The Brief: The Colorado Supreme Court ruled that private employers cannot terminate at-will employees for exercising their right to self-defense against imminent bodily harm. This decision, arising from a convenience store incident, establishes that corporate policies cannot override an individual’s fundamental legal privilege to protect their own life while working. This ruling creates a specific public policy exception to at-will employment. While businesses can still enforce protocols against escalating non-violent thefts, they are prohibited from firing workers for lawful and necessary self-defense. This shifts the legal balance between corporate liability policies and individual safety rights. DENVER, CO — A legal…

Do you have a drill that test your marksmanship and gun handling skills? The War HOGG Self Eval is a perfect drill to test numerous different marksmanship and gun handling skills while capturing 12 pieces of critical shooting performance data for The Firearms Training Notebook. This data will assist you in developing your dry fire training plan and improving your marksmanship skills. The author drives the pistol toward the target as part of the War HOGG drill, which opens with an efficient presentation. The Firearms Training Notebook was developed with my co-author Mark Kelley of Kelley Defense. We had our…

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The Caldwell ClayCopter Hand-Held Thrower is putting a new spin on the age-old pastime of clay shooting.Several years ago, against the base of a mountain north of Spokane, friends and I escaped from our service-industry jobs to shoulder shotguns, sling clays and let fly strings of lead, watching as the discs turned to dust and showering pines and dirt in bursts of orange. It was cheap fun—gas was likely more expensive than the $10 for 90 clays and the other $10 for the handheld disc thrower we forgot back at home.Crushing clays was fun, but I also really enjoyed rearing…

The very first time I hit a target at 1 mile was 2018. I was running a JJROCK custom rifle chambered in .375 CheyTac with a Nightforce 7-35x scope. All-in, the rig was nearly $15,000 worth of hardware, firing bullets that cost $6 per round at the time — at time of writing, it’s closer to $14 per round. While the thrill of reaching so far and hitting my mark with relative ease was undeniable, I was only fortunate enough to experience it on borrowed equipment for research purposes. For many years, the precision manufacturing required to produce rifle capable…

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