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THE AR15 FOR HOME DEFENSE

Prohibitionists want to ban it.  We want to keep it.  I argue for the AR15 as an armed citizen’s home defense weapon.

LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL

By the time you read this I’ll be back at home base. It’s been five weeks on the road: two shooting trials, a bunch of classes, and the inimitable Rangemaster Tactical Conference which the Evil Princess and I never miss.  One of the many friends there whom we cherish is Tamara Keel, who put together a […]

JUSTICE IN FEDERAL COURT

One night in October 2016, Master Deputy Richard Palmer of the Lake County, Florida Sheriff’s Department received a call to proceed to a known meth house in a rural area, after a 9-1-1 caller reported mayhem at the location.  Almost there, Palmer saw a woman in a sedan emerging from the lonely road that led to […]

REASONS I ENJOY EATING IN THE SOUTH

Southern fried chicken. Chicken-fried steak. Heck, chicken fried chicken. Black-eyed peas. And of course, grits. (A Southron tells his Yankee visitor, “C’mon, y’all gotta try grits just once.” The skeptical Yankee replies, “Uh…can I start with just one grit?”) The ubiquitous fried catfish is not my favorite.  What is my favorite? The occasional whimsical appreciation of sinfully delicious […]

ANOTHER GOOD READ

For gun collectors and students of firearms, the Colt brand holds a special place. Frankly, the same is true for those interested in the history of American manufacturing and marketing. I’ve often thought that the history of Colt would be an instructive read in Harvard Business Review. In this space in the past, we’ve reviewed two […]

BEFORE YOU MODIFY YOUR FIREARM…

…it’s a good idea to make sure it’s staying within factory safety specs. For instance, I’ve lost count over the years of how many criminal cases and lawsuits were hung on the hook of the defendant “negligently modifying the firearm in question.”  Most common among these is the “hair trigger” allegation.  You wouldn’t think a lawyer “out […]

SHOOTING STANCES

There is more than one way to skin a cat, perform a task, or fire a gun.  Over at Armory-Life, you can find a series of four articles I wrote on two-handed shooting stances.   The first part explains the rationale of knowing different stances and being able to apply them to different situations. Part 2 focuses on the […]

IF YOU DON’T ALREADY HAVE A COPY…

I put a few decades into researching this edition of Gun Digest Book of Combat Handgunnery, and am happy that it has been so well received.

A MODEL FOR POLITICAL ACTIVISM

My old friend Dave Workman at the Second Amendment Foundation is one of the nation’s most articulate advocates for gun owners’ civil rights.  He’s also a stablemate among those of us who write regularly for GUNS magazine. In the current issue, his commentary on the recent experience in Virginia is very much worth reading.  You […]

CHANGING GUNS

My old friend John Bianchi, the master holster-maker, propounded what he called “Bianchi’s Law” for carrying handguns.  It was “same gun, same holster, all the time.”  (That could be read as same type of gun, same type of holster, in the same place.)  It was to make sure that if you reflexively needed to draw […]