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    Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection: Learn why, where & how to carry a concealed weapon with a responsible mindset.
    Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection: Learn why, where & how to carry a concealed weapon with a responsible mindset.
    Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection: Learn why, where & how to carry a concealed weapon with a responsible mindset.
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    Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection: Learn why, where & how to carry a concealed weapon with a responsible mindset.

    By Massad Ayoob

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    In this excerpt from the Gun Digest Book of Concealed Carry, Massad Ayoob teaches concealed carry mindset - including the CCW lifestyle, why we carry, where you can and can't carry plus preparation and aftermath of a self-defense scenario.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGun Digest Books
    Release dateJul 1, 2012
    ISBN9781440234064
    Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection: Learn why, where & how to carry a concealed weapon with a responsible mindset.
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    Massad Ayoob

    Massad Ayoob owns and operates Massad Ayoob Group (massadayoobgroup.com), teaching thousands of students annually about practical shooting tactics and the many aspects of self-defense law. He has published thousands of articles in gun magazines, martial arts publications, and law enforcement journals, and authored more than a dozen books on firearms, self-defense, and related topics, including best sellers such as Deadly Force and Combat Shooting with Massad Ayoob. 

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      Gun Digest’s Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles eShort Collection - Massad Ayoob

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      Concealed Carry Mindset & Principles

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      As Gail begins to give him a hug, Steve tucks his elbows into his body and will seem to be hugging back, but his forearm placement will prevent her from feeling the SIG 357 on his right hip or the spare magazine on his left.

      The CCW LIFESTYLE

      If you’re reading this book, that tells me that you’ve either made the decision to CCW (Carry a Concealed Weapon), or are thinking about it. Either one is a good start to enhanced personal safety of oneself and loved ones.

      It surprises some people to hear that from a guy who’s been carrying a badge for three and a half decades. Surprise: there are more cops who feel the same way than you might think. Fact is, for the most part, the anti-gun cops fall into two narrow categories. One is the chief appointed by an anti-gun mayor or city council, who serves at the pleasure of the appointing authority and can get busted back to Captain – the highest rank normally protected by Civil Service – if he doesn’t make himself a mouthpiece for the politician(s) in question. The other is the young rookie who didn’t have a gun of his own until he got into the Academy, and associates the weapon with the new identity into which he has invested so much of his time, effort, ego and self-image. It’s not something he wants to share with the general public.

      Give him time. My experience has been that the great majority of LEOs (law enforcement officers) in the middle of those two ends, the seasoned street cops who’ve seen the reality, have a more realistic view. A great many of them make sure they leave a gun at home for their spouse to use to protect the household while they’re gone. They’ve learned that police are reactive more than proactive, and that the victim has to survive the violent criminal’s attack long enough for law enforcement to be summoned and arrive.

      I’ve carried a concealed handgun since I was twelve years old. My grandfather, the first generation of my family to arrive in the USA, was an armed citizen who went for his gun when he was pistol-whipped in his city store by an armed robber. He shot and wounded the man. The suspect fled, only to be killed later that night in a shootout with the city police. The wound my grandfather inflicted slowed him down when he tried to kill the arresting officer, and the cops thanked him for that. My dad had been in his twenties when he had to resort to deadly force in the same city’s streets. A would-be murderer put a revolver to his head and pulled the trigger; my dad ducked to the side enough to miss the bullet, but not enough to keep the muzzle blast from destroying his left eardrum. Moments later, my father’s return fire had put that man on the ground dying from a 38 slug center mass, and the thug’s accomplice in a fetal position clutching himself and screaming.

      It’s no wonder that growing up in the 1950s, guns were a part of my life: in the home, and in my father’s jewelry store. When I went to work there at age twelve, I carried a loaded gun concealed. There were strategically placed handguns hidden throughout the area behind the counter and in the back room, but Dad was smart enough to know that I wouldn’t always be within reach of one when I needed it. The laws in that time and place allowed the practice.

      I realized this was some pretty serious stuff, and set to learning all I could about the practice. My dad’s customers included lawyers, judges, and his friend the chief of police. I picked all their brains on the issue. What I learned stunned me.

      There were books then on gunfighting: how to do it, what to do it with, and how to develop the mindset to do it. Interestingly, there were none on when to shoot. My dad’s lawyer friends told me that even kids like me could use a legal library; we didn’t have to be attorneys or law students to get in there, and the librarian would show us how to find what we were looking for. I lived in the state capital, and the State Legal Library had the same rule. As I began that self-education, I found myself thinking, "Somebody ought to write a book about this for regular people! When I grow up, if nobody’s written that book yet, I wanna write it!"

      If you carry, be competent with your gun. You don’t need to be able to shoot this perfect qualification score with a Glock 30 and 45 hardball, but you want to come as close as you can. Confidence and competence intertwine, says Ayoob.

      And I did. In the Gravest Extreme: the Role of the Firearm in Personal Protection hit print in 1979, and has been a best-seller ever since. And I’ve been carrying a concealed handgun since the year 1960, in public on a permit since the year 1969. By 1973, I had become a police firearms instructor, and from then to now have taken training as avidly as I’ve given it. I’ve been teaching and researching this stuff full time since 1981, when I established Lethal Force Institute (www.ayoob.com). That has included expert witness testimony in weapons, shooting, and assault cases since 1979. From 1987 through 2006, I served as chair of the firearms committee for the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, and have been on the advisory board for the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association since its inception. I’ve also had the privilege of teaching for the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors inside and outside the US, and served a couple of years as co-vice chair, with Mark Seiden under Drew Findling, of the forensic evidence committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. I’ve had the privilege of studying the firearms training of the DEA, NYPD, LAPD, numerous state police agencies, and countless other law enforcement organizations. I’ve been able to study hands-on with such great shooting champions as Ray Chapman, Frank Garcia, Rob Leatham, and many more. I learned one-on-one from living legends like Charlie Askins, Jim Cirillo, Jeff Cooper, Bill Jordan, Frank McGee and more. Some of the more have asked that their names not appear in print, and I will respect that here.

      Many who carry guns have learned to carry two. Here, twin baby Glocks ride in double shoulder holster by Mitch Rosen.

      When you become accustomed to carrying, you learn to have at least one weak-side holster and ambidextrous gun so you can protect yourself and your loved ones if you sustain an injury to the dominant arm. This is one of author’s Springfield Armory 1911s, with ambidextrous safety and left-hand High Noon concealed carry scabbard.

      It has been a long and educational road, and with a little luck, it won’t be over anytime soon. The bottom line is, I’m not a super-cop as so many of those men literally were. In all these years, though I’ve had my gun on a lot of people and was starting to pull the trigger a few times, I’ve never had to shoot a man. With a little luck, that will stay the same, too. I see my role – as an instructor and as the writer of this book – as a funnel of knowledge. You’re at the receiving end of the funnel.

      There have been tremendous advances in the last fifty years in holster design, handgun design, and ammunition

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