NATIONAL TACTICAL CONFERENCE 2011
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...
Part II: Where PERF Was PERF-ect
As I said in the last entry (found immediately below this one), the Police Executive Research Forum had a lot of things right in its recent controversial 30-point list of suggest use of force...
THINGS ARE QUIRKY IN ALBUQUERQUE
Just spent a few pleasant days in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Gun laws there are strange. “Open carry” of handguns has long been legal there, but concealed carry didn’t become lawful in NM until the...
Part 6: An Explanation
From the beginning of this blog, I’ve made one entry at a time. A confluence of scheduling circumstances in coming days demands that if I’m going to get the whole promised series on the...
BUSMAN’S HOLIDAY CONTINUES
Instructors who are gentle but firm with the students. Instructors who explain “Here’s why we do what we do here,’ as opposed to “This is the doctrine!!” Instructors who actually get out there in...