Wondering how you can support my work? Probably not. But, if you are, here are some things you can do to help:

• Introduce yourself. Networking has been one of the most enjoyable and rewarding parts of firearms training, BJJ, and of my life thus far. I hope to run into you in a class or in my travels someday! In the meantime, feel free to connect with me on LinkedIn. I may not be able to give you any kind of professional leg up or substantive advice (on anything except guns), but if you’re writing a book, thesis paper, grant proposal, or just need someone to bounce ideas off of, I’m your man. I’m sure you can contribute to my mission here and I would do my very best to return the favor.
• Comment or email with your own experience and expertise. Please reach out and lend me your knowledge! There’s so much I don’t know, and I’m nothing if not willing to learn.
• Send me book recommendations (or the books themselves). I may be no Paul Sharp or Greg Ellifritz—each of whom average a metric shit ton of books read annually, if you’ll pardon my French—but I do enjoy reading and aim for a book a month, on average. A lot of the classics in the firearms training literary canon are out of print and unavailable or very expensive collector’s items at this point. If you have a copy to spare, get in touch with me and send it my way, even if only as a loan! Or, if you found a certain title particularly influential, bring it to my attention. Better yet, buy me a copy if you’re feeling generous. I’ll happily bump it to the top of my queue. You can also add me on Goodreads. I unironically love to see what people smarter than me are reading.
• Invite me to a class. Feel like your instruction would help me write from a more informed perspective? I believe you! There are quite a few instructors and classes that I feel the need to have under my belt before I can complete this project. If, out of the kindness of your heart, you feel like giving me a spot in any of those classes, I’ll gladly check that box sooner rather than later and oblige you. Plus, I really enjoy it.
• Allow me the chance to interview you. Are you a veteran competitive shooter, gun school alumnus, or martial artist? Have you been in real altercations or violent situations and learned something you’d like to share? Are you a scholar in a discipline with relevance to self-defense, human performance under stress, the study of violence, or criminality? I’d love to talk to you. I believe almost everyone has something to contribute.
• Ask for a retraction or revision. When paraphrasing or summarizing, there’s always a slight possibility that source material might be misinterpreted. If anything you read here leads you to believe I haven’t fully grasped your work, or a text or concept that you happen know very well, please reach out and enlighten me. If your perspective on a topic has changed and you’d like me to revise my writing to reflect that, I’m more than happy to do so.
  
  While I do utilize quotations, I will never replicate anything you’ve written in full. In the case that a block quote isn’t sufficient for my purposes, I will hyperlink to the original text when applicable.
• Reach out to me with a resource you’ve created. If you have an app, website, database, book, magazine article, or invention that you feel like could help new shooters, safety-minded folks, or white belts like me, let me know about it. I’d be happy to check it out.