Tearing Down The Concealed Carry Paper Ceiling
You might have to hit me over the head a few times, but I like to think I eventually learn. Thanks to Karl Rehn, we learned that most gun owners never take more advanced firearms classes than the minimum required to get their concealed carry permits. Add to that my state becoming the 28th state […]
Good Gear: Crucial Concealment Covert OWB Holster
Having tried scores of holsters over the years, I’ve found there are no great mysteries as to what I look for in a rig. Whether it’s inside-the-waistband or outside-the-waistband, it needs to 1) be comfortable, 2) keep my pistol concealed, and 3) cover the parts of the gun that make it go bang. Number three […]
Shooting Straight: Be Aware That Everything Is Discoverable
It hasn’t even been five minutes since the last time some dude in my newsfeed on social media boasted about his ability to shoot someone if they crossed him. This was, unsurprisingly, in a gun group chock full of derpish Dunning Kruger advice. Sometimes, though, those types of posts show up from friends. Whether I […]
Project Unloaded, the Latest Doomed Campaign to Convince Americans Guns Make Them Less Safe
Since its inception, the gun violence prevention movement has invested the bulk of its time and money in a top-down strategy: change gun policy in courtrooms and statehouses, the thinking goes, and the trajectory of gun violence in America will change too. But despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this approach and enjoying the support of most […]