Oct. 25, 2025
Equip Responsibility: Thoughtful Gifts For Everyday Carriers
Send us a text The holiday rush doesn’t have to mean guesswork. We break down a clear, practical gift guide for the armed citizen in your life—focusing on gear that fits, skills that last, and storage that keeps everyone safe. From holsters to safes, we share how to choose confidently without falling for hype or buying the wrong thing. We start with holsters and the details that matter: exact firearm fit, space for mounted lights or optics, and whether leather, kydex, or hybrids suit their c...
The holiday rush doesn’t have to mean guesswork. We break down a clear, practical gift guide for the armed citizen in your life—focusing on gear that fits, skills that last, and storage that keeps everyone safe. From holsters to safes, we share how to choose confidently without falling for hype or buying the wrong thing.
We start with holsters and the details that matter: exact firearm fit, space for mounted lights or optics, and whether leather, kydex, or hybrids suit their carry style. Then we dive into optics—red dots and enclosed emitters for reliability in rain and dust, holographic options for fast acquisition, and why low power variable optics have become a favorite for versatile rifles. If your shooter hunts low light, illuminated reticles can be a game changer.
Lights are next, and they’re more than lumen wars. We talk handheld EDC lights that make positive ID simple, plus weapon-mounted options, activation methods, and battery choices that determine real-world usability. Training gifts might be the highest ROI: laser cartridges, smart sensors that chart muzzle movement, and course vouchers that add coaching and accountability. Round it out with range gear like reactive targets, slim electronic hearing protection, prescription-ready eye pro, and a durable range bag that organizes everything.
We close with storage that balances speed and security: bedside quick-access vaults, larger safes with fire ratings, vehicle lockboxes, and the unsung heroes—dehumidifiers and motion-activated safe lighting. Whether you’re shopping for a concealed carrier, a new gun owner, or a seasoned range regular, these picks help you buy once and buy right. If this guide helped, follow the show, share it with a friend, and leave a quick review so others can find it too.
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00:00 - Welcome And Gift Guide Overview
02:10 - Holster Types And Key Fit Factors
06:00 - Optics From Red Dots To LPVOs
11:30 - Everyday Lights And Weapon Lights
14:30 - Dry Fire Tools And Training Ideas
18:30 - Targets, Range Gear, And Hearing Protection
22:38 - Apparel, Footwear, And Carry Bags
26:08 - Home And Vehicle Storage Options
29:38 - Dehumidifiers, Safe Lighting, And Wrap-Up
30:23 - Holiday Wishes And How To Reach Us
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Hi, welcome to the Armed Guardian Podcast.
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Season one, episode eight.
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Today, David and I will be discussing holiday gift ideas for your still carrier armed citizen in your family.
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So sit back, enjoy as we discussed and give you some ideas for that special someone in your life.
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Hey David, how are you doing, sir?
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Doing pretty good, Mr.
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Braun.
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How are you doing today?
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I'm doing good.
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I'm doing good.
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Have you started your holiday shopping yet?
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I haven't yet, but I will be very, very shortly here.
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Yeah, I I know some people are are great at it.
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Uh they plan it all year long.
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They start looking for the gifts on uh clearance after the current holiday season, and they start buying for the next year.
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But uh yeah, I'm in the same boat.
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I haven't started mine yet, and it looks like it's gonna be um something I'm gonna be doing quite periodically.
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I know from today's date uh while we're recording this, we've got five Fridays left before Christmas.
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So it's coming up quick.
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So today we're gonna talk about some holiday gift options.
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Um, we're gonna discuss uh several different things, and uh, I'll just go briefly discuss or list what we're gonna talk about, and then we'll uh go into a little bit of detail on each one.
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Um, so some things that you can consider for your uh loved ones for uh that are gun enthusiasts.
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Uh you've got holster options, you've got optics, lights, dry fire or training options, targets and shooting supplies, apparel, and then uh we'll end it up by talking about storage.
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Um these are just uh gonna be a quick episode uh just to kind of give you an idea.
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Got someone that's into firearms, and maybe you're not, and you want to surprise them, you know, show them that you're it you're you're interested in what they love and uh give you some ideas of something to consider for that loved one.
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So David, you want to you want to mention that you wanted to first talk about the holster, so you want to uh lead us off on a holster discussion?
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Yes.
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Um so just the general overview of holsters.
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Um you have your outside the waistband holsters, which basically you can wear on your hip, but some people like to wear them more towards the their back hip portion um covered outside the waistband.
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Uh those are most of the time open carry holsters, although you can conceal them with a shirt or something like that.
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If you if you do raise your arms, they will be no longer concealed.
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Right.
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Yeah.
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Um, then you have your inside the waistband holsters, gives you a little more concealment.
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Um also they're a little bit, but with that being said, they can be a little more uncomfortable depending on what kind you have.
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And like well, in all reality, I don't think I've ever found one that's been extremely comfortable.
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Yeah.
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But so that's those are your main two as far as waistband carry.
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Then you have uh shoulder carry, um, under the shoulder, think the old police movies from the 20s with the detectives or the you know, the untouchables, yeah, um, movies like that.
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Dirty Harry, they use the shoulder holster.
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Yeah.
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Um, also, you have ankle holsters and bag holsters, whether it be fanny pack, versus I'm not gonna go on and on right.
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I'm just giving you some ideas, some considerations when we're thinking about holsters.
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And Mr.
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Brian, if you want to chime in at any time on this, uh feel free to do so.
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But the kind of gun the person's carry.
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If you're getting a gift you need to and you want to get them a holster, you need to know what kind of gun they have.
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Right.
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Um, if they have a revolver and you buy them a semi-auto holster, it's probably not gonna fit.
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So it's not gonna look good.
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Know what kind of gun they have.
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Also, um, what kind of accessories nowadays everybody's putting accessories on their firearms, whether it be gun lights, lasers, optics, um, holographic sites.
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We'll talk about that in a little in a few minutes here.
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Yeah.
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Um, so thinking about those things, because if they have a lot, then the holster's gonna be different than if they don't have a lot.
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Yeah, same with optics.
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So anything you'd got to add to that, Mr.
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Brown?
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Yeah, uh no.
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We've we've already uh previously done a holster episode, but just to kind of you know talk about this, you know, we uh with the considerations, you want to think of what the person enjoys.
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Are they a leather person?
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Are they a kydex person?
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Uh they make outside the waistbands and all kydex, uh, are they make them in all leather?
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Uh know what your person that you're getting your gift for, you know, what they like.
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Do they prefer leather?
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Do they prefer kydex or a hybrid uh combination of them?
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So uh just just something else to think about, and then the security level of it.
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Do you want it uh where it's uh level zero tension held, or do you want some sort of type of uh securement, whether it be a snap, a um uh just a twist release or something like that?
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So just some can those are some other considerations for the holsters to think of whenever you're looking for a gift to somebody.
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So um, you got anything else on on the holsters?
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Like this is probably gonna be a quick uh just uh overview uh episode because we're not gonna go into detail, but we're just giving you guys some some options, some ideas to uh spark your interest and to get you thinking for your your loved ones and their uh their toys.
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Um yeah, we can talk about, and I guess now we can talk about optics.
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Okay, um, just a general overview on optics, and I'm not gonna cover everything, just just some of the main ones that people use today for self-defense hunting, stuff like that.
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Okay.
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Um and at least the different types.
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You have your red dot optics that just have a little red dot in the in the uh tube in the retricle.
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Um, most of the time they're not magnified, although you can get the magnifiers to go with them.
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That's a topic for another time.
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You've also got open and close open and closed emitters on your red dots, uh, especially for your pistols.
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Uh, then what those are the open emitters or the the little just got the glass and it's encased uh uh uh dirt.
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The downfall with those is uh dirt and water and stuff can affect the red dot, but if you get an enclosed red dot, it keeps uh everything sealed and you know it rain, dirt, stuff doesn't block out that red dot emitter that's on that optic.
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So that's something you need to consider as well, and that goes back to considering with your holster.
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So that's all I had on red dot there.
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Yeah, and then you have your your holographic, which are pretty much very similar to red dots, and then you have your laser um sites, and then you have your scopes, such as you know, your magnification, your scopes are actually magnified.
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Um there's all kinds of different magnifications.
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You can get them with fixed magnifications, yeah, such as they may be magnified three times or five times or or on up.
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But the majority of the ones we use today um are variable magnifications.
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Yeah, um, they go to different variances of of magnification power.
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You can get them pretty pretty big and pretty expensive to to relatively small.
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Um the popular one it seems with concealed carriers and or with um yeah, concealed carriers, home defense top situations would be the LVPOs.
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Right.
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Um they go from a one magnification up to pins, some go to four magnification, day magnification, six magnification, something along those lines.
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They make some of them I think go higher, but yeah, as a general rule, those are probably the more popular.
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Yeah.
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Um, so that's just a little bit on optics.
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Well, and something else on scopes that uh you know, if you're looking for your your hunter enthusiast, uh you know, you they've got the whole uh scopes where the the reticle inside is either uh plain, it's a a black reticle that pops up on there, or it's could be a lighted reticle, or either you have some of the scopes that have the night vision attachment, or a camera, actual camera where you can take pictures of the what's being viewed through the scope.
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So those are some others, those are a little bit on the higher end, but uh the lighted reticle inside the scope that uh those are pretty neat, uh, especially if you're shooting in a maybe not a dark time, a dark situation, but you know, uh a low light, you're out in the gear stand uh early in the morning or late at night as sun's setting and uh or rising, and you know it's kind of hard to see that uh overlaid black crosshairs and stuff on the on the reticle uh in those situations.
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So having that lighted reticle uh helps uh helps out quite a bit in those situations.
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Yes, absolutely.
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And once again, this is not uh this is a general overview on scope, but that's to give you an idea as you're looking at.
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I think the biggest thing is you know knowing what what the person you're looking to buy get for is interested in.
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Right.
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And then you know, make making the making decision on that accordingly.
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Yeah.
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Um, Mr.
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Bryan, is there anything that you would like to talk about on lights?
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Um, we've talked about lasers and optics, but lights.
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Yeah, uh no, you always have a uh always can carry a good light with you, and I actually would recommend carrying a small everyday carry uh light.
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Uh, we've briefly discussed these in an overview episode when we were talking about uh some options that we're gonna be discussing throughout uh some of our episodes down the road, but uh just a small palm-sized flashlight that has an in switch uh works real good for concealed carry.
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It uh bright enough, all you need is about uh 60 lumens is bright enough to do uh defensively.
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Uh, you can get them where they're three, six hundred, twelve hundred lumens.
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Uh as goes to the brightness, but uh most of your concealed everyday carry flashlights would be 60 to 120 lumens.
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So um that's something that you want to you you can get the brighter things, but they're not necessarily you know you don't necessarily have to have them, but just uh have having the different considerations.
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Uh also you're looking for lights, a lot of them for concealed carry will have different uh light strengths.
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Uh you know, they'll have a high, low, medium, uh, some of them will have strobe, just uh different features that each of the lights have.
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Um, is it a rechargeable light?
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Does it have a replaceable battery?
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Is it a double A, triple A, or uh lithium battery?
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Uh different brands out there.
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Uh, if you're looking for a weapon-mounted light for your rifle or even for your handgun, uh, are you looking how what type of light are you looking for?
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Does it fit your gun?
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Uh, what type of activation system are you looking for?
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Like on a pistol, does it have a switch or is it a pressure sensitive uh pad?
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Uh, same thing on your rifle.
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Is it a pressure switch uh sensitive switch where when you grab it, it turns on and release it, turn shuts off?
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So those are just some things to think about with the lights.
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Um, you got anything that you want to can't think of anything else.
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No, I think that pretty much much covers the overview, yeah.
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And then we'll talk about uh training, uh dry fire options.
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Uh they make uh cartridges that fit inside the firearm, both your rifles, shotguns, and um pistols that has an activated laser.
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So whenever the trigger is pressed, that it activates the laser, and you can use that on a target, uh you know, something that you're aiming at to check your uh accuracy, your sight picture and sight alignments.
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Uh that helps a whole lot also with movement of your pistol.
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Uh, there's several things uh programs out there.
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Mantis has a uh, I'll just throw them out there because uh they actually have a cool system that I'm looking that's kind of on my wish list to get is uh you attach it to your actual regular gun and it will track your gun's movement during the pressing of the trigger, so you'll actually see how bad or how much movement you have while you're pressing the trigger.
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Uh so that'll help out with with that.
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Uh you have cert pistols, the laser-activated pistols that will um are similar to the shape size of uh different firearms, and they use a a laser uh red dot whenever you press the trigger and it hits that break point, it'll throw a light up on your target, your wall, or whatever.
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And again, that's just for training.
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Uh the practicing your trigger press, your trigger reset, your site picture.
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And then um when we talk about dry fire options, you know, don't forget about just regular training.
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Get uh if you got somebody that's uh you're getting a gift for, and maybe they're looking at a particular class, you see that there's a shotgun class coming up or uh AR class coming up that someone's offering somewhere, and you've heard them talk about, hey, I really would like to take this class uh one day or a class on shotguns, and you know, you find one, get them a gift certificate or pay for their training, get them signed up, and um you know offer that to your your loved one.
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Uh I'll take all the training.
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Anybody wants to buy me training, uh, just email me and uh I'll I'll take the training if you want to pay for it.
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But uh no, all no seriousness.
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Uh dry fire and training.
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No, we we think about buying the holsters, guns, ammo, stuff like that.
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But uh don't forget the training.
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Training is real important.
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So um talking a little bit about targets and shooting supplies.
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Uh it's a good thing to buy the different targets.
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No, sometimes you can get reactive targets, uh, you can get the uh self-healing targets for uh plates and stuff that have the polymer, and then whenever you shoot it, they self-heal and you can use them repeatedly.
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Uh a lot safer than steel if you're in a close environment.
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But um just get them different uh training aids, uh snap caps, uh malfunction uh caps uh or ammo that uh simulates malfunctions for them to train with.
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And anything that you can do to help them better themselves is is a good thing for uh targets and shooting supplies.
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Uh don't forget a range bag.
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Occasionally uh range bags get old, dirty, especially if you use them a lot.
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Um maybe they got a loved one that needs uh earmuffs or safety glasses, or maybe they have prescription glasses and you want to get them a good pair of shooting glasses.
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They they make those uh that they can wear that are safety, but they are also prescription where they're not having to use their personal everyday prescription glasses uh for things.
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Uh painting kits, we can always use painting kits, go through solvents and stuff like that quite frequently if you shoot a lot.
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So yeah, that's uh pretty much all I can think of on just little things like that.
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Anything one of the things on the earmuffs uh, you know, that I have come to like is uh the electronics.
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Yeah.
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Um, you know, if you're gonna invest in a set of earmuffs, um the electronic ones are really something good to look at um because they cancel the noise so you can hear what's going on around you, but yet whenever it gets above a certain decibel level, yeah, it it cancels it.
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So that those are really nice.
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I I like the noise canceling it.
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And something else with the earmuffs, you have to consider are they you can get slim electronic earmuffs or even slim earmuffs, but are they shooting a rifle?
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Are they using it for handgun?
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Because some of the standard earmuffs that you get um are large, and if you're trying to shoot a rifle and you're leaning your head up against the stock for uh sight picture, makes it a little bit hard or difficult to use those larger earmuffs.
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Uh so you got the your slim electronic earmuffs, you even got some of the ones that sig, axle, and stuff that actually are like earbuds that fit in your ear and their noise canceling where you can actually hear.
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And some of them even have Bluetooth where you listen to music, answer a phone call and stuff while you're practicing practicing or or shooting and stuff.
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So yeah, that's absolutely absolutely and then the other thing um I like to discuss for a minute is you know apparel clothing.
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Um, one would be shoes.
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Um having a good comfortable pair of shoes, you know.
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Uh that might be something, you know, can stay at the range and on your feet all day.
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It it uh it's nice to have a nice pair of shoes.
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Yeah, and also are you know, are you uh do you frequent a indoor range a lot or do you frequent an outdoor range?
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Um that's the outdoor ranges are a little bit more rougher on shoes, so you may want to go to like a uh boot or something, uh, or or hiking shoe that's a little bit more durable than a uh just a regular everyday pair of shoes.
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And you know, a lot of the shoes for ranges, you know, they you have vary from the boot top shoe to the more like a running walking type shoe.
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Right.
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So you so there are a lot of options out there for that.
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Um another thing with apparel would be you know, as far as shooting would be bags.
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Um you know, having a good a good carry bag for the concealed carrier, um, maybe to carry a firearm or accessories or or other other just normal everyday things that a person might need need during the day.
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Um carrying multiple guns uh to the range, you know.
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Yeah, they have is it uh capable of uh storing multiple guns or um things like that?
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Uh are they take guns and a rifle?
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You know, you got your carry bags for your uh MSR and other rifles that you take to the range.
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So uh just depending on I guess depends on what the what they're carrying and what the the use is of case for or um bag for you know storage or for uh moving around with.
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Yeah, and I mean, and then you have your, you know, are you carrying it for your normal everyday carry defensive, or you is it your range bag?
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I mean, but all that's important, or or um, you know, maybe even jackets, you know, thinking about stuff like jackets, pants, but those are just some of the things with the bags and the shoes that I think are important that a lot of times we don't think about enough, but they're they're important to the everyday carrier and even going to the range, um, having a knife bag, having having a decent pair of shoes.
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Yeah.
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Well, talking about apparel, uh most of the time, I know whenever I give classes, I tell people don't wear loose-fitting clothing uh just because you don't want that, especially at an indoor range.
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If a casing hits the wall and then bounces into uh your between your shirt and your skin, your body, uh, that's a hot piece of brass that's uh gonna burn and sting a little bit.
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So you know try to wear not tight fitting clothes, but snug fitting clothes to help prevent uh any of that from you know occurring.
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Uh the casing going a shirt down your back, uh in between your glasses.
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If you wear glasses, I've had that happen.
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So just some things to think about for apparel.
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Yeah, absolutely.
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And now, um I guess we'll discuss gun storage.
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Yeah, um, this is one of the most often, I feel like one of the over one of the more overlooked um side of the concealed carrier, right?
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Firearm enthusiasts, yeah.
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Um, is you have all these nice firearms and maybe even some expensive firearms, right?
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But what how are we storing them?
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What are we storing them in?
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I mean, there's different kinds of storage, you know, at home when we're on the run, or I mean, or on the on the go in our vehicles.
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Um so we're gonna talk a little bit about storage.
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Mr.
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Brian, your thoughts on on storage?
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Yeah, uh storage is you know, there's a lot of different options.
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Uh, like you touched on, the depending on what you're doing, uh, where you're at, it's gonna play a part into your uh storage capability or options.
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Uh, so let's uh talk briefly about what are the different types of storage.
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Um there are there.
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You know, you've got your your gun cases or gun cabinets, uh, which could be a stand-up cabinet or it could be a uh just a locking shelf uh box uh that stores a gun.
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Got that all really all that's all it does is it offers uh limited access uh ability to that firearm.
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It's not really a rated for all even though it may be that's not really rated for uh major theft or fire damage or anything like that, but uh got your cases, cabinets, uh I mean cabinets, and then you got your gun storage uh vaults or or cases, uh your safes basically.
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Uh so you got those, and those offer usually more storage capability, they offer a greater uh uh protection against theft, and then they're also fire rated for 15 to 60 minutes, depending on the the actual rating.
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Those are some things that you need to be aware of.
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But uh you got your those safes that uh are larger typically and for your your home to home storage, but they do have also some small safes sometimes for the vehicles.
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Uh you got some of the ones that fit in your consoles, you got some that fit in the headrest of vehicles, uh, some that fit underneath the secure to the car under a seat or in a glove box.
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So um that's pretty much the different types of uh uh storage uh capabilities that we have.
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Uh you got some things that you want to talk on storage?
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Um I think you covered it pretty good, but uh you know I think an important thing is uh just understanding, like Mr.
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Bryan said, the difference between the the cabinet and the space and what is your intended purpose here.
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If you're just looking for a place to secure your firearm with easy, with uh you know limited access, but if you do need to access it and get to it quick, then a then a cabinet might be good.
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If you're looking for something to secure it fire, then you you definitely want to go with a safe.
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And if you know if you are concerned about theft, really concerned, then you then you may want to go with a safe as well.
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So it really depends on what you're looking for.
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Um and you can get anything as far as size, you can get everything from a little like fault safe to hold a handgun that that you're you can access with your fingerprints or or like a keypad or lockbox to uh big you know 20 or 30 gun, say yeah.
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Um so there's there's a plethora of options out there.
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Yeah, and some something else on the home side of it.
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Uh you know, if you've got a gun that you're using for your home defense gun and that's all it is, uh your nightstand gun.
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Uh unless you're the only one in the home, uh I'm not really up for just leaving a gun stored somewhere.
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You know, have it some so usually you want to have it secured somehow, but they make some great nightstand bolts uh that you can attach to your either your bed, your headboard, or even to the nightstand that uh usually are either biometric, uh they are key coded, or you know, security pin number that you put in there to open it up.
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And a lot of these nightstand ones now are having where you can have a integrated clock with it, uh charging capabilities for these uh uh phones that uh either use a USB or the quick charge without a cable.
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So uh those are some options too.
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If you you know look if your husband or spouse or significant significant other uh are interested in something like a nightstand or or bedside uh storage capability, and then also finishing up, I guess, on the storage, just because you have a safe uh cabinet or whatever, think about uh humidity control.
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Humidity is uh uh enemy to firearms and ammunition, so you need to make sure you have some sort of um dehumidifier, which they make some that you plug into uh electric outlet that dries out, and then you just throw it into your cabinet or safe, and periodically you just take it out, plug it back up to dry out the moisture beads on it, and then there are some that actually have a dehumidifier built into it that uh plugs into the wall, and you don't have to worry about taking them and drying out the dehumidifier, the microbeads, because it automatically does that, and then also uh lighting issues for the safes.
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Uh a lot of safes now you can either buy lights with it already or buy attachments to where whenever you open up the safe, it's got a motion sensor that it comes on for a short period of time to allow you to access uh whatever you need in the safe without getting a flashlight or mounting a light in there.
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So um those are just some options whenever we're talking about uh storage, um, things to consider with the dehumidifier and lights.
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Um that's pretty much it.
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