LRU
30 Mar 22 “Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it! They do not achieve it unwittingly by ‘doing what comes naturally,’ and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves. All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.” […]
Tac-Con, 2022
28 Mar 22 2022 Tac-Con, Dallas, TX Vicki and I just finished attending the three-day Tactical Conference for 2022, at the Dallas Pistol Club last Friday-Sunday. My friends and colleagues, Tom and Lynn Givens, host this event every year for the benefit of the advancement of our Art and of all aspiring […]
Russians are Coming!
24 Mar 22 “God and soldiers we adore In times of peril, not before!” Francis Quarles Signs of the Times: 1) Retail gunshops in Poland are currently being mobbed! “Russians are coming,” is a frantic cry currently striking morbid fear into the hearts of millions, as it has repeatedly […]
Darkness!
21 Mar 22 “It is within the context of these forms of collegiate stupidity that we can understand the one that is now the most salient: ‘wokeism’ Wokeism can be thought of as the opportunistic infection of a host with an already weakened intellectual immune system. Students haven’t learned to think, […]
ILEETA 2022
15 Mar 22 ILEETA Conference, 2022 Vicki and I are currently attending the annual ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) Conference in St Louis, MO. We are both teaching classes, along with dozens of other well-known instructors. Lots of wonderful Classes and Panel Discussions, as well as an extensive vendor […]
Decline is a choice!
12 Mar 22 “… and I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?” From “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” written by John Fogerty in 1970. Sung by Ceedence Clearwater Revival in the 1978 film by the same name, staring Nick Nolte. We’re seeing a desperately renewed interest among Eastern Europeans in military […]
The Language!
9 Mar 22 “Only a few have become acquainted with Orwell’s ‘1984,’ because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to possess. It is known only to certain members of The Inner Party. Orwell fascinates them through his insight into details they know well, and through his use of Swiftian satire. […]
History Rewritten!
5 Mar 22 “Any scientist who wants to change the prevailing paradigm is automatically branded a heretic, apostate, infidel, blasphemer, maverick, lunatic. That scientist must break with his peers, and thus have his job, career, and funding placed in extreme jeopardy. How many careerist scientists are up for that? The answer […]
Fear of our Freedom!
3 Mar 22 “When ‘faith in our freedom’ gives way to ‘fear of our freedom,’ silencing the minority becomes the operative protocol.” Joel Salatin A former UK Police Inspector, Colin Greenwood, wrote in his 1972 book, “Firearms Control” that it sounds so lofty and pious when politicians say that “criminals and lunatics” […]
Disenchanted Ears!
2 Mar 22 “They’re mortal. They have mortal weaknesses.” Professor Clayton Forrester (played by Gene Barry) in the 1953 movie version of HG Wells’ “War of the Worlds.” Last night, in his State of the Union Speech, JRB predictably called, once more, for a ban on (as yet undefined) “assault weapons” and […]
“Keep and Bear”
27 Feb 22 “Plans rarely work perfectly, but preparation always pays off.” Eisenhower “Vlad the Invader” is unhappily discovering that armed, free citizens don’t give-in so easily! Arms are being issued to erstwhile unarmed Ukrainians rather late in the game, but free citizens with the will and means to fight effectively […]
Red Dawn!
24 Feb 22 “In what used to be referred to as “Western Civilization,” we’ve convinced ourselves that hard decisions, productive work, and sacrifice are things of the past, unnecessary in a “New Age,” where everything we could ever possibly want may be had without effort. And, thus willingly self-deceived, we foolishly vote for […]
You’re next!
22 Feb 22 “Weakness, the oxygen of tyrants” Dagen McDowell Vlad P has all the respect and admiration for JRB in 2022 that Hitler had for Neville Chamberlain in 1938! Imagine the howls of laughter and knee-slapping occurring right now in the Kremlin at the news of White House’s indecisive hand-wringing, nail-biting, […]
Standing Fast!
18 Feb 22 “I’ve looked all around, and I’ve yet to see a single person wearing a ‘Build Back Better’ baseball cap” Anon American liberals have spent the last four decades deliberately demonizing the Art of Marksmanship and thus driving honorable activities such as target riflery and field hunting out of high […]
Comments
15 Feb 22 Comments on blown primers, from friends, students, instructors: “Any time 5.56 brass is reclaimed for reloading, there is a risk of getting cases that are from 5.56-level ammunition, but that were fired in .223 chambers. The combination of 5.56-pressure ammunition fired in a chamber with .223-spec freebore and throat […]
Blown Primers!
14 Feb 22 Blown primers! At a DTI Urban Rifle Course in SC last weekend, a student brought an M4 chambered for 300Blk. Ammunition was factory reloads from a reputable source. The rifle was running normally when the bolt abruptly failed to close, and of course, the rifle to fire. Looking […]
Mossberg MC2
7 Feb 22 Mossberg MC2 Pistol Over the past week I’ve had the chance to shoot and carry the relatively new Mossberg pistols, the MC2c and MC2sc (“compact” and “sub-compact”). I have to hand it to Mossberg! This feisty American gun company has fearlessly entered the crowded and extremely competitive arena of […]
“Grievance-Based Violence’
2 Feb 22 “We’ll have lower and lower horizons imposed upon us, until we all find ourselves in 400 square-foot squalid, government-owned, apartments, in high-rise ghettos, while our pampered, dynastic, ruling aristocracy rides in limousines, ever-escorted by armies of heavily-armed guards, and soars the stratosphere in Gulfstream IIs, contemptuously looking down upon us surfs […]
Crime Wave!
31 Jan 22 Crime Wave! “When a citizen affirmatively practices ‘avoidance,’ lethal force in defense of one’s own continued good health is rarely necessary, but when it is, it is acutely necessary, and nothing less will suffice. Displaying and/or discharging a gun is not always an acceptable solution to deadly conduct on the […]
Enemy at the Gate!
28 Jan 22 “Is there no virtue among us? If there is not, we are without hope! No form of government, existing or theoretical, will keep us from harm. To think that any government, in any form, will insure liberty and happiness for an dishonorable population represents the height of self-deception.” James Madison […]
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.
