Your concealed carry permit is not a badge
Back when I was first learning about firearms and concealed carry, I came across a video – since removed, unfortunately – called “Your conceal...
Category: Concealed carry
Don’t show me yours, I won’t show you mine
On April 14, 2018, I was driving south on I-35 through Olathe, KS, on the first leg of a road trip out to Las Vegas. That vacation didn’t quite go as plan...
Misinterpreting Massad Ayoob
Full disclosure: I am an active member of the United States Concealed Carry Association. For accessibility technologies: A basic principle of American justice h...
Arizona’s advice to armed drivers
Arizona recently took the step to update their driver licensing manual to include traffic stops where the driver is armed. Section 7 of the manual is titled sim...
Philando Castile screwed up
I’ll say it up front: Philando Castile screwed up. Big time. In most reports on the trial, this is the breakdown: Castile, a black man, volunteered to Off...
You want a result, not research
With the recent (forced) resignation of the Surgeon General of the United States, many have alluded to his gun control stance as one of the reasons the Presiden...
An idea for Illinois (and other States)
While Illinois issues non-resident concealed carry permits, it will only entertain applications from residents of four other States. Interestingly one of them (...
Chicago Sun-Times gets it horribly wrong
Article: Stop Congress from trashing Illinois’ concealed gun protections Hard-left liberals are vehemently anti-Second Amendment. And since Illinois is largely ...
Campus carry and academic discourse
If there is one area where I can give anti-gun advocates credit, it’s their ingenuity in devising arguments to use against the expanded recognition of fir...
Stopped by police while NOT carrying
I recently posted an adventure I had the other night trying to find an emergency dentist in the middle of the night. One thing I omitted from that description i...