Tag: self defense

JWR’s Firearms Market Trend Predictions for 2020 to 2025

Randolph Jason

JWR’s Firearms Market Trend Predictions for 2020 to 2025 by James Wesley Rawles for Survival Blog GNN Note – If you’re not familiar with JWR (James Wesley Rawles) not only does he publish the grandfather of the prepper community website Survival Blog, he is a retirement Special Ops Army Officer and has been the premiere voice of the prepping community for more than 20 years. He doesn’t write as much as he used to, so, when he speaks the prepping community tends to listen and listen intently. He is a…

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Pepper Spray Laws by State: A Simple Cheat Sheet With All the Details

Randolph Jason

Pepper Spray Laws by State: A Simple Cheat Sheet With All the Details by Brett K for Concealed Carry Today Pepper spray is a non-lethal chemical compound that works by causing temporary blindness and is primarily used in self-defense (including animals) and for crowd or riot control. Pepper spray is a great self-defense tool when a firearm, or lethal weapon, is not needed, not allowed, or if you just don’t like to use firearms. Whether you are jogging in the evening on a dark street or hiking in the mountains,…

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Prepping For Women: A Self-Defense Guide

Randolph Jason

Prepping For Women: A Self-Defense Guide by Sara Tipton for Ready Nutrition Women are usually seen as the “weaker sex” and it doesn’t matter whether we like it or not. Those who have more body mass will likely try to take advantage of those with less body mass, especially when supplies dwindle and the grocery stores run out of that last can of corn. So what then? Self-defense is incredibly important for women to know.  Women are usually seen as the “weaker sex” and it doesn’t matter whether we like…

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SELCO: What Combat Is Really Like (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Randolph Jason

SELCO: What Combat Is Really Like (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT) by Selco for The Organic Prepper This is an excerpt from Selco’s book, The Dark Secrets of SHTF Survival.  When SHTF, nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I would have to do to survive. There was no training or simulations. Most of the stuff I was going through for the first time in my life. I was hoping it was only a temporary situation, that it not going to last for a whole year. A few events…

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On Defensive Handgun Ammo

Randolph Jason

On Defensive Handgun Ammo by Charles Yor for The Survivalist Blog Guns are tools utilized for defense in the U.S. many thousands of times, both by police and citizenry. Guns are ubiquitous and omnipresent in most states of the Union, and guns are constant companions or bedside defensive tools for people from sea to sea. But for all their common use and ownership, most gun owners know very, very little about the component that actually does the work of letting the wind out of an attacker’s sails. I am referring,…

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