Light triggers
19 July 13 At a Three-Gun-Program, here in CO, earlier this week, a female student was with us, sporting an expensive, custom 5-inch 1911, from a well-known manufacturer, for whom I have a great deal of respect. However, the trigger, crisp and breaking-glass-like as it was, was far too light for a serious, carry pistol. […]
What to say to police
12 July 13 When involved in a lethal-force incident, where you fired shots, otherwise attempted to apply deadly force, or even brandished a gun without firing, youâll likely be confronted by police a short time later. Theyâre just doing their job, but you need to be the one to look after your own best interests. […]
Habits!
11 July 13 For the past few days, Iâve been working with State Police instructors, and some local officers, in an eastern state. The curriculum was Urban Rifle. My students are competent and enthusiastic, and we did a number of exciting drills. My students are into the modern gun culture, go armed all the time, […]
Lessons from the past
7 July 13 âWhen two opposite points of view are expressed with equal intensity, the truth does not necessarily lie exactly halfway between them. It is possible for one side to be simply wrong.â Richard Dawkins The beautiful Krag-Jorgensen Rifle was officially adopted by the US Army in 1886, replacing the Trap-Door Springfield, which had […]
The Making of Nations
4 July 13 The term âManifest Destinyâ had been on the lips of many Americans since Jeffersonâs presidency. It represented the âsuperior moralityâ associated with pell-mell Western expansion, bringing goodness and light to vast expanses of real estate, occupied only by widely-scattered, and only rarely amalgamated, bands of Indians. Most Americans believed it was all […]
Lights for Marines!
3 July 13 A group of friends and veterans is sending flashlights overseas to our deployed Marines in Afghanistan, and other forward-deployments areas. Small, personal flashlights (the kind most of us carry routinely), are not normally issued to Marines in-country. But, they are extremely handy to individual Marines for navigating, reading, signaling, information-gathering, and as […]
Independence Day 2013
2 July 13 Earlier this year, BHO treated us to this drivel, to the dripping applause of his liberal henchmen: âWeapons of war have no place on our streets, nor in our schools, nor threatening our law enforcement officersâ Good thing our Founding Fathers didnât drink that Koolaid, eh? If they had, there would never […]
