It’s a bit scary. A weak link in your home invasion prevention is your children. Without training and practice, children are probably one of the easiest ways for home invaders to enter your home. Children are naturally helpful. Home invades know this and will exploit it to gain access. Take a look at this video.
Range Tip for Women (and Everyone)
Range Tip for Women (and Everyone) When you ask a lot of women why they don’t like shooting, you’ll hear, “It’s too loud,” quite a bit.
Talking to Your Children About Guns
It’s very important to talk to your children about guns. How to handle them. What to do, what not to do. What to do if a friend starts doing something stupid. The thing is that just like sex if you don’t talk to your children they are going to learn it somewhere else, television, movies, […]
Home Defense Gun Safe
There is a fine line between having a gun available and keeping it safe from unauthorized users. A home defense gun safe can help you solve this problem.
Firearms Safety for Children
You have to take firearms safety seriously. You have to take it even more seriously if you have children in the house. An important thing to remember that children while you can teach safety will still do irresponsible things. You have to have some safety precautions in place for them.
Teaching Kids to Shoot
By Home Defense Gun Staffer Bob Teaching Kids to Shoot Last hunting season my niece took her first elk. Now, I’ve always had a hard time admitting that she’s changing from the little girl in pigtails who makes her uncle attend tea parties and is approaching adulthood. The fact that her parents and the State […]
Keeping Kids and Guns Safe
By Home Defense Gun Staffer Ashley Keeping Kids and Guns Safe Recently one of the children of a family friend injured themselves with a revolver. What happened is a ten year old boy who has always proven to be responsible and thoughtful was given a revolver for Christmas. The father of the boy was not […]
What You Need to Know about Keeping Your Guns Safe
We found a great video on keeping your guns safe. The last thing you want is to have a gun stolen and even used in a crime.
My First Gun
This is a guest post by Scott Sylvester A Trip Down Memory Lane with My First Gun The other night my 13 year old daughter and I sat down to clean some guns we had shot during our recent trip to the range. We had three total to clean up, and she was going to […]
Concealed Carry While Carrying a Baby
This isn’t something guys think about – concealed carry while carrying a baby. It doesn’t have to be an either or choice. There are some things to think about and precautions to take when you mix guns and especially young kids.
The Civilian Marksmanship Program Scholarship
The demise of the Civilian Marksmanship Program has been reported in the news but is not true. It is still up and running and sticking to its mission of promoting firearm safety and marksmanship training with an emphasis on youth. One of its great programs is its CMP Scholarship. The Civilian Marksmanship Program (CMP) offers […]
Teaching Your Daughter to Shoot
By Home Defense Gun staffer Pat Teaching Your Daughter to Shoot Sugar and spice and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of. And a natural ability to wield a handgun with deadly precision. And an innate fondness for the 1911 platform. And an instinctive ability to shoot the center out of a silhouette […]
Gunsmithing for Kids
by Home Defense Staffer Pat A Trigger Job And Safety Knob For Mosin Nagant Rifles I like to foster all kinds of firearms skills in my kids, even gunsmithing. It is relatively easy to pass on the skills that I actually have, since all five kids are very interested in guns and shooting. Unfortunately, I […]
Gun Safety For Kids
It is our right to keep and bear arms, but it is also our responsibility to do so safely. It only takes one little mistake to cause a big accident. You can’t neglect gun safety for kids, yours and others. Firearms safety is your responsibility and your duty, to our children and to ourselves. Every […]