Nobody Else Will Know What Happened in Your Gunfight
You know why you fired. Police, prosecutors, and jurors don't. Lessons from the Zimmerman and Rittenhouse trials on evidence, memory, and your legal plan.
Posts about "stress"
Garmin ArcheryX – A Wearable Smartwatch App to Improve your Shooting
Garmin is known for crafting a lot of popular products from smartwatches to chronographs and lots more for outdoorspeople. Now, they can add to that growing list their newest smartwatch app in Garmin ArcheryX. If you are an archer heading into hunting season this fall, this smartwatch app that yo...
Bear Spray Buying Guide: 4 Top Picks Compared
When a bear closes the distance, the specifications on the label matter less than three things working together: enough volume to keep spraying, enough range to deploy before the animal reaches you, and a delivery system you can operate under stress. In the assessment of Meg Carney, a spray consi...
Essential Priorities When You’re Lost Outdoors
Getting back to nature is beneficial for both relaxation, stress-reduction, and experiencing animals in their natural environment. However, your peace of mind can disappear instantly when you find yourself lost outdoors. The feeling of the trees closing in, the horror of darkness falling, and the...
Front Line Friday #36: Budget Cycles and Procurement Realities
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial, and the topic is how agency procurement cycles produce gear that is already behind the curve by the time it hits the field, and why the officers holding that gear are right to be frustrated. Front Line Friday is brought to you by Dead ...
What Will Make Your Gun Fail (and Why)?
Though it’s certainly possible for the items in our lives to suddenly and catastrophically give up the ghost, we often benefit from a number of clues that indicate something might go wrong. Live long enough, and you’ll probably have to deal with a phone charger that needs to be at just the ri...
DOJ Asked the Supreme Court to Restore a Felon-in-Possession Conviction Built on Simple Drug Possession. The Justices Said No.
SCOTUS declined U.S. v. Hembree, leaving a Fifth Circuit ruling that a meth possession conviction alone cannot support a federal gun ban. Read the original story: DOJ Asked the Supreme Court to Restore a Felon-in-Possession Conviction Built on Simple Drug Possession. The Justices Said No.
NRA Reformers Fusaro and Journey Seek Member Support for 2027 Ballot
NRA reformers Dennis Fusaro and Phil Journey seek member support for the 2027 board ballot to continue rebuilding accountability and advancing gun rights.
The Ultimate Light Machine Gun Concept
The modern light machine gun sits at an interesting crossroads. For decades, the basic concept has been the same: provide a small infantry unit with a belt-fed weapon capable of delivering sustained fire while remaining mobile enough to maneuver with the riflemen. But the character of modern comb...
Alamo Scouts: America’s Undefeated WWII Recon Force
The Alamo Scouts emerged from one of the most demanding and complex theaters of World War II, the vast and unforgiving Southwest Pacific. By late 1943, Allied forces under General Douglas MacArthur were pushing steadily northward along the New Guinea coast, preparing for the eventual return to th...