DTI in 2020!
19 Nov 19 DTI in 2020 Our 2020 training schedule is now current and published on our DTI Web Page, at defense-training.com Many Courses an many parts of the Country! 2019 prices on all 2020 DTI Courses, as long as you register by 31 Dec 19! You can register easily and quickly, directly on our […]
Appendix Carry
17 Nov 19 “Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot teach it.” Hermann Hesse “Appendix” Carry: I’m not sure that appendix carry qualifies as a “trend,” but I’m seeing it a lot more of it than I did a decade ago. With […]
Headspace
15 Nov 19 “Headspace” The term, “headspace,” refers to the distance from the part of the chamber that stops forward motion of the cartridge, to the bolt-face. That part of the chamber is sometimes called the “datum-reference.” When used as a verb, “to headspace” refers to the contact created between this part of the chamber […]
NGSW
14 Nov 19 Next Generation Squad Weapons (NGSW) I had been told some time ago that DOD had settled on Remington’s 6.8SPC (6.8×43) as the successor to the existing 5.56×45 (in whatever generation of “wonder-bullet” we’re currently in). It looks as if that information was premature! The “6.8″ part is right, but DOD has apparently […]
Russia’s Contribution!
13 Nov 19 Military Autoloading Rifles: Several mentioned that in my last Quip, I failed to mention the Soviet SVT autoloading rifles, which did actually see active combat during WWII. Talented Russian arms designers, like Tokarev, Simonov, Fedorov, and Kalashnikov indeed deserve every bit as much credit as do Browning, Peterson, Garand, and Stoner, but […]
Two Cartridges!
12 Nov 19 A Tale of Two Cartridges: When WWI ended in November of 1918, most nations had come to the conclusion that bolt-action military rifles were now obsolete, and work on autoloading systems continued in earnest! Two autoloading military rifles that actually saw some production and issuance during the War, were the French RSC […]
Farnam Signature Fighting Rifles
6 Nov 19 Farnam Signature M4 and 7.62×51 Hans Vang, and his wonderful crew at Vang Comp in AZ, are now producing my FS M4s and FS 7.62x51s! The Vang Comp shop is not far from Gunsite! Vang Comp is known mostly for fighting shotguns, but they do a wide variety of work on pistols […]
Continuing Chaos in Mexico!
5 Nov 19 Continuing chaos in Mexico: Three SUVs, containing only unarmed women and young children (all US citizens), were shot to pieces by cartel sicarios in Northern Mexico yesterday. This was no “accident!” Innocent Americans were gunned-down and burned alive with fanatic deliberation! These same vicious cartels have also established operations in every part […]
Flying with Guns!
30 Oct 19 TSA “Adventure” From a friend and Instructor: “I flew out of AZO (Kalamazoo, MI) on Delta today. I’m currently on a hunting trip in another state. I brought with me two bolt-action hunting rifles in what I thought was my “TSA-compliant” hard case, a case I’ve flown with on previous trips This […]
Mosin-Nagant!
29 Oct 19 “Nations have no perpetual ‘allies,’ nor ‘enemies.’ Nations only have ‘interests.’” Lord Palmerston in England (1835), but re-quoted many times by subsequent politicians, from Charles de Gaulle to Henry Kissinger! During WWI (before the USA, in the aftermath of the sinking of the Lusitania, got actively involved), the USA was, at least […]
Canik
28 Oct 19 Canik Pistols Recently, I’ve been carrying and using a copy of the Canik, TP9 Elite SC. It’s s double-column 9mm compact pistol, similar to a G26, but little slimmer. I’m carrying it as a backup! It’s a thirteen-shooter and from the user-standpoint, it works just like a Glock (as do most popular […]
“Latent Feelings of Insecurity?”
23 Oct 19 … and not just in Mexico! France’s “Ministry of Internal Affairs” prefers to pretend that illegal possession of military rifles (mostly AKs) is not really out of control in “minority areas” (ie: Islamic neighborhoods). The truth is that “minority areas” are awash with them! Police naively “estimate” there are 15,000 illegal AKs […]
Chaos!
21 Oct 19 Mexico dissolves into chaos! On 14 Oct 19 (last Monday), thirteen Mexican police officers were murdered during an ambush attack carried-out by the Jalisco Cartel in El Aguaje. Many more wounded. Forty-two police officers, riding in a convoy of five trucks, were ambushed on a highway, by heavily-armed cartel members, some firing […]
No Doubt!
16 Oct 19 “You lied to his face? No. I ‘revised the parameters of my promise.’ Which is lying! Which is politics!” Anon There is no doubt! Democrat presidential aspirants, in their latest “debate” last night all strongly advocated for forced gun confiscation, cynically mislabeled “gun buy-back” No push-back from any of them, nor from […]
Evolution!
15 Oct 19 How we got here! Firearms evolution: Walter Hunt in 1848 designed the Volition Repeating Rifle. It combined a primitive “lever-action,” tube magazine, and self-contained cartridges, consisting of a hollow lead bullet that contained powder, but no primer. A primer had to be emplaced before each shot could be fired. Hunt’s revolutionary rifle […]
The Myth!
11 Oct 19 On 9 Oct 19, in the town of Halle, Germany, a single perpetrator fired several shots at the locked door of a local synagogue in an apparent attempt to enter and massacre worshipers inside who were observing the Yom Kippur Holiday. Not clear if his shots were fired at the door itself, […]
The Other Shoe!
10 Oct 19 “For every idealistic ‘peace-maker,’ willing to renounce his right of self-defense in order to bring-about a ‘weapons-free world,’ there is at least one malignant war-maker, more than anxious to exploit his naivety” Margaret Thatcher Second Shoe! As details emerge with regard to the recent deadly stabbing incident at the Paris Police Headquarters […]
“True Barrier”
3 Oct 19 “Delusion detests focus, and romance provides the veil.” Suzanne Finnamore “Feel” safe? Today, several police officers were viciously attacked and stabbed inside the Paris, France Police Headquarters building, just across the street from Notre Dame Cathedral! Several officers were injured, at least one fatally! The attack(s) took place in a part of […]
ERPO
2 Oct 19 “Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of dictatorship.” Bruce Coville ERPO (“Extreme Risk Protective Order” or “Red Flag” Law), due to take effect in CO on the first of the year. No Republicans voted for this blatantly unconstitutional law! Virtually all Democrats […]
Puppeteers!
1 Oct 19 Puppets and Puppeteers Most health professionals and researchers agree that “Disarm Lists” cannot be assembled with any kind of reasonable predictive accuracy. We do not have the science yet to know whom to preemptively disenfranchise, and probably never will. So, not only do we have “No-Guns-For-You-List” problems with our Constitutional Rights as […]
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.
