HELLUVA WEEK
Sorry to be away from the blog longer than usual. It was a busy week, and frankly, a busy month. I spent last week teaching an advanced 40-hour MAG-80 class at Firearms Academy of...
GOOD PEOPLE
One of the joys of my work is that it allows me to meet some of the best people in the world: cops and shooter folk. Both tend to be far above average in...
DEFENSE OF SELF AND OTHERS VALIDATED IN WINDY CITY
In Chicago a few days ago, an armed citizen not only stopped a murder attempt, but it appears, may have also prevented a mass murder.
Coincidentally, I happened to be in Chicagoland when it happened. ...
WHEN GUN OWNERS CIVIL RIGHTS MEETS FIREARMS TRAINING
I just got home from Columbus, Ohio where I spent a day giving a sort of a “myth-busters” class on armed self-defense for Buckeye Firearms Association. We had 400 attendees, not counting a couple...
FROM THE QUESTIONABLE IDEA OF THE MONTH DEPARTMENT
In November, a starry-eyed professor postulated that the first cartridge in every police officer’s gun should be a blank.
Had the prof done the slightest bit of research, he would have learned that blanks won’t...