M85 PAP, the Steel-Cased Solution
“If you do not own a rifle that will reliably cycle steel-cased ammunition, you had better get your hands on one.” Those words of advice were offered by my original firearms training mentor, John Farnam, nearly ten years ago. John saw the ammo crisis...
3 Things Your Concealed Carry Gun Cannot Do
Recently, we at Student of the Gun addressed the subject of going armed to the zoo, or anywhere else for that matter. With a very quick, easy to follow video we pointed out how a person can be very well-armed, but do so discreetly, even when wearing just a T-shirt and...
Did Gaston Glock Invent the Negligent Discharge?
“Those guns and just unsafe, you’ll never convince me otherwise.” so said a retired police officer during a recent conversation. The topic of conversation was, of course, the Austrian Wonder-Nine, the Plastic Fantastic, the hardest working pistol in show business...
3 Popular Fighting Shotgun Myths: Busted
You don’t need a doctorate in history to realize that the saga of human conflict is cyclical. Consider the history of modern warfare. One of the most noteworthy instances of the shotgun’s use in combat came from WWI and the infamous Winchester “Trench Guns”. Every...
4 Steps to Carrying a Full-Size Pistol Every Day
April 14, 2015, a gang of teenagers attacked a man holding his three-month-old infant son. The attack occurred in the middle of the day at a gas station in Memphis, Tennessee. The man was beaten and bruised but he managed to shelter his infant with his body. August...
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