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Common wisdom has it that a shotgun is the best gun to use for home defense. This advice is often supplemented with such encouraging comments as, “You don’t need to aim, just point it in the general direction.” Usually added to this, with a knowing look, is another supposed statement of fact that, “Just the sound of racking a shell into it is enough to get him running.” Let’s take a look at these shotgun myths.

was there to exercise my serious rifle skills and learn new things from other shooters. My “score” was of only casual/pedantic interest. Conversely, gamesmen in my group cared about their individual scores (in excruciating detail), and absolutely nothing else! We were all there for our own reasons, I suppose, but the experience reinforced in my mind the impregnable divide between Operators and gamesmen, between people who have weapons, and those who have toys!”

…Spurred by fear of a violent attack or because they have actually survived one more Washingtonians are getting a concealed pistol license. The license, or CPL, allows them to travel with a hidden gun among an unknowing public. License holders jumped from about 179,000 to 258,000, 43 percent, between 2003 and 2007. The state Department of Licensing says permit applications in Kitsap County jumped from 1,587 in 2004 to 3,339 in 2007…

This is a problem that many of us face: our significant other didn’t grow up with guns and is either hostile or afraid of them. How do you change their minds?

Gun ban lobby attorneys argue to keep Texas students defenseless

Sometimes the good guys don’t win. Xavier first reported on this tragedy. A couple of years ago, I reported on these: When Being A Good Guy Isn’t Enough. These are stories of good guys with CCW permits who took on bad guys, saved some lives, but died in the process. The unthinkable sometimes happens

After I encountered the story of Keith Labrozzi, and that of Stephen Swan and Matthew Butler, I felt compelled to share a few of my lessons learned. I don’t know it all, I am no self defense guru, but I have been in and out of some damned spooky places and situations both in the States and third world countries of the Orient.

U.S. News and World Repor .is asking for comments on the Harrold ISD decision to allow CHL holding teachers and staff to carry firearms on school grounds. Head on over and add your 2¢ to the conversation at Texas Teachers Packing Heat.

The 66-year-old doctor was held in custody for 12 days after a loaded .38-calibre revolver was found in his vehicle Aug. 6 at the Blue Water Bridge. He is one of about five Americans arrested under newly-revised legislation that imposes a three-year jail sentence for illegal gun possession.

Then as I approached her, she said in a voice that was a mixture of crying and disbelief, “Don, Steve didn’t have his gun! He always carries his gun! When he comes to my house, he has his gun on him under his shirt. He doesn’t go anywhere without his gun! Don, he didn’t have his gun!