The 6 Most Important Things I’ve Learned Since Carrying A Firearm

By John Falkenberg

Concealed carry aficionados — and large portions of the gun community as a whole — really like to read beginners guides and accounts of other people’s mistakes.

If you keep up with a lot of YouTube gun guys, you’ll often hear them saying the same thing.

It’s not because the market is flooded with beginners, although there certainly are plenty — and it’s certainly not because people get a kick out of catastrophic concealed carry failures, although some certainly do.

It’s because people like to really, really cover the basics. Even long-time veterans of the firearms community will change opinions on some of the basics — like double- or single-stack, hammer- or striker-fired — from time to time.

On that note, I thought I would assemble six things for you guys that I have learned that I think of as the most important since carrying a firearm.

1. You Are Not Immune to the Unbelievably Stupid.

I’m no dummy. I did well in school, I’ve got a college degree, I placed in the top percentile in the ASVAB, etc. That crap doesn’t matter. There is no limit to how stupid and dangerous you can be if you fail to observe the rules of gun safety …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation