by Grant Cunningham | Aug 6, 2018 | Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Home Security, mythbusting, Personal Safety, realistic, security, Training
I recently shared to my social media accounts a story of an attempt by a local government to impose storage restrictions on gun owners in their city. The ordinance specified that firearms had to be locked up, except when they were “in use” (whatever that means). Of... by Grant Cunningham | Aug 1, 2018 | Accessories, attacks, Cecil Burch, Current Events, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Greg Ellifritz, Home Security, Incident Analysis, instructors, Legal Issues, medical, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Defense Network, Personal Safety, Prepping, reading list, Rob Pincus, security, Street Smarts, teaching, Training, Training Talk
I found more interesting articles for this week’s List, some of them guaranteed to make you think twice! Whatever happened to positively identifying your target? I’m not sure where to start with this article, but I’ll boil it down to this: Just because an alarm... by Grant Cunningham | Jul 2, 2018 | awareness, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, instructors, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, Unarmed Defense
A few weeks back I wrote an article on why I don’t entertain the notion of “what-if” scenarios. If you haven’t read it, you should. On a somewhat related note, I also don’t entertain the notion of the foregone conclusion scenario. It’s the one that presupposes a... by Grant Cunningham | Jun 25, 2018 | Defensive Training, Emergency Management, instructors, mythbusting, Personal Safety, Prepping, Training, Training Talk
Believe it or not, the job I do isn’t actually all that pleasant. I’ve run into a lot of people who tell me they’d “love” to have my job; they tell me that “it must be fun”. They see the travel, or focus on the guns and shooting, without thought to what those things... by Grant Cunningham | Jun 18, 2018 | Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Home Security, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, Street Smarts, Training
Why do so many survival kit suggestions have fishing gear in them? Over the years I’ve noticed that survival/escape/bugout/get-home kit contents always seem to include fishing gear. I don’t mean poles, reels, and aluminum boats with fish-finding radar, but hooks,... by Grant Cunningham | Jun 14, 2018 | Accessories, Defensive Shooting, Defensive Training, Emergency Management, Greg Ellifritz, Home Security, Incident Analysis, mythbusting, Other Defensive Tools, Personal Safety, Prepping, realistic, security, Street Smarts, Training, Unarmed Defense
Wednesday the 13th is extra lucky, and I’ll prove it by sharing some really great articles to help keep you and your family safer and more secure! I wish I’d written this. It’s that good. This article from the Preparedness Advice blog is pure gold. The author...
