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In our last article, found HERE, we looked at concealed carry as a problem set. Specifically we looked at the problem of street crime and came up with what I think are some baseline skills that will see you through most confrontations that could involve lethal force. Those skills were: • Fundamentals of marksmanship and pistol presentation. • Less-than-lethal engagement and escalation of force. • Combatives, weapons retention, and the dealing with weapons threats at extremely

Originally published 04 Aug 2026 Part I: Street Crime and Series Intro We’re coming up on our inaugural Advanced Concealed Carry course, so I’d like to talk a bit about one of my favorite subject, combat as a multi-skill problem, from the perspective of the concealed carry guy or girl. At least here in North Carolina the basic standards for licensure are pretty low. You have to attend a course providing eight hours of what could best be called legal instruction and handgun

Maybe there's a hostage shot through a doorway into a darkened room. Maybe there's a target 6 inches off his muzzle, maybe there's both. He won't know until he goes around the corner, then he'll have to process the space he's moving into, make shoot/no-shoot decisions, and know where his feet should be going as he does so. Originally published 31 May 2026 Comprehensive Training: What is "Tactical Shooting"? In our last blog post we discussed some basic principles of combative

A shooter runs the live fire shoothouse. Doesn't look a whole lot like the typical gun range does it? Originally published 02 May 2026 A 2nd Amendment Focused Training Philosophy The founding fathers were abundantly clear in both the wording of the second amendment and the later clarifying letters and commentary they provided. The only holistically reasonable interpretation is that independent elements of the population are authorized to have a military capability. Period. En

The author pitching a school demo with a simulated casualty. Note that as the primary medic I have employed a "bystander" to help me treat the patient. Originally published 09 Apr 2026 You hear the automatic gunfire first, then the screaming. This is the real thing, and you're on the X. Time slows down. Later, if you live to remember, you’ll realize that this all happened in less than five seconds, but right now you wouldn’t think the second hand had stopped, you’d think t

Originally published 21 Mar 2026 Training and Equipment Last week we had a pretty in-depth discussion about the different varieties of full auto weapon systems and their potential usage for civilians in more serious use-cases. Check it out HERE. To summarize, I concluded that in the most likely civilian use case, the sub-machinegun is the winner. This is not to say that sub-machineguns are the most civilian-applicable weapon on the market (I don’t really believe in a "best

The M1919 Machinegun. One of the original General Purpose Machineguns, and still employed internationally to this day. Originally published 13 Mar 2026 Part I: Weapons Systems and Employment We all see it, and we all love it: the image of Rambo blasting away with his M60 machinegun. The heroes of WWII, and the cops and robbers of the 1930s, annihilating their enemies with iconic Thompson submachineguns. The iconic gunfights in Heat and other features of the silver screen. T

Originally published 4 July 2026 For this one we thought we’d pivot away from think-pieces about training philosophy and the like, and review some gear; a thing we plan on doing some more of in the upcoming months in a sort of on-again-off-again kind of way. I have always had a keen interest in edged weapons and edged weapon combatives, so I thought we’d start with a bang and do a tomahawk review! Also, this isn’t just any ‘hawk, this is the RMJ Jenny Wren, one of the flags