Personal Defense

http://youtu.be/CZZQ1xHeNA4 OneIfByLand writes: According to the Safeseeker website, having a baseball bat (with a built-in flashlight) is "A statistically safer alternative then having a loaded handgun in the home." Safer for whom? A would-be rapist,...

“The Lions of Allah who are all over the globe, some call them lone wolves, should know they are the West’s worst nightmare," Al-Qaeda jefe Nasr bin Ali al-Ansi asserts in the terrorist group's in-house magazine Inspire....

"There was more violence at the home where a 14-year-old boy shot and killed a suspect intruder last week," wsoctv.com reports. "Someone drove up to the home and fired  into the window Tuesday night...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15vqUf6H-po "Between 200 and 300 protesters gathered at the scene after the shooting, and conflicts broke out between officers and protesters, (Police Chief Jon) Belmar said. Four people were arrested for assaulting officers, and at...

Reader OneIfByLand writes: Is the Pakistan school massacre a warning shot across our bow? There is simply no way we have enough police to protect all of our schools for any length of time. The...

http://youtu.be/FvXfb_V01nI The following article originally appeared at defensetraining.com and is republished with the author's permission. By John S. Farnham “Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our political opponents have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?”...

According to reuters.com, you're looking at "an undercover police officer, who had been marching with anti-police demonstrators" who "aims his gun at protesters after some in the crowd attacked him and his partner in Oakland,...

Gunfire has been used as a means of signaling and communications as long as there have been guns. A warning shot is essentially a means of communicating a deadly threat without actually harming the...

"Law enforcement officers are searching for two assault suspects who hid in bushes, posed as police officers and chased a man and his girlfriend down an apartment hallway," q13.com reports. Jack Permison read this...

By Matthew Black Age restrictions on the right to carry don't seem to come up very often in the discussion on self-defense but they need to. According to the FBI, a significant portion of murder...

http://player.ooyala.com/iframe.js#pbid=e32b1952e526440e8cfb2c72937dad7e&ec=Jhbm81cjrBcU9q6yUQcojiuDQTXhFQxr In the dramatic video of an attempted armed robbery of a gun shop in Springdale, Arkansas last week, one robber is wounded and the gunshop owner is hit by a spent bullet that doesn't...

http://youtu.be/RxuVHSmXSn4 Like any other piece of defensive kit, you have to train with a weapon-mounted light to use it safely and effectively. To adhere to the sacred muzzle direction safety rule, you have to practice bouncing the...