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By Sam Hoober via USA Carry Summer concealed carry can be a different animal than carry during the rest of the year. It isn’t as easy for a lot of people to keep concealment or carry comfortably due to the increase in temperatures and reduced layering. How do you overcome these things? You wouldn’t want…

‘New In Box’ refers to when you purchase a new firearm that comes fresh out of the box from the manufacturer. Some companies rigorously test their firearms in manufacturing sampling to ensure that a batch runs to its specifications. But, just like a new car or any other high-tolerance mechanical device, there can be a…

How much do you accessorize your concealed carry handgun? Accessories, when talking about a pair of cuff links or a nice pair of shades, sound superfluous. They’re something we do in addition to the main thing to make ourselves stand out. That isn’t the case in concealed carry. The whole point of carrying a concealed…

This is a Guest Post by Jeremy Hopper from Best Home Defense Gun Compact handguns are great for protection. But what should you look for when buying a handgun? Most people think that you just go and buy a handgun and that’s it. They don’t consider that there are more questions to be answered before…

A good carry gun can, of course, be kept close at hand near the bed at night and serve as your home defense handgun. However, many people, myself included, like to have a dedicated home defense handgun and there is some merit to this. The main advantage here is that you can configure your dedicated…

So you’re wandering around the street on a beautiful day and look down to see a pistol just laying there on the open ground. Sure, you know how to safely handle a handgun. You know to check a firearm to see if it’s loaded. But what do you do now? Taking custody of a firearm…

I’ll never completely wrap my head around it. There’s a class of Americans that are treated as second class citizens for the rest of their lives despite the fact many of them never hurt a hair on anyone’s head. Basic rights are taken away and they are extremely expensive to regain. Permanent black marks trail…

I’ve seen it all the times on the gun forums. A new gun owner comes onto the site and posts pictures of his gun in some state of minor malfunction and claims that the pistol is completely unusable because of that one malfunction. “I picked up a brand new (insert gun here) and here’s a…