Guns for Beginners: Three Steps to Drawing Your Concealed Carry Pistol

By Robert Farago

Over at gundigest.com, Kevin D. Michalowski offers Four Steps To Drawing from your Concealed Carry Holster. While the article is technically accurate and extremely useful, my problem starts with the first illustration [above]. At the risk of stating the blatantly obvious, that’s not a concealed handgun. As for the remaining three steps, OK, yeah, sure. Shoot from the hip if needs be, shoot from the chest if needs be, and shoot from a “proper” stance if needs be. But new shooters are well advised (IMHO) to take a simpler and more real wordlistic approach. Like this . . .

Step One – MOVE!

Self-defense situations are highly fluid. The bad guy is probably moving towards you. His pal or pals may be moving around you. You may be moving at the time of the attack, either towards your attacker(s), away or sideways. You may have someone with you, maybe multiple friends of family members, who may move God knows where. There may be moving bystanders, too. Cover or concealment could be . . . anywhere.

Whether or not you can successfully engage a lethal threat depends as much on geography as it does on the speed or quality of …read more

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