Two things to do today

Today is National Stop The Bleed Day.

Quick gut check: if someone next to you started bleeding heavily right now — car wreck, range accident, kitchen knife, whatever — do you have a tourniquet within arm's reach? In your car? In your range bag?

For most people who carry a gun, the honest answer is no. Or worse: "Yeah, somewhere in the garage."

That gap is exactly what this day exists to close.

The Stop The Bleed program was founded after Sandy Hook by the American College of Surgeons, and the thesis behind it is simple: in a major bleeding emergency, the person closest to the injured in the first 60 seconds decides the outcome. Not the paramedic. Not the ER doc. Whoever is right there.

For people who already think about preparedness — meaning you — that's almost always going to be you.

So today's a good day to do two things:

1. Get the training.
A few years back we partnered with Mountain Man Medical to build a free online course called Emergency Trauma Response. Video-based, runs about as long as a movie, and you can take it tonight from the couch. If you've never sat through a trauma course before, that's where I'd start.

👉 Take the Emergency Trauma Response course (free)

2. Carry the gear.
Training without a tourniquet on your person is like a CCW class without a gun. The skill needs the tool.

Earlier this week I sent over the Mountain Man Medical Stop The Bleed sale. If you saw it and moved on, consider this the nudge — today is the day the calendar built for exactly this reminder.

Every kit they make is 15% off with code stbmonth2026. Sale runs through May 31 and doesn't come back around until next May.

👉 See the Stop The Bleed Sale

Jacob Paulsen
President | ConcealedCarry.com

P.S. If you only have bandwidth for one of those two things this weekend, do the training. You can buy a kit any time — the knowledge is the harder piece to come by, and it's the part that makes the gear matter.