National Safety Month: gear up before you suit up

Three pieces of gear protect you every time you're around a gun. Here's the honest truth about which one most people skip.

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This is the last Thursday of National Safety Month, and we've covered a lot of ground — the rules that keep handling safe, the storage that keeps your home safe, and the dry fire discipline that keeps practice safe.

This week, the gear. Specifically, the three pieces of safety equipment that protect you every time you're around a gun.

1. Eyewear

You probably own a pair of safety glasses. The question is how much thought went into them. This is the category people under-invest in, and your eyes don't get a do-over.

If you want the genuinely deep version, the eyewear masterclass with Bret Hunter goes further on this topic than you've ever gone before. And if you wear corrective lenses, our guide to prescription safety glasses lays out your real options.

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2. Hearing Protection

You already wear ear pro, so we'll skip the lecture. The real questions are whether yours is the right kind, and whether the number on the box means what you think it does.

Electronic ear pro belongs in most range bags — here are three reasons why. And before you trust that NRR rating, read what that number actually tells you — it's not as straightforward as the packaging makes it look.

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3. Medical Gear

Here's the uncomfortable one. Most people who carry a gun don't carry anything to stop a bleed, which is backwards, because in everyday life you're far more likely to need to save a life than take one.

Start with why trauma medicine is part of responsible gun ownership. Then the gut-check: what actually makes a trauma kit a trauma kit (miss these three things and you've got a boo-boo kit, not a bleed kit). And for the question that always comes up — do you treat the attacker? — Brian and I worked through the legal, moral, and tactical angles.

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That's a wrap on National Safety Month. Four weeks, four habits but safety was never really about one month. It's the quiet discipline you bring every single time you handle, carry, store, or train with a firearm. Thanks for spending June with us.

Jacob Paulsen
President | ConcealedCarry.com

P.S. If you act on one thing from this whole series, make it the trauma kit. The rest of your gear protects you from accidents. That one protects someone from the worst day of their life — maybe yours.

Concealed Carry Inc.
4301 S Federal Blvd STE 108, Sheridan, CO 80110

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National Safety Month: gear up before you suit up

Three pieces of gear protect you every time you're around a gun. Here's the honest truth about which one most people skip.

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