rules

6 Required Behaviors To Stop Negligent Discharges – Follow These Like It’s Religion

By Jacob Paulsen / June 20, 2023

A few years ago I worked on and our company published a significant research study of 300 Negligent Discharges. We looked at publicly available news stories occurring over a 24-month…

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S4E2: The Gun Safety Rule Riley and Jacob Argued About

By Riley Bowman / October 12, 2021

Riley Bowman and Jacob Paulsen relive that one time when they argued pretty extensively about one of the firearm safety rules. We’ll discuss the safety rules and spill the beans on what they found so controversial.

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Keep Your Finger Out of the Trigger Guard, Off Trigger Until Ready

By Joshua Gillem / October 23, 2020

In continuing on with our series about gun safety and the rules needed in order to be safe, we move on to rule number 3. Some housekeeping to make sure…

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Always Treat the Gun As If It’s Loaded

By Joshua Gillem / October 9, 2020

The firearms safety rules are of extreme importance. They were created to keep people out of trouble and to prevent what we call negligent discharges, or NDs, from taking place.…

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Episode 338: Revising the 4 Firearm Safety Rules

By Riley Bowman / August 7, 2019

Today, Riley and Matthew discuss the recent change ConcealedCarry.com made to the 4 Firearm Safety Rules as taught in our classes. The intent is to bring the rules into line with modern-day curriculum and practices both on the square range…and on the streets. Do you agree or disagree with these tweaks to the rules? If not, why??

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Critical Rules of Home Emergency Firearm Storage

By Matthew Maruster / February 12, 2019

Some safes are somewhat of a hybrid between concealment and a traditional safe. These can be mounted between studs in the wall and covered by mirrors or artwork. Or, you can use the ones that look like

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Episode 258: Maximize Training at a Restrictive Range

By Riley Bowman / September 21, 2018

Today Riley and Matthew address a topic that affects many shooters…how to do real training when the range you shoot at has restrictive rules or procedures. How can you still make good use of your time when your range doesn’t allow you to draw from the holster, shoot on the move, or even do rapid fire? We’ve got the tips and tricks for you today…join us!

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How to Get Kicked Out of The Gun Range

By Jacob Paulsen / April 26, 2017

Gun ranges have the right to be nervous. Any of the above practices can be dangerous both to the shooter and to others in the range. Here are some suggestions of how you can increase your learning experience despite these rules.

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Episode 32: How Your Brain Could Get You Killed

By Jacob Paulsen / July 6, 2016

A study showed that even among shooters at a gun range who all knew the firearm rules, and thought they were important; only 20% of the shooters followed all the rules at all times. We explain the key barrier that prevents us from being able to follow the rules even when we want to

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