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19 May 22   “On our own!”   The Tops Grocery Store in Buffalo, NY where last Saturday’s multiple murder took place is now indefinitely closed. Residents of the local community now must shop elsewhere.   The 911 Operator who precipitously hung-up on the panicked Tops Store manager who tried to call-in the incident has […]

18 May 22   Ammunition manufacturers are still telling me that primers are in short supply, particularly pistol primers.   However, Defiant Ammunition now has 5.56×45 55gr TCX (all copper) ammunition in good supply, but it won’t last!   Contact Pete Pi directly. Be sure to use the DTI Student Discount Code (below)   Peter […]

17 May 22   “And you throw-off every conceptual cloak of self-defense.   You give-up fleshly resistance of your ego.   ‘Repentance’ has nothing to do with self-serving ‘sorrow’ for transgressions and resultant poor outcomes.   Repentance is an ecstatic self-emptying, a precipitous change of mind about your mode of thinking and being.”   Christos […]

10 May 22   “Jesus reserved his harshest criticism for hypocrites” Philip Yancey   Life in NJ!   I just completed a Defensive Handgun Course in NJ last weekend. I maintain a cadre of enthusiastic students and instructors there!   In NJ, as in a few other states, state-issued CCW permits are unobtainable by mere […]

4 May 22   “‘Failure’” is just success in progress!”   Albert Einstein   Metallic cartridge and feeding.   Detachable, box magazines were invented by British/Canadian (later American) inventor, James Paris Lee, in the 1870s. Lee went on to design the 303 British Lee-Metford Rifle (that incorporated his detachable box magazine), adopted by the British […]

28 Apr 22   “A Girl and a Gun” (G&G) “Celebrate 2022″ Conference, Grand Junction, CO   Vicki and I are here in Grand Junction, CO at the beautiful and expansive Cameo Range Complex for the 2022 G&G Conference.   We’re both teaching classes, along with John Murphy, Tim Kelly, Tiffany Johnson, Diana Rathbone, Steve […]

25 Apr 22   “We have met the enemy, and they are us!”   Pogo (comic-strip character created by Walt Kelly, published from 1948-1975)   The Inter-Allied Military Control Commission arranged for the destruction of countless tons of German WWI small arms and other military equipment after WWI ended.   Not so in France and […]

21 Apr 22   New Rifle, New Caliber!   Two day ago, the Pentagon officially announced what many have suspected for some time:   After over two years (actually, more like fifty years!) of testing and evaluation, the US Army’s new rifle will be SIG’s candidate, an upscaled version of their existing gas-piston MCX Rifle, […]

20 Apr 22   “Every war has martyrs, the unsung heroes.   They fight because they are trained to, kill because they are told to, and die because they are destined to.”   Anurag Shourie   Ferguson and his rifle!   Matchlock muskets were in use in Western Civilization starting in the 1400s, but were […]

15 Apr 22   Crime wave!   In the middle of our current manufactured national violent crime crisis, Los Angeles criminal gangs have recently targeted “the wealthy,” with scant interference from (defunded) local police!   “Follow-Home Robberies,” is the new catch-phrase.   An apparently well-to-do person seen exiting an expensive retail store, restaurant, or night […]

9 Apr 22   “Our own brand of democracy has reached a point in its evolution where we expect ruthless, self-protective pragmatism from our politicians, rather than idealism; where noble sentiments are likely dismissed as ‘the vision thing;’ where winning is everything, civility is in short supply, and the lack of respect between political opponents, […]

5 Apr 22   “Who wants to be cruel will finds things to be cruel about”   Spanish Proverb   It’s the 1940s all over again!   Shortly before I was born, safe and sound in the USA, Nazis, Japanese, and Bolsheviks alike were carrying-out mass murders of both POWs and innocent non-combatants in Ukraine, […]

31 Mar 22   “Preparedness carries the day.”   FC Yee   Excitement in Israel:   Three deadly terror attacks, eleven innocent Israelis wantonly murdered (many more injured), in less than a single week!   And now Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, at long last, says:   “Whoever has a weapons license, this is the time […]

30 Mar 22   “Some people have greatness thrust upon them.   Few have excellence thrust upon them. They achieve it!   They do not achieve it unwittingly by ‘doing what comes naturally,’ and they don’t stumble into it in the course of amusing themselves.   All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.”   […]

28 Mar 22   2022 Tac-Con, Dallas, TX   Vicki and I just finished attending the three-day Tactical Conference for 2022, at the Dallas Pistol Club last Friday-Sunday.   My friends and colleagues, Tom and Lynn Givens, host this event every year for the benefit of the advancement of our Art and of all aspiring […]

24 Mar 22   “God and soldiers we adore   In times of peril, not before!”   Francis Quarles   Signs of the Times:   1) Retail gunshops in Poland are currently being mobbed!   “Russians are coming,” is a frantic cry currently striking morbid fear into the hearts of millions, as it has repeatedly […]

21 Mar 22   “It is within the context of these forms of collegiate stupidity that we can understand the one that is now the most salient:   ‘wokeism’   Wokeism can be thought of as the opportunistic infection of a host with an already weakened intellectual immune system.   Students haven’t learned to think, […]

15 Mar 22   ILEETA Conference, 2022   Vicki and I are currently attending the annual ILEETA (International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association) Conference in St Louis, MO. We are both teaching classes, along with dozens of other well-known instructors.   Lots of wonderful Classes and Panel Discussions, as well as an extensive vendor […]

12 Mar 22   “… and I wonder, still I wonder, who’ll stop the rain?”   From “Who’ll Stop the Rain,” written by John Fogerty in 1970. Sung by Ceedence Clearwater Revival in the 1978 film by the same name, staring Nick Nolte.   We’re seeing a desperately renewed interest among Eastern Europeans in military […]

9 Mar 22   “Only a few have become acquainted with Orwell’s ‘1984,’ because it is both difficult to obtain and dangerous to possess.   It is known only to certain members of The Inner Party.   Orwell fascinates them through his insight into details they know well, and through his use of Swiftian satire. […]