NO SLOW WEEKS

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When I was a little kid, I probably drove my mother nuts with how often I whined, “I’m bored!” I don’t say that much anymore. The last four weeks or so have included: Rangemaster Tactical Conference in...

NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011

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Tom Givens’ National Tactical Conference and Polite Society match finished up last weekend at the fabulous US Shooting Academy range in Tulsa. About 100 attendees picked from a smorgasbord of hands-on fighting classes, live-fire...

TOWARD REALISTIC SHOOTING PRACTICE

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As a teenager, I discovered “turkey shoots” in New Hampshire. Turkey shoots are run different ways in different places, but in the Granite State they revolved around shooting full-size deer targets at 100 yards,...

A SILVER LINING

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Back in the grim days following the Columbine High School atrocity, I pushed hard for the “Israeli model” of armed school personnel. After the Maalot massacre, an all-volunteer program was put together for school...

MORE ON WARNING SHOTS

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A couple of entries ago, the discussion on a major police association conditionally condoning warning shots drew a lot of commentary here. And we didn’t even get all the way into the topic.  For example,...