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Introduction to The Basics of Handloading series This is the first of a series of articles that I will be posting to teach the basics of ammunition loading. This topic/thread is a "sticky" and is locked, as it is purely a tutorial and is a work in progress. All questions and comments should be...

Folks, this is a tragic situation that never should have happened. The 29-year-old woman had her little son in a shopping cart along with her purse which contained her concealed carry pistol. The little boy apparently got the pistol of the purse and he accidentally shot and killed his mother...

I've started to build a new glossary for reloaders, as the one that I had posted a link to in my "An introduction to reloading ammunition" thread is no longer available. If y'all have favorite terms that you'd like to see in the glossary, let me know here and I'll include them in the package...

I found a link to this article in "the other" forum. It's very good reading and I highly recommend it for all civilians who carry concealed. A cautionary tale for CCW permit carriers

The Georgia governor just signed House Bill 60, or the Safe Carry Protection Act of 2014, into law. Read about it here. In my opinion, the sort of thinking that went into this law should be spread across the country.

Rumor control has it that Glock will be releasing a .380 pocket pistol in January. Doing a Google search for "Glock 42" will provide quite a few hits with interesting info in them. It's supposed to be made in the USA so the "rules" that prevented importation of earlier Glock .380 models made...

This video is about a piece of 9/11 heroism that I had never heard of before. It's especially interesting to me since I've become a crew member for our Ozaukee County Rescue Boat (working in Lake Michigan). I invite y'all to watch it...

In another forum, I ran across this very interesting YouTube video about the AR-15 in which the AR-15 is loaded with dirt in various ways and, for the most part, worked perfectly. I think anyone interested in the AR-15 platform should watch this.

Some of y'all might not even know we have a glossary of abbreviations that might be found in the Compact Carry Forums. The glossary is located in our General Forum Rules area. You can get there by clicking on forum glossary. If anyone can think of abbreviations that should be added, please...

Please read this article about a shooter's LCP being totally destroyed by bad ammo. This article points out three things that are important for folks to understand. 1) If one is reloading ammunition, it is critically important to very carefully inspect the production of ammo to prove that...

Since quite a few of us have some years behind us, I'm wondering if anyone knows what the good quality brand names of bathroom grab bars would be. There are quite a few brands available on the web but I don't know how to weed out the good ones from the junkers. We're particularly interested...

After seeing a post about this article elsewhere, I found the source of the Massad Ayoob's 10 Commandments of Concealed Carry article. Even though the article is a little dated in some areas, I thought it would be good for all members to read.

I figgered I'd start off this new forum area with a thread for showing your home-made holsters. Here's the holster I made a few months ago for my LCP. I wanted something that would ride outside my belt but as high as possible. This really does nicely as the LCP hugs my body closely. This...

There was some discussion a little while back about putting a new Holsters section in the forum. It's now available for all discussions regarding holsters (in addition to the holster-maker sponsor's sections). Look under the "General" group title and you'll find it. Thanks go to all those...

I was loading a couple hundred rounds of .223 rifle ammo the other day, and when I was done putting the bullets into a group of 50 cartridges I could not remember if I had done a visual check of all the cartridges to see that I had filled them properly with powder before seating the bullets...

Happy Thanksgiving to all. I hope y'all will be with family today. Today is really special for us. Not only is it Thanksgiving, but it is my Dad's 91st birthday. Believe it or not, he still plays tennis a couple times a week. Unfortunately, he's in San Antonio and we are in Wisconsin today...

I don't think anybody's brought up a discussion about hearing protection here, so I would like to start one. For my entire working career (39 years as a control systems contractor in industrial factories), I was exposed to dangerous noise levels. I always used hearing protection in the noisy...

I just found out that there's a critically important recall on certain Walther PPK and PPK/S pistols made by S&W between 2002 and 2009. For more information click on this link to the notice. The recall was issued on Feb 20, 2009. If you have a pistol that is listed, I suggest calling the...

Here is an article from the Wisconsin State Journal that all present or future Wisconsin Concealed Carry License holders will find interesting: Panel extends state concealed carry rules

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