For seven years, I worked for Guns & Ammo magazine, where I wrote the monthly Personal Security column under the byline Jim Grover. (At the time, I was assigned to a highly classified special-mission unit and couldn’t use my real name.) Being involved in actual operations and the training necessary to prepare for them provided me with an extremely realistic perspective on combat.
DURING THAT TIME, the editor of another magazine under the same publisher asked my opinion about the tactic of using a handgun in each hand. I literally laughed out loud — this was well before the advent of smartphones and “LOL.”