun Culture 2.0, guns = tires. Now let’s talk about training. And honestly, the very idea of formal firearms training is something that is inherently unique to Gun Culture 2.0. Gun Culture 1.0 didn’t care…
Why Do Smart People Believe Such Dumb Things?
In my formative years, I was subjected to a wide variety of spiritual and political leaders who told me, in no uncertain terms, that there were literal Satanists behind almost every element of pop culture that surrounded me. Now, we…
They Just Don’t Get It.
A local gun store is charging $50 for a FFL transfers, which is twice as much as other stores around me are charging. Their theory is that someone who transfers in a gun to their store clearly isn't a regular…