The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense - Softcover

Chris Bird

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9780965678414: The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965678415 ISBN 13: 9780965678414

Publisher: Privateer Publications, 2004

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Intended to provide instruction on using handguns to prevent gun owners from becoming the victims of a criminal or terrorist attack, this comprehensive handbook contains information on current state regulations, beginning and advanced shooting instruction, and updated safety advice. Advice for selecting and buying a handgun, discussions of the importance of self-protection, and methods of concealing weapons accompany a discussion of the mental attitude required in case of an armed encounter. In light of the current problem of violence in schools, this edition also offers detailed instruction on how to avoid violent encounters entirely. Information on the psychological consequences of shooting in self-defense is included, as are actual stories of incidents of concealed handgun self-defense.

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About the Author:

Chris Bird has carried a handgun for more than 40 years. He is a former police reporter for the San Antonio Express-News, a certified concealed handgun instructor, and a director of the Texas Concealed Handgun Instructor Association. He lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Review:

"Carrying a deadly weapon is too serious a matter to go unstudied. Chris Bird's work serves as a fine textbook for those who have made, or are considering making, that commitment." —Will Cox, Gun Week

"Outstanding . . . a really good book for someone who is not sure if they want to carry. It definitely fills a need." —Jerry Patterson, former state senator of Texas, sponsor of the Texas Concealed Carry Law

"Bird teaches through illustrative stories of self-defense and survival experienced by moms, laboratory workers, electricians, and other everyday people who learned, sometimes the hard way, the value of the self-defense handgun." —Gila Hayes, Women & Guns magazine

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