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May Is National Stop The Bleed Month: What Concealed Carriers Should Know
Jacob put up a piece this week worth your time. The angle he takes might be the one you haven't thought about: in civilian life, a tourniquet is statistically far more likely to get used than a defensive firearm. Car wrecks, range mishaps, kitchen accidents, hunting incidents, construction injuries — the list of bleeding emergencies dwarfs the list of self-defense shootings. Most of us treat the gun on our hip as daily discipline and a medkit as optional. The article lays out the two actions worth taking before May 31, and where Mountain Man Medical's annual 15% off sale fits in (the only one they run all year).
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S13E19: Justified Saves – The Armed Citizen Erased From History
Jacob and I are back with another Justified Saves episode. We work through five real-world incidents: a Texas home intrusion, a Mississippi shooting where the attacker returned later, a Nashville burglary that became a wrestling match for the gun, a Las Vegas grocery store ambush where bystanders made the difference, and a Cambridge case where a concealed carrier helped end an armed attack. We pull lessons from each — what the defender did well, what we'd push them to do differently, and what every one of these stories says about being prepared. |
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Long Guns & Handheld Lights
Erick Gelhaus over at American Cop wrote a really practical piece on using a handheld light alongside a long gun. The dedicated weapon light is ideal, but mounts fail, batteries die, agencies don't issue them, and sometimes the gun in your hands doesn't have one. He walks through the Harries technique applied to a carbine, the tail-cap method against the mag well, and clamping a handheld onto the rail when your weapon-mounted light goes down. Worth a few minutes — these are the workarounds you want already in your head.
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P.S. Quick reminder — May ends one week from now. If Jacob's Stop The Bleed article didn't push you to either take the free trauma course or inventory your kit, give it another read. Cheapest, highest-leverage adjustment you can make to your preparedness this year.
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