Concealment #19 2020

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For the Modern-Day Gun Enthusiast

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On The Cover
FLAGRANT BEARD FORERUNNER flagrantbeard.com MSRP: $160 SAFARILAND 4200 DOUBLE CUFF safariland.com MSRP: $26/10 CJESLNA SELF-DEFENSE KEYCHAIN amazon.com MSRP: $7 POM POM KEY get-pom.com MSRP: $13 VERTX COMMUTER 2.0 vertx.com MSRP: $198 KREBS CUSTOM CL
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Editor’s Letter
Well, that was a screwy summer. Glad we got back to matches, but by August, ammo was scarce. The National Shooting Sports Foundation provided anecdotal evidence that first-time gun buyers are the vanguard of the record-breaking, 2020 gun rush. This i
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Editor-in-Chief/Iain Harrison Editor/Rob Curtis Managing Editor/Laura Peltakian Features Editor/Dave Merrill Senior Editor/Tom Marshall Contributing Editor/Steven Kuo Network Manager/John Schwartze Director, Video Production/Calvin Coulthard Contribu
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Uncovered
1 PAYNE LEATHER & TOOL payneleatherandtool.com MATERIAL: Solid Red Oak MSRP: $85 NOTES: You’ve got some nice knives — everyday folders, a beast for the woods, and likely a decent set of blades for the kitchen. Guys who know how to take care of a knif
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M1895 Nagant Single Action
We certainly don’t choose the cream of the crop when looking for candidates for this column, but every now and then you find something interesting for the right price and people will inquire about carrying it as a woods or backup gun. So, on a visit
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Options
PHLSTER phlsterholsters.com FITS: SIG P320, Glock 17, 19, 26, 34, 43, 43x, 48 MSRP: $80 NOTES: Like any tool, a cheap holster will cost you more than you think in the long run. Paying $70 or more for a holster might hurt a bit, but getting something
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Tim Carroll
A Look at Home-Defense Setups of the Average Citizen www.tennessee-carry.com Profession Firearms Instructor Title Head Instructor Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decision-making. My home is a two-sto
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Michael Diaz
www.ifthentactics.com Profession Police Officer Current job title or rank Patrolman Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decisionmaking. I live in a two-story continental-style home that’s occupied by me,
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Hannah Hannah
Profession Mother, consultant, candidate for Chaffee County commissioner Current job title Hey Mom Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decision-making. I’m a single mom, and my two young sons live full-t
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Michael A. Schwartz
www.SDCGO.org Profession Executive Director, San Diego County Gun Owners PAC Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decisionmaking I live in a two-story house with no outside property and a lot of windows.
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Mike Takacs
Profession Law enforcement officer Current job title or rank Senior investigator Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decisionmaking. Small, single-story, single-family home with two children, wife, and n
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Keith Wood
Profession Writer, attorney Describe your residence and its occupants as it relates to protective or defensive decisionmaking. I live in a two-story, single-family home with a wife and children. We live in a small, semirural city where the police res
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Hands On
VIRIDIAN VIRIDIANWEAPONTECH.COM MSRP: $399 WHAT IS IT? A 500-lumen weapon light combined with a 1080P video camera and microphone. WHAT GOT OUR ATTENTION? Now that everyone’s a journalist, the ability to record your own POV during a self-defense inci
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Ain’t No Laws…
The Combat Light Assault Weapon, or CLAW, is a modular, multi-caliber AK with plenty of American bells and whistles. It’s a collaborative design between Plumb Precision, Campbell Arms Manufacturing, and Krebs Custom, with Gun Dynamics bringing them a
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Electronic Security Systems
In CONCEALMENT Issue 17, we discussed using a layered approach to home security and presented an overview of the topic. In Issue 18, we took a deeper look into the aspect of physical barriers and target hardening. In this third installment of our fou
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Sig Sauer P320 Custom Works Fcu
It’s a great time to own a SIG Sauer P320. The handheld Juggernaut came out of nowhere in 2014 and slowly mounted a strong challenge to the market-leading polymer pistols. With the Army’s adoption of the platform in 2017, the P320 is poised to become
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Give Them The Axe
About 60 years ago, Steve McQueen played a bounty hunter armed with a cutdown Winchester 1892 lever action. It had no stock and was called the Mare’s Leg on the TV show Wanted: Dead or Alive. No such weapon had ever existed in the historical West, bu
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Somebody’s Watching You
We’ve all seen crazy dash cam videos. Whether vehicular insanity on the streets of Russia, bad drivers in the heartland, or cars flying through the air, small cameras mounted in vehicles are increasingly becoming important just-in-case must-haves. Th
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NOT JUST FAST & FURIOUS
Most handguns come with factory sights that are pretty rudimentary, and they’re often the first thing to be replaced. Perhaps you want to see your sights better in diminished light, to acquire them quickly in bright daylight, to use them to rack the
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Prison Pocket Perfection
Nothing quite grabs our imaginations faster than a miniature, murdery pistol. It brings forth visions of Mossad agents doing wet work with secreted-away pistols in unusual places. While traditionally the Mossad was known for using another pizza pisto
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Heavy Metals
While interest in concealed carry and personal protection handguns has been growing steadily for several years, the last six months has seen an unprecedented flood of new purchases. An entire generation of fledgling firearms students was born in less
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Paul Blart Af
Sometimes it feels like Israel only produces ridiculously cheesy plastic products, but that’s increasingly changing. When we first saw Recover Tactical’s bulky add-a-rail grip replacements for Beretta M9s, we were nonplussed. But they quickly followe
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Carrying Into The Future
For a long time, “holster” was most frequently used to describe a pouch stitched of leather or cloth shaped to contain a handgun and often, but not always, prevent it from falling out by means of a flap or strap or else just a snug friction fit. Othe
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Experts Shine A Light On Wmls For Carry Guns
Two predictable changes occurred in the weaponmounted light market in the last decade or so. First, they’ve gotten smaller. Second, bigger lights have gotten absurdly powerful. A modern full-size weapon-mounted light is capable of packing 1,000 lumen
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Lights Out!
This installment of Skills & Drills will give you a base line for testing out different handheld light techniques on the range as well as in your dry-fire routine. While a weapon-mounted light is typically preferable in low-light situations (see page
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Burning A Hole In Your Pocket
In a previous article, we referenced the original gangster of concealment, the wheel-lock pistol. The wheel-lock provided a solution to early firearms technology in terms of the ability to conceal a gun without a burning match cord. That isn’t to say

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