Colion Noir
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A Minneapolis influencer asked Republicans: “If it's not the guns, then what's your plan?” So I looked into it. And here's what makes this interesting. After the Annunciation school shooting, Minnesota Republicans proposed school security grants, resource officers, and mental health funding. Meanwhile, Minnesota had already passed expanded background checks and a red flag law in 2023. Those laws didn't prevent that tragedy. So the debate became about passing additional restrictions. But here's the question nobody should skip: If a gun law doesn't prevent a shooting, how do we determine what actually went wrong before writing the next one? And should school security and mental health proposals receive the same attention as gun restrictions? I want to hear your answer. What's the ONE thing you would change first to make schools safer?
Colion Noir27,022 views • 1 day ago
Why You Don’t Shoot For The Head In Self-Defense: There’s a clip going around of a guy at the range drawing from concealment and putting fast rounds on target. Then a cop standing behind him says, “Yeah… but mine were all headshots.” And that comment exposes one of the biggest misunderstandings people have about self-defense shooting. Headshots are not the flex people think they are. Anybody can hit a head if you give them enough time. But self-defense is not about taking your time and stacking perfect holes on a paper target. It’s about stopping a threat as fast as humanly possible. So I put it on a timer. Headshots vs. center mass. At close distance, the headshots were slower and messier. At ten yards, pushing for the head caused rounds to come completely off target. And in real life, a miss is not just a miss. It’s a wall. A car. A house. Or an innocent person who had nothing to do with the fight. That’s why responsible self-defense training focuses on acceptable accuracy, combat accuracy, and putting fast, effective hits into the area most likely to stop the threat. The goal is not to kill. The goal is to stop the threat and go home. Full Video:
Colion Noir2,699,115 views • 4 months ago
I carry appendix almost every day. But let’s be honest: Appendix carry is tolerable. Not safe. You’re carrying a loaded gun pointed at your femoral artery and everything else you really don’t want to lose. A man with 15 years of firearms experience had an accidental discharge while drawing from appendix. Beep to bang was less than half a second. The round went through his holster and through his body. A few degrees different, and he might not be here to tell the story. That’s why I don’t draw at 100% on the range. That’s why I hyperextend my trigger finger. That’s why I look the gun back into the holster every single time. And that’s why reholstering fast is stupid. Nobody wins a gunfight by holstering fast. So I want to know: Do you carry appendix, or is that risk not worth it to you? Drop your answer below.
Colion Noir529,732 views • 2 months ago
An armed dad reportedly stopped a school shooter in Oregon. Then someone on Instagram said: “Good guy with a gun is not the answer.” Wait… WHAT? She says we should prevent school shootings instead of relying on “blind luck.” I agree prevention matters. But the school had locked doors. The shooter got through them. Police arrived in about three minutes. And an armed civilian was already there. She calls it luck. But he made a decision to carry long before that day. And when he saw what was happening, he made another decision. He went inside. Here's my question: If an armed citizen stops a school shooter, is that proof armed civilians can make a difference, or does the fact that a shooting happened mean prevention already failed? I want to hear both sides.
Colion Noir35,692 views • 5 days ago
He thought the gun showing in his pocket made him look dangerous. The criminal saw something else. An opportunity. That is the part people miss. Most people see a gun and leave you alone. But you are not carrying because of most people. You are carrying because of the person who does not care. The person who sees you bent over. Sees your guard down. Sees the gun exposed. And thinks: I can take that. Your gun is not a warning sign. Not to everybody. To the wrong person, it becomes a target. A homing beacon. And now the thing you brought to protect yourself is in another man’s hand. That is why awareness matters. That is why concealment matters. That is why control matters. Because having a gun on you does not replace paying attention. It makes paying attention even more important. Be honest: does visible carry make you safer, or does it make you a target?
Colion Noir258,476 views • 1 month ago
The Springfield Echelon Pro just took my carry gun’s spot. And that is funny, because the last time Springfield ported the Echelon, I said I was probably going to switch from my regular Echelon Compact. Probably. Then I never did. The reason was the porting. It was louder. And when you think about shooting from retention, with the gun tucked in close, you can feel the concussion coming off those ports. That was enough to keep me on the regular Echelon. But then Springfield dropped the Echelon Pro. And this is not just the same gun with ports. This is the Echelon maxed out. More aggressive grip texture. Gray slide. Black lower. Porting. Better look. Two grip options. And that little flared magwell that completely changes how the compact feels in the hand. The regular Echelon already felt like a custom gun disguised as a production gun. The Echelon Pro feels like Springfield took that gun and said, “Let’s make the GT3 version from the factory.” This video breaks down both Echelon Pro models, the compact grip vs. the full-size grip, the magwell, the porting, the carry-gun concussion concern, and why I finally stopped overthinking it. This time, no “probably.” This is my carry gun now.
Colion Noir57,538 views • 10 days ago
A self-driving car saw a gun… pulled itself over… and called the cops on its own passengers. Now, were the people inside probably up to no good? Based on the story, yeah. But that’s not the part that bothers me. The part that bothers me is this: Waymo said it detected a violation of its terms of service involving a firearm. Terms of service. Not a gun law. Not a judge. A company policy. So what happens when a legal gun owner gets in? What happens if the camera sees an open carry gun? Does the car pull over? Does it lock the doors? Does it call police? Because once “liability” becomes the excuse, your rights don’t have to be banned directly. They can just become impossible to use inside the systems you depend on. Be honest: Would you get into a self-driving car if you knew it could call police because it saw your gun?
Colion Noir184,022 views • 1 month ago
The CZ Duty looks like another polymer striker-fired gun. So I already know what people are going to say: “So it’s a Glock.” Hold that thought. Because something weird happened when I kept shooting it. At first, the ergonomics felt fine. Nothing special. Then mag after mag… the gun started feeling better. Not worse. Better. Like it was forming itself to my hand. And then I found out why. CZ designed the ergonomics with DIFEND — Digital Firearm Ergonomic Design. Biometric modeling. VR testing. Software tools that started out at NASA. NASA. So this gun was basically shaped for your hand before you ever touched it. That explains why it points so naturally, why the trigger feels better under live fire, and why I could shoot it all day without my hands getting tired. A duty gun is supposed to be good at a lot of things… and bad at as few as possible. I spent a lot of time looking for the bad part. Still looking. Be honest: If you had to carry one polymer striker-fired duty gun, what’s on your hip?
Colion Noir76,212 views • 18 days ago
What is the perfect bag gun? That question sounds simple until you actually start trying to answer it. A knife in your pocket is normal. A concealed pistol on your hip is normal. But the second you say you want something in a backpack with a stock, something that shoots more like a rifle, everybody has an opinion. This video started after a Shark Coast Tactical clip came across my feed, and they were having the same argument I have been having in my head: What is the best backpack gun? For me, the whole debate comes down to one question: What are you not willing to compromise on? If you are okay with pistol caliber, the Flux Raider is hard to beat. It is small, stable, gives you a stock, gives you multiple points of contact, and lets you run serious capacity without taking over the entire bag. If you need rifle caliber, the SIG MCX Rattler is the obvious answer. Everything else starts getting too big, too awkward, or too annoying to actually live with. Then there is the Fold AR, especially if you want a suppressed 300 Blackout setup that folds down small enough to make sense in a bag. And then there is the MP5K, which is heavy, but with a forced-reset trigger becomes a completely different conversation. This video breaks down the Flux Raider, Rattler, Fold AR, MP5K, MCK-style chassis guns, and why “just train more with your pistol” sounds good until you remember most people do not have time to become John Wick. The perfect bag gun is not really about the gun. It is about the compromise you are willing to live with.
Colion Noir39,409 views • 9 days ago
A woman pulled into her own driveway. Two dogs she did not know approached her vehicle. And according to investigators, they prevented her from safely getting out. That is the part people need to sit with. Not a park. Not a sidewalk. Not somebody else’s yard. Her own driveway. Her husband comes outside, sees the dogs, goes back in for a handgun, and when one of the dogs allegedly charges him aggressively, he fires before it can bite him. Now everybody is going to have an opinion because dogs are involved. I get it. I love dogs. But I do not trust dogs I do not know. Because we do not speak the same language. A dog owner may know the difference between playful and aggressive. A stranger may not. And when your dog is standing at somebody’s car door or charging them in their own driveway, it is not that stranger’s job to decode your dog’s personality in real time. That responsibility is on the owner. Leash your dog. Fence your dog. Control your dog. Because “my dog is nice” does not mean anything to the person who does not know your dog and is trying not to get bitten. And this is also a reminder: You are not only carrying for two-legged threats. Sometimes the thing coming at you has four. Is this stance too strict, or is this exactly why dog owners have to control their animals? Drop your answer below.
Colion Noir128,351 views • 1 month ago
Jake Paul said we need to update the Constitution because of the Second Amendment. I thought I knew where this was going. Then he said citizens may need drones, drone EMPs, RPGs, and anti-helicopter weapons. Not on my bingo card. But he accidentally made the purest 2A argument there is. Because anti-gun people love saying: “You can’t fight a tyrannical government with an AR-15.” Okay. Then let us have what the government has. That is the logical endpoint of their own argument. If the Second Amendment exists as a check on tyranny, then “the government has better weapons” is not an argument against the Second Amendment. It is an argument for taking it seriously. Where I split from Jake is simple: We do not need to rewrite the Second Amendment. We need to read it. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” Arms. It does not say pistols and shotguns only. So be honest: Did Jake Paul accidentally make the best pro-2A argument of the year?
Colion Noir94,328 views • 1 month ago
Clarence Thomas explained the Second Amendment in one sentence. And every politician who talks about what gun rights they are willing to “let” you keep should hear it. The Second Amendment does not grant the right. It assumes the right already exists. That means the government does not give you the right to keep and bear arms. The amendment tells the government what it cannot do to a right you already had. Rights first. Government second. That is the order. And once you understand that, every gun law looks different. Because now the government is the one that has to explain itself. Not you. Then Thomas tells a story about Justice Breyer asking what he would do if a man with a machete walked up on his porch demanding money. Thomas’s answer? He would be cleaning his guns. That is why this clip hits different. He does not just rule on the Second Amendment. He understands it. He lives it. And he connects it to the history most gun control speeches leave out: The 14th Amendment. Freed slaves. The right to defend yourself from people trying to kill you. Because a citizen who cannot protect his own life does not stay a citizen for very long. Do you think most politicians understand the Second Amendment, or do they just talk around it? Shop the America Hat here:
Colion Noir110,757 views • 1 month ago
I Tested A Folding AR Inside A Real School Shooting Scenario Most firearm reviews happen on a square range. This one did not. I took the Fold AR into an actual school and ran scenario-based training to answer one question: Does a folding AR actually create a real advantage, or is it just another cool gun industry gimmick? The first test used the traditional idea: Keep the rifle secured somewhere inside the building. Then go get it when something happens. On paper, that sounds responsible. In reality, the scenario immediately exposed the problem. A locked door. A route change. A sprint across the school. A rifle still sitting somewhere else while simulated shots kept going off. By the time I got back, I had the better weapon — but I was a worse version of myself. Heart rate up. Breathing up. Brain overloaded. Then came the part that hit the hardest: I identified the wrong target. That is why this kind of training matters. It exposes the gap between what you imagine you will do and what your brain actually does under stress. Then we tested the Fold AR carried on-body, folded inside an ordinary-looking backpack. It still takes time to deploy. It is not magic. But the difference is that the time is spent getting the rifle into action where you are — not leaving the problem to go find the rifle somewhere else. This video breaks down the Fold AR, the school scenario, the locked-door mistake, the wrong-target reveal, the rifle-in-the-safe problem, and why proximity without conspicuousness may be the real innovation. Because “somewhere in the building” is not the same thing as “with you.”
Colion Noir75,343 views • 29 days ago
A man in Utah got denied alcohol because he didn’t have ID. Two bystanders tried to de-escalate. He left the store. He got in his car. The whole thing could’ve been over. Then he drove around the parking lot, grabbed a shotgun, and walked back inside. That’s not heat of the moment. That’s a decision. And once you walk into a store full of people with a shotgun, nobody owes you the benefit of the doubt. People are already saying: “But he didn’t fire it.” So what? Are citizens supposed to wait for the first shot before they believe the threat? Because the first shot is usually somebody’s body getting opened up. Two armed bystanders stopped it. So let’s be honest: Did they do the right thing, or should they have waited? Drop your answer below.
Colion Noir144,148 views • 2 months ago
A burglar in San Francisco allegedly drilled into a house at 5 a.m. And brought a husky with him. Yes. A husky. The homeowner was a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran asleep upstairs. He heard noises, grabbed his handgun, and went downstairs. That is when he came face to face with a masked man dressed in black. The man allegedly grabbed him. The homeowner fell to his hands and knees. No leverage. No footwork. No way to out-muscle him. Then he fired one shot. The burglar ran. The homeowner let him run. And the dog stayed behind. That is the equalizer. Age, strength, and position matter a lot less when the person being attacked has a handgun. But there is also a lesson here: Clearing your own house is dangerous. If you can hold a defensible spot, call 911, and make the threat come to you, that is usually the better move. Be honest: If you heard someone downstairs at 5 a.m., would you go investigate or hold your room?
Colion Noir47,944 views • 21 days ago
A husband and wife spent $12,804.63 on carry permits. And they still cannot carry everywhere. That should bother people. Because at some point, you have to ask: Is this a right… or is it a subscription plan? One of the most revealing lines was when he said he viewed the money as “insurance.” A man with a federal firearms license and a gun business is spending five figures to insure himself against his own government. Now that issue is in front of the Supreme Court. A truck driver has carry permits from Florida and Georgia. Two states already vetted him. But when he crosses into Minnesota, he has to lock the gun up because Minnesota will not honor either permit. And here is the twist: Historically, travelers were often given more leeway to carry, not less. So how did we get from that… to a man losing his carry rights every time his route crosses a state line? Be honest: Should your right to carry stop at the border, or should states have to honor valid permits from other states?
Colion Noir72,630 views • 1 month ago
Kathy Hochul responded to the DOJ’s handgun decision with one word doing all the work: “Teenager.” She said no teenager should be able to walk into a gun store and buy a handgun. Technically, sure. Nineteen ends in “teen.” But say the honest version out loud: “No adult under twenty-one should be allowed to buy a handgun.” That sounds different because it is different. In New York, that same 18-, 19-, or 20-year-old can be treated like an adult when the state wants to punish him. A voter when politicians want his vote. But a “teenager” when he wants to exercise the Second Amendment. That is the trick. The DOJ opinion only covered the federal ban. New York still has its own law. So “Not in New York” is basically Hochul standing in front of a door nobody knocked on and yelling, “You can’t come in.” The real question is bigger: Are 18-to-20-year-olds adults or not? Because the answer seems to change depending on what the government wants from them. Be honest: If someone is old enough to vote, face adult penalties, and be treated like a grown man in court, should the government still call him a “teenager” when he wants a handgun?
Colion Noir57,964 views • 1 month ago
Ilhan Omar says guns are too easy to get in America. Then police reportedly pulled guns and ammunition from the apartment where her son lives. Her son was not arrested. The roommate was. And that distinction matters. Because the roommate is described as having a lengthy criminal record. So if this is the kind of person gun control is supposed to stop… what new law was going to do it? The legal gun owner goes to the counter. Fills out the forms. Passes the background check. Pays the fees. Waits for approval. The criminal skips all of that. That is the part politicians never want to sit with. Their laws land on the person who follows the law. Not the person already going around it. Then a reporter asked Ilhan Omar about what happened. Nothing. Not a word. Ask about somebody else’s tragedy, and there is a speech ready. Ask about guns in her own son’s apartment, and suddenly the microphone disappears. So here is the real question: Do gun bans stop criminals, or do they mostly create more rules for the people already following them?
Colion Noir64,819 views • 1 month ago
Caught on Camera: Trackhawk Thieves Roll Up, AR Pistol Rolls Them Out They came to steal a Trackhawk — one of the most targeted Mopars in America. They thought it’d be another easy hit. Then the homeowner stepped outside with an AR pistol… and everything changed instantly. No shots fired. No fight. No hero fantasy. Just a law-abiding homeowner using the presence of force to stop a crime in seconds. This is one of the most common forms of defensive gun use in America — and the one anti-gunners refuse to acknowledge. When criminals hunt from a position of strength, good people must defend from a position of strength. 🔥 BLACK FRIDAY Extended — FAFO COLLECTION IS LIVE FAFO isn’t about looking dangerous — it’s about not being chosen as a victim. The entire FAFO drop + AKT1 Blackout in-ear Bluetooth ear pro is 20% OFF with code FAFO. 👉
Colion Noir489,320 views • 10 months ago