EWR
16 Apr 19 Commercial Flight Update: Yesterday, I flew on a commercial flight, from EWR (Newark, NJ) to MDW (Chicago, Midway) on SW Airlines. I had with me my usual complement of gear (in checked baggage). It was no problem! I informed the ticket-agent, as always, and my luggage went to the TSA screening area. […]
Honor Defense Pistols
I’ve carried my copy of Honor Defense’s HD9CLE pistol for six months. It’s comfortable. It’s reliable. It deftly digests every brand of high-performance ammunition I’ve put through it. HD pistols don’t hiccup, and they don’t break, despite heavy use and lack of maintenance. I’m happy to recommend HD pistols for those reasons alone, but in addition they […]
New Zealand
12 Apr 19 New Zealand As NZ’s Parliament rushes through a nation-wide ban (for everyone but themselves) on an across-the-board (and ever-expanding) list of semi-automatic firearms and normal-capacity magazines, all in the wake of last month’s Mosque shooting in Christchurch, it is now being revealed that the involuntary “Buy-Back Program,” included in this legislation, will […]
Boondocks!
10 Apr 19 Boondocks Academy, Raymond (Jackson), MS Today and tomorrow, we’re conducting a two-day DTI Women’s Defensive Handgun Course at the beautiful 350-acre Bookdocks Academy in Raymond, MS. I was not familiar with this facility until recently! It is fabulous, nearly as expansive as Gunsite! The facility features two sophisticated shoot-houses, numerous covered outdoor […]
“I support the Second Amendment, but…”
8 Apr 19 “I support the Second Amendment, but…” Common refrain of mendacious gun-grabbers! Any time a politician uses the word, “but,” he has effectively erased everything he has just said! I am frustrated with politicians and political groups who pick and choose which parts of our Constitution, particularly our Bill of Rights, they like, […]
“Gun Safety”
6 Apr 19 “During the Bosnian War (1992-1995), when you didn’t own guns, you were literally dead. Many learned that painful lesson, the hard way!” From a student and veteran of fighting in Bosnia “Gun Safety” is the new, and deliberately deceptive, code-word for the forced elimination of the the private ownership of guns in […]
Buy Guns!
5 Apr 19 Buy guns while you still can! “… changes to gun laws and regulations should be determined through legislative process that gives the American public an opportunity to participate, and not be arbitrarily set by a bank.” This from a concerned American bank officer, in response to the current not-so-subtle thrust by Democrat […]
“The Preferred Weapon of Criminals!”
1 Apr 19 “Two things are ‘infinite:’ the Universe, and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the Universe.” Albert Einstein Several decades ago, media liberals (an absurd redundancy) fervently lobbied for a federal ban on “Saturday-Night Special” handguns. SNSs were ambiguously described as “cheap, small, and underpowered,” and those aspects made them “bad,” so […]
ISA
27 Mar 19 “Today’s commercial pilots know a lot more about computers, and a lot less about flying, than they did even twenty-five years ago.” From a retired military and commercial pilot ISA (“Intelligent Speed ‘Assistance’”) The UK is supposed to be separating from the EU, but many UK politicians are still doing their best […]
Video Simulators
26 Mar 19 “When victory is always easily attained, you must reevaluate the worthiness of your ambitions” Attila the Hun Simulator Training: This is from a friend at Virtra, manufacturers of the latest generation of video simulators, currently in use by many institutions and agencies. “In order to extract maximum learning and benefit from these […]
Best Friends!
25 Mar 19 Venezuela, Part II When I served on active duty in Vietnam in 1968, my Marine comrades and I worked creatively to get out-of-date C-Rats to starving local children, who were otherwise scavenging for food at various dumps. We also got corpsman to come with us and provide emergency care for these same […]
Rioting, Coming to a Place Near You!
24 Mar 19 “Stir not murky waters, when you don’t know the depth, nor creatures that dwell beneath the surface.” Bryan Davis Last Friday in the City of Maracaibo, Venezuela (Venezuela’s second-largest metro area), during a protracted, nationwide, compulsory power-cut, ecumenical rioting broke out! The “permanent underclass,” so carefully created and expanded by Maduro’s socialist […]
2019 ILEETA
22 Mar 19 2019 ILEETA Conference, St Louis, MO This year’s ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators’ and Trainers’ Association) annual Conference in St Louis, MO is winding down. Big vendor area, as always. Many wonderful, and well-prepared, classes on a wide variety of subjects. Of note: The new Aimpoint Comp-5 is about the size of […]
“When the Unexpected Meets the Unprepared”
19 Mar 19 Mosque Shooting Incident in New Zealand, 16 Mar 19 Learning points from Sunday’s mass shooting in New Zealand: 1) Islamics are no less vulnerable to these events than are Jews, nor Baptists! Perpetrator’s “manifesto” was (as most are), rambling, confusing, incomprehensible drivel! An army of mental-health experts are currently wringing their hands […]
2019 Rangemasters Tactical Conference
17 Mar 19 2019 Tactical Conference, Avondale (New Orleans), LA The 2019 Tactical Conference this weekend, organized and staged by Tom Givens, was at the Nolatac Racetrack in Avondale, LA, just southwest of New Orleans. Vicki and I were at this facility for the first time in our lives! Tom’s tireless effort in putting-on this […]
High Crime!
15 Mar 19 High-Crime Cities: Business Insider recently published a List of the fifty “most dangerous” cities in the world, in terms of violent crime. South and Central America, particularly Mexico, Venezuela, Honduras, Guatemala, Columbia, El Salvador, and Brazil are all good places to stay away from, as is all of South Africa! Kingston, Jamaica, […]
FTM
12 Mar 19 Last weekend, during a DTI DHG Course in LA, I had my first chance to test terminal effect of Lehigh Defense all-copper (monolithic) FTM bullets. LD manufacturers their own line of FTM ammunition, and also supplies bullets to Underwood, Black Hills, and others. We shot a pork loin through a SIG320 (9mm) […]
Flush and Insolent!
8 Mar 19 “A dauntless American Patriot, who describes himself as “not a gun-guy’ is like a Knight of the Round Table saying of himself: ‘I’m not really a sword-guy!’” JD Carr Late on the afternoon of 14 Dec 1774 (Wed), exactly one year after the famous “Boston Tea Party,” more than four hundred armed […]
“The Real Agenda”
6 Mar 19 “Gun control” never “works,” at least for the naively professed “intended purpose” of reducing violent crime. What these laws that restrict citizens from access to guns will do, and have done every time they’ve been passed, is to vastly reduce risk-exposure endured by violent criminals, while generating a whole new community of […]
“The Real Agenda”
6 Mar 19 “Gun control” never “works,” at least for the naively professed “intended purpose” of reducing violent crime. What these laws that restrict citizens from access to guns will do, and have done every time they’ve been passed, is to vastly reduce risk-exposure endured by violent criminals, while generating a whole new community of […]
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.
