(February 2004 Quips)
3 Feb 04 On serious pistols, from a friend in the Philippines: As you know, I am one of few foreigners here allowed to carry concealed firearms legally. Like so many, I love the 1911, but give me a Glock when I have to fight in the mud, the blood, the beer, and maybe even […]
(January 2004 Quips)
3 Jan 04 From a friend in SA who owns a gunshop: “Just had a seven Australian Army SpecOps guys in my shop. They raved about how we are able to own such great stuff here in SA: knives, pistols, batons, pepper spray, etc. I found it strange coming from military men, of all people. […]
(December 2003 Quips)
2 Dec 03 This is a portion of note sent by an active-duty friend to his junior officers. They will be deploying shortly: “For those ‘who don’t know what they don’t know,’ I offer the following explanation: 55gr FMJ (Full Metal Jacket) is the old M193 ball ammunition that we used to issue before the […]
(November 2003 Quips)
1 Nov 03 From a friend in the LA area: “Just saw on local TV newscast footage from LA of man shooting at an attorney with a handgun (looks like a five-shot snubby revolver) at pointblank range. The victim, wearing suit and tie, was struck at least once, but the hit(s) appear to be peripheral […]
(October 2003 Quips)
1 Oct 03 The 6th Commandment Many friends and students have been troubled by the admonition in the Sixth Commandment, ie: “Thou shall not kill.” It is time this confusion be put to rest. Research through Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance and several different translations of The Old Testament is helpful. The clause in question is found […]
(September 2003 Quips)
1 Sept 03 A “stealth failure” from a friend in UT: “A customer stopped at a Seven-Eleven after leaving my shop and a subsequent desert shooting exercise with his prized DSA FAL, which he placed in his Chevy Blazer between the seats, sticking straight up in plain view. Someone at the Seven-Eleven saw it and […]
(August 2003 Quips)
3 Aug 03 From an LEO friend in the Midwest: “We had a fatal shooting here on 22 July. The (dead) suspect was probably trying to commit suicide. In any event, he was a construction worker who was hanging around one of our local banks late in the afternoon. Using a pistol, he kidnaped a […]
(July 2003 Quips)
2 July 03 City Stick! I’ve been interested in walking canes, as a cane is something one can openly have with him in just about any circumstance, without garnering the attention of others. A number of my friends and colleagues routinely fly with canes now and carry them as they travel. To that end, I […]
(June 2003 Quips)
4 June 03 At a LEO Program in Michigan earlier this week, we had a small-statured student who was using a department G22. He had before never shot so many rounds in such a short time. After several hundred rounds of normal cycling, his pistol started to suffer from failure to eject. The problem grew […]
(May 2003 Quips)
1 May 03 From a friend in AZ: “Today’s front-page lead, Gone Without a Trace. Eight hundred registered sex offenders in Arizona have ‘disappeared.’ That is, they failed to check in as they’re supposed to, so nobody knows where they are or what they’re doing. When questioned about this ‘problem,’ Val Biebrich, supervisor of the […]
(April 2003 Quips)
1 Apr 03 From the NRA: Holders of NRA Law Enforcement Firearms Instructor’s certificates now have a continuing education requirement. All certificate holders will now have to take instruction every year in order to renew. We are honored to learn that DTI Courses qualify for such renewal instruction. /John 1 Apr 03 A friend […]
(March 2003 Quips)
3 Mar 03 1911s We just completed a defensive pistol class in Oklahoma City, OK. OKC is “cocked-and-locked country,” as is much of Oklahoma and Texas. Most students had Kimbers, and all worked well. Two had Glocks. What didn’t work well was the eight-round magazines used by many of the 1911 shooters. There were several […]
(February 2003 Quips)
1 Feb 03 I’ll be flying to Capetown, South Africa on Monday, 3 Feb 03. I’ll be returning on 23 Feb 03. While there, I’ll be teaching and hunting, but I’ll be unreachable by phone, cell phone, or e-mail. Full report when I return. I’ll catch up with all messages then. Vicki is looking after […]
(January 2003 Quips)
6 Jan 03 The Age of Kings winds down: The War of Spanish Succession, 1701-1713 Louis XIV claims the longest reign of any sovereign in Western Europe, before or since. He was King of France for sixty-two years, from 1653 to1715. Like most kings of the time, Louis was conceited and vane, but he was […]
(December 2002 Quips)
10 Dec 02 “D” Ring My colleague Jeff Chudwin, brought the “D” Ring to the attention of all of us earlier this year. I have now, belatedly, joined him in his endorsement of this product. All military rifles have issues, and the AR-15 is no exception. One real weak point of the AR-15 system has […]
(November 2002 Quips)
4 Nov 02 Rifle information from a friend in the Philippines: “Over here, the M16 series continues to enjoy respect. Government units equipped with the M16s still have the old variant with the slow twist rate. All use the M193 ball round. Contact distances remain well under 200 meters, with the vast majority of encounters […]
(October 2002 Quips)
1 Oct 02 Update from a friend with the LAPD: “Many of our officers who left the department in disgust under the Parks regime are now returning. Quite a few went to the federal Air Martial Program and left there is disgust too! It’s run be a tight group of Secret Service types who won’t […]
(September 2002 Quips)
6 Sept 02 This is the latest from Sough Africa. How much longer will it be before we start hearing the same comments here? “Most South African gun owners should be disarmed, because they are irresponsible” So said the chairperson of our National Assembly’s Safety and Security Committee, Mluleki George, on Wednesday. /John 8 […]
(August 2002 Quips)
2 Aug 02 Fatal shooting last week by one of our LEO students in TX. This is a patrol officer who attended our Advanced Defensive Handgun Course earlier this year. He came to us as a competent shooter. I trust what he learned from us was helpful in this incident: “I was coming to the […]
(July 2002 Quips)
1 July 02 By contrast, sales information from friends in South Africa: “We rarely see S&W pistols here at all. The P-99 made a brief appearance but did not do well. Among other things, the rear sights all wobble in their dovetail slots. SA 1911s are hardier than Kimbers, as you noted, but the 1911 […]
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.
