DTI

9 June 23   High-Performance Ammunition:   As I’ve indicated before, 9mm (9×19) and 223 Rem (5.56×45) are the two calibers that make most sense when traveling, because both calibers are popular, and hence ammunition is available, most places you go within CONUS.   Any round in either caliber, even “practice ammunition” is quite lethal, […]

7 June 23   “The ordinary citizen cannot be made into a trained soldier by the simple expedient of placing a weapon in his hands.”   McBride The Critical Necessity of Competent Training:   No amount nor type of training can substitute for personal experience, but competent training can provide a level of ability that […]

5 June 23   “What is ‘Freedom of Expression?’   Without the ‘freedom to offend,’ it ceases to exist.”   Salman Rushdie   Both Bowie knifes and stilettos (the term, “stiletto,” has never enjoyed a universally-accepted definition) were subject to legislative bans in the 1800s, particularly in places like New Orleans, where hand-wringing politicians at […]

31 May 23   “In a world of propaganda, truth is always ‘a conspiracy’   Herbert Hildebrant We’re coming into an election year, and all indications are that this one will be the most raucous and politically violent in my lifetime!   Marxists will continue to insist that their far-left phantasies not only be taken […]

26 May 23   “The past is never dead.   It’s not even ‘past!’”   Faulkner   After eighty years, not much has changed!   Germany’s innovative (in 1944) StG44 rifle is, once again, being used to fight Russians on the “Eastern Front!”   Some history:   425k StG44 rifles were manufactured in Nazi Germany […]

24 May 23   “Finding ‘common ground’ with the thinking of evil men is a fool’s errand”   Herschel Smith   As we witness our Armed Forces recruitment efforts repeatedly falling drastically short of even minimum maintenance goals, DOD in its infinite wisdom, now cynically manufactures yet another significant reason for young Americans not to […]

23 May 23   Between 1951 and 1964, the US Army produced a series of programs, mostly for television, called “The Big Picture”   These programs were, of course, promotional, but they provided a link of understanding and empathy between the American public and our armed forces. As a teenager, I remember enthusiastically watching them […]

18 May 23   “(1) Stay out of saloons and brothels (the two functions were generally combined within the same building), and (2) don’t join posses”   Old West maxim for long life   A fight avoided is better (by far) than a fight “won!”   LEOs get paid to confront dangerous people. Non-LEOs don’t, […]

15 May 23   “Beware the fury of a patient man.”   John Dryden   Three innocent members of the Dee family (a fifteen-year-old girl and her twenty-year-old sister) were precipitously attacked and murdered (via gunfire) while in their car along with their mother, by Islamic terrorists in Israel during April’s Passover celebration.    There […]

9 May 23   “The death of an independent press can lead to tyranny and render a population helpless to protect itself against a government that disdains law and conscience.”   Lesley Blume   Murders:’   Our hyper-ventilating, always-hysterical, heavily-slanted (in the Marxist direction) mainstream media “coverage” of homicides never focuses on our deteriorating societal […]

4 May 23   “An ‘army’ that has been beaten in every confrontation, even when pitted against little more than lightly-armed gangs!   An ‘army’ in which soldiers are frequently forced to return to their barracks disarmed, and without boots (lest they mutiny or desert)   An ‘army’ that publicly panics during insignificant contact, panics […]

1 May 23   “Most modern humans (at least in Western Civilization) sublimely float on an artificial, mostly-imaginary ‘life-raft,’ naively unaware that life is impossible without death, and that we humans share all the needs, frailties, and ultimate mortality of every other living creature”   Grossman   “Hilarious are the weak who think they are […]

28 Apr 23   Security Disaster:   This traitorous airman was able to leak top-secret information to social media for six months, apparently without detection.   This is a scandal of epic proportions!   Incompetents need to be fired without delay, starting with our Secretary of Defense, then our Secretary of the Air Force, then […]

27 Apr 23   “A Girl and a Gun”   Vicki and I are at the 2023 AGAG Convention in Grand Junction, CO. Both of us are presenting classes here over the next three days, along with fifty-seven other Instructors.   It is a huge event, and amazingly well-organized. Six-hundred women in attendance.  AGAG is […]

25 Apr 23   Fighting in Sudan.   This from friends in a position to know:   UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, warns that Sudan is “… on the edge of the abyss,” and murderous violence will likely expand to engulf the entire region!   Fighting has left 500 dead since 15 April, at least […]

21 Apr 23   The “4 Rs”   “Rich liberals go to Rehab. Regular people go to Rikers.”   Suddenly, and with no explanation, Hollywood darling, Alec Baldwin’s, felony charges simply vanish, as if by magic!   I neglected to mention in my last Quip (“The New Rules”) that these rules only apply to “regular […]

19 Apr 23   Prosecutors and Agendas:   There are two lessons I’ve lately found it necessary to particularly emphasize in my instruction with regard to expectations from our “legal system”   The following is based on my personal experience in recent lethal-force cases, and that of others among my close colleagues.   1) There […]

19 Apr 23   Prosecutors and Agendas:   There are two lessons I’ve lately found it necessary to particularly emphasize in my instruction with regard to expectations from our “legal system”   The following is based on my personal experience in recent lethal-force cases, and that of others among my close colleagues.   1) There […]

18 Apr 23   Update/Correction:   In my review of interesting products at this year’s NRA Show in Indianapolis, IN (just concluded), I mentioned a wonderful pistol target system that ingeniously combined a Texas Star with a bobbing/weaving paper target.   Some got back with me, because they couldn’t find it on the Web.   […]

16 Apr 23   2023 NRA Show, Second Day.   We departed Indianapolis this morning, so this report is a day late!   A company called Dead Foot Arms is manufacturing the “FoldAR” It’s an M4 with a folding (sideways) stock, and folding (sideways) forend and barrel!   When folded, the whole thing is only […]