Here’s an interesting story of a woman who suffered a home invasion. She ran and hid with her children in a closet, and when the bad guy opened the closet door, she shot at him, hitting him five times, in what is described as ‘the face and neck area’, with .38 SPL rounds from her six shot revolver (the sixth missed). It seems reasonable to assume that this was at a distance of perhaps three […]

  I am a parent of an elementary school child.  Most of you reading this will have children of some age or another, too; and even if you don’t have children, you might plan to have them in the future, or simply be a concerned citizen who understands the tragedy of failing to protect our society’s future – our children. I – and you too, I’m sure – can all too easily relate to the […]

Any time you visit a range for some practice, you probably notice two types of shooters. One type has tiny bulls-eye targets way down range at the 25 yard line or somewhere similarly distant, and are taking very slow deliberate aimed shots at the target – and often hitting dead center with truly impressive accuracy. These types of people are generally considered to be ‘competition shooters’. Then there are other people who are shooting at […]

If you’ve visited a gun shop in the last month or two, you may have felt there were more people in the store than normal, and that many of the people there were actively buying rather than just idly looking. You’d not be wrong to perceive things that way.  Gun sales spiked to a new all time high on Black Friday, 20% higher than the previous record, and have been steadily growing for a long […]

Something that happens all too often is a justifiable/lawful shooting/killing, but of an innocent person.  Now you might be wondering, how can anyone ever lawfully shoot and kill an innocent person?  Let’s hope you never get to find out in person. The most common scenario relates to a person at home hearing an intruder, going to investigate, and then shooting the intruder.  But, as subsequently found out, after the shooting, the intruder was someone with […]

It is late at night, and you’ve just heard the unmistakable sound of intruders kicking down your front door and invading your home.  Within minutes – perhaps even within seconds – they’ll be in your bedroom. Imagine that you have a choice of two items on your nightstand.  One is a cellphone with 911 programmed into its speed-dial.  The other is a loaded pistol.  Which would you reach for as the sound of the intruders’ […]

Here’s a short report of a Redmond, WA couple who returned home late at night (1.30am) and were robbed at gunpoint when they got out of their car. Redmond is a suburb of Seattle and is best known for being the home of Microsoft.  It is an up-market and prosperous small city of 52,000, and is generally blessed with very little crime. We are going to risk being politically incorrect by citing another Redmond statistic.  […]

King County WA has just signed up to participate in the new Smart 911 service.  If you live in King Co, or in any other participating part of the US, you should consider adding your details to this database. When you call 911 from a phone you have registered with Smart 911, and if the call is answered by a 911 Dispatch Service that participates in the Smart 911 service, they will get all sorts […]

An 84 yr old lady returned to her home in the early afternoon, and once she got inside the house, she heard moaning coming from her 93 yr old husband who, from the sound of it, was upstairs and in pain. Imagine this was you (as the 84 yr old woman).  What would you do at this point? It is a fair bet that most of you will say ‘I’d rush upstairs as fast as […]