IALEFI ’99
6 Oct 99 We’re here at the annual IALEFI (International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors) Conference, this year in Phoenix, AZ. The conference is only half over, but here are some notes of interest: >Several of my colleagues and I tried, once again, the S&W (Walther) P99 Pistol. We were united in concluding that […]
Permits
3 Oct 99 This is from a colleague in Texas: “Here is a recap of permit info I have submitted and the results: Arizona: No Home State Permit Required. Application needs no notary. Fingerprints required. Proof of Training required (16 hour Course by AZ Instructor, OR Approval by DPS, as in my case, as an […]
More on Aftermarket Accessories
1 Oct 99 From a well-known instructor and colleague: “A student in an instructor class of mine had a similar experience several years ago with an aftermarket-ported Glock .40, shooting Cor-Bon ammo. (In addition to being a firearms instructor, he was also a dealer or rep, both for Cor Bon and for the porting system.) […]
Sport Shooting in the Philippines
30 Sept 99 From a friend in the Philippines: “Some folks over here recently ran an IDPA match. One scenario called for a hip shot/speed rock at very close range. A competitor was using a 1911 retrofitted to 40S&W. It was equipped with a Hybrid barrel. (The aftermarket “Hybrid” barrel vents gasses directly upward) He […]
More on the STI LS40
27 Sept 99 I had a chance to extensively shoot the LS40 pistol from STI last weekend at a defensive handgun program in the Midwest. I used an Alessi holster designed for a S&W 4556, but the fit was sufficiently good to make it work in the short term. My Kydex magazine holder made for […]
STI LS40
24 Sept 99 Dave Skinner, a very nice gentlemen who heads up an aggressively innovative company in Houston called STI International, was nice enough to send me a copy of their 40S&W carry pistol called the LS40. I first saw the pistol a short while ago in Buffalo, NY sitting on the desk of my […]
More Pointless Firearms
21 Sept 99 This from a friend in the Philippines: “Another lemon here is the USAS-12, a select-fire 12 gauge shotgun from Korea. Damn heavy. Takes either a ten-round box or twenty-round drum. Shows heavy M16 influence, but at twelve pounds (unloaded) it is highlyunattractive. Lots of bank guards have used for intimidation but later […]
Accident!
21 Sept 99 This from a friend in the federal system: During a shoot-and-move stage of a local pistol competition two weeks ago, a competitor ran his gun (highly modified 1911 Colt) dry, and the slide locked to the rear. When the competitor exchanged magazines and depressed the slide-release lever, the gun went full auto […]
Pointless Firearms
20 Sept 99 We recently completed several Courses here in the Midwest, both handgun and Rifle/Shotgun. One of our students (a good-natured chap, but a person who needs to do more research before he plunks down a fortune for ostensibly defensive firearms, about which he admittedly knows nothing) brought to the Course an H&K SOCOM […]
Mixed Ammo
15 Sept 99 We are in the middle of a training program with a Midwest police department right now. Yesterday, and officer using a SIG P220 in 45ACP mistakenly mixed in a 40S&W round in one of his magazines. The 40S&W round “fired” (actually, it makes a “poof” sound), and the pistol immediately jammed up. […]
Range Safety
9 Sept 99 From a friend in the Midwest: “I had the chance to got to the new, local sporting good store, called ‘Outdoor World.’ At their indoor range: 1) All firearms must be checked in at the guest-services area. Store employees open gun cases and install a trigger lock on all weapons, then put […]
Definitions of “carry mode”
31 Aug 99 During a Defensive Handgun Class we conducted on the West Coast last weekend, two students (out of eighteen) brought two-stage decocking pistols. One was a S&W 5916. The other was a Beretta 92F. The student with the S&W pistol was a working police officer whose department is one of the very few […]
Follow up on the full auto AR-15
24 Aug 99 “I talked to the engineer at Olympic Arms today. He knew what the problem was before I even finished the first sentence. I get the impression this has happened before. I was told that the rifle uses a spring-loaded firing pin. Either this spring became weak and allowed the pin to stay […]
Follow-up on striker-fired pistols
24 Aug 99 This is from a good friend who does a lot of work with Glocks: “…I EMPHATICALLY DO NOT RECOMMEND THAT ANYONE “SLIGHTLY ROUND THE TOP LOCKING LUG” on the Glock pistol. Everyone’s idea of what “slightly” means is different, and the “basement gunsmith” may be courting disaster here. When kept minimally clean […]
H&K rifles on the range
24 Aug 99 At a Rifle/Shotgun Course last weekend in the Midwest, a student used his H&K-91. The weapon itself worked just fine, although it did, true to form, beat him up. However, the rear sight came off! This is the first time I’ve seen an H&K rear sight even come loose. I know from […]
S&W (Walther) P99
17 Aug 99 One of my students last week was using a S&W P99 in 9mm. The pistol is very ergonomic and flows over the hand, much like the Sigma. It’s surely functional, but the decocking “button” on the left rear of the slide is extremely difficult to operate with any finger on the strong […]
Even more on striker-fired pistols
17 Aug 99 From another trainer on the East Coast: “Light firing pin hits in Glocks can usually be traced to either weak-wristing the gun or underpowered, unjacketed ammo. If shooters use anything other than jacketed ammo in a Glock, the ensuing firing debris will accumulate in the chamber and cause the gun to fail […]
More on striker-fired pistols
16 Aug 99 With regard to light primer hits with Glocks and Sigmas: From a trainer on the East Coast: “The problem (at least with Glocks) is usually the slide not going completely into battery. Once the gun is cleaned, and the slide closes completely, the problem usually disappears.” From another trainer: “We see this […]
Gun problems
15 Aug 99 At a recent Rifle/Shotgun Course on the East Coast, our students experienced significant problems with a Savage bolt-action rifle (their “Scout Rifle”) and a Mossberg autoloading shotgun (“Jungle Gun”). The bolt gun was a 308 with a forward-mounted scout scope. On the rear of the bolt itself is a block which serves, […]
Striker-fired pistols
8 Aug 99 My friends at S&W tell me that they have had the same occasional light hammer hit with the Sigma pistol as we often see with Glocks. Once in a while, a cartridge with a hard primer fails to go off in a Glock. Pistols with a traditional, arching hammer rarely experience the […]
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