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Concealed Carry Corner: How to Train for Carrying

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Welcome back to another edition of Concealed Carry  Corner. Last week, we took a look at some of the best items to make carrying a concealed handgun easier. If you happened to miss that article, be sure to click the link here to check it out. This week, I want to talk about how some of my favorite drills help not only my shooting ability but help me problem-solve on the fly. So many people just focus on their shooting ability when the real issue is the lack of ability in problem-solving. Having to pull your firearm in an emergency situation and fire on a threat can not only be stressful but you’ll also be fighting your body for the fight or flight responses. Being in a self-defense situation is drastically different from shooting quickly at the range.  Let’s take a look at how to train for carrying a concealed handgun.

Problem-Solving Versus Shooting Skills 

When we talk about being proficient when it comes to carrying a concealed firearm, oftentimes we think about bettering our shooting skills and becoming quick when it comes to our drawstroke, and getting rounds onto the target. While this is absolutely true, many don’t recognize the hardest part about being in a self-defense situation is the inability to problem-solve when your adrenaline dump hits your body. It can be incredibly difficult to fight this since that’s the body’s natural response but working on your problem-solving skills while you are training can help train to critically think while you’re shooting.

Having the ability to accurately make shots and quickly make your hits is no doubt a vital component when carrying concealed, but we really need to start talking about problem-solving on the fly rather than just hammering shooting skills. There becomes a point where we become proficient and need to start challenging our problem-solving skills rather than just continuously hammering the basic shooting skills or just shooting static targets. Luckily, there are several drills out there that can not only push your shooting abilities but also start to challenge your mind when it comes to problem-solving.

Drills to Focus On 

When it comes to drills, there are an unlimited amount of choices to work on anything from accuracy, fundamental drills, or racing against the clock for the fastest time. When I personally go to the range, I switch from static drills where you focus on accuracy based on a time limitation to more dynamic drills where it’s a problem-solving drill rather than a straightforward shooting drill. I will give you a brief rundown of some of the drills I use on a regular basis to help train not only myself but shooting friends who go to the range with me as well. Here are a few drills I will typically use on a given range session.

Bill Drill

When it comes to warming up and having a straightforward shakedown on skills, there are few things as good as a simple Bill Drill. The Bill Drill is designed to draw your carry gun from concealment and fire 6 shots as fast as possible into the target while remaining accurate. It should be all shots in the A zone of the target. Typically these are fired on full-size targets but if you don’t have those you can use a simple white 8X12 piece of paper.

A good goal to draw and fire 6 rounds into the target is right around 3.5 seconds with the expert time being anything under 2 seconds. The most important thing to keep in mind when it comes to the Bill Drill is finding the sweet spot where you can accurately make your hits while still meeting the minimum time requirements. This drill doesn’t force you to think on your toes or use much brain power at all truthfully. The Bill Drill has always been known for being a really straightforward drill but in terms of a warmup drill to get your mind clear and ready to work, it’s one of the best out there.

Alphabet Soup

One of the most challenging but effective drills you can run is called the Alphabet Soup drill. This drill has a number of targets posted around the firing area of the range with various letters spray-painted onto the targets. This drill takes two people where one stands behind the shooter and yells out commands while the other person engages the targets called out. You can make it simple with a single shot or make it more challenging with double taps.

If that’s too easy, you can also do Mozambique style where you have to fire two rounds into the body and one into the head of the designated target. The main goal of this drill is to force your mind to focus on the correct target teaching you over time to have problem-solving skills while focusing on your shooting skills. Being able to work through problems and quickly engage the correct targets will help you train for a stressful situation where you have to focus your head instead of being overwhelmed by the stress.

Color and Shapes

You can take the Alphabet Soup drill even further by doing various colors and shapes adding even another layer to target identification. I typically have people try out and become comfortable with the Alphabet Soup and then add in colors and shapes. The person behind the shooter yells different color and shape combinations like “Red Square" and then "Blue Circle.” As challenging as Alphabet Soup can be, the addition of colors and shapes makes an already challenging drill even tougher.

In my experience, these are some of the best drills for slowing down a bit and problem-solving instead of just picking targets and firing without much thought. Static drills are fantastic, but adding in the ability to have critical thinking skills while manipulating a firearm really does add value.

Overall Thoughts

There’s no question that shooting static targets and working on your fundamental skills are an important part of building your shooting skills. At a certain point though, it’s important to start pushing yourself when it comes to problem-solving and forcing yourself to focus on various details other than just shooting. Most people will hit the range and just solely focus on building their shooting skills whereas practicing the problem-solving aspect of shooting is just as important as actually shooting and practicing your critical thinking skills can be the reason you survive a self-defense situation.

What are some other drills you guys like to do to challenge your mental skills when at the range? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. If you have questions about drills or firearms in general, feel free to shoot me a message on Instagram @fridgeoperator. Stay safe out there and we will see you next week for another edition of Concealed Carry Corner.

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How to Setup Multi Tenant App in minutes with Laravel

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In this article you will learn how to setup the basic Laravel multi tenant app in minutes with some simple steps.

Multi tenancy is a good concepts for new SaaS based Applications it will help you to keep the one codebase for multiple domains and each domain contains its own data.

Let get Started!

  1. Create a new Laravel Project
  2. Install/setup Laravel Breeze
  3. Install multitenancy package with following command 
composer require stancl/tenancy
  1. After it completes run the following command 
php artisan tenancy:install

It will create:

migrations
a config file (config/tenancy.php),
a routes file (routes/tenant.php),
and a service provider file
app/Providers/TenancyServiceProvider.php

Recap
What we have done so far
a. create a new project
b. install tenancy package

Step for multiple domains and database

Once the above steps are done we need to register our tenancy service provider in the following file
Then add the service provider to your config/app.php file:

Now we need to create a Tenant Model for that we will use following command:

php artisan make:model Tenant

After that a model will Created in side the App/Models/ we need to change the code with following later we will update it more according to our needs

by default it will use the package Tenant Model but we want the system to use our model that we have just created for that we have to go in the config folder/directory and then find the tenancy.php file and make the following changes

'tenant_model' => Tenant::class,

change the Above line of code with

'tenant_model' => \App\Models\Tenant::class,

If you don’t need domains or databases, ignore the steps above. Everything will work just as well.

You can create tenants like any other models:

You may register central routes in routes/web.php or routes/api.php like you’re used to. However, you need to make one small change to your RouteServiceProvider.
You don’t want central routes — think landing pages and sign up forms — to be accessible on tenant domains. For that reason, register them in such a way that they’re only accessible on your central domains.Now we need to set the routes for the tenants and central app
let go the the RouteServiceProvider.php and replace the code with following code from boot function

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Tenant routes
You may register tenant routes in routes/tenant.php file
by default it will look like this

Now we need to create copy the migration files from migration folder to the tenant folder that resides in migration folder and copy the required migration files

once this done we need to create a job that will insert the data in tenant table and also generate the tenant database and insert that record in it

php artisan make:job SeedTenantJob

and replace the file code with the code bellow

what this file do is it will always run as soon as you will hit the create tenant function and once it will be execute it will run the migration and insert the first record for you so you can login and access your tenant application

but still we have to do some more fix’s to get the working tenant application

now we need to do some modifications in TenantServiceProvider.php
do the following changes

uncomment the JobSeedDatabase and add our created job bellow that \App\Jobs\SeedTenantJob::class

like mentioned in the picture. Remember that order is very important in this file if you put our job at top and JobSeedDatabase bellow that it will throw error as you need to first run the migrations then insert the data our job part is for the insertion of data and JobSeedDatabase is to run the migrations

Now your first multitenancy app is ready to go live and you can test on local but for that you need to create a TenantController from where you can register the tenants

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this will be basic code you can modify it for more stuff as per your requirements

now you will need to modify your route service provider if you havent set it accordingly

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now you can set you web.php and tenant.php file accordingly

** updated web.php**
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updated tenant.php

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Efficient MySQL Performance In 10 Sentences

Don’t have time to read Efficient MySQL Performance?
Here’s the book (10 chapters) in one-liners.

  1. Performance is query response time.
  2. Proper left-most indexing is required for performance.
  3. The less data, the better.
  4. Access patterns (part of the workload) help or hinder performance.
  5. Sharding is how to scale writes when single-node performance is truly reached.
  6. Server metrics reflect how the app workload causes MySQL to work.
  7. Replication lag is data loss.
  8. Locks are held until a transaction commits, so commit quickly.
  9. There are many other challenges that you might need to address—sorry.
  10. MySQL in the cloud is slower and more expensive, so performance is more important than ever.

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Who DeWine Picks as Vance’s Replacement of Crucial Interest to Gun Owners

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Gun owners must make their voices heard to the governor on who will be an acceptable replacement for JD Vance — and on who won’t be. (Mike DeWine/Facebook)

“The race is on to replace JD Vance in the U.S. Senate,” WEWS statehouse reporter Morgan Trau noted Wednesday, following the Trump/Vance ticket’s presidential election victory. “[Ohio Governor Mike] DeWine has a big decision to make. Vance will need to resign from his coveted Senate seat, and the governor will appoint his replacement.”

Who DeWine will pick is crucial to the interests of gun owners and Trau has compiled a list and overview analysis of names being considered that is admittedly “not exhaustive” but nonetheless “reflects the views of two dozen Ohio political insiders.”

“I’ll look for someone who wants to get things done every day and will stay focused on it,” DeWine had told Trau in July. “We also have to have someone who will be able to stay there a while.” And, according to Republican strategist Bob Clegg, he may “choose someone with more in common with his own ideology and mild-mannered personality.”

That would not be the best outcome for a number of reasons. Note the qualities of “get[ting] things done” is silent on what things, and DeWine’s on again/off again affinities for citizen disarmament edicts show a politician who views the right to arms as a political expedient rather than a keystone for freedom. In short, he’s gone from engendering headlines like “Principled Statesman Mike DeWine Endorsed by Brady Campaign” to being endorsed by NRA. After a mass shooting in Dayton, he returned to his gun-grabber roots stumping for supposedly “bipartisan” infringements, including raising the firearm purchasing age, “expanded background checks,” and so-called “safety protection orders.”

With that background in mind, gun owners need to pay close attention to who the likely candidates are, and how likely they are to protect and promote their interests:

Vivek Ramaswamy: The entrepreneur/Republican primary presidential candidate has been described as a “Second Amendment absolutist” who “endorses gun ownership for convicted felons,” which, if they’ve been deemed safe enough to release back into society hardly seems the radical danger prohibitionists make it out to be. He is also a close and longtime friend of Vance, which would give him a special ear in White House circles.

Jane Timken: “Frederick Douglass said: ‘Our rights rest in three boxes. The ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box.’ I own guns, and I’ll always fight for your Constitutional right to do the same,” Timlen pledged on her campaign website. “‘Shall not be infringed’ means shall not be infringed, and as your Senator, I will fight to stop Democrats’ unconstitutional push to take away our Second Amendment rights.”

Matt Dolan: “With RINO-Republicans like Ohio’s Matt Dolan, who needs Democrats?” this correspondent asked in a 2022 AmmoLand article. In addition to being “described by CNN as a ‘non-Trump Republican’,” Dolan supports a host of gun prohibitions including raising the purchase age, red flags, and ending private sales.

Troublingly, this is the candidate DeWine endorsed in the race won by Bernie Moreno to unseat Sherrod Brown.

Frank LaRose: “There are a lot of good Second Amendment advocates in Ohio who support our agenda. However, Frank LaRose is a longtime partner who has always gone the extra mile to improve our laws and protect the rights of Ohio’s 4 million gun owners. He’ll be a great senator representing us in Washington, D.C.,” Dean Rieck, Executive Director of Buckeye Firearms Association noted in February. “LaRose is one of just a handful of candidates to ever boast of a 100% score from BFA PAC, earning him not only an ‘A’ grade for gun rights, but also a well-deserved endorsement.”

Robert Sprague: “Buckeye Firearms Association PAC endorses Robert Sprague for Treasurer of State in the 2018 general election,” the state gun rights group informed Ohio gun owners. “In his eight years in the Ohio House, Sprague has racked up a perfect 13-0 voting record. He has supported every bill BFA has advanced.” And per a 2017 Ohio Gun Owners post, Sprague was a Constitutional Carry bill co-sponsor.

Dave Joyce: He was my congressman until redistricting. NRA gave him an A grade and called him “a solidly pro-gun candidate with a record of support on Second Amendment issues.” Up to a point. By supporting Democrats on the “Bipartisan Safer Communities Act,” he’s placed himself in the “can’t trust anymore” camp.

Mike Carey: “Criminals, the mentally ill, and individuals who are underage should be prevented from buying firearm. It is also important that the laws already on the books are enforced. In addition, maintaining and integrating the databases used to conduct background checks is another important tool to keep guns out of [illegal] hands,” he asserted in 2022. “The Constitution IS absolute and the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed. Strict gun regulations only make things harder for law abiding citizens. In Congress, Mike is working to protect our 2nd Amendment rights by co-sponsoring bills like the RIFLE Act. Mike Carey will always defend your right to bear arms and oppose any legislation that infringes on your rights.”

How he squares enforcing existing Intolerable Acts with “shall not be infringed” has been left unsaid.

That’s the short list, and it may not be the last of it. For now, there are several good choices for gun owners that DeWine can make, a few problematic ones, and one that’s completely unacceptable, his previous pick Dolan.

Of them all, Ramaswamy is the one with the most national prominence and his relationship with Vance is an added bonus. The main problem: In the above-linked Forbes article, he opined that “background checks are ‘absolutely a legitimate part of the process,’” which disregards that they are a prior restraint infringement.

Per the National Institute of Justice, their “Effectiveness depends on the ability to reduce straw purchasing, requiring gun registration…” And per the Bureau of Justice Statistics, criminals don’t get their guns that way anyway.

The thing is, even with the Trump victory, don’t look for elimination of the National Instant Background Check System (NICS) to be on the table, and none of the other names on the list have called for its repeal, or are likely to.  As always, our work to educate not just the public, but legislators receptive to listening, will be ongoing. It’s up to us to ensure they do and to expose those who don’t.

You don’t need to be an Ohio gun owner to weigh in— after all, a senator’s votes affect us all.

About David Codrea:

David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.

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Voted In America? VoteRef Probably Doxed You

An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: If you voted in the U.S. presidential election yesterday in which Donald Trump won comfortably, or a previous election, a website powered by a right-wing group is probably doxing you. VoteRef makes it trivial for anyone to search the name, physical address, age, party affiliation, and whether someone voted that year for people living in most states instantly and for free. This can include ordinary citizens, celebrities, domestic abuse survivors, and many other people. Voting rolls are public records, and ways to more readily access them are not new. But during a time of intense division, political violence, or even the broader threat of data being used to dox or harass anyone, sites like VoteRef turn a vital part of the democratic process — simply voting — into a security and privacy threat. […]
The Voter Reference Foundation, which runs VoteRef, is a right wing organization helmed by a former Trump campaign official, ProPublica previously reported. The goal for that organization was to find irregularities in the number of voters and the number of ballots cast, but state election officials said their findings were "fundamentally incorrect," ProPublica added. In an interview with NPR, the ProPublica reporter said that the Voter Reference Foundation insinuated (falsely) that the 2020 election of Joe Biden was fraudulent in some way. 404 Media has found people on social media using VoteRef’s data to spread voting conspiracies too. VoteRef has steadily been adding more states’ records to the VoteRef website. At the time of writing, it has records for all states that legally allow publication. Some exceptions include California, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. ProPublica reported that VoteRef removed the Pennsylvania data after being contacted by an attorney for Pennsylvania’s Department of State. "Digitizing and aggregating data meaningfully changes the privacy context and the risks to people. Your municipal government storing your marriage certificate and voter information in some basement office filing cabinet is not even remotely the same as a private company digitizing all the data, labeling it, piling it all together, making it searchable," said Justin Sherman, a Duke professor who studies data brokers.
"Policymakers need to get with the times and recognize that data brokers digitizing, aggregating, and selling data based on public records — which are usually considered ‘publicly available information’ and exempted from privacy laws — has fueled decades of stalking and gendered violence, harassment, doxing, and even murder," Sherman said. "Protecting citizens of all political stripes, targets and survivors of gendered violence, public servants who are targets for doxing and death threats, military service members, and everyone in between depends on reframing how we think about public records privacy and the mass aggregation and sale of our data."


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Stardew Valley now has a secret multiplayer mode on mobile

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Stardew Valley on mobile just received its latest update, and in it is a new secret multiplayer mode. Developer ConcernedApe says it’s currently secret because of its experimental nature, and mobile multiplayer can be “frustrating.”

Unlike Stardew Valley multiplayer on other platforms, players on mobile can’t discover others’ farms and can only connect via IP address. They can still join a PC-hosted farm using their mobile devices. The developers also warn that using a mobile network isn’t recommended, as it may not be stable enough. The experience works best when both devices are on the same network, but that’s not compulsory.

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To unlock mobile multiplayer, you’ll have to tap the leaves in a specific order. It’s actually part of the Konami code, but without the A and B buttons because, well, smartphones and tablets don’t have them. The Stardew Valley multiplayer blog has instructions if you’re interested.

Once you see the new co-op menu on the screen, you can host or join a farm. You’ll need an IP address if you want to join someone’s farm, but that isn’t difficult to find on your mobile device. The Stardew Valley post also has instructions for that for both iOS and Android users.

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America Unburdens Itself From What Has Been

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U.S. — Donald Trump has defeated Kamala Harris to become the next president of the United States, proving once and for all that Americans are ready to unburden themselves from what has been.

Sources say the unburdening could lead to unprecedented levels of imagining what can be.

"Kamala was a huge burden, but now it’s time for us to be unburdened, more unburdened than ever before," Donald Trump said as he addressed crowds at the Palm Beach Convention Center. "She was so terrible. But now she’s gone. She’s a ‘has-been.’ So sad. Maybe she can work at McDonald’s now."

His supporters roared in approval, hanging onto every word as Trump reminded them of his plans for the first 100 days in office now that the nation has been unburdened from Kamala’s glaring incompetence.

Sources within the Trump campaign say the president wasn’t nervous at all leading up to the election thanks in part to his new spiritual advisors Joe Rogan and Elon Musk. Instead of panicking, Trump reportedly spent most days working on his golf game in between campaign stops and owning libs on Twitter.

At publishing time, Trump’s new efficiency advisor Ron Paul encouraged the nation to imagine what could be if there were no Federal Reserve.

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Harrison Ford Sees Nothing Wrong With Starring in a Marvel Movie

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As Marvel has trucked into its fifth phase of films and TV shows, fans and actors alike have expressed growing pains with the comic book cinematic universe. While much of folks’ ire with the MCU’s oversaturation in pop culture centers on the waning quality in its post-Avengers: Endgame storytelling, another point of frustration is with how the MCU’s casting announcements—once a cause for internet frenzy—have felt like jury duty for well-established and up-and-coming actors alike. In a shocking turn of events, Harrison Ford, Hollywood’s grumpiest lovable actor, has come forward to dispel the stigma surrounding actors in Marvel films.

In a recent interview with GQ, Ford reminisced over his legendary career starring in pop culture touchstones like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and Blade Runner. The 82-year-old actor also reflected on his debut in the MCU as Thaddeus “Thunderbolt” Ross (aka Red Hulk) in the upcoming Marvel film Captain America: Brave New World.  When asked about his patently dismissive non-answers at press events—something GQ notes would be unorthodox for any other Marvel actor—was indicative of something more profound, Ford responded in kind, saying that it wasn’t that deep.

“I mean, this is the Marvel universe and I’m just there on a weekend pass. I’m a sailor new to this town. Show me the way to go home,” Ford told GQ.

Ford expanded on his comment, addressing the notion of actors steering clear of the Marvel Cinematic Universe as their next artistic venture because they think it will debase their talents. This ongoing discourse has been stoked by comments from directors like Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who’ve wrestled with whether the MCU is cinema or just a blockbuster rollercoaster solely meant to generate money rather than (as Coppola put it) “illuminate contemporary life.”

“I understand the appeal of other kinds of films besides the kind we made in the ’80s and ’90s. I don’t have anything general to say about it. It’s the condition our condition is in, and things change and morph and go on,” Ford said. “We’re silly if we sit around regretting the change and don’t participate. I’m participating in a new part of the business that, for me at least, I think is really producing some good experiences for an audience. I enjoy that.”

Although Ford is known for being a curmudgeon whenever fans and the press ask him for his take on theories about Star Wars and Indiana Jones, his big tent answer here does get at the reason why actors like himself perform in the first place: to create new, thrilling experiences for moviegoers. As far as Ford’s involvement in projects like the MCU goes, he says it all boils down to good old-fashioned writing.

“It’s the quality of writing. It doesn’t matter what the genre is. It doesn’t matter whether it’s on television or in movies. It’s the writing, it’s the story, it’s the character, it’s the emotional experience for an audience or for myself. It’s people that I have some feeling that I want to work with, or it’s a quality opportunity,” Ford said, adding, “I suppose I should be sitting on my ass, but I actually love working.”

Ford’s measured defense for his involvement in the MCU isn’t to say his resume will only be filled with larger-than-life comic book epics. In fact, at New York Comic Con 2024, it was announced that Ford is gearing up for the third season of the Apple+ comedy show Shrinking alongside co-star Jason Segel.

For folks solely interested in witnessing Ford making mean faces as Red Hulk, they can look forward to Captain America: Brave New World when it releases in theaters February 14.

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel, Star Wars, and Star Trek releases, what’s next for the DC Universe on film and TV, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who.

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