Why professional training — not hardware — is your real tactical advantage Category: Training Best Practices Read time: ~8 minutes Published: The Range Report There’s a comforting story that gets repeated in gun shops, internet forums, and even some CCW classrooms: criminals, while may be armed, are sloppy, untrained, and easily overcome by any law-abiding citizen with a pistol and good intentions. It’s a nice story. It’s also wrong often enough to get people killed. If you c

Estimated read: 6 minutes After four decades of training thousands of students, I've noticed something: people tend to think about self-defense weapons the way they think about hammers. One tool, one job, end of story. But the truth is more nuanced — and getting it wrong can cost you legally, financially, and morally, even when your initial instinct was sound. A self-defense weapon is a tool. Like any tool, it's designed to solve a specific problem under specific conditions.