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Carrying 24/7

Carrying 24/7

Carrying 24/7: “Bad stuff happens when you least expect it”- Murphy’s Law   If you have been alive longer than a few months, and have seen the world these days, it seems like there is always a disaster or crisis or something going on. While a lot of that can be attributed to the 24 […]

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What Happens After The Bang

What Happens After The Bang – A lot of talk is given to how to prepare before you need your firearm, everything from holsters, like the magnetic retention ones we sell here, or what caliber to use. However, what about what happens after? What does that look like and are you prepared? So, first thing

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Carrying Your Sub-Compact Pistol

Carrying Your Sub-Compact Pistol – In my last blog, I talked about how to carry your full-size 1911 and made my recommendation  for which ones we at JM4 Tactical must fit that bill. But if you are like many these days, 1911 is so 1907…and you are likely carrying a newer firearm model. While the

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Carrying Concealed in Non-Permissive Environments

Carrying Concealed in Non-Permissive Environments – First and foremost, this is not advice, and I am not encouraging anyone to break the law or disobey any ordinances. However, this topic is something that comes up frequently regarding concealed carry into non-permissive environments (read gun-free zones). Should you ignore the business that posts a haphazard sign,

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New Gun Owners in 2022

New Gun Owners in 2022 – New Years is a time for resolutions, and doing new things, and one of those things should be taking a more active approach in your personal defense, and defense of your family. Here are some things to consider, and it might even have some tidbits for those who have

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Best Movie Firearm Scenes

Best Movie Firearm Scenes – So for those of you who missed my previous blogs on the most ridiculous movies with firearms (apparently Rust should have made the list), I am doing a follow-up to provide the most accurate descriptions of firearms in movies. This was much tougher, and I had to really go through my

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“Thinning the Herd”

Thinning the Herd: Before you immediately close this and assume I have lost my mind or want to assert that there is no number, I ask you to read a little further. I have been shooting for over two decades, from plinking to three-gun, precision to military training, and a lot of hunting thrown in.

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Keep Your Firearm Running!

Keep Your Firearm Running – Too often we see new shooters, and occasionally seasoned ones, getting a new firearm that they drop big money on and skip on crucial items to keep their rigs running for their intended use. Frequently manufacturers will only supply the minimum, a few magazines (if you are lucky), but little

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Shooting for the Holidays

Shooting for the Holidays – I was about seven or eight when I saw A Christmas Story with my parents for the first time, and amazingly that year, I too got my first “real gun.” As my kids are getting older, I wanted to put out some ideas for the kids, the beginner, the hard-to-buy-for,

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The 30 Carbine

The 30 Carbine – There are several firearms that are incredibly iconic, from the M1 Garand, M16, Barrett 50 BMG. Still, there is one that is almost synonymous with World War II and specifically the paratroopers, and that would be the 30 carbine. This little firearm used to be relatively inexpensive compared to its bigger brother,

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Worst Movie Firearm Scenes

What are some of the worst movie firearm scenes? For those of us who shoot at least a little bit, it can be more stressful watching a movie and knowing that something is totally wrong when it comes to firearms. Here are some of the ones that have irked me for years, and I would

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