Personal & Home Defense DRESSED TO THE 9s! The firearms industry has been riding a wild rollercoaster the last few years. Sales of firearms and ammunition were down, and then reached all time highs, only to go down…
Personal & Home Defense BUG-OUT BLASTS Survival—it is the primary objective of every living thing. For most people, most of the time, survival is centered around mundane things like making money to buy food and shelter,…
Personal & Home Defense POCKET PISTOL REALITY CHECK You’ve decided to take your personal security seriously and attend a firearms training course. The next step is to properly equip yourself, so you talk to a few people, buy…
Personal & Home Defense Firearms Maintenance Whether you use firearms for personal protection, home defense or recreational shooting, it’s in your best interest to maintain every firearm that you own. But properly maintaining a firearm involves…
Personal & Home Defense SELF-DEFENSE S&W STEEL For 158 years, Smith & Wesson has been meeting the needs of legally armed citizens in the area of self-protection and home defense. S&W started out making a tiny .22…
Personal & Home Defense BUDGET HOME DEFENSE CARBINE In case you haven’t been paying attention lately, the economic situation in the United States has taken a nosedive. People are losing their jobs and just getting work is difficult;…
Personal & Home Defense PICKING THE RIGHT SIDEARM When you are unfamiliar with the different kinds of firearms that can be used for personal protection and home defense, selecting your first weapon can be overwhelming. You want to…
Personal & Home Defense THOUGHTS ON POCKET PISTOL CARRY I’m the guy who said long ago, “Friends don’t let friends carry mouse-guns,” and got tagged with that as a “signature phrase” as surely as my old friend and colleague…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2012 Gun review: Steyr C9-A1 Steyr C9-A1, A 9mm that straddles the line between a full-size pistol and concealed carry gun!
Pocket Pistols Revolver Versus Auto Should the pocket-carried handgun be a revolver or a semi-automatic pistol? Each side argues vociferously for their favorite. Often, it’s a matter of habituation: The old, retired cop who carried…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2012 Taurus 856 Magnesium .38 Special Carrying a handgun concealed requires finding the right balance between caliber, capacity, size, and weight. For some, nothing short of a full-size, all-steel 1911 in .45 ACP will do. For…
Handguns Buyer's Guide 2012 Taurus 740 Slim .40 Taurus keeps turning out innovative new pistols designed to meet the needs of defensive handgunners. The company’s recent series of light, highly concealable pistols was launched with the introduction of…
Austin Proulx Interviews Bill Wilson of Wilson Combat Bill Wilson— the man behind Wilson Combat— sits down for a one-on-one interview with 14-year-old shooter and IDPA competitor Austin Proulx.
Pocket Pistols Raging Bulls The term “pocket pistol” is a bit subjective. Depending upon the user’s size and mode of dress, a pocket pistol might be nearly any standard-sized handgun. In the northeastern part…
Pocket Pistols Kahr Protection Back when revolvers dominated the scene, choosing a smaller handgun for self-defense was pretty much a no-brainer. Uniformed law enforcement officers, by and large, carried medium- or large-framed service revolvers,…
Pocket Pistols Glock Subcompacts In the world of concealed carry, there are two kinds of people: those who carry a gun because their work demands it, and those who carry a gun because their…
Pocket Pistols Maxed-Out Rugers Ruger’s LCP—Lightweight Compact Pistol—in popular .380 ACP was first introduced in 2008 to a great deal of fanfare. While certainly not the newest entry into the pocket pistol concealed carry…