Violent Summer?
28 Apr 25 “Summer of Violence?” Another deliberate high-speed vehicle-ramming of innocent pedestrians happened early last Saturday evening, this time in Vancouver, Canada. Eleven pedestrians DOA, or dead at the scene. Three times that number injured, many critically. Most casualties were members of the local Filipino Community, assembled for an ethnic “street celebration.” Perpetrator, an […]
2025 NRA Show, Second Day
26 Apr 25 NRA Show, Atlanta, GA, second day Service pistols I should have mentioned yesterday: Stoeger’s Glock-like STR9 is surely serviceable. Mid-price range The CC9 is H&K’s competitor for the small/concealable SIG365 market. $700.00, and now made in America H&K’s VP9 is a wonderful service pistol, but pricey at $1k Canik’s METE MC9/LS, at […]
2025 NRA Show
25 Apr 25 2025 NRA Show, Atlanta, GA I arrived here in Atlanta, GA yesterday in order to attend the 2025 NRA Show. My first time in downtown Atlanta! I have to say that Atlanta is an extremely friendly town. Staff, vendors, and attendees all go out of their way to be welcoming and helpful. […]
The Critical Difference!
23 Apr 25 “You do not enter a race to lose” Leigh Bardugo On 7 Oct 23, Israeli citizens (at least ones who are still alive and paying attention) learned an important lesson about defensive firearms- guns that are continuously in the hands of individual private citizens. We need to pay attention too, at least […]
Less Than Five Minutes!
19 Apr 25 “Less than five minutes…” At yesterday’s school-shooting in Tallahassee, FL, two innocent victims died, and at least six more were injured. To their credit, local police were on the scene immediately. They aggressively moved-in, locating, confronting, and shooting (non-fatally) the single perpetrator, effectively ending the danger and the event. In fact, this […]
Israeli Politics!
19 Apr 25 Israeli domestic politics are as vehemently fractured as are ours! This from a friend in Israel, just received: “Terrorists in Yemen fired a missile (supplied by Iran) at Jerusalem at 06:20 this morning. To no one’s surprise, the missile was intercepted and destroyed by IDF before it ever entered Israel, and assorted […]
Low-Tech Attack!
17 Apr 25 “All your ‘barriers’ are worthless” A frustrated Russian Naval Officer during Japan’s surprise attack on Russia’s Pacific Fleet at Port Arthur on 9 Feb 1904, the event kicking-off the Russo-Japanese War Early last Sunday morning, a single suspect (without any special equipment) easily jumped a “security fence” surrounding the home of PA’s […]
Threat?
13 Apr 25 What represents a perceived “threat?” “A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice.” Jose Bergamin On Tuesday of last week, LAPD officers were involved in a high-speed vehicular chase of at least two suspects who had been involved in a […]
Zanshin
9 Apr 25 “At the moment of victory, tighten your helmet.” Tokugawa Ieyasu “Zanshin” is a Japanese word that loosely translates, “remaining mind” Modern Operators use it to describe “maintenance of caution/guard,” particularly at the threshold when the fight appears to have reached its conclusion. Immediately approaching a defeated/injured VCA, even for the purpose of […]
HOW
8 Apr 25 HOWs “HOW” stands for “House of Worship,” and the term applies to all churches, synagogues, mosques, etc. Like many of my colleagues, I’ve been training HOW security officers and teams in recent years, as violent crime within HOWs is on the increase, particularly when worshipers are congregated in and/or near the physical […]
Brace yourself!
3 Apr 25 “Without warning, the axe can fall on any neck, absent regard for ‘justice’” James Agee Here it comes! In February of this year, corrections officers at Collins Correctional Facility in NY went on strike. They were quickly joined by corrections officers statewide (at what few state prisons that, like Collins, have survived […]
Gaslighting!
1 Apr 25 “Light-bulbs did not result from intense efforts to perfect the candle” Anon Bear-attacks, and other homicides! The term “Gaslighting” has been coined to describe ongoing pathological abuse of a person (or an entire population), by leftists and leftist governments, perniciously intended to deceive victim(s) into suspending reality and questioning the validity of […]
Gun industry legends Dave Spaulding, Massad Ayoob, Mike Boyle, and John Farnam join Fernando Coelho to dive deep into the history of the gun industry, shedding light on how firearms and firearms training have transformed over the decades. They discuss the dramatic shift from traditional print reviews to the digital age of internet forums, social media influencers, and YouTube personalities of the industry.
