While attending the 2023 NRA Annual Meetings and Exhibits in Indianapolis, IN, I noticed that my longtime friend and colleague Caleb Giddings, competitive shooter, firearms instructor and current marketing guru for Taurus USA, was giving a lecture on the place of revolvers in the modern world of concealed carry and personal defense. Being something of a wheelgun aficionado myself, I ...
BulletSafe has just announced the launch of its new Concealed Lightweight Stealth Armor (CLS). This concealable ballistic vest meets NIJ (National Institute Of Justice) Level IIIA certification requirements and can stop the majority of conventional handgun rounds up to .44 Mag. CLS Armor is also designed to protect wearers from bladed slash attacks or other sharp menacing objects and weapons. ...
Shotguns have been around for a really long time. The early muskets, lacking rifling in the barrel, were capable of loading birdshot, buckshot or ball and that made them shotguns. Col. Jeff Cooper called the shotgun the thinking man’s defense gun because with just a little thought and experimentation they become very effective defensive tools. Here, in no particular order, ...
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Davidson’s has teamed up with Beretta to bring two new Beretta 92XI single-action-only variants to market in the 92XI Race Line, the “Gara” and “Corsa” models. The “Corsa” and the “Gara” both showcase the precision and reliability of the 92XI race line, featuring an X-treme S DLC-coated trigger, fiber-optic front sights and a Toni System single-port compensator and flared magazine ...
Scout rifles, and rifles that could be considered scout-ish like this Franchi Momentum All-Terrain Strata, still have a place in the modern rifle enthusiast’s armory. Every so often, a writer’s zeal to report on something or someone in the past tense is a tad bit premature. An obituary for famed author Mark Twain, published 13 years before his demise, led ...
Firearm: Glock G30 Gen5 (MSRP: $647) It occurred to me recently that, while the mid-size Glock compact 9 mm has been covered rather extensively, other Glock pistols in calibers other than 9 mm have been under-represented in “I Carry.” Since ages ago I carried a Glock G30, the subcompact .45 ACP Glock, I figured that a look at the current ...