The previous two articles should have provided plenty of context for what follows. There are many things that should come before any conversations about owning the night. But if you follow our advice and work hard on ticking all of the preceding boxes there might eventually come a time where you want to seriously consider it. Bad things happen at n...

Picking up where we left off on rounding out your armory, you might also usefully add in some body armor (whether soft, concealable or standalone hard plates in an overt carrier). Armor can get expensive and having any is better than having none but, like many things, it is a "cry once, buy once" kind of thing. The trade off between heavy, thick, c...

"Amateurs obsess about guns and gear. They practice until they get it right. Professionals obsess about tactics and training. They practice until they cannot get it wrong. But logistics trump strategy in the long war." On the spectrum of prepping, what follows (particularly in Part Two) tends towards the more extreme end - scenarios in which crimin...