WHY WE USE EXPANDING BULLETS FOR SELF-DEFENSE
PART I
This past Monday I was at a state bar association headquarters, leading a panel discussion they were filming on gun modifications and gun-and-ammo choices as they relate to shooting cases. On the same...
TOXIN-ANTI-TOXIN: A HERO’S STORY
In medicine, grave circumstances sometimes require toxin-anti-toxin therapy: poison against poison. Chemotherapy may make a cancer patient feel sick in different ways, but it can save the patient’s life; therapeutic radiation may have ugly...
HOW TO SHOOT GREAT WITH A SNUB-NOSE .38
The “snub-nose .38” revolver, dating back to the Colt Detective Special of 1926, is a standard prop in noir movies. Most see it as an urban gun, something to hide under the suit in...
THREE WEEKS LATER…
Three weeks ago today, on Sunday June 8, I was in the fourth day of a MAG-40 class in Kankakee, Illinois. Among other topics of the day, I warned the students that one of...
SOBERING KNOWLEDGE FROM COPS
The week before last, I attended and taught at the annual conference of ILEETA, the International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. Despite the economy, the event drew some 725 police trainers from around...