by Michael de Bethencourt | May 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Rauch Rule Gun writer and former Secret Service special agent Walter Rauch is credited with publicizing the importance of religiously checking the firing condition of your self-defense gun any time it has been out of your hands. I thought that this suggestion was...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Mar 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Everything Goes As we clear the office ahead of the move, we have crates of items that need a new home. Holster – Safariland 6280-149 Springfield XD-5 Leather Duty Holster XD5 Right Hand RH – I wanted to charge $0.99 but we have to keep venmo happy, so...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Jan 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
(We are looking into posting some notable detective fiction featuring a good deal of period correct handgun work. Here is a little something to get the ball rolling from one of our more prolific writers. – Michael de Bethencourt) I look over to my right from...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Oct 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
Multiple individuals have been incarcerated as a result of using or threatening to use a handgun when accosted by a person with actual or potential bad intentions when other options might have been available. Armed defenders should know their state’s laws regarding...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Sep 15, 2025 | Uncategorized
Seductive Lies, a GatZette Code… One of the foundation stories of Noir, “The Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad, was first published in 1899 in serial form and then in book form in 1902. About 80 years later, the story came to disturbing modern life in 1979 as a...
by Michael de Bethencourt | Aug 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
Revolver Shooting – By Midshipmen W.A. Lee, Jr. and A.D. Denny, U.S. Navy – March 1910 Accurate revolver shooting is so easy to learn and so important in an officer’s profession that it seems it should not be neglected as it has been in the training...
