How Red Dot Sights Can Save Your Life

By CN Staff

Every gun owner knows the saying. Say it with me. “When seconds matter, the police are minutes away.”

It’s not an insult to the police. They work hard and can only be so many places at once. It’s just a sober fact. In a life-or-death situation, it will take police time to get to your location. If you have time to take cover, barricade, evade, do it. If you don’t, it’s time to use your concealed carry handgun to defend your life.

No concealed carrier wants to get stuck in that situation. Not a single one. But it’s also why we carry concealed. We know, if that day should ever arrive, we need to be ready to fight for our own existence and the existence of our family.

With the advent of red dot sights and their availability on the commercial market, there’s been quite a few attempts to integrate them into concealed carry pistols. The slowest part of a person’s shooting is drawing, target acquisition, sight picture and sight alignment.

Bad guys don’t have to worry about that as much. After all, if a bullet goes wide of target, it’s not their problem. As good guys, it’s very much our problem.

Whereas just a …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation