Ammunition Terminal Performance!
8 Aug 19 Ammunition Tests: At a training course last weekend in PA, my students and I had the opportunity to test a number of popular high-performance pistol rounds on blocks of ten-percent gelatin. All rounds had to penetrate four layers of heavy denim before entering gelatin block(s). Rounds were also chronographed: Here are some […]
Isn’t it Time?
7 Aug 19 “Aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defense.” Christine de Pizan John Adams warned us that our Constitution would only suffice for governance of a moral population. Particularly in our big metro areas, we’ve long-since abandoned morals in our desperate search for high-sounding rationalizations for criminality and […]
The “Revolution” picks-up momentum!
6 Aug 19 “There are no absolute ‘Rules of Conduct,’ neither in peace, nor war. Everything depends on circumstances.” Leon Trotsky In the wake of the El Paso, TX and Dayton, OH shooting incidents of last weekend, nauseating verbal outbursts from Democrat/socialist politicians, including presidential aspirants, are expected. Their personal conduct is worthy of them! […]
The Past 120 Years!
31 July 19 Progressive-burning, nitro-cellulose, “smokeless” propellant was developed by the French in the 1880s. As French always are, they were secretive about this new ontogenesis, but within a decade, smokeless propellants were widely known (and rapidly displacing) conventional black powder in much of the world. The sage of the era quickly recognized that the […]
Gilroy, CA
29 July 19 Gilroy, CA Shooting, yesterday: Yesterday, a single suspect, armed with ‘some kind of rifle,” started shooting into an crowded local festival in CA. Several fatalities and many injuries resulted. Some injuries were caused by the panicked stampede of attendees, rather than from bullet impacts. Apparently aware that festival attendees were being wanded […]
PDW
24 July 19 “When you keep doing what you’re doing, you’ll keep getting what you’re getting!” Dave Young PDW (Personal Defensive Weapon) The term, “PDW,” has been conferred upon an ill-defined class of individual firearms that armies, including ours, have historically looked to for issue to “rear-echelon” troops. Back in the Cold-War Era, commanders imagined […]
Squandering Time and Other Valuable Resources!
22 July 19 “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff life is made of.” Benjamin Franklin Yet another anemic excuse for indolence and non-productivity: The State of OR will allow school students to take “mental health days” off, five every ninety days, but of course that will quickly be […]
Triggers!
19 July 19 Triggers for Serious Guns: Trigger “pull-weight” on revolvers is usually between nine and fourteen pounds when fired via the trigger-cocking mode. As a general rule, the smaller the revolver, the heavier the trigger pull. Who have small hands and/or low hand-strength thus often find revolvers, particularly snubbies, incompatible with any kind of […]
Blackout in NYC!
17 July 19 Report from Manhattan during Saturday’s power failure, from a friend and colleague: “My wife and I had been in NYC all week. It was still light outside early Saturday evening. We were enjoying dinner on a secluded outdoor terrace at a Manhattan restaurant. Then, the blackout happened! Owing to ambient light, we […]
DTI on-line Course Regristration
12 July 19 Dear DTI students and friends: DTI Web Page on-line Course Registration is today back up and running! I’m delighted to report that our DTI Web Page at defense-training.com, once more, includes a convenient, fast, and easy-to-use on-line Course Registration section. Only this time, it is vastly improved and expanded! You can now […]
Violence Against Women!
11 July 19 “I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender’ … It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.” Financier and major contributor to the DNC, Jeff Epstein, in his despicable excuse for sexually molesting underage girls, on a serial basis! Jeffrey Epstein, now joining with, Eric Schneiderman (former […]
Extraction!
8 July 19 Extraction: With military autoloading rifles, pistols, and machine-guns, there are several methods of accomplishing the autoloading function, and all “work,” to one degree or another, and of course, all have issues, successful case extraction being the most critical. Extraction always involves two sequential phases: SIE (slow, initial extraction), followed by case withdrawal. […]
Translation!
5 July 19 The “Translation” “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.” Saul Bellow My good friend and colleague, and CEO of Robinson Armament, Alex Robinson, told me in a recent conversation: “When we conceived the XCR Rifle, we knew the design was sound and […]
Converting law-abiding citizens into criminals!
2 July 19 “Voting, we might even say, is the next-to-last refuge of the politically impotent. The very last refuge is, of course, giving your opinion to a pollster, who will get a version of it through a desiccated question, and then submerge it in a Niagara of similar opinions, and convert them into, What […]
Political Violence!
30 June 19 “The most dangerous myth is the demagoguery that business can be made to pay taxes at progressively higher rates, thus ‘relieving the individual taxpayer.’ Politicians preaching this are either deliberately dishonest, or economically illiterate, and either should scare us. Only people pay taxes! People pay, as consumers, every tax imposed upon business.” […]
Kalashnikov!
29 June 19 The indestructible, ubiquitous Kalashnikov: With “Sleepy Joe” naively predicting that, as president, he’ll make “smart guns” the only kind available (even though none exist, nor have ever existed), while simultaneously causing all other guns to magically dematerialize, it none-the-less seems there is no shortfall of “regular guns” everywhere else in the world, […]
Indoor Ranges
25 June 19 Indoor Ranges “Booths” on most indoor pistol ranges are there to “organize” the range. Particularly with commercial ranges, booths separate individual shooters and allow each to shoot his own exercises, irrespective of what other shooters are doing. There is also usually a table conveniently in front of each shooter, upon which he […]
Technology and Warfare!
20 June 19 “You have to persuade enough people to buy your product, in order to get the price low enough, to persuade enough people to buy your product!” Axiom of Capitalism Western technology makes a surprise debut in Eastern Europe: The Siege of Pleven (present-day Plevna, Bulgaria), 20 July 1877 through 10 Dec 1877, […]
You’re on Your Own!
18 June 19 “Why not prepare armed police to a higher level of tactical trauma training, instead of trying to protect unarmed paramedics?” Michael Heron, CEO of Pangolin Group in the UK, in reply to criticism of the slow and timid response of paramedics to the 3 June 17 “London Bridge Attack” During this particular […]
Silent Killer!
13 June 19 “Gun-Free Zones,” the “Silent Killer” of our generation! Misrepresentation of guns and gun-owners by leftist politicians, and in liberal media articles, is rampant and acutely dishonest. Guns are always “high-powered,” “automatic,” and “high-capacity.” Small-arms ammunition is “explosive.” All guns are “assault weapons” and “preferred by criminals.” Honest gun-owners are ever “paranoid,” “unstable,” […]
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.
