CHAPMAN ACADEMY RETURNS

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I had grown up reading about Ray Chapman, the man the late, great Jeff Cooper called “the maestro” of practical handgun shooting, and got to meet him in Los Angeles in 1978 during a...

CONCEALED CARRY: A MIDDLE-ROAD VIEW?

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The current edition of Harper’s magazine carries a cover story on concealed carry, illustrated with an Andy Warhol portrait of a High Standard Sentinel .22 revolver…ironically, more of a Backwoods Home utility handgun than...

PERSPECTIVES…

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  For the last month, I’ve been blogging about the heart-breaking atrocity at the high school in Florida, and the misguided assault on gun owners’ civil rights which followed it.  I thought I might escape...

BEYOND SYMBOLISM: PROTECTING THE CHILDREN

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There is precedent for arming school personnel in the United States, seen here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/12/14/4486104/texas-school-where-teachers-carry.html As discussed in the blog entry below this one, there is certainly precedent for arming school personnel elsewhere in the world,...

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,...