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Self Defense: Is It Wrong if It’s Illegal?

If it’s illegal, is self defense wrong? A news story I read made me start thinking about people who carry self defense tools without a permit. According to the news report, Flair Lamont Griggs, a seventeen-year-old from York, Pennsylvania, was often at odds with another kid, Joseph Gomez, Jr.. Their animosity toward each other was strong enough that […]

Considerations for Home Defense – Developing Mindset

Your “mindset” is the foundational part of your plan and will help you dictate and prioritize the steps you take in its formation. You have to decide who (notice I said “who” not “what”) you are willing to protect, how far you are willing to go to protect them and how best to go about […]

Turn Your AR Lower into a .45 Pistol Caliber Carbine: Stern Defense

Stern Defense makes great AR magazine well adapters which turn your AR Lower into a Pistol Caliber Carbine. The version that caught my eye uses S&W M&P .45 ACP mags. Mag-AD series adapters install in seconds, just like an AR magazine. They have a separate magazine release at the bottom you manipulate with your trigger […]

How Impressing Your Friends Can Save Your Life

When you think about training to use a firearm to stop a lethal threat, it’s healthy to think of it as serious business…because it is. But just because the end result is serious business doesn’t mean that we can’t have fun along the way…or, more importantly, that we SHOULDN’T have fun along the way. One […]

The Tailhook Mod 2: Greatness from Gear Head Works.

The NFA is one of the largest infringements on our second amendment rights ever. What I love about the firearm industry is the fact that engineers beat government every time. Pistol braces are an example of that. I love pistol braces and the realm they occupy. Certain large pistols in the AR or AK platform […]

Axelson Tactical Hurricane Rifle: Graham Baates VIDEO

Axelson Tactical and Hurricane Group, and Cabela’s have teamed up to raise money for hurricane relief. We gave you a tabletop look of this rifle here. this rifle is truly a piece of art. Aesthetically and physically the rifle was built with purpose. It is truly a dream build. 6.5mm Creedmoor is not a round […]

How to Use Optics for Scouting and Hunting

When scouting or hunting, nothing beats high-quality binoculars and spotting scopes for revealing where the game is and isn’t. Even the best glass relies on the user to develop his or her optic skill set. Try out some of these ideas to improve your next glassing experience. Don’t Expect Easy Easy glassing? That’s a bull […]

Slaying 3 Sacred Cows Of Firearms Training

One of the things that I find fascinating about the world of firearms training is how fast opinions or personal anecdotes become set-in-stone rules. “Rules” like… The 21 foot rule EVERYONE will have tunnel vision in a defensive shooting situation 2 to the body and 1 to the head solves all problems You’ll never see […]

The Kidon Conversion Kit – The Tip of the Spear

The name Kidon may not mean much to those of us outside of Israel. However, in Hebrew Kidon means bayonet or tip of the spear, and more than that Kidon is a department of the Mossad. Specifically, Kidon is the branch of the Mossad in charge of executions of opponents. It’s one helluva name for […]

Shots Fired: Smith & Wesson’s M&P M2.0 Compact

Previously we gave you an tabletop look at Smith & Wesson’s new M&P M2.0 Compact in 9mm. The latest offering updates the M&P line not only cosmetically, but also in features. Now it’s time to hit the range and see how the Compact performs. In the video below you’ll see our standard full-mag +1, multi-load […]