"Oh, he's just got a knife," the uninformed and uneducated will say of an assailant armed with an edged weapon.  "It's not like he had a gun." In training courses, we teach that a man armed with a knife within 21 feet of you is considered just as much a…

A great "after action" from some trainers in North Dakota who trained under Fortress Defense - Frank Sharpe's company from Crete, IL.   (PrettyLoaded.org) - We’ll never say we have enough training in personal defense, and we hope to inspire that attitude in our students as well. For the third…

    Can you think of a better false-flag operation for Mayor Bloomberg to pull off? Get a bunch of questionable-looking characters together - people who have the "look" that bigots often attribute to gun owners. They find a guy who brags about smoking and selling weed on Facebook (henceforth…

[caption id="attachment_12365" align="alignnone" width="599"] President Barack Obama looks to Jani Bergdahl and Bob Bergdahl, the parents of U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Saturday, May 31, 2014, as Bob Bergdahl speaks about the release of their son. Bergdahl, 28, had been…

Dear Michael Bloomberg: Don't let your people let the truth get in the way of a good media talking point... Sincerely, Gun owners by John Lott (National Review Online) - Michael Bloomberg’s anti-gun group Moms Demand Action couldn’t let the tragedy in Santa Barbara pass without interjecting more false information…

Word has gotten out that our illustrious Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama, offered up a Presidential directive for use of the U.S. military inside the U.S. to support and defend federal interests. Yes, this includes against domestic unrest and when local authorities are unwilling to carry out federal directives. …

Two 17-year-old hoodlums tried to hold up a convenience store, thinking they would profit from other people's hard work. It didn't work out so well for them as the clerk, unbeknownst to them, had a concealed carry license and knew how to use his gun to perforate the rifle-wielding half…

by Frank Sharpe Are you listening? Two weeks ago, a mile from where I grew up, an 85-year-old man was brutally murdered in his home.   Rumor has it he was beaten and strangled; the official cause of death has yet to be announced. Signs are the bedroom was ransacked…

Mark Manson writes a piece on the latest spree killer.  He offers up some interesting points, but the best paragraph, hands down, is this one: For a country that is so single-mindedly obsessed with terrorism, it’s jaw-dropping that almost nobody recognizes that school shooters use the exact same strategies to…

That's a dead body.  Right underneath a "NO GUNS" sign over the door. Criminals apparently didn't care if their was a "NO GUNS" sign around or not.  It's not like a felon committing a felony carrying a gun is going to care about some silly sign, right? Just in case…