Happy New Year!! Have you thought about making some resolutions around your personal safety and defense? Here is some good advice.      If you have already taken one of my classes, you know how seriously I take ongoing training and education when it comes to firearms and self defense. You also know how seriously [...]

The sun was barely rising, Santa had come, and I leaped out of bed to get my parents up… One of the things that makes holidays so special is the traditions our families keep. The morning rituals on Christmas Day, the traditional menu items our families looks forward to each year, and those extra special [...]

Innocent children die every month because gun owners don’t properly store their firearms. On Monday, November 26th 2019, just four days before Thanksgiving, two innocent young teens lost their lives to what appears to be the negligence of an adult. 14-year-old Julio Labrada and 15-year-old Jose Villarreal III were hanging out with their friend, 15-year-old Joseph [...]

Two innocent young teens lost their lives to what appears to be the negligence of an adult on Monday, November 26th, just four days before Thanksgiving. If you remember from last week, 14-year-old Julio Labrada and 15-year-old Jose Villarreal III were hanging out with their friend, 15-year-old Joseph Blanco in his garage when Blanco evidently found [...]

If you’ve been looking for that perfect magazine carrier. Look no further. I was shopping around for a new mag bucket. The one I had been using was quite the disappointment and surprisingly, it is from one of my favorite holster companies. It slipped, slid, and rotated all over my belt. I have always been [...]

Shopping during the holidays combined with the shortened days this time of year provides for being in some potentially compromising situations. We all know the drill. It’s dark by 5:30, you need to make those stops by the mall to get that last minute holiday shopping done, you might be in a rush, and most [...]

Depending on where you are in South Carolina, you may be breaking the law with your knife. Read on to get the skinny. I am a huge advocate for carrying less lethal tools in addition to the lethal ones. It all pretty much boils down to a couple things called proportionality and the use of [...]

Are you thinking of buying a gun as a gift for someone this holiday season? If so, you might want to make sure you are doing it lawfully. ’Tis the season! Well, it just about is anyway. In a matter of weeks, the gift buying frenzy is going to ramp up something fierce. The National [...]

Ricky’s life was changed forever simply because he made a foolish mistake with his firearm. It could happen to you just as easy. Ricky was driving home from spending an evening at a bar. As he drove down the road, another vehicle started aggressively tailgating him in a harassing manner. Ricky, getting extremely irritated, tapped [...]

Did you know your smartphone has features that can save your life?  Most people don’t, and those that may have heard of it don’t even have their phones set up for it. Read on to learn how. iPhone has the SOS feature. When activated it will automatically call the local emergency number. It also proceeds [...]