CNS

01 July 08

CNS Hits:

Currently, there is a movement within our industry that advocates the CNS (Central Nervous System) over any other target on the human body, to the point where advocates train for brain-stem shots with carry pistols, to the exclusion of all others.

They're wrong! Brain-stem shots with pistols are indeed indicated, under a narrow spectrum of circumstances, but the body midline, between navel and neck, still represents the most lucrative target on the human body in the vast majority of domestic, lethal encounters.

It is difficult to generalize, but our targets are usually animated, and threatening circumstances come and go quickly. We thus need to keep suspect's hands under continuous observation and still be able to strike, repeatedly, a moving, dodging target, and then stop shooting promptly when the target no longer represents a threat.

Routinely driving the front sight to the head makes monitoring hands nearly impossible, and, with an aggressively animated target, successful brain-stem shots are unlikely, even with well-trained shooters.

CNS-mania? Like the long-discredited "Quell System," wherethe kidney was piously declared the only legitimate pistol target on the human body, this current fad will be short and unhappy!

/John

Safe-Direction Rifle Pad

01 July 08

Safe-Direction Rifle Pad:

Safe -Direction manufacturers a ballistic-containment system for pistols, consisting of a kevlar pad and integral stiffener. I carry and use my copy routinely when loading, unloading, and performing a chamber-check with my carry pistols. We've had several instances where they have performed as advertised, absorbing UDs inadvertently launched by startled pistol-owners, mostly in their own homes.

Safe-Direction also makes a Rifle Pad. Thicker and heavier, the Rifle Pad has been purchased mostly by police department and prisons. At a state penitentiary, one had to do its duty yesterday!

During the unloading process with an AR-15, a guard pointed his rifle at the Safe-Direction Rifle Pad and "dry-fired!" It discharged, and the single bullet (55gr WW Ballistic Tip) was stopped, of course, within the pad.

This institution, prior to purchasing Safe-Direction Rifle Pads, had used pipe, filled with sand. But, these old-style bullet traps were awkward, hard to move, and hard to use. Thus, they were often not used!

Where rifles are in constant use and are constantly handled, the Safe-Direction Rifle Pad provides efficient, safe, and convenient ballistic containment, as this institution discovered today!

Recommended!

/John