Green Shoots
There's been a lot of chatter about what the weakening of the NFA has in store for American gun owners. The legal status of suppressors is a little confusing right now, with some people being able to buy them with…
Three By Three By Three
Claude Werner has an interesting drill based on the "three yards, three rounds, three seconds" rubric for armed self defense. I'm neutral as to whether this idea is as applicable to the armed citizen as it is to law enforcement,…
The Expert’s Gun
I spent many a night in the darkroom of my local community college when I first started out on my (successful) quest to be a photographer, learning how to do black & white prints from 35mm negatives. The skill level…
The Missing Piece
I've owned an AR-10 for a few years now. I built one for my "Scout Rifle 2.0" series at Ammoman, but someone, the gun I built just never clicked with me. It's not that the pieces weren't there. The upper…
Justified Use Of Force
Justified was one of my favorite TV shows. The dialogue just sparkled, and the gun handling was... okay. There was one scene in particular, though, where Raylan Givens, our hero, is confronted by Dewey Crowder, a sub-genius bad guy who…
Par For The Course
I just finished up a piece for Springfield Armory on the implications of Karl Rehn's "Beyond The One Percent" series, where he lays out that only one percent of gun owners take any training beyond the bare minimum required by…
50 Rounds And A Cloud of Dust
I have never been a big fan of all-day practice sessions. I am not a sponsored shooter. I don’t have an ammo contract, and while yes, I could round up some practice ammo from the people I know in the…
There Can Be Only One
I don’t believe in a “concealed carry rotation.” I carry one model of gun, not skitter around between many different types of guns depending on my mood or the phase of Jupiter. I started out in concealed carry with a…
Collateral Business
You can’t draw on a drawn gun, right? I mean, everybody knows this, so it by be true, right? Right? Well yeah, except when it isn’t, and John Corriea’s channel is full of incidents which show that yes, you actually…
Are We Training For The Right Thing? (Part Two)
Rich Grassi has an interesting article in The Tactical Wire, talking about what real-world timing looks like in an armed violent encounter. He talks about the old adage “There’s no timer in a gunfight” and shows that no, there isn’t…