Daily carry hasn't changed. But I do keep a long gun in the trunks of my vehicles now. Usually an AR pistol with a brace.
Keeping guns in your car is bad and you should feel bad.
In the wake of the recent shootings (ARs, Body armor, etc...) have any of you changed your EDC? I watched a video recently where Tim Kennedy was talking about switching to the FN57 to account for body armor. Its definitely something that would help. Im just not sure how concealable that handgun would be for me in the summer. Sometimes i bring my OH S*** bag with me. It can have a rifle and some spare mags. However its not always on me and sometimes i leave it in the truck. Is one of the options to carry a small SBR or "pistol" in a rifle caliber in a backpack? One that is easily carried and doesn't draw suspicion? Vert'x actually has some nice options, and a few of my rifles would probably fit no problem.
Being a father, its something i think about when i leave the house. Really curious what some of you have changed, if anything.
Thanks.
An accurate shot to the forehead will beat body armor every time. So, I have to agree with more practice. My accuracy is not anywhere near good enough so that is why I plan on many classes coming in the future.
I watched a video recently where Tim Kennedy was talking about switching to the FN57 to account for body armor.
I'm not sure I follow the logic of carrying something with worse terminal ballistics vs the near-infinitely more common unarmored opponent so as to potentially have a better effect on the armored-but-not-too-armored bad guy. Why wear soft armor if you aren't worried about concealment? Is the FN57 going to penetrate hard armor? Well, my plates are rated for 3 hits of .30-06 armor piercing so I'm going to guess "no" to that.
Failure drills would seem a better answer to me. Head shots if possible, pelvis/thigh shots if not. Remember the head is not only a smaller target but a more mobile one. A pelvis shot isn't likely to be an instant physical stop but there are some major blood vessels there that can start the timer to bleed out pretty well and getting shot near the groin has had some pretty significant psychological stop effects. I've seen hardened thugs who'd been shot before and weren't real concerned with death be super concerned about their...groin.
If you can break a femur you can probably anchor him. Anchoring via a broken hip isn't going to happen with a handgun. Even if a handgun did manage to break the hip, that causes pain but not loss of mobility. Elderly people walk on broken hips quite frequently, yet somehow it's entered common gun mythology that a broken hip is why you target the pelvis.
And to answer the question, no, no changes. If you were to change something due to mass shootings, extra tourniquets would be the most likely to make any difference at all.