Combat Handguns “It Happened To Me!” Editor’s Note: We pay $100 for each account we print. Send to the magazine, c/o “Police Stories.” Or e-mail to tactical-life@harris-pub.com INTERSTATE BLOWOUT In the late 1980s, I was making…
Personal & Home Defense Feeding Your Firepower Purchasing a firearm for personal defense is only part of the equation. After training, your next step is to find the proper ammunition for the task of protecting yourself and…
Personal & Home Defense Maximum Firepower It was a long and rough day, and when your head hits the pillow you are out instantly. Hours later, you jump out of a deep sleep to the sound…
Personal & Home Defense Rules of the Road In the days of the Old West, shotgun messengers were armed with coach guns. The messenger, an employee of the stagecoach company, sat next to the driver armed with a…
Personal & Home Defense Gun-Grab Defense After Missouri passed its Shall Issue law a few years ago, I observed many friends regularly carrying a gun for the first time. A lot of us hang at a…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2013 Wilson Combat Super Sentinel Concealed carry holders are constantly looking for smaller pistols facilitating ease of carry. Having carried a pistol for decades it isn’t nearly as easy as it looks. It takes a…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2013 Sig Sauer P290 Back when I first started shooting in the 1970s, a pocket pistol usually meant a five-shot J-frame revolver. If you wanted a highly concealable auto pistol, you had to settle…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2013 Revolver vs. Auto I know what you’re thinking—“Ugh…not another rehash of the most trite and hackneyed argument in the history of gun magazines!” Yup. I’m afraid so. Why? Because the argument has not…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2013 Glock 20 SF 10mm Developed in 1983 as a law enforcement cartridge and originally adopted by the FBI, the 10mm was designed to deliver exceptional stopping power in a smaller caliber than .45 ACP,…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2013 Right Holster, Right Draw Experience can be an unforgiving teacher. But after a bit of trial and error we eventually find the right path, benefitting from what we’ve learned. I’ll confess that my journey…
Handguns Buyer’s Guide Finding the Right Method of Concealed Carry Carry a handgun with confidence & comfort no matter where you go. Learn what method of concealed carry works best for you.%%page%%
Complete Book of Handguns Hot and Cold Carry Gun concealment is largely about wardrobe. Common sense would tell us that the more clothing the ambient temperature demands that we wear, the easier it should be to conceal guns.…
Complete Book of Handguns Points of Aim I’m not sure where the term “aim for the center of mass” came from in the world of defensive shooting. It had already been in common use for a long…
Pocket Pistols Wilson Combat Sentinels Wilson Combat has long been known for its custom 1911 pistols, and they make a number of them to suit just about any need. Most are chambered in .45 ACP,…
Pocket Pistols Ultra Compact .45s If you are old enough to remember the name Semmerling, a manually operated subcompact .45 ACP “semi-auto” developed in the early 1980s and marketed as the world’s smallest magazine-fed .45…
Pocket Pistols Boberg’s Micro XR9-S The first firearm produced by Boberg Arms of White Bear Lake, Minnesota, was the XR9, a semi-automatic subcompact 9mm pistol designed specifically for concealed carry (CCW) applications. With a barrel…
Pocket Pistols Pocket Pistol Reality Check Pocket pistols are a fascinating breed of firearm. Carried properly and backed with good training and tactics, they can be extremely potent defensive weapons. However, if any aspect of your…
Pocket Pistols Sig’s Pocket Elite After four years working for a division of a major firearms manufacturer that has supplied the U.S. military with 9mm pistols for several years, I’m familiar with military and law…