This episode of Firearms Tips and Techniques for Beginners is about how to properly grip a typical semi automatic pistol (or handgun). This video features a Glock 19 9mm semi-auto handgun, but the lessons should apply to any typical pistol. This is part of an ongoing introductory series and FAQ about firearms, ammunition and accessories [...]
This episode of Firearms Tips and Techniques for Beginners is about how to load the magazine for a typical semi automatic pistol (or handgun). I will teach you the basic parts of a magazine, how to load a magazine, and how to load a pistol and chamber a round. This video features a Glock 19 [...]
This episode of Firearms Tips and Techniques for Beginners is about how to unload a typical semi automatic pistol (or handgun). This video features a Glock 19 9mm semi-auto handgun. This is part of an ongoing introductory series and FAQ about firearms, ammunition and accessories for new gun owners or people who want to learn [...]
This episode of Firearms Tips and Techniques for Beginners is about the basic parts of a typical semi automatic pistol (or handgun). This video features a Glock 19 9mm semi-auto handgun. This is part of an ongoing introductory series and FAQ about firearms, ammunition and accessories for new gun owners or people who want to [...]
I carry my handguns concealed 100% of the time. I don’t open carry, and even when training with rifles or shotguns I keep my handguns covered. One of the by-products of carrying concealed is that your handgun may get caught up inside of your cover garment. This can also happen if you carry a pistol [...]
Last week Sedagive? and I flew to another state to visit my dad. It was too far to drive, and that meant checking my handgun on our flight. I haven’t flown with a firearm since before 9/11, and I had read all sorts of horror stories about inconsistent policies, hostile and/or ignorant airline staff and [...]
More people in my peer group are buying Glock semiautomatic pistols. Some because it’s an election year. Some because they are becoming more fight-focused in their mindsets and firearms training. I started with a Glock 27 when I turned 21, then I spent some time carrying an Officer’s Model 1911, then an XD-45, then a [...]
If you have to exert any force when dealing with anything firearms related, you’re doing it wrong. This holds true for just about everything, except for disassembling a Glock magazine. I clean my magazines about twice a year. I hate doing it every time. The Glock pistol is easy to take down and clean, but [...]
In September of 2010 I wrote about a few different magazine carriers that I own, and how different form factors can be more or less useful for those of us who carry a firearm concealed. I purchased and used a single, horizontal magazine carrier made by Parlux for quite some time. In December of last [...]
On September 9th of this year I wrote about the Gen4 Glock recoil spring assembly recall from the Glock factory. Exactly five weeks after requesting my replacement, the new #4 spring arrived in the mail. It took a week longer than what the Glock service agent told me, but hopefully that’s because law enforcement personnel [...]
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