Gun Reviews

A student showed up to a recent basics class with her husband’s Glock 19 stuffed in her range bag, and by the second magazine, her hand hurt from racking the slide. That’s not unusual. It’s the single most common physical barrier I see with new shooters, especially women with smaller hands or anyone dealing with […]

A student showed up to a private lesson last week with a Ruger LCP Max riding in her jacket pocket, no holster, just loose in the fabric. She’d bought it because a friend recommended it and it disappeared into a small purse. That’s the appeal of this gun in one sentence, and it’s also exactly

Every few weeks a student in one of my classes asks the same question during the lunch break: Sig P365 or Glock 43X, which one should I actually buy? It’s a fair question, and it’s the most common carry-gun matchup I hear about in Palm Beach County right now. Both guns show up on hip

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.

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

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