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Plus: carrying a gun while camping, the Glock Wars legislative roundup, and why not every intruder needs shooting.
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June 3rd, 2026 Edition
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The Awareness Mindset: Why Most People Lose the Fight Before It Starts
The Awareness Mindset
A man walks down a Chicago sidewalk staring at his phone. Two attackers read that in a heartbeat — one closes from the front, one slips out from between parked cars behind him. He never saw either of them. The whole thing was over in seconds. What beat him wasn't size, numbers, or being unarmed — it was that he didn't see it coming. This is the third piece in my series on the concealed carry mindset, and it's the dimension most carriers neglect: awareness is the input everything else runs on. I break down exactly how the Chicago setup worked, why awareness has to be 360 degrees instead of 180, and the specific habits — Cooper's color codes, the "pick a person" drill, putting the phone away in transitional spaces — that turn awareness from a switch you flip into a baseline you live in.

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Carrying a Gun While Camping and Hiking: A Practical Guide
Carrying a Gun While Camping and Hiking
You've probably got a defensive plan for your house, your car, maybe the school drop-off line. Ask most carriers what their plan is twenty miles past the last paved road and you get a shrug. Camping and hiking change every variable — the threats, the timeline before help arrives, and the law under your boots, which can shift from one parcel of land to the next. Riley and I built this guide off a podcast conversation that covered too much ground to leave unwritten: picking a campsite with intent, securing the gun overnight when a steel lockbox isn't coming on a backpacking trip, where bear spray actually fits, what the data really says about caliber and bears (hint — the ".44-or-you're-undergunned" dogma doesn't hold up), how to carry with a pack on, and why your trauma and comms plans have to scale for a longer timeline. If you spend any time outdoors with a gun, this one's worth the read.

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🎧 Featured Podcast Episode
S13E21: Legislative Updates — The Glock Wars
Riley and I sit down for a wide-ranging legislative and legal roundup, and there's a lot on the board. Top of the list: Colorado's permit-to-purchase system and the wave of similar proposals moving in New York, California, Illinois, and Maryland — a trend worth watching no matter where you live. We also dig into a New Jersey subpoena story and the ongoing "Glock Wars" that give the episode its name. If you want a clear read on which of these fights actually affects you, this is the episode.

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📰 Other News
Choosing the Right Size Pistol — and Why You Should Train With a Full-Size Gun. A quick two-and-a-half-minute breakdown on matching the size of the gun to the job it's doing, and why your training gun and your carry gun don't have to be one and the same. Watch Now »

The Firearm Trainer Podcast: Ron Andring on NRA Reform. Our Firearm Trainer Podcast crew sits down with Ron Andring to walk through the NRA's history and the specific changes he's championing to reform it. If you've watched the NRA drama from a distance and want the inside view, give it a listen. Listen Now »

Shoot / Don't Shoot, by Greg Ellifritz. Greg tells the story of a call from his police days — a woman in a mental-health crisis breaking into homes, scary-looking and acting erratically, but no actual threat to anyone. His point lands hard against the "I'd shoot any intruder who sets foot in my house" bravado you hear all the time. A good gut-check on the difference between a threat and a problem. Read Now »
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