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 familiarization....

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 training. That...

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. End of story. There...