During concealed carry classes, a fairly common question is, “How many rounds do I need?” Another instructor I know answered that question with, “I don’t know. Ask me when it’s over.” And that’s the issue. We really have no way to know what’s going to happen until it does. So many gun owners train for dealing with just one assailant…
What was meant to be a light-hearted tweet to recognize the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office staff that processes concealed carry permits caused much backlash on Twitter since last Friday. Here’s the tweet: Guess who came in to receive his Concealed Handgun Permit today? 🎅 Did you know the El Paso County Sheriff's Office has issued 49,750 Concealed Handgun Permits…
I would not want to be sitting in my car on Chicago’s South Side at 3:00 AM, but a 42-year-old woman was doing just that when two men, one armed, approached her and attempted to rob her. The woman, an Illinois concealed carry holder, was able to get her own gun into play and opened fire on the one suspect…
A gun store employee was shot and killed by the store’s owner after a prank that should never have happened went wrong. According to ABC 13 News, Jon Whitley, owner of Coastal Firearms, brought a replica Glock BB gun and placed it amongst other real firearms. The same man then picked up what he thought was the replicate but was…
Alec Baldwin sat down with ABC News for an exclusive interview that will be airing tonight at 8 PM EST. One of the clips that have been released from the video shows. Alec stated that he didn’t pull the trigger and that he would never point a gun at someone and pull the trigger. So he pointed the gun at…
Retraining orders and “no contact orders” have their place, but they don’t guarantee the person it is against won’t just disregard it and go after the other person anyway. The only real way to protect yourself is to be armed. And that’s precisely what happened in this incident. Latoya Smith had an active “no contact order” against Lakendrick Smith from…
This family did everything right after a man broke into their home and assaulted them. A little before 8:45 PM this past Monday, a man broke into a home in Baxter Springs, KS. He then proceeded to assault two adult occupants of the home. The homeowners then retreated to their bedroom with two juveniles that were also in the house…
A 15-year-old student of Oxford High School in Michigan brought a handgun to school today and shot 11 people. Eight of the victims were injured and are now in stable condition, and three of the victims are deceased. Police arrived on the scene very quickly, and the suspect turned himself in. The whole incident was over in five minutes. We…
LUBBOCK, TEXAS — A court-ordered handoff of a child, based on a custody agreement, couldn’t have gone any worse than it did. When the child wasn’t available at the agreed-upon time, the father refused to leave until he had his son. The man in the green shirt is the child’s father, Chad Read. His ex-wife, Christina Read, is also visible…
Ohio Police confiscated a driver’s CCW and permit after he failed to inform the officer of its presence during a traffic stop. The driver was traveling along Kingsdale Blvd. with darkly tinted windows, the initial cause of the traffic stop. According to Ohio Law, Section 2923.16, drivers with a proper CCW permit and weapons in a vehicle must inform law…