Safety and Security

No single weapon is best in every dog attack, but for most people the strongest answer is two non-lethal tools used in order: a dog repellent spray to stop a dog at a distance, and a stun baton as the...

Economists and traffic researchers use the fall clock change as a natural experiment. Two risks move into the evening with the dark, and both can be measured. On Saturday, October 31, the sun sets in New York City at about...

The FBI says violent crime fell at the fastest rate on record in 2025. The market for pepper spray, personal alarms, and stun guns keeps growing anyway. In August, the FBI released its finalized crime figures for 2025, and they...

Whether a student can carry pepper spray at college depends on two separate sets of rules, and they don't always agree. A spray that's legal under state law can still break a school's student code. Before one goes into a...

Stun guns, self-defense keychains, knives, and even baseball bats are being argued into the Second Amendment right now, in two federal courthouses.

A stun gun sits in a drawer. A flashlight gets picked up constantly — checking a dark car, walking the dog at night, a power outage, digging through a bag. That difference is the entire case for a stun gun...

A kubotan doesn't do anything on its own. The entire tool is a few inches of hard plastic or aluminum — what makes it effective is knowing where and how to use it. Several models in our keychain self defense...

Our own self defense knives collection is upfront about something most retailers won't tell you: a knife carried for self-defense should genuinely be a last resort, not a primary tool. That's not a sales pitch walking itself back — it's...

A disguised stun gun has a job a standard one doesn't: it has to not look like a weapon. That's the whole point of our disguised stun guns collection — a lipstick, a pen, a phone that's actually a defensive...

A stun baton solves one problem a standard stun gun can't: distance. A handheld stun gun requires you to be close enough to grab, which is exactly the range most people want to avoid. A baton adds 12 to 26...

Wildfire and Pepper Shot are both made by Safety Technology, a manufacturer we've worked with for decades. Both are good products, so the choice isn't good versus bad. It comes down to how you plan to carry it and how...

Most home security planning stops at the front door — a camera, a deadbolt, maybe an alarm system. Fewer people think through what happens if someone actually gets inside. That's a different problem, and it calls for different tools: fast...