With dry fire skills, you can work on everything from draw stroke to trigger control, and all without leaving the house. Here’s how to do it, and why it’s a must.

Read about the SilencerCo Salvo 12 shotgun suppressor, a great option for hunting and self-defense to decrease recoil and decibels.

Learn about what good trigger control is and the importance of mastering it through finger placement and dry fire practice.

The question of whether 22 LR is a good idea for self-defense used has more than one answer. Let’s break it down one piece at a time.

Plastic pistols are nothing new—the first was made by Heckler & Koch in the 1970s—and you’d be right to say there’s a glut of them on the market. Just because there are a lot of options doesn’t mean they’re all the same, though. It’s even become increasingly common for polymer pistols to be sub-$500 guns—new. [...]

Ideally, you’ll set up your gun with a quality dot sight and iron sights designed to co-witness with the dot as needed.

Several quality gun academies are located across the country, each with pros and cons for attendance.

On the MAG website, MAG-40 is rightly described as an immersion class. When you take MAG-40 it’s like drinking from a fire hose—information comes at you nonstop and it’s impossible to hold onto it all.

With the way constitutional—or permitless—carry is getting so common, it’s understandable that you might believe reciprocity doesn’t matter anymore.