Traveling with the FSM4!
12 Oct 14 Traveling with the FSM4: We just completed an Urban Rifle Course here in TX. I’m traveling with, and using my copy of the FSM4. It continues to run and run, with nary a hiccup. Light, handy, lethal, and easy to travel with! As I mentioned, we are releasing a series of videos […]
Plague?
8 Oct 14 The new “Plague?” “Safety of the people shall be the highest law.” Cicero Not any more! Like the IRS, EPA, and other federal agencies, the CDC has been completely politicized and recruited (all too willingly!) to spend its time promoting leftist causes and never report anything that makes BHO look bad. Under […]
Steel Targets
6 Oct 14 Steel Targets! From a friend on the East Coast: “Yesterday, I was struck in the chest by a large bullet fragment. I was at a popular outdoor range. A shooter several meters to my right was shooting a 45 ACP pistol at a steel disk ten meters downrange. This was quite different […]
War Measures!
3 Oct 14 Advice from a friend on active duty: “Here we go! In an effort to fulfill their most recent threat, ISIS agents within CONUS are currently scouring social media sites in order to find detailed information that will be enormously helpful as they plan murders of individual military personnel, and their families. LE […]
Modern Travel!
1 Oct 14 Trains, Planes, and Automobiles! In our current Age of Terrorism, many of us need to rethink travel plans, even domestic ones! Best way to travel is via automobile, where you can have emergency equipment constantly with you, and you have a high degree of independence with regard to sudden changes in circumstances. […]
They’re Here!
26 Sept 14 “It is madness for sheep to talk ‘peace’ with a wolf.” Thomas Fuller I hate being prophetic! Today, a black, Islamic jehadist brutally murdered a white, Christian woman, then cut her head off. He was stopped only when shot by a man at the workplace where it occurred, as a second woman […]
The Argument!
24 Sept 14 The Argument: Today, ISIS, once more, announced that all its followers and wannabes are solemnly called upon to randomly murder Americans, any way it can be done, and anywhere we may be found. It is difficult indeed for anyone to misunderstand, nor mischaracterize, their message. For one, I take them at their […]
The “May-Not Military”
19 Sept 14 More comments from friends currently on active duty: “Everyone in uniform, on or off-base, is at risk of being attacked and murdered by ISIS jihadists who are within CONUS, right now! We saw this happen in the UK just months ago. It’s not a ‘theory!’ Particularly threatened are those of us who […]
Stout-Hearted men?
18 Sept 14 “Give me some men, who are stout-hearted men Who will fight for the right they adore. Start me with ten, who are stout-hearted men, And I’ll soon give you ten thousand more. Shoulder to shoulder, and bolder and bolder We grow as we go to the fore. Then, there’s nothing in the […]
With “Leadership” like this…
17 Sept 14 “We have met the enemy, and he is us!” Pogo’s comic strip, first seen in 1972 From a friend in FL: “Today, as the president is speaking, by the main gate at Hurlbert Field (home of the elite USAF Special Operations Command), there is posted a large (black letters on white background) […]
Social Media
12 Sept 14 “Life is hard. After all, it kills you!” Katharine Hepburn “Social” Media This morning, the entire USMC Base at Camp Pendleton, CA went into a tizzy over the false report of an “active shooter” on-base. The report appeared in a posting on an anonymous Facebook Page and then rapidly spread through word […]
Shelf-Life!
11 Sept 14 “Who enjoy responsibility usually get it. Who merely enjoy exercising authority, usually lose it.” Malcolm Forbes Disappointing speech: Last night, our nation’s chief executive: >Told friends and foe alike, everything he wouldn’t do. >Never connected ISIS and Islamic Jihad. >Actually used the word, “terrorist” several times, but never once preceded it with […]
Humphrey’s World!
8 Sept 14 “The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.” Humphrey Bogart Drugs and guns, lessons for all of us: I’m afraid Humphrey’s world is just a distant memory! Recreational marijuana is now “legal” in CO, at least under state law. Medical marijuana has been legal here since 2000, […]
The Chance that was Wasted!
7 Sept 14 “Hear my words, that I might teach you Take my hand, that I might reach you, But my words, like silent raindrops, fell…” From “Sound of Silence,” written in 1964 by Paul Simon. Most famous rendition sung by Simon & Garfunkel the same year. Learn from history? This, from a friend and […]
… coming to a place near you!
6 Sept 14 “I recommend the Statue of Liberty be supplemented with a ‘Statue of Responsibility.’” Viktor Frankl 1. Self-defense shooting 2. Gunfight 3. Massacre Number one occurs a number of times each day within CONUS, and has for as long as anyone can remember. Some involve police. But, the majority involve non-police (but armed) […]
A “Special Class” of Citizens!
5 Sept 14 This from friends in OH: “Judges of our 4th District Court of Appeals, which covers fourteen counties in southeastern OH, are, by their own one-sided ‘proclamation,’ licensing themselves to carry concealed handguns, both while sitting on the bench and at all other times. They are not extending that special privilege to anyone […]
Live-Fire Scenario Training!
4 Sept 14 Live-Fire Scenarios! At least once per year, Pat Troy and I get together and do a Live-Fire Scenario Course at the wonderful Echo Valley Range in WV. Many from the DC area join us there! Like NTI and “Polite Society,” this Program is not for beginners, and it requires a lot of […]
War that Never Ends!
3 Sept 14 War, from now on! “Don’t worry, be happy…” From the song of the same title, recorded by Bobby McFerrin in 1988 Enough contemporary fantasy! Now let’s listen to James Madison: “‘Universal peace.’ It is to be feared! It is in the catalogue of events which will never exist, except in the imaginations […]
“Shibumi” and the Middle Finger!
29 Aug 14 Middle Finger and Unintentional Discharges! “‘Shibumi’ is a Japanese word that loosely translates to ‘effortless perfection.’ Anything that is ‘Shibumi’ is quiet in refinement, noble, and fulfilling in a manner not shaped exclusively by analytical thought. In Japanese culture, Shibumi implies ‘simplicity of spirit,’ an attitude of refinement without pretense, honesty without […]
While Nero fiddles…
26 Aug 14 This experience, from a friend in the NW: “I visited our State Military HQ yesterday in order to have my wife’s ‘dependent’ ID card renewed. I encountered a lone and unarmed contractor/guard at the front gate. He was courteous and polite, but had never heard of ISIS and had no idea what […]
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.
