04/30/2026
CCW holders need to train with the truest reality of drawing from a concealed holster on a regular basis.
Here is a recent defense story out of Tuscon Arizona:
3 Attackers, 1 Defender, and a Question Worth Sitting With
Tucson defensive shooting
Last week in Tucson, a man being robbed at gunpoint by three attackers drew his pistol, returned fire, and walked away. One robber didn't. A second was wounded. The third ran.
Read it again. Three on one. Pistols already in the attackers' hands. He still drew, he still hit, and he survived.
It happened the evening of April 20. The Armed Citizen column at American Rifleman ran the details a week later. Most readers see a headline like that and think, "good guy wins." Fine. But that framing skips the part that matters. This is what an actual fight looks like. Multiple attackers. No warning. No square range. No timer beeping.
Here's an example. The 21-foot rule, the one most CCW classes still teach as gospel, assumes a single attacker. Add a second body and your geometry changes. Add a third and most "draw and present" reps go out the window. Cover and movement aren't optional anymore. They're the whole drill.
The Big Picture
An estimated 40 to 60 percent of armed civilians never actually practice drawing from concealment. Not under stress. Not against multiple targets. Not at all. If that number even feels close to right, it means roughly half the people carrying a pistol today would be making their first real draw stroke in the moment that mattered most.
So here's the question. When was the last time you actually practiced drawing? Not racking the slide on a static range. Not casually pulling the gun out at home. A clean, repeatable draw stroke on a clock, with a target in front of you. If the answer is "I can't remember," that's the most important thing you'll read this week.
Tucson got it right. The next one might not. Train accordingly.
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