4 Holiday Safety Tips for Gun Owners: Keeping Everyone Safe The holiday season is a special time of the year when families, friends, and loved ones come together to reconnect, catch up, and make memories. People have time off from work where they can rest and recuperate. With such a happy time of year upon…
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Hero Hunt Inc.: Healing through Community Since 2012, Hero Hunt Inc. has been providing hunting and fishing trips to injured military veterans and first responders. The events they organize serve to promote healing physical and emotional wounds. For most people, the journey through the military or first responder career doesn’t even when the field missions…
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Walk the Talk America: Mental Health and Firearms Walk the Talk America is a pro-Second Amendment non-profit that focuses on mental health, suicide prevention, and community outreach. The organization is the brainchild of Michael Sodini, a firearms industry professional with no shortage of impressive bullet points on his CV (see what I did there?). Anyone…
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Black Guns Matter: Changing the Perspective Black Guns Matter is a charity based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that educates and informs urban communities on their Second Amendment rights and responsibilities. Black Guns Matter believes that educating people about their right to bear arms is essential to maintaining a free and safe society. Black Guns Matter was…
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The 6 Top Positions in Shooting Standing position has been the default for the club, the spear, the bow, and the arquebus. It’s the position of mobility, observation, visibility to the commander but how well does it actually work for modern marksmanship? Firing while standing isn’t the most stable process, though it may be…
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Indoor Gun Ranges vs. Outdoor Gun Ranges When starting your journey as a gunsmith, having time to practice and learn how to shoot a gun is so important to your knowledge base. The best way to do this when you are starting out or even as an experienced shooter is at a gun range. It…
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4 Safety Tips for Kids at the Shooting Range There may be no better place than the shooting range to enrich your kids’ respect for firearms. If you’re reading articles to plan for the most positive experience you can, you’re well on your way to creating some great memories. Obviously, no one can tell you…
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Firing Range Safety Hacks If you’re looking to make your time spent at the range as smooth as possible, you’ve come to the right place. While you may be expecting a list of “don’t ever” mandates, this is is a list of suggestions to make your range time safer and hopefully more enjoyable. Beware of…
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4 Cardinal Rules: A Non-Negotiable Safety rules are written in blood. Also in hearing damage, holes in walls and machinery, ruined reputations. The goal is to avoid writing any new lines into the history of accidents and negligence over your entire lifetime. Since gunsmiths often deal with defective or out-of-spec guns, the four safety rules…
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3 Hearing Protection Tips to Use at a Shooting Range The dangers of gunfire to human hearing are well known. Constant exposure, even to moderately loud noises, reduces hearing acuity. Traumatically loud noise also causes tinnitus, a constant parasitic sound signal fed to the brain by damaged nerves. Standard ways of reducing hearing damage while…
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