Bill Shawley

Top 3 Reasons To Carry A Revolver Rather Than a Semi-Automatic Handgun

Some thirty years ago the American gun-buying public began to see semi-automatic pistols as reliable firearms. Once semi-autos cleared that hurdle, their superior capacity and quick reloadability ruled the day. When cops switched to semis, as the Brits say, it was all over bar the shouting. And yet revolver sales are still going strong — and for good reason! …

A Helpful Guide to Choosing Your First Gun for Self Defense

These are the myriad factors you must consider when choosing a first gun for concealed carry or for protecting your family inside your home.

What to Do If You're Pulled Over By the Police and You're Legally Carrying a Concealed Firearm

If you don't want to accidentally get shot by the police, here is what you should do during a stop

Enhance PE Best Practices with Pedometers

Jessica Shawley explains the importance of measuring student progress and physical education program impact using pedometers.

What You Should (Probably) Leave To A Gunsmith

Some repairs or modifications to guns are incredibly simple...but some are not, with little room for error. Here's some things better left to a gunsmith...

American Gunsmithing Institute: DIY AR Upgrades

American Gunsmithing Institute’s new DVD course 'The AR-15: Practical, Tactical or Tacti-Cool' is perfect to help you accessorize your AR-15.

Creative Types Learn to Shoot Guns

At Westside Rifle & Pistol Range, a group of newbie marksmen fire at targets featuring photos of them in the name of art.

Someone (Mostly) 3-D Printed a Working Semi-Automatic Gun

Another incremental step in the evolution of digital DIY weapons.

There IS Something You Can Do to Prevent Gun Violence

When I was growing up in suburban Chicago, my mother would welcome us home from school. After a quick hello and maybe a snack, we would drop off our sch...

Can we pick out the mass shooters before they kill?

Sep 10, 2015 | 5:00 AMPhotograph from a white supremacist website showing Dylann Roof, the suspect in the Charleston, S.C. church shooting holding a Confederate flag and a pistol. (Handout)There is a moment following every mass killing when the media turn their attention to the shooter's mental health. After Aurora, Sandy Hook, Isla Vista and, most recently, the WDBJ TV shooting in Virginia, pundits…

Surviving Gun Violence Makes You More Than a Statistic

School shootings are horrific, and they take place in a society that uses race and class to mask the extent of gun violence. “This isn’t just at a high school over here, in this part of the United States, and then a high school somewhere else. No, this happens in everyday life.”

10 Rules You'll Want to Consider at Your Local Gun Show

Sonoran Desert Institute, Online Gunsmithing College 10 Rules You'll Want to Consider at Your Local Gun Show

You Should Know How The Male Brain Reacts To Handling A Gun

The Importance of Gun Cleaning

Our personal firearms serve us in a variety of ways. The most important of those is their ability to provide us protection from lethal threats. While they can provide us hours of enjoyment on the range, once we drive back into society, they take on a much more serious role. In order for us to […]

She saved a school from a gunman. Hear what she thinks about arming teachers.

Antoinette Tuff was hailed as a hero for saving an entire school from a shooting. But she didn't brandish a gun to avert a would-be mass killer. She used love.

Understanding Social Loss: Why We Need Ethnographies of Gun Violence

I once attended a talk where an audience member asked panelists, “How much does gun violence cost us?” Panelists offered different responses, each highlighting the broad economic burden of shootings....

Guns in a third of our homes. What can we do to keep kids safe?

When a gun is present in the home, the risk of homicide and suicide is three to five times higher. So the question is: What can we do to keep our children safe?