An Immersive Look into Firearms, Self-Defense, and Ensuring Safety Introduction Podcast

Hi, welcome to the Arm Guardian podcast.

I'm your host, brian, and I'm David co-host for the Arm Guardian podcast.

So we're here today. We're going to welcome you to our first introductory podcast where we're going to be discussing a top, several different topics engaging in firearms, self-defense training gear and a plethora of other topics. Kind of the goal for this podcast that we envisioned is to help educate and give ideas to people on concealed carry being your first responder for any self-defense incident and help you be better prepared overall to encounter and prepare for these events and hoping that you never need to be involved in one. So our podcast, the way it's going to be set up, is we're going to have try to have two episodes a month. One will be episode where David and I will be discussing some topics. David, what are some of the topics we're looking at?

So some of the topics we're going to want to be discussing is going to be women's firearms and safety need for continued training, training with instructors, maybe online training, training by yourself. Could be at a range, could be in your bedroom or your house, wherever you train at Equipment such as guns, different kinds of guns, their pros, their cons, what situations you might use the different kinds of weapons in Gear options such as holsters, everyday carry gear, knives, maybe flashlights, stuff like that. Also, we've gotten to discuss carry options. You know how we carry our firearms. Some people prefer smaller backs, some people prefer kidney carry, some appendix carry, some strong side carry. There are many different kinds of different ways to carry firearms. First aid considerations Mr Brown, would you like to elaborate on the first aid considerations?

we would yeah, yeah, I think there's a paramount for every concealed carrier and not even if you're not a concealed carrier everybody to be versed in some sort of first aid care, especially if you're carrying a firearm, just because the firearm, if you're involved in an incident, say you are a loved one is injured in that incident. Knowing how to start that circle of life that is required to render the first aid until the paramedics, first responders, arrive, those few minutes of your assisting them will help ensure that they have a better chance of surviving. God forbid that somebody does get shot. So, being trained in first aid and care and first responder type training we're not going to certify you or anything, but we're just going to bring up topics and ideas and stuff. We'll be discussing a few of those and hopefully we'll have some guests on further into some of those topics.

For ammunition and we'll also be discussing ammunition considerations such as ballistics, different types of ammunition, rifle, handgun different types of rifle and handgun ammunition. The home defense options, such as finding a safe room, getting there, taking care of yourself in and also what to do if somebody breaks in your home, calling 911, setting up stuff or having firearms and equipment set up in places that you can easily access them. Also, we'll be talking about competition shooting for training.

Mr Bryant, if you'd like to elaborate on the competition shooting for training, yeah, no, it's a good way of putting the stress into your shooting that we can go all day to a range and shoot at a paper target and see our hits accurately. You know, with all the time in the world, without any movement of us per se. Competition shooting, on the other hand, as well as being timed, a lot of the events are mobile. You're shooting from various positions, which you don't always get to do at a range. So it just better prepares you for those self-defense encounters that you may possibly be involved in and hope may possibly be involved in Hope not in the future but you're able to be better prepared because you're shooting from different positions and things and your accuracy. You don't have that time all the time in the world to get that shot off. You're trying to get it off quickly. So I think competition shooting in a training mode is a very good aspect for the shooters out there.

Also, we'll have some guests on our show. Mr Brown, would you like to go over some of the guests and some of the topics discussed by the guests we have on our show Sure David?

What we're going to be doing guest-wise is we've got a couple of already confirmed. We just got to get episodes recorded and make arrangements for all of that. But we've got a few people that are very, I think, people will be impressed with as far as they're going to get a lot of information. Three of the confirmed guests that we have is Cass McGuire. She's a firearms and self-defense instructor. She's also a domestic violence survivor. She has an awesome story. I look forward to having her on the podcast and just explaining her journey, what's got her to where she's at. She's very pro-2A, very focused on self-defense survival. That's all I'll go on on that. She's got an awesome story that one may turn out to be a two-part episode. We'll just have to wait and see. And then I've got Crystal Milan. She's a South Florida instructor, uscca instructor for women's firearms and safety. She's also an advocate for human trafficking as well as some other things, and I look forward to having her on with her journey where she got her to be an instructor and some of her passions and what she sees in some of the areas. So, trampas Swanson he's a Northeast Florida instructor, uscca and NRA instructor. He also has a man of many things and many pockets. He's got his hands in a lot of stuff along with his wife, but he's got an actual magazine online magazine. I won't go into that. We'll let him talk about that, but there's very A lot of topics are covered in that and he's also a instructor both with the NRA and USCCA. Got a big, long history, prior law enforcement. He's just done some military training, so he's got a big story and we'll have him probably on for a couple of different topics throughout the podcast in the future. Got a few others that we're looking to do. I won't go into their names since they're not confirmed yet, but looking to have one come on who's a another USCCA instructor and training counselor to talk more in depth on training issues. Have one that's going to talk about a program that's out there called a girl in a gun. Find out a little bit about what that is. And then have a guest who is also a competition shooting enthusiast as well as a firearms trainer, a former law enforcement officer, and talk about how shooting helps with your training and preparedness as a concealed carrier. If you all think of any additional topics or guests that you would like to have discussed on our podcast, you can email us at podcast, at blueberrytacticalcom, and that'll come to us and we will be able to see where we can slide in in some of those concepts or some of those topics or guest requests and we can see what we are going to do for that. Give a little bit of background on myself. I'm the owner of Blueberry Tactical and Training. This is Brian. I also am a former US Army veteran. I was a military policeman, served my enlistment and got out and went into civilian law enforcement. I've done 15 years in civilian law enforcement from a gamut of a lot of things. I was an instructor on the department level, taught in the academy in Florida and also taught a bunch of specialty topics in my training. But I have a lot of training courses and I love educating people as well as I'm a ordained minister, so I have that also going to know. I see things from both the Christian perspective as far as also the the worldly. So now that this is going to be a religious podcast, but I just let you know that I am the ordained minister and we we both David and I we go to church together. So God is one of our priorities and everything that we do. So, david, talk about yourself well, mr Brian.

I'm David Alderman. I'm a US CCA certified instructor. I was there. I am a United States Air Force veteran. I have experience as a law enforcement or serving in a law enforcement capacity. Also, I have a passion for firearms and firearm related activities and self-defense.

I've enjoyed shooting and participating in shooting, hunting, firearms related activities for a long time, so what's some of the things that's one of your hot topics, that kind of bugs you with people that are concealed carrying or carrying a firearm. Of course, in Georgia we are an open carry state, so we still I still see people carrying openly. But what are some of your, a couple of your things that you you'd like to people to be more aware of? If you, if you had a second to talk to?

some of the one of the things that I see that that to me would would be nice and I think about this for even for myself making sure that we're carrying in quality holsters, whether that be leather, cad, ex or or some other material. Making sure, first thing, that it holds your gun properly, that, if that your gun fits it properly. And the second thing thing that's equally important is making sure that that your that the holster secures your firearm well, which kind of goes along with fitting properly, but we want to make sure that it's able to secure your firearm well. So if you're moving, whatever the case may be in your everyday movements, whether it's going to the grocery store or to Walmart or out playing with your kids that the firearms stay safely in the holster and that it's not easy to access unless you are the one accessing it and need to access it to use it. Firearm safety is one of the things that I personally take very seriously, and I would, and you know, I know a lot of other people do too but that's one of the things I don't think we can push enough. The second thing that that I see that people doing it kind of goes along with carrying firearm in a holster that secures it properly, so that way you can carry safely is carrying in the proper context. And what I mean by this is this. To give you an example, I mean if you're going to Walmart or the grocery store, you might carry in a way to conceal your firearm a little bit or to carry less, even if you're not fully concealment, if you like to open carry, carrying in a way that's a little more obscure than how you would carry the range. For instance, range you might wear a leg drop holster because you might be shooting in a competition or or practicing shooting from from that particular way of carry. But carrying in a grocery store or Wal-Mart or a department store is not, may not be, the best place to carry that way, because some people may view that as they don't really know what to think of it or they may not be sure what your intentions are. They don't know that you may have good intentions in the reason why you carry firearms. So I think sometimes you know we can carry appropriately to where we're at. The way we carry the range may be different from the way we carry in our cars, to at our house, to going to the grocery store, department store. Mr Bryan, what are some things that you see that you think we could do better on as the way we carry firearms or present ourselves as firearm people that carry firearms, or some things that you would like to other things you like to.

Well, some of the things that are kind of my pet peeves or things that bug me is your situational awareness. I see, since Georgia is constitutional carry and people are carrying more, especially if they're carrying open carry, which in Georgia they are allowed to do that where other states they aren't. But when you're carrying especially open carry, aware of your surroundings. I've seen so many people in various locations that are just nonchalant, walking by, either by themselves or with family and friends, and they are oblivious to what's going on around them and opening themselves up to either having their gun taken or the gun, as you said, not properly secured, to where it's just flopping around and stuff. So situational awareness is one of my big pet peeves when you're carrying a firearm, because you're not just carrying a firearm for your sake any situation you go into you're presenting a firearm. Whether you're bringing it for good, someone else may potentially be able to take that away from you and use it for bad. So just be aware your surroundings is one of mine. The other one is, if you're carrying concealed, learn how to properly carry it to where you're not printing or drawing attention to how you're carrying it, and I understand for a lot of new people that carry concealed. It's a little awkward for them. They're trying to find that perfect place for the gun to sit while they carry. So I see them actually tugging, making, covering, making sure they pull down their shirt, push the gun in if it's not secured properly in their carry position, so just being aware of not trying to draw attention to it. Part of concealed carry is that you don't know it's there and that's. Those are my two big things with firearms and concealed carry. So, david, I want to mention a couple of the classes that you put on, that you teach with the blueberry tactical and what what some of your future plans are.

Yes, we offer classes on. I mainly teach the concealed carry home defense fundamentals. Right now that's what I'm certified for through the USCCA. Some of the classes that I put on me and Mr Brian are the basic handgun course, constitutional carry, concealed carry basic fundamentals. We also do some use of force simulation classes. We do home defense classes. Brian also offers pepper spray training, women's handgun training and medical first aid training and countering the mass shooter threat, which could apply if you're out in public, say at a department store or the workplace or even. One of the things we haven't thought about in past years but we see becoming more and more prevalent, is when we go to our church, our place of worship. He cover the Countering. The Mass Shooter Threat covers that also. Mr Bryan, would you like to expound upon that a little bit Well?

the Countering the Mass Shooter Threat program that I teach is a USCCA curriculum and it's courses. It's a series of courses. It's designed to be for individuals, for organizations, businesses, churches. It just brings up a lot of questions, gives you insight into the Mass Shooter Threat and how to watch for it, things that you can do to help prevent it, and dive into about 10 different scenarios from past shooting mass shooter events and some FBI statistics that they have gotten in. And we also help with church security, providing your church security program for a place of worship. We will assist you with setting up a program. If you don't have one, just contact us. Very good educational class for the mass shooter training that we offer.

And one of the other things that I would like to add is we also offer one-on-one training if you're interested in learning focusing on a specific thing or maybe improving your shooting. One-on-one at the range.

Yeah, we do that one-on-one in person and we also do some private one-on-one classes. Whether you got a group of family or friends that you want to get together and do a private class away from the people that you may not know. You got a group of family members that you want to take some training but you just want to do it yourself, we do that. We also do online Zoom training to where we can talk about things that may not need to be. We don't need a range per se Use of force topics, situational awareness, different classes like that. We do offer Zoom classes, so contact us for any of those if you decide you want to take some of those or get some information on those. Well, I think that about wraps up the intro podcast for us. We're hoping in the next few weeks to start having some topics posted on the podcast forum. Look for us on all your favorite podcast programs and, as we get some topics going and the podcast uploaded, give us some reviews. This will help us out on how we're doing. Do we need to change anything? Which, with this starting out, I'm sure things will change, as with anything new, as we fine tune everything, but there'll be some episodes where it may be just David doing the program because I'm busy, our vice versa, where he's unable to be in attendance and I'm doing the podcast. So just stay tuned for us, support us and we'll be having some sponsors on shortly, but, following our motto learn, train and survive. Thank you,