With a vast amount of accessories available for the most popular models it can be quite easy to overindulge in this area with some very useless add-ons that just make a weapon for home defense impractical with extra weight and bulk. That being said, you will find the most useful accessories described below that will be a benefit for your home defense usage.

THE WILD WEST AND SELF-DEFENSE . Back in the day, when it was common and unregulated to openly carry a firearm there where many situations that led to their use for good and bad.

I like Glocks. In fact, I’ve got 5 firearms that are either Glocks or based on the Glock and take Glock magazines. They’re reliable, accurate, and my experience carrying and shooting the same Glock for over 13 years is that they eat anything that I put in them.

In his book, “More Guns, Less Crime,” John R. Lott Jr. argues that guns in the hands of civilians do far more good than harm. Lott is an economist at the University of Chicago who has been researching this very question for several years.

Chances are good that you or someone you know doesn’t get to shoot as much as they’d like. In fact, as the cost of ammo has gone up and people have become more reluctant to shoot, it’s not unusual to talk with people who have spent more on new guns in the last 12 months than they’ve spent on the ammo they’ve run through them!