2nd Amendment

Before I got my concealed weapons permit, I open carried for two years. Every day I left the house, I had a pistol strapped to my hip in plain sight. I carried in Wal Mart. I carried in restaurants. I carried at the hardware store. I carried at many a gun store. I carried pretty much everywhere I was legally ...

Today, Caleb is shooting the 2012 Bianchi Cup… wearing a kilt. He’s donating $1 for every X he shoots, and Todd G. Of Pistol Training.com is matching his donation to LiveStrong. Pro shooter Julie Golob is kicking in $5 for every X that Caleb shoots. By the end of the day, the shooting community will have added several hundred more ...

…let's talk about how I transport people who have threatened – or allegedly threatened – to do harm to themselves to the Emergency Department for psychiatric evaluation. In my Lines In The Sand post that torqued TJIC enough that he equated me with a Nazi death camp guard, I stated that words have consequences, and that the consequences of threatening ...

Just a few more pics from the show that I thought I'd share:   How big are Matt G.'s hands? Big enough to palm a full-sized Desert Eagle, that's how big. That's how Matt can shoot those itty bitty KelTecs and Smith & Wesson snubbies so accurately. When he wraps those catcher's mitts around the grip, it's like a human ...

After the NRA Annual Meeting wrapped in St. Louis last Sunday, I had another day of filming video and a day in transit getting back home, and I'm currently three days into a fun-filled seven day stretch of saving lives and stamping out disease on the ambulance, where people are calling 911 in the middle of a monsoon because they ...

Via Uncle, I find The Truth About Guns featuring an interview with new Taurus CEO Mark Kresser: Throughout our entire organization, we are focused on continuous improvement… regardless of what process, regardless of what position or what department we have within our organization. I'm glad to hear of Taurus' renewed commitment to customer service and quality control. And you know, ...

Seems Uncle Ted, in the midst of throwing a little raw meat to the masses while stumping for Romney at the NRA Annual Meeting, went a little too far with his rhetoric. At least, in the eyes of some people. To be honest, I didn't watch a single one of the pundits and politicians in St. Louis. Seemed a waste ...

… and nobody gets shot. No fisticuffs ensue. Nobody craps on a cop car. Nobody gets arrested. Nobody calls for overthrow of the government, other than at the ballot box. There are no drunken brawls, no ambulances called, no… nothing. Nothing, that is, except close to 74,000 men, women and children gathered to celebrate the amendment that guarantees their personal ...

Pub Manager: “i’ve worked convention crowds in this town for ten years now, and I gotta say, you NRA people are the nicest, most pleasant bunch I’ve ever dealt with.” Ambulance Driver: “Careful now, that doesn’t fit the media perception. We’re supposed to be racist, ignorant rednecks bitterly clinging to guns and religion.” Pub Manager: “Since when does the media ...

Before I made my plans to attend the NRA Annual Meeting here in St. Louis, I had been engaged in some discussions with EMS1.com about shooting some video content for the website for several months. Originally, the plan was to fly the videographer into Houston for the shoot, but the more we talked, the more we realized that the volume ...

Alternate title, "What Sort of Heater Should I Get For the Little Woman?" Sitting in Houston yesterday, waiting for my flight to St. Louis, and reading the latest issue of Guns & Ammo, I get this: Random Passenger: "Excuse me Sir, do you know a lot about guns?" Ambulance Driver: "Ummmm, well that depends. For your average airport boarding lounge, ...

I finally drank the M&P Koolaid. Gun: generic, 9mm Since all the cool kids seem to be carrying a Smith & Wesson M&P, I decided to follow the herd jump on the bandwagon get myself one too. Gun, like new condition, in box with four magazines, grip inserts, no magazine disconnect, for only $400. An ED nurse friend of mine ...

Major Caudill Marko hits another one out of the park. This is exactly why I carry a firearm: We can argue any or all of the points above for hours, but there’s one thing that, on a philosophical level, you will never be able to make me concede: That intentionally making yourself weaker in the face of danger and aggression ...

After spending the latter part of last week speaking at the ESCAPe Conference in Pipestem, WV, I left the resort at OhmyGodit'searly o'clock in order to catch the redeye to Boston. Spent the two-hour trip to the airport alternating between dozing and chatting with the conference keynote speaker, JR Martinez: Nice guy, inspirational story. Turns out, J.R. is a fellow ...

It's a question debated ad nauseum on the gun blogs and shooter forums, and the answers are as varied as the individuals asking the question. I recently had opportunity to answer the question myself, when an ex-girlfriend emailed me, asking for advice on purchasing a handgun. Seems she had acquired an unwelcome suitor -not quite the creepy stalker type, but ...