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5 Essential Travel Safety Tips

5 Essential Summer Vacation Travel Safety Tips

As summer approaches, many of us are eagerly planning our long-awaited vacations. While the excitement is palpable, it’s crucial not to overlook the importance of travel safety. By following a few essential tips, you can ensure a memorable and safe summer vacation. In this blog post, we’ll outline five top travel safety tips to help you make the most of your holiday.

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Biometric Gun Safe

Top 5 Disadvantages of Biometric and Fingerprint Gun Safes

When it comes to storing firearms for self-defense purposes, many gun owners opt for bedside safes that can be accessed quickly in case of an emergency. One popular type of bedside safe is the fingerprint or biometric safe, which uses a fingerprint scanner to grant access to the safe’s contents. While these safes offer convenience and security, they also have several disadvantages that gun owners should consider.

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Wasp Spray for Self-Defense?

8 Reasons Not to Use Wasp Spray for Self-Defense

Many people often wonder if wasp spray is a suitable self-defense option. In fact, some even carry it for that sole purpose. However, this is really not a good option. It can be both ineffective for self-defense and lead to serious legal trouble. On top of this, there are far better alternatives that are easily available to the average consumer such as pepper spray and mace. Listed below are 8 reasons why you shouldn’t use wasp spray for self-defense.

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Plegium Smart Pepper Spray

Best Pepper Spray of 2020: Plegium Genie Smart Pepper Spray

For decades, not much had changed in regard to pepper spray products available for personal protection. However, everything changed in early 2019. Plegium released its Smart Pepper Spray, a Bluetooth-enabled personal protection device with a free app for both Android and iOS. When deployed with the press of one button, five functions are activated. Pepper spray is deployed, an alarms sounds, an LED strobe light flashes, emergency contacts receive phones calls to let them know you’re in trouble, and those same contacts receive a text message with a link to a Google map containing your exact location and GPS coordinates. The design, engineering and reliability behind Plegium products is unparalleled.

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First Time Gun Buyer Tips

5 Tips For First-Time Gun Buyers

Being a responsible gun owner who is an asset to society takes commitment. A commitment starts prior to the purchase of your first firearm. Here are things to consider when buying your first weapon system for self-defense.

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10 Vehicle Safety Tips

Top 10 Vehicle Safety Tips

We spend a lot of time in our vehicles. Vehicles take us to strange places, expose us to many unknowns, run out of gas and break down. Here are 10 vehicle safety tips, in no particular order, that are easy-to-implement.

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Plegium Smart Pepper Spray

Pepper Spray: Is Wind Blowback a Major Concern?

Quite often I get asked if having pepper spray blown back by the wind is a valid concern. Is it a concern? Yes. Can it be mitigated? Yes. Should the possibility of pepper spray being blown back at you stop you from carrying it? Absolutely not.

By combining the proper type of pepper spray for the environment and simple tactics, you can minimize the risk of blowback.

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Active Shooter Response - Run, Hide, Fight

Active Shooter: How to Respond

When responding to an active shooter, the best course of action is not always black and white. How to best respond to an active shooter will depend on circumstances and your capabilities. Are you armed? Are you prepared to engage someone trying to kill you? Are exits easily accessible?

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