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We live in interesting times for armed citizens. On the one hand, our rights to protect our loved ones and ourselves are constantly attacked by people, often rich and powerful and articulate, who just don’t have the first clue. On the other, so many states have passed “shall issue” concealed carry laws that more law-abiding citizens can carry hidden handguns in public today than at virtually any time in the last century.

Researching these things, studying how they happen, and how to prevail and survive if they happen to you, has become my life’s work. I founded the Lethal Force Institute in 1981, and it has been a labor of love ever since. The on-scene management of violent criminal threat is a life study, and a multi-dimensional one that goes far beyond the gun itself. We cannot cover them all in one book. No one can. The laws that encompass these things and more, are all dynamic and fluid and subject to change.

The purpose of this book is to transmit a working knowledge of the current state-of-the-art of defensive handgun technology and its corollary topics, of how to effectively use them and how to find out how better to use them and more importantly, when to use them. Every effort will be made to explain where certain recommendations and trends came from.