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Ask ten different firearms instructors in Palm Beach County what gun a brand-new student should train on first, and at least seven of them will say the same three words: Glock 19. It’s not the most exciting answer. It’s also the one that keeps showing up in my hand when a nervous student asks what […]

A student showed up to one of my Boynton Beach classes last spring carrying a Shield Plus she’d bought because a friend told her it was “basically a P365 but cheaper.” She wasn’t wrong, exactly, but that’s also not really why I ended up recommending it to more new shooters than almost anything else in

Springfield Hellcat review covering specs, capacity, reliability testing, and an honest verdict from a Boynton Beach firearms instructor on Florida carry.

Last month a woman walked into one of my Boynton Beach classes holding a pink-grip .380 her brother-in-law picked out for her at a gun show. She’d never fired it. Her hand was shaking before we even loaded a magazine, and by the end of the two hours she told me flat out she hated

A woman walked into my Boynton Beach class last month holding a pistol she’d bought online three weeks earlier, still in the box, still with the trigger lock on. She’d never fired it. She’d picked it because it was the one her coworker owned, and she figured that was good enough research. It wasn’t a

Last updated August 14, 2026. This article reflects the law as of that date and is for education only, not legal advice. Marijuana and firearm law is moving fast right now; talk to a Florida firearms attorney before you make a decision based on any of this. A student pulled me aside after a Protector

A woman in one of my concealed carry classes in Boynton Beach pulled a Sig P365 out of her purse holster last month and said, “I almost didn’t buy this because it looked too small to be real.” That’s the reaction I get more than any other gun in my range bag. It looks like

A guy came into a recent basic pistol class in Boynton Beach, plunked his range bag on the table, and asked me flat out: “If I got a DUI back in 2019, can I even buy a gun?” That’s an easy one — a misdemeanor DUI alone doesn’t disqualify you. But the question behind the

Glock 43X review with real specs, reliability testing, and an honest verdict from a Boynton Beach firearms instructor on Florida carry and concealment.

A student asked me this at the end of a Protector Level 1 class in Boynton Beach: “So my Glock’s in the nightstand right now, loaded, one in the pipe. Am I doing this wrong?” Her husband, sitting next to her, said he unloads his every night and keeps the mag separate in a drawer