Most Armed Citizens Prepare for the Range… Not the Fight

In this episode, firearms instructor Karl Rehn joins former Royal Marines Commando Terry Vaughan for a brutally honest conversation about the dangerous gap between shooting skill and actual survivability in a violent encounter.Drawing from decades of experience training armed citizens, law enforcement officers, and competitive shooters, Karl explains why minimum qualifications often create false confidence, why competition shooting helps more than most people realize… until it doesn’t, and why decision-making under stress is the skill most gun owners fail to train.The conversation explores situational awareness, force-on-force training, concealed carry realities, medical and unarmed skills, and the hard truth about what actually holds up when chaos replaces the script.If you carry a firearm for self-defense, this episode may completely change how you think about training.