A good and proper handgun grip can make or break your shooting experience. Too loose of a grip, and you’ll surrender control. Too tight of a grip, and you’ll leave yourself subject to movement and tremors. How to grip a pistol is one of those topics that will garner a thousand different answers if you
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That Holster is Unsafe! Or is it? – A substance named graphene is alleged to be the strongest known material on Earth. This man-made material is made up of carbon atoms arranged in a specific manner to give it the properties it possesses. Through a process using solvents, graphene sheets can be molded into specific
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And Then There Were None – Previously I talked about a challenge filed in New York City seeking to overturn the city’s ban on electric weapons. The 2008 Heller decision has paved the way for several unconstitutional provisions to be struck from the laws we have on the books, and this was highlighted in the 2016 Caetano
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Big Win in California Over COVID Shut-Downs – On January 20, 2022 two decisions came down in California concerning shutdowns under the pretense of the COVID-19 pandemic. Both cases involved a coming together of multiple organizations in filing suit. The two cases are McDougall v. Ventura County and Martinez v. Villaneuva. McDougall challenged a mandated
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NYSRPA Poised to Upend Gun Control – It’s been some time since the justices of the Supreme Court of The United States heard the NYSRPA v. Bruen case. NYSRPA is the New York Rifle and Pistol Association, the state level club affiliated with the National Rifle Assocaiton. The NRA with the NYSRPA funded and supported
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There have been so many instances that people say things like “I don’t see anywhere in the Second Amendment where it says you can xyz.” Xyz, of course is a stand in for any argument that someone who’s not civil rights minded might make against what the Second Amendment means. A crucial and important element
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When I first read the reports about the bowman attacking and killing several people in Kongsberg, Norway, a pile of things came to mind. First and foremost, anytime a situation yields the loss of life, there is no cause for celebration. This event was a tragic and senseless act from all current accounts. What we
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The subject of using less than lethal or non-lethal weapons is one worth exploring. As firearm owners, trainers, students, etc., we focus a lot on “the gun.” That being said, there is a whole host of non-lethal and less-than-lethal options out there for self-defense. Some people just are not interested in firearms, or perhaps there
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Confession, sometimes it’s hard to come up with material. Because of that, I’m constantly polling friends, colleagues, and fellow instructors about what to write. I ask them about their needs and their students’ needs. Not so recently, I was discussing this with a close friend and fellow instructor, and he posed a question to me
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One of my mentors in the shooting world that I took a class from was an old school kind of guy. I loved training with him and learning from him. One of the things he said in a class I took about what kind of firearms everyone should be looking for really stuck with me.
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Previously I discussed the influx of people coming to me seeking advice on firearms. My personal social media accounts have been buzzing with questions from people left and right looking for answers. During a small dinner date with another couple, we talked about what was going on in our lives, filling in the blanks, and
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This topic comes up from time to time. There are so many different opinions on the subject that the noise can be deafening concerning the transport of a firearm from one state to another, particularly when traveling through states that are hostile to our freedoms. First and foremost, let’s look directly at the provisions in
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