WILEY CLAPP HAS LEFT THE RANGE
The Grim Reaper has been having a field day lately with my fellow gun writers and doing his damnedest to turn this blog into an obituary column. We learned this week of the death...
GOOD ADVICE ON OFF-BODY CARRY
If you have studied the tactics of armed self-defense at all, you are familiar with the pioneering work of my good friend John Farnam. If you have studied it deeply, you are aware that...
TALK TO POLICE AFTER SHOOTING?
Countless people advise never speaking to the police immediately after a self-defense shooting. I don’t think that’s the best advice, and I may have been the first advocate of what is now known as...
GUNSMITH CONCURS ON PET PEEVE
I’ve told people for years that slamming an auto pistol’s slide closed on an empty chamber is abusive to the gun, and particularly so with the popular 1911 pistol. Over on the Wilson Combat...
LETHAL PREY
I recently read John Sandford’s newest novel, “Lethal Prey,” while taking my turn in the passenger seat on a long drive. I’m a bit conflicted with Sandford, because on the one hand over the series...