2019 Range Day
21 Jan 19 2019 SHOT Show, Range Day Today was “Range Day” in Boulder City, NV It was cool and very windy on the Range, but we got a chance to get our hands on, and shoot, several new guns that will be of interest to Operators: This year, single-column 9mm pistols, specifically designed for […]
2019 SHOT Show
20 Jan 19 2019 SHOT Show Tomorrow is “Range Day,” (Boulder City, NV) where we have the opportunity to actually handle and shoot new guns from a number of manufacturers. The SHOT Show proper is at the Sands Convention Center (Las Vegas, NV), Tuesday through Friday. East Coast weather made a hash of travel plans […]
Nihilism
17 Jan 19 “Lambs lie down only with well-fed lions, and plowshares, formed from the beaten swords of warriors, are wielded only by slaves.” Wiggington The dignity of man, degraded by “Nihilism.” Originating in Russia in the 1860s, self-declared “nihilists” were notorious for making liberal use of brutal, precipitous violence, “justifying it” by declaring that […]
Ready or Not!
16 Jan 19 “Readiness” Yesterday, in Nairobi, Kenya, heavily-armed Al Shabaab jihadis (Islamic terrorists) from neighboring Somalia invaded the upscale hotel/business district and murdered at least fifteen innocent victims, including one American, one Brit. A Spanish citizen was among the many wounded. Al Shabaab has already claimed responsibility for the attack. Somalia’s feeble “official” government […]
Rules!
15 Jan 19 “Rules for Radicals” In the late 1960s, one of the first self-described “community organizers,” Saul Alinsky, proposed the Communist-tested tactics described below to eliminate our Second Amendment, as a necessary prelude to eliminating the rest of our Constitution. Alinsky’s strategies and tactics, like those of Bill Ayers, are the current “rule-book” for […]
“Rules”
15 Jan 19 “Rules for Radicals” In the late 1960s, one of the first self-described “community organizers,” Saul Alinsky, proposed the Communist-tested tactics described below to eliminate our Second Amendment, as a necessary prelude to eliminating the rest of our Constitution. Alinsky’s strategies and tactics, like those of Bill Ayers, are the current “rule-book” for […]
Nothing in Common!
11 Jan 19 “After our enemies with guns have all been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns, and they are bound to struggle desperately against us. We must never regard these enemies lightly.” Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, 1949, by […]
Voluntary Victims
8 Jan 19 One of El Chapo’s “associates” recently testified about people, probably hundreds, who were quietly murdered in the drug kingpin’s soundproof “murder room,”located in Ciudad Juarez, just across the border from El Paso, TX. Among El Chapo’s victims were doubtless many innocent Mexicans, and probably more than a few innocent American tourists too. […]
More “Security Theater” in the UK
2 Jan 19 Now “Knife Violence” Whatever happened to “Gun Violence?” In the UK, two temerarious members of the Royal Family have cynically put aside (for the cameras) their “dangerous” Buckingham Palace silverware, in order to symbolically address the desperate issue of “knife violence.” All this to the naive cheers of the usually gallery of […]
VSKA
29 Dec 18 Century Arms’ VSKA Rifle: Century Arms has been producing (in the USA) and marketing its “RAS47″ version of the classic Kalashnikov Rifle (AKM in 7.62×39) for several years. “RAS” stands for “Russian Army Standard.” The RAS is a plain-vanilla Kalashnikov AKM. My copy runs just fine (like most Kalashnikovs), and I’ve had […]
Avarnas!
26 Dec 18 The new “Avarnas” The movement, propagated by amoral leftists/Marxists, to marginalize American gun owners continues to aggressively recruit the finance industry. Their obvious goal is to stigmatize gun owners, so that we occupy the lowest possible status-rung in American society, in much the same way as do “avarnas/dalits” (untouchables) in modern-day India. […]
Western Women in Peril!
22 Dec 18 Western Women Targeted! Lest anyone become complacent about the worldwide threat to women, particularly Western women, posed by radical Islamic jihadis, last week two adult female backpackers from Scandinavia in the, until now, relatively peaceful hills of Morocco were attacked and knifed to death, at least one beheaded. The murderers then posted […]
Drugs and guns!
21 Dec 18 Drugs and Guns! Students ask: “When I own guns, do I need to become a teetotaler?” The companion question is: “When I own guns, do I need to abstain from all contact with marijuana? For that matter, how about other consciousness-altering drugs, even ones I take by prescription?” My reply: Any time […]
On the Margins!
19 Dec 18 Marginalized! A liberal MA judge (Feeley) recently handed-down an extremely light sentence to a convicted (felonies, multiple times), illegal alien, because otherwise “… the defendant would be subject to deportation.” The judge then admitted the sentence would have been much harsher, had the defendant been a US citizen! Illegal aliens, in MA […]
“Red-Flag,” revisited!
18 Dec 18 “We are right to take alarm at the first ‘experiment’ upon our liberties.” James Madison As Democrat-dominated state legislatures are seated in early 2019, they will waist little time in promoting “Red-Flag” laws as part of their corrupt, “common-sense,” anti-freedom agenda. I’ve editorialized about such unconstitutional legislation in the past, but let’s […]
Tragedy and Farce!
15 Dec 18 “Politicians, the rich and famous, their bodyguards, and criminal gangs, still have their guns. Everyone else (forcible disarmed since 2013) lives in fear. Mothers and fathers are unable to protect their families.” Gabby Franco, recent immigrant from Venezuela Listening to seductive propaganda, flowing from the mouths of smooth-tongued socialist tricksters, Venezuelans made […]
You Can’t Make this Stuff up!
12 Dec 18 “There are two things that, this night, shall not die: My Right to be Armed, and I!” Anon Yesterday, heavily-armed French troopers, on patrol in Strasbourg as part of a long-term anti-terrorist deployment, reacted quickly to an “active murderer,” a militant Islamic jihadi. They shot and wounded him in the process. Their […]
The Sour Fruit of Socialism!
11 Dec 18 “Helplessness is like being paralyzed. It’s sickness.” Chuck Barris Today in France, an acknowledged terrorist, a well-known and “closely-watched” member of France’s Terrorist Watch List, today shot and killed at least four innocent Christmas shoppers in Strasbourg (near the German border), critically wounding a number of others. As of this writing, he […]
Pistols in Pockets!
10 Dec 18 Pistols in Pockets! A company making a line a small, concealable carry-pistols, Cobra, includes in its list of products an over-under Derringer. This small pistol has been accused of not being drop-safe, as it has been implicated in at least two cases where pants in whose pocket it was placed where thrown […]
DTI Training in 2019
9 Dec 18 2019 DTI Training Schedule Our 2019 Training Schedule is now posted on the DTI Web Page at defense-training.com. More DTI Courses will be added in the next few weeks, but you can see what is available and actively promoted now. You may register for any of these Courses at any time directly […]
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.
