• [VIDEO] The Greatest Concealed Carry Mistake

    We as concealed carry people often focus on what other CCW people do wrong. This is discussion is healthy because we can learn from other’s mistakes and make ourselves better informed people. Concealednation.org does an excellent keeping us up to date with both success stories and mistakes people make when carrying a gun. The fact…

  • Lions, Tigers, and Bears… How Does A Concealed Carry Pistol Stack Up Against Wildlife?

    There’s plenty of creatures walking around on four legs that want nothing to do with us while we’re hiking through the parks or wandering the property. However, every once in awhile, we run across one that doesn’t. In a previous article, we discovered a guy who ran into a bear and didn’t get a chance…

  • Building the Complete Package: Skills for the Modern Armed Citizen

    Those of us that carry a gun every day willingly as citizens tend to be gun people. There are over fourteen million concealed carry permits at the time of this writing in the United States, but sadly very few carry the gun every day. Even those in professions that require the carry of a gun…

  • Do You Have A Summer Gun And Winter Gun For Concealed Carry?

    This is a question poised to our audience: do you switch up your concealed carry handgun depending on the season? It’s a question we’ve asked ourselves. For those of us living in places that have all four seasons, we have to come to grips that the hot weather will be hot and the cold weather…

  • GUN JAM! Immediate Action Drills To Keep You Alive

    Gun failure is one of the worst nightmares for a concealed carrier to go through. In the moment when we depend upon our everyday carry handgun to deliver — and it doesn’t deliver — we have to move quickly. Thankfully, there are a number of things we can do prior to a gun failure to…

  • Range Days: How Often Do You Train At The Range? Why Practice Never Ends

    Every person who owns a gun should practice with it with live ammunition. There is no “perfect amount” of practice. The gun you have right now in your possession will save your life if you use it properly. So, how often do you go to the range and practice? It’s a question that’s bound to…

  • The Conversation on Self-Defense: Tips for Motivating Others

    Many reading this article are undoubtedly practitioners of being armed and prepared and as such you may often deal with a particularly frustrating social interaction: trying to encourage others that you care about to take responsibility for their own safety. Those of us that carry a handgun on a daily basis to protect innocent life…

  • Defensive Tools for All Environments:  The Scalable Carry System

    The handgun is the most effective form of personal defense a person can carry and it is the use of this weapon by law-abiding citizens that takes priority here at Concealed Nation. Unfortunately, there exists many politicians and their hordes of useful idiots who seek to trample our Second Amendment leaving many jurisdictions in this…

  • [VIDEO] A Concealed Carry MUST: If You’re Not Doing This, You Should Be

    Many people who conceal carry do a great job researching and studying the perfect handgun for them. They shop, ask around, watch videos and read articles to select and purchase a gun they can conceal and use to protect themselves. They typically understand the differences with various calibers and take the time to figure out…