New Web Page!
13 Jan 13 DTI’s Web Page has been updated and revised. Yes, I know, it is about time! Go to https://defense-training.com It, like me, is a “work in progress,” but my wonderful friends, Jeff Tueller and Phil Duclose, have helped me to see how necessary this upgrade/update is, and have patiently guided me through it. […]
2013 SHOT Show Review
Day Four 13 January 2013 The 2013 Shot Show is now history. Record attendance, record number of exhibitors, and heavy security, but 2013 (maybe 2014 too!) Will go down in history as “The Year of Shortages.” Many makers of guns and ammunition have already stopped taking new orders. They’re doing their best to take care […]
NRA Vindicated?
10 Jan 13 School systems around the country, after publically castigating the NRA, with prodigious, pious, drippingly self-righteous fanfare, for even proposing armed officers in schools as a solution to security issues, are now, oh-so-quietly, implementing NRA’s exact suggestion! Several are even discreetly arming selected school staff, including teachers, without so much as a peep, […]
“Rights?”
9 Jan 13 “No amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.” Stephen Vizinczey “Rights?” When someone says, in so many words, “I have a ‘right’ to never have anything bad happen to me,” they are displaying a level of ignorance and self-delusion that ultimately makes for them a short, and […]
“Protected” Guns?
8 Jan 13 The small UT town of Spring City is currently discussing a resolution that all households must have at least one unspecified “gun” therein and, at some point, residents thereof must participate in some kind of gun training. The whole thing is mostly symbolic, of course, and other municipalities that have passed similar […]
Scenario-Based Training
7 Jan 13 Many have asked about scenario-based training (Airsoft). We do several such programs each year. All of our others are live-fire. Our first Scenario-Based Program this year is in Boulder, CO on the weekend of 2-3 Feb 13. We use a commercial building and Airsoft guns. Our local contact is Diane Nicholl at […]
Industry update
5 Jan 13 “‘Learning’ is but a foil to common sense, a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less often made use of as ‘spectacles’ to look at nature, than as ‘blinds’ to keep out its strong light and shifting scenery from weak eyes and indolent dispositions.” William Hazlitt Today, I visited several local gun […]
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4 Jan 13 “Social engineers never get past statistics. Stalin said, ‘One man’s death is a tragedy; a million deaths are a statistic’ They invariably think the way Stalin did. J Wolf They do indeed, and, when it comes to the usual, weary anti-gun drivel, they’re pretty sloppy with the truth! Figures anti-gun liberals endlessly […]
Really?
3 Jan 13 “Sheep don’t trust sheepdogs, any more than they trust wolves!” G Hamilton In the small, downstate Illinois town of Belleville, IL, the manager of the local Denny’s Restaurant, on 1 Jan 13, demanded that a female detective with the local PD, sitting at the same table with four of her police colleagues, […]
Still worse!
1 Jan 13 From a friend with the ISP (Illinois State Police): “There is another reckoning, which we watch closely here. It is a listing that is often overlooked when calculating crime data, nor is it normally used as an indicator of the level of violent crime, and that is the rate of ‘aggravated assaults.’ […]
Record murders in Chicago? Worse than it looks!
31 Dec 12 These sage and sobering comments from my friend and colleague, Dave Grossman: “Chicago’s murder-rate is actually much, much worse than it looks! We must constantly keep in mind the fact that the murder/death rate is being held down by medical technology! A major University of Massachusetts/Harvard study told us, if we still […]
Dubious Distinction!
30 Dec 12 The City of Chicago now has the dubious distinction of exceeding the previous record for most homicides in a single year. Memphis and Newark are jealous! This, in a city where there are no longer any legitimate gun retailers, and where individual gun-ownership, of any kind, is all but completely prohibited. The […]
Aimpoint T1/H1 and railed (Picatinny) military rifles
29 Dec 12 The last Quip has generated many responses with questions about mounting Aimpoints on serious rifles. I’m no-doubt a fan of red-dots on rifles intended for serious purposes. All are surely serviceable, but the Aimpoint T1/H1 heads the List! As my friend and colleague, Manny Kapelsohn, points out: “‘Sight-alignment’ (front sight correctly aligned […]
Trohlogucca
29 Dec 12 Comp-Tac’s new Trojan-Horse Long-gun Concealment Case, “Trohlogucca,” for short, (sounds Italian!) With the current feeding-frenzy among American gun-buyers, mostly involving military rifles and accouterments, gun-owners, police and otherwise, are wondering how to keep and transport their military rifles in a low-profile manner, but in “transport-mode” (hammer down, manual-safety “off,” magazine inserted) or […]
Trigger technique for serious rifles in serious circumstances
27 Dec 12 This question from a friend: “Is there a stable way of aiming a rifle while standing? Yesterday, friends and I were engaged in cold-weather rifle drills. I used my AR, equipped with an EoTech optic. Standing and shooting at multiple, steel targets (7″x12″). Several consecutive hits, then movement. We started at 40m, […]
True enlightenment, from another psychologist
26 Dec 12 True enlightenment, from another psychologist: “Predicting gratuitous violence at any particular place and time, and on the part of a particular individual, is impossible and represents a perfect example of what we call ‘The Base-Rate Dilemma’ Violence is extremely rare among our general population, especially mass violence of the Newtown/Aurora/Columbine kind. That […]
More on mental health:
23 Dec 12 This from a practicing psychologist: “For twenty-five years, I have been asked to assess individuals who, for whatever reason, are suspected of being ‘not-quite-right.’ In the process, I have met murderers, child-molesters, thieves, and plenty of other dangerous characters. I am routinely asked to predict who is about to ‘crack-up’ and who […]
Editorial response
23 Dec 12 Of course, no self-respecting liberal can possibly agree with anything the NRA has to say, so liberal newspapers have been currently spewing-out their requiem hatred toward the NRA and all American gun-owners. They always do! One AZ newspaper’s Sunday editorial suggested “… identifying the mentally-ill, instead of posting armed guards at schools” […]
RA/XCR-M
22 Dec 12 Robinson Armament, of North Salt Lake City, UT, was founded in 1996 and is run by my friend and colleague, Alex Robinson. I’ve known Alex from the beginning, and I have copies of his celebrated XCR Rifles in 5.56×45 (223 Rem), 6.8mm, 7.62×39 (30 Soviet), and now 7.62×51 (308 Win). I know […]
Unintended Consequences?
20 Dec 12 Comments from a friend in the Federal System: “Oh, John, you don’t give Slick Willy nearly enough credit! His 1994 ‘assault weapon’ ban effectively caused the price of police equipment to rise so high that average police officers couldn’t afford to purchase necessary gear. For example, practically overnight normal-capacity Glock magazines went […]
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.
