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On Episode 112 of the podcast, Ben mentioned that he shot his best match ever on Sunday, winning SSP with a fairly deep talent pool, and talking 2nd overall at the match.

This particular match was the third match of the locally famous Day-Night-Day match that consists of a day time IDPA match on Saturday, a night match Saturday night, and another day match on Sunday.

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Today Ruger announced the LC9s “Pro”, a version of the pistol without a thumb safety.

Smith&Wesson deleted the safety off of the extremely popular Shield pistol earlier this year and that was a big deal, but the thought of a semiautomatic Ruger pistol without a thumb safety is mind blowing to me.

To date, every semi-auto pistol in Rugers lineup (minus the LCP) has a thumb safety. The number one reason I’ve avoided, and haven’t recommended the SR9 for new shooters is because I believe the thumb safety is poorly placed and unnecessary.

I’m hoping that if Ruger is listening to their customers about the thumb safety on the LC9s, maybe we’ll see some more of their pistols get the “Pro” upgrade before long.

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It seems like every time there’s an anti-gun hit piece in the news, there’s some nice B-Roll footage from inside a local gun store to go along with this. You know, the footage they cut away to while there talking with camera pans of the gun cases, stuff like that.

Why do local gun stores allow these anti-gun news agencies to come into their stores and shoot the B-Roll footage? I can’t imagine they’re promised anything in return, and whenever I see this on the news I can’t help but think less of the gun store that participated in this garbage.

Is there a delusion about gaining customers when their gun cases are seen on the news? Do people just not know how to say “no” to the request?

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This week we talk about some tips for staying safe around the holidays. If you’re staying in town, or traveling, there are some really basic things you can do to stay off the radar of crooks. Full shownotes are forthcoming (it’s late, need sleep…)

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I’ve found myself using a small private shooting range in rural North Carolina all by myself recently. It’s probably the first time ever that I’ve been all alone while shooting, and this has prompted me to take some extra precautions. Unlike Tex Grebner, I’m not sure that I’d be able to fall back to my training and call my parents if I were to get hurt on the range, so I’ve been taking some precautions while I’m out there:

Yesterday I bumped into an old coworker and I was reminded of a situation that took place a few years before he moved to another company.

I’m excited about the Walther CCP, and have been since it was announced. I probably won’t buy one, but I think it stands as a cool pistol that I’ll definitely want to get some range time with. Not long ago, I found out that the owners manual for the Walther CCP has been leaked on the Walther website (100 page .pdf). The owners manual gives us a better look into how the pistol works, so here’s my thoughts after skimming it:

Over the past few days y’all have left us some really amazing feedback on iTunes regarding the podcast. I’m humbled, really.

We put a lot of work into the podcast, but when I say it’s my favorite thing to do every week, I mean it. It’s amazing to me that y’all listen in every week, and still surprises me every time I’m at the range and someone comes up to me and says “Hey, are you Luke from the podcast? I recognized your voice!”.

Thanks for all the reviews, emails, voicemails, tweets, and encouraging words, it means a lot. We’ve got some cool stuff planned for the future, so stay tuned!

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WRAL published a piece with Wake County Sheriff Donnie Harrison regarding the rise of home invasions, and thefts from vehicles in southern and eastern Wake county

Whenever I have a couple minutes to kill, I like to cruise Instagram hashtags and see what cool new stuff is relevant to my interests. Hashtags like #USPSA, #IDPA, and #3gun are a few of my favorites, but recently I’ve come across another hashtag that brings more talent, and absolute derp at the same time that it’s quickly become my favorite one to follow: #kydex

As you probably know, I recently picked up a Gen4 Glock 19 as a new concealed carry pistol. I wanted to go back to a doublestack gun, and I also wanted something that was very similar to my Glock 34 that I shoot in competition. I don’t tend to make a lot of modifications to my carry pistols, but I’ve done a couple things to the Glock 19:

If your goal is to become a better shooter, competitive shooting has 3 “pillars” that are advantages over just shooting at the square range:

In the latest Law of Self Defense pod/video cast Andrew Branca goes through the whole Eric Garner situation from a legal perspective without all the emotion that we’ve seen from all the talking head pundits on TV. It’s worth a listen.

If you can’t watch the YouTube version above, the audio only podcast is available here.

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Last fall I picked up a Streamlight ProTac HL flashlight to use for the Day-Night-Day match, since at the time I didn’t have a suitable flashlight. I had more than a little trouble with the light during the match, and afterwards I considered making some modifications to it, but just couldn’t bring myself to start hacking on (what at the time was) a $100 flashlight.

From the Fort Worth Police Officers Association Facebook Page:

Rob calls in a match report from his first competition shooting match at the Wake County Firearms Education and Training Center this past Wednesday. He shot his Glock 41 with reloads from his pocket, and emailed in his thoughts on shooting a competition for the first time.

Maybe I’m a little late to the party, because I’ve admittedly been absent from any Raleigh city parks for a while, but the last time I was out at Durant Nature Park the park rules signs just had duct tape on the old signs covering the part about concealed weapons.

If I remember correctly (typing this on my phone otherwise I’d look it up) we gained park carry with the passage of House Bill 650 into law, somewhere around the end of 2012, so it’s nice to see that the signs are finally being updated to reflect the law.

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Last night was the second Wake Action Pistol match for November and so it was the second time we were shooting these stages. It was a chilly night on the range and we had to spend about half an hour after the safety brief figuring out what went wrong with Practiscore, the match scoring software we were using. Once all the issues were solved, I was in gear to get the match rolling, and I hadn’t even put my belt or gun on yet.