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How Dangerous Is Your Holster? [VIDEO]

By Matthew Maruster / January 14, 2025

I want to make sure whenever we make decisions on anything in life, that we make them with as much factual information as possible. In this video, I discuss two incidents in which a firearm owner had a negligent discharge due at least in some part to the holster they were using. Don’t worry, in both incidents, the subject survived and did not sustain any serious injury.

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What You Don’t See Can Kill You

By Matthew Maruster / July 15, 2022

** We originally published this post August 29, 2017 ** I have wanted to address this topic for quite some time. I hope the accompanying video is a visual of…

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Holy Smokes! A Good Guy With A Gun Stopped A Bad Guy With A Gun!

By Joshua Gillem / March 20, 2018

In what can only be called a severe case of, “I told you so,” the recent shooting at a school in Maryland can do nothing but prove our point that…

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Thinking You’re a Hero, The John Wayne Syndrome

By Matthew Maruster / September 13, 2017

The Concealed Carry Lifestyle is challenging in many ways but at the top of the list is understanding the decision to intervene or to exclude yourself from an external encounter in order to safe the life of a stranger. How will you make that decision?

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Episode 131: After Congressional Baseball Shooting, Is It Time For National Reciprocity?

By Riley Bowman / June 19, 2017

Riley and Jacob talk about the coverage surrounding the recent congressional baseball shooting in D.C. Some lawmakers are proposing that they pass legislation allowing them to be treated much like federal law enforcement and be able to carry concealed even in gun-restrictive jurisdictions like Washington D.C. We can’t help but wonder if it isn’t the time to really get serious about passing a National Reciprocity bill?! Also discussion about 3 traumatic JUSTIFIED defensive gun uses that you won’t want to miss!

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Defensive Gun Use Compilation, And How Guns Save Lives

By Joshua Gillem / June 15, 2017

  Defensive Gun Uses do happen. Guns do save lives. And they do so every single day of the week. How do I know? Because just about every single day,…

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Remanufactured Ammunition, Bad for Your Gun Right?

By Matthew Maruster / June 13, 2017

The firearms community is quite diverse and full of many different schools of thought on many topics.  I love reading articles and discussion boards because not only do I learn…

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Episode 127: Neighbor Shoots Man Trying to Drown Twin Babies

By Riley Bowman / June 6, 2017

Riley and Jacob share news today about Michigan possibly becoming the next state to have constitutional carry. Meanwhile the ninth circuit court upholds a ridiculous law that forces gun owners to pay for gun confiscation and buy-back programs, and how about this…a Pennsylvania law has been proposed to make gun owners a “protected class.” How’s that for interesting?! Also don’t miss the JUSTIFIED story about a neighbor that heeded the call to action that saved the lives of two twin infants…and potentially the lives of an entire family!

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Texas Concealed Carrier Stops Massacre at Sports Bar

By Craig Martin / May 4, 2017

Two men who were killed Wednesday night in a shooting at an Arlington sports bar have been identified by the Tarrant County medical examiner.

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JUSTIFIED: St. Louis Convenience Store Clerk Takes Down Robber on Break

By Craig Martin / April 27, 2017

A St. Louis 7-Eleven employee found herself in an early morning shootout with an armed robber Monday, that left one dead.

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New Hampshire Man Justifiably Forced to Kill his Son

By Craig Martin / April 18, 2017

Back in December, in the small town of Dover, New Hampshire one of the worst nightmares a parent could face occurred. 76-year-old John Davis got into a firefight with his own son. Who he was forced to kill after being shot several times by his boy.

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JUSTIFIED: Oklahoma Man Takes Down Three Armed Robbers with AR-15

By Craig Martin / March 31, 2017

Wagoner County, Oklahoma police are beginning an investigation of a triple homicide in an unincorporated area of Broken Arrow, South East of Tulsa after a home invasion on Monday, March 27.

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JUSTIFIED: South Carolina Robbers Waltz Into the Wrong House

By Craig Martin / March 27, 2017

Berkeley County, South Carolina Police are reporting on a fatal shooting which occurred last week in the small town of Moncks Corner, 32 miles north of Charleston. Police say that what occurred was a justifiable homicide after a man was forced to protect his family from a home invasion.

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JUSTIFIED: Georgia Gun Store Robbery Averted by Well Armed Store Owner

By Craig Martin / January 19, 2017

Cobb County Police are continuing their investigation into a shooting at a Mableton gun store, where the owner, Jimmy Groover was forced to shoot and kill an assailant in an attempted robbery of his store.

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Episode 82: Cold Weather Carry

By Riley Bowman / December 28, 2016

Shooting, training with and carrying a gun in cold weather presents a myriad of challenges. Today Riley and Matthew break down what some of these challenges are and how to compensate for them. Check it out….

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