Beginners Guides
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By Luke McCoy via USA CARRY In most states, there’s a mandatory training course that all concealed carry applicants have to take before applying or receiving their concealed carry licenses. These courses are meant to be informative and educational. They are not meant to be a capstone course in your own personal handgun training. After…
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I get it. I really do. I lived it briefly. Upon first getting my carry permit as soon as I was old enough to legally do so, the first few days that I carried a loaded handgun on my body concealed proved unsettling. So I have been there, long ago. The difference between me and…
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By David Easley via USA Carry Gun safety and firearm control are controversial topics of discussion, but something that we can no longer look away from. The American culture of gun violence has spawned several incidents of shootings where one or several innocent victims have lost their lives. It is highly debatable whether we need…
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In the first installment of this article we discussed the details to consider prior to adopting a less lethal weapon into your everyday carry system as an armed citizen. In this installment we will take a look at the alternatives available. This is by no means an exhaustive list of less lethal weapons, but here…
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Summer Carry: What Works And What Doesn’t
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With the summer season in full swing, we concealed carriers likely have to change up our carry habits from what works in colder weather to what works in balmier climes. When the heat gets turned up, people tend to want to wear as little as possible. Our ability to conceal a handgun on our person…
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With those hot summer days upon us, we’ve been getting a lot of Facebook questions about how safe it is to keep a gun locked up in a car. Many of the questions relate to whether or not the ammunition will self-ignite or whether a round may go off in the chamber. Let’s dispel a…
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For most of us who go armed the central weapon in our daily routine is a concealed handgun. The handgun is, bar none, the most effective form of personal defense an individual can carry concealed on the body. However, there are good reasons to seek defensive alternatives to the handgun, and this can encompass other…
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By Luke McCoy via USA Carry Even if you’ve always known which hand is your dominant one, you should test out which eye is dominant. There are a lot of people who discover that their marksmanship has been off for years just because they’ve been using the wrong eye to align the target. If you…
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The best concealed carry pistol is the one that you feel most comfortable using and you’re willing to carry with you every day. There are quite a few firearm producers that make a tight, compact .380 ACP concealed carry pistol and we’ve tried to give a decent preview of the different options. Obviously, there’s plenty…
