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Halloween. That time of the year you get to see just how disgusting that coworker can look in an undead nurse’s outfit. It’s also an excuse for adults to get together and dress as whatever their id secretly desires. Jokes aside, Halloween is a great fun time held by both children and adults. For children,…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…