Those interested in and dedicated to defensive pistol craft spend a lot of time obsessing over their guns, holsters and ammunition, and if they’re smart, they also spend a lot of time training. With all this worry about what you can do to best prepare yourself to save your life with a firearm, we can sometimes forget one of the most important things we should also be dedicated to and practicing, and that’s firearms safety.
There are four rules that are considered the basic tenants of firearms safety. They’re the rules all shooters should follow. Unfortunately, from what I’ve