Extend your range and change your perspective In the movie Dead Poets Society an unorthodox teacher instructs his students to stand on their desks. In doing so, they learn that [...]

Every handgun class, we get that student who shows up with a desire to focus on their concealed carry/defensive shooting skills, but has not given strong consideration to anything beyond [...]

Several decades ago, Law Enforcement transitioned from the revolver to the semi-auto for service weapons. Once of my Field Training Officers was the last dinosaur in our agency to carry [...]

Concealed Carry on a Motorcycle My primary mode of commuting is via a motorcycle. As such, I have some unique challenges associated with carrying a handgun while traveling to work [...]

Choosing the best firearm for home defense We frequently find new gun owners asking for advice regarding a home defense firearm. Often times the question comes down to either a [...]

The Pistol Grip and how to get it right In all of our pistol classes, once we have discussed safety, house keeping and few other generic issues, the first fundamental [...]

Active Shooter Awareness: How to be Prepared Once again, we see an Active Shooter incident in the news. Putting aside any of the political posturing surrounding these events, let’s take [...]

Eye Dominance, Does It Matter to the Shooter? A discussion of eye dominance was never part of our formal curriculum here at California Tactical Academy. However, it comes up in [...]

Concealed Carry and Self-Defense In my prior jobs, we often practiced something called OPSEC. OPSEC is short hand for Operational Security. The idea was we did not discuss our deployment, [...]

Here at California Tactical Academy we see a good number of our students coming through our classes to become more proficient with their concealed carry weapon. A very prudent endeavor [...]