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The full title is: The Concealed Handgun Manual: How to Choose, Carry, and Shoot a Gun in Self Defense. The author, Chris Bird fully intended it to be THE manual for Texas CHL classes.

It's a bit thick for that purpose and can't keep up with the variations in law that occur year to year but I would be happy to pass this book along to anyone considering getting a CHL, having just got theirs or been carrying since the start. Some of the more compelling moments in the book relate true stories of civilian use of firearms to save lives and this concept was expanded in Bird's later book Thank God I Had a Gun: True Accounts of Self-Defense.

Photographs illustrate author's words on the "how" of very basic concepts such as different holster types, different shooting stances and the presentation.

Not everyone has the time or opportunity to attend more than the basic CHL course and this book is one possible answer to "how do I learn more?"