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Build Blowback Better: Aero Precision EPC 9mm AR Pistol Review

The concept of a 9mm AR is nothing new. In the early 1980s, Colt began developing 9mm prototypes based on this platform, the earliest of which was an open-bolt submachine gun that fed from a modified Uzi magazine. In subsequent prototypes, the design switched to a closed-bolt direct blowback system — this would carry...

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Situational Awareness Evaluation: Part 2 – Threat Identification

The first part of this series discussed how your brain can affect you in times of threat and moved our “mindset shot group” closer to the bull’s-eye. This article will cover specific behaviors or environmental cues that might indicate impending danger. Just as there are stressors that trigger fear and anxiety within us, so...

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New: Streamlight ProTac 2.0 with USB-C Charging

A bright, reliable flashlight is certainly one of the most valuable items you can carry on a daily basis. I use my EDC light at least once a day, and that's under normal circumstances — in many emergency scenarios, a flashlight is worth its weight in gold. The Streamlight ProTac series has been one...

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Forgotten Weapons: The World’s Smallest Pistol

For those of us who carry concealed handguns on a daily basis, it's often a necessity to “dress around the gun” by wearing slightly roomier and less-form-fitting clothes. Of course, carrying a smaller pistol makes this less of a challenge — but how small should you go? Most will settle on a subcompact, while...

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Symtac Shotgun Class Review: Don’t Fear the Recoil

Shotguns are based on a lineage that stretches back more than 500 years. Henry VIII, King of England, was known to possess more than 40 of what were then referred to as “haile shotte peics” (sic) which blasted chunks of lead down a smoothbore barrel. Ironically, Henry’s successor Edward VI signed an act in...

How to Set-Up a Mutual Assistance Group

For preppers who lack the built-in survival group of a family made up of well-prepared people, like-minded friends or just a loose coalition of associates who they can turn to in times of trouble, the solution to the “lone wolf” prepping problem might be a mutual assistance group. A mutual assistance group, or MAG, is...


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Surviving SHTF in Your Car

Bugging out is a central idea in prepping, and serious preppers are constantly refining, inventing and debating which procedures are best suited for keeping themselves and their families alive when the time comes to hit the road during a major disaster or some other crisis. For many preppers, making use of a motor vehicle’s speed...


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How to Designate and Fortify a Safe Room

When most people think of a safe room, they envision a completely enclosed, hardened vault-like room within an existing structure that is completely safe against any threat, against any form of attack or natural disaster. While these popular conceptions certainly do qualify as safe rooms, and very good ones at that, this typical imagining is...


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