Self-Defense

With over 1,600 exhibitors in attendance showing 7 million pounds of gear, there are a lot of new products for legally armed citizens at the Shooting, Hunting, And Outdoor Trade (SHOT) show. If you choose to carry concealed, you might be interested in some of the new concealed carry gear we found this year. Here are a few items that peaked our interest.

This week, we are taking a look at gun belts for your everyday wear. The obvious question here, why should you buy a gun specific belt for concealed carry?

The 58-year-old fired, hitting Gales in “the back of the head,” the police told the Chicago Tribune. 

“If something happens in the meantime, this is a Second Amendment opportunity to protect myself that I simply don’t have,” said Perkio.

Last month, I was handed the new SIG Sauer Virtus rifle for review, my first test item in the MCX family. Though initially, I was skeptical, the Virtus turned out to be very impressive weapon system. It uses a unique operating system, an entirely new piston driven action developed in-house by SIG Sauer.

Unconstrained by conventional handgun design, the Bond Arms BullPup9 squeezes the longest possible barrel into the shortest possible pistol.  We take a detailed look at this unique bullpup-style pocket pistol.

If you are equipped with all of these items, it might be worthwhile to consider giving away what you’ve got and then upgrading accordingly. That way, you can introduce a newbie to the nuances of EDC — allowing him or her to use the gear and learn about EDC and so on — and you can get newer gear.

In our continuing coverage of SIG Sauer Suppressors, this week we busted out the big bore. The , for that most American of cartridges, the .45 ACP. Most people assume that .45 is the perfect suppressed round since most of its loadings are already subsonic. That briefs well, but so far has not been my [...]

An ideal home defense Ar-15 should be lightweight, modular, decently accurate and equipped with a light, laser, and a red dot sight. Smith and Wesson’s new M&P15T with M-LOK and Crimson Trace LiNQ System, perfectly fits these requirements, and I recently had the pleasure of testing one.