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Venezuela, Part II When I served on active duty in Vietnam in 1968, my Marine comrades and I worked creatively to get out-of-date C-Rats to starving local children, who were otherwise scavenging for food at various dumps.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 […]
No Doubt!
4 Mar 19 Democrats and (your) Guns! Law-abiding American gun-owners, so viciously hated and feared by Democrats (and all other totalitarians) are slated to be the sole target of Democrats’ anti-gun/anti-freedom agenda as we approach 2020 elections. Here are the steps (completely predictable, since they were/are used by Stalin, Pol Pot, Maduro, and all other […]
The Sage!
3 Mar 19 Concealed-Carry Pistols: Mid-size, double-column, 9mm pistols, such as the G19, SA/XD, S&W M&P, Walther PPQ, H&K VP9, SIG 320, CZ P10C, et al have enjoyed immense popularity among Operators, for some time. They are all 16-shooters (at least) and are designed for concealed carry, particularly for average-to-large-sized men. Compact, single-column 9mm pistols, […]
Manufactured Drama!
26 Feb 19 Persistent Gun Myths: “… an eternal ‘song-‘ waves within which reason has drowned.” Friedrich Nietzsche With the aid of left-leaning Hollywood dramatists, who have scant regard for the truth, an entire generation of Americans and Western Europeans have grown-up, believing preposterous myths they’ve seen depicted on the screen more times than anyone […]
King George III
24 Feb 19 “A King, by disallowing Acts of this salutary nature, from being the father of his people, degenerated into a Tyrant and thus forfeits all rights to his subjects’ obedience.” Patrick Henry, 1777 Yesterday’s issue of the Washington Post listed the Post’s pick of the top fifteen Democrat candidates for our 2020 presidential […]
Der Kommissar!
21 Feb 19 “Did you really think we wanted those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against. We’re after power, and we mean it! There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any […]
Say Goodby to Your guns!
20 Feb 19 “The ‘Illusion of Safety’ has always been a problem in…” American Army Officer in Syria When Democrats (Marxists) seize power, kiss your guns au revoir! In Illinois, Democrats have now seized political power, and they’re wasting no time! Who wants to purchase a gun in IL will now be required to turn-over […]
A “Safer America”
15 Feb 19 “In any ‘compromise’ between food and poison, only death can win. In any ‘compromise’ between good and evil, only evil can profit.” Ayn Rand In a recent interview with the New Yorker, a highly-regarded (among her fellow liberals) “progressive” politician, Lucy McBath, talked about the “religion of guns” and starkly reveals, in […]
Avigilon
13 Feb 19 “… and I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain” From Who’ll Stop the Rain, written by John Fogerty in 1970, and sung by Ceedence Clearwater Revival in the 1978 film by the same name, staring Nick Nolte. Embattled Broward County School District in FL, rather than looking for real solutions […]
Leon Trotsky
12 Feb 19 “Hard times create strong men Strong men create good times Good times create weak men Weak men create hard times” TJ Weber From a friend in the UK: “It is as if we have suddenly developed a societal death-wish over here! Our Trotskyites are tirelessly working towards their standard goal: A one-way […]
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.
