Rounding Error!
9 Apr 20Communist Chinese know and understand, that the economies of virtually all of Western civilization, since the end of WWII, have been shakily based upon exponentially increasing national debts (to be supposedly paid-off by yet-unborn generations of citizens who conveniently can’t vote against it), propped-up by non-stop printing presses, producing relentlessly inflating paper script.Of […]
DTI Quips Now Posted on the DTI Web Page!
7 Apr 20 DTI Quips are now posted and accessible on the DTI Web Page at:defense-training.com2020 Quips are also posted on the DTI Facebook Page at:defense training InternationalAll 2020 Quips, including today’s, come up when you go to defense-training.com and click on “Quips”Go to the bottom of that page, and you’ll see a “search rectangle”Type-in the year […]
“Bang System”
7 Apr 20“The world is moving so fast that we have precious few experts on tomorrow.All we have are experts on yesterday.”Gyan NagpalFirst gas-operated, self-loading rifles:In the early 1900s, Soren H Bang was a well-known Danish gun designer, and his name has been permanently attached to the superannuated “Bang Gas-Trap System” used briefly by self-loading […]
Covid-19 doesn’t worry Islamic terrorist!
5 Apr 2020 Terrorists aren’t concerned! Yesterday, as dutifully masked-and-gloved French citizens in Romans‑sur‑Isère cautiously ventured out of their homes to buy groceries, I suspect their last concern was being randomly attacked and stabbed to death by a knife-wielding Islamic terrorist, illegally in their country! Yet, Saturday morning that is exactly what happened! An AA-shouting […]
Italy!
4 Apr 2020 “I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor food I offer only hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Who loves his country with his heart, not merely his lips, follow me!” Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882) “Father of The Fatherland” Italian Rifles and Pistols: Salvatore Carcano headed the Turin Army Arsenal in Italy in […]
But there isn’t enough time, Maggie.
2 Apr 2020 “But there isn’t enough time, Maggie. You can have enough of everything else. You can enough food, enough land, even enough money, But you never can have enough time, because it’s the only thing you can’t save! David M “Carbine” Williams (played by Jimmy Stewart) in the 1952 feature film, “Carbine Williams” […]
DTI Facebook Page
1 Apr 2020 DTI Facebook Page Our “Defense Training International” Facebook Page is back up and active! DTI Quips are now posted there as they were previously. DTI Quips will soon be posted on the DTI Web Page also! /John
Legal Gun Ownership in Brazil
1 Apr 2020 Legal Gun Ownership in Brazil Without fail, Marxists when they get into political office, immediately make the process of legally acquiring a gun all but impossible for citizens. They invariably accomplish this goal by assigning it to lethargic, bloated bureaucracies who garnish the process with hyper-voluminous “regulations” involving endless delays, vague criteria, […]
Melvin Johnson’s Rifle
31 Mar 2020 Melvin Johnson’s Rifle Sergie Simonov’s SKS Rifle, first adopted by the Soviets in 1945 (replacing Fedor Tokarev’s short-lived SVT), saw service only until 1952, after which it was superceded by Mikhail Kalashnikov’s AK. However, the SKS continued to see second-tier service in the USSR, and continuing first-tier service in the PRC (China), […]
Wheels coming off in Italy, Spain, et al!
30 Mar 2020 Wheels coming off in Italy, Spain, et al! Public order is unraveling in Italy. As one travels south in Italy, the situation grows worse. Social unrest is leading to widespread rioting, anarchy. Italy’s prolonged “hard lockdown” has made many Italians profoundly frightened, fearing for their lives! Italy, a developed, first-world Western European […]
Our Local Gun Range to Remain Open!
29 Mar 2020 Our Local Gun Range to Remain Open! I’ve run many local training courses at our local outdoor range complex, Great Guns Range, in Nunn, CO (near Ft Collins, CO) Great Guns features trap, skeet, sporting clays, as well as a number of rifle and pistol ranges, out to 300m. Great Guns also […]
‘Known but to God’
28 Mar 2020 “Known but to God” Rudyard Kipling, celebrated British poet, too old to fight in WWI, encouraged his son, Jack, to enlist in the British Army. Jack was killed in the fighting. Badly mangled, his body was never recovered. It was subsequently a bereaved Kipling who coined this cheerless phrase that adorns so […]
When unpreparedness meets opportunity?
26 Mar 2020 When unpreparedness meets opportunity? From a gun-retailer in the Midwest: “Gun ranges, indoor and outdoor, are all closed. We are sold-out of just about everything that shoots. Even cheap junk that I was embarrassed to have on display is all long-gone! Only ammunition remaining are a few boxes in obscure calibers. Side […]
Manual Safeties
24 Mar 2020 Manual Safeties: Manually-operated “safety” levers and buttons were not found on military rifles of the 1800s and early 1900s. Since military doctrine of the era dictated that rifles were not to be fired, absent direct command, they were typically carried with an empty chamber and loaded only just prior to being fired. […]
Situation in NJ, CA!
23 Mar 2020 Situation in NJ, CA! Friends in NJ tell me that the NJSP is still processing “permits-to-purchase,” but state employees in Trenton (NJ State Capitol) who process applications are all at home! As in NY, that “state function” is closed, indefinitely! NJ’s governor yesterday closed-down the state-run NICS system, making NICS approvals unavailable, […]
Tips from a seasoned Operator
22 Mar 2020 Tips from a seasoned Operator: “A note on the short-barreled ARs (SBRs): ARs with barrels shorter than 14″ did indeed have reliability issues, and the H&K 416 ran much better in that set-up, as you noted I was a early adopter, and was issued a 416 in 2006. By 2012, the AR […]
You should not have special fondness for a particular weapon, nor anything else for that matter.
21 Mar 2020 “You should not have special fondness for a particular weapon, nor anything else for that matter. You should have as much weaponry as suits you.” Musashi 1989 Import Ban Since the 1989 Stockton, CA school shooting, and the subsequent panicked “import ban” of certain autoloading rifles (which is still in place) under […]
NY!
20 Mar 2020 NY! Yesterday, I spoke with a NYS gun retailer. He indicted that NY’s Pistol Permit Offices are now closed indefinitely, having apparently not been considered an “essential” state function. This is bad news for any current NYS Pistol Permit holder. It means he will not be able to buy a pistol in […]
I don’t think we went blind.
19 Mar 2020 “I don’t think we went blind. I think we are blind Blind people who can see, But do not see.” Saramago Gun Buying! Our “news media” is currently suppressing the news story about Americans in every corner of the Country desperately rushing to gun retailers in an attempt to buy anything that […]
‘Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone’
18 Mar 2020 “Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone” Pablo Picasso An acquaintance, a professing “liberal,” anxiously asked me yesterday what kind of gun he should buy for home protection. Of course, I told him he had waited way too long, as local gun retailers are currently […]
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.
