{"id":7206,"date":"2022-03-15T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7206"},"modified":"2022-03-08T20:45:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T01:45:19","slug":"changing-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/changing-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"CHANGING GUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My old friend John Bianchi, the master holster-maker, propounded what he called \u201cBianchi\u2019s Law\u201d for carrying handguns.&nbsp; It was \u201csame gun, same holster, all the time.\u201d&nbsp; (That could be read as same type of gun, same <em>type<\/em> of holster, in the same place.)&nbsp; It was to make sure that if you reflexively needed to draw and fire, all the habits for doing so would be hard-wired in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bianchi\u2019s Law makes a helluva lot of sense.&nbsp; Unfortunately, I occasionally have need to break it. A lot of the sidearms I test for gun magazines are carry pieces, and part of the test is actually <em>carrying <\/em>them.&nbsp; I want to see if there are sharp edges that will discomfort the wearer or tear up clothing, or angles that will cause undue, unwanted bulge \u2013 \u201cprinting,\u201d as we call it in the business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, my primary job is teaching firearms and deadly force.&nbsp; The instructor who uses only one pistol is poorly suited to teaching a class of many students carrying many different pistols and revolvers. I used to change gun types every training tour. &nbsp;I\u2019ve grown lazy with that in recent years, and now the changes are less frequent\u2026almost seasonal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Seasonal, and selfish.\u00a0 I like to carry what I\u2019m going to be competing with. It \u201cbuilds the repetitions\u201d and sharpens familiarity. The way my wife\u2019s schedule and mine coincides with the matches we most like to shoot together (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gssfonline.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.gssfonline.com<\/a>), the first quarter of the year is Glock season for us.\u00a0 The Glock matches don\u2019t involve running, and between her bad knee and my bad back, shooting athletics are kind of off the table for us for now.\u00a0 I\u2019ll be competing in the Polite Society match that is part of the Rangemaster Tactical Conference, where I\u2019ll be teaching (and learning) later this month, so the pistol I\u2019m carrying at the moment is what I\u2019m most recently familiarized with. It\u2019s a stock Glock 19 Gen5 9mm.\u00a0 It won High Lawman for me at Tac-Con in 2018, and I\u2019ll probably use it there again this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>June will be our next major shooting event, The Pin Shoot (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinshoot.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.pinshoot.com<\/a>). As the name implies, you have to blast heavy bowling pins three feet back off a table.\u00a0 For that I like .45s, and there\u2019s no .45 I shoot better than my old favorite 1911, so I have a feeling the second quarter of 2022 will see me carrying one of those old classics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bianchi\u2019s Law is solid and logical.&nbsp; If I\u2019m breaking it, I\u2019ll try for a Doctrine of Competing Harms and Needs defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My old friend John Bianchi, the master holster-maker, propounded what he called \u201cBianchi\u2019s Law\u201d for carrying handguns.&nbsp; It was \u201csame gun, same holster, all the time.\u201d&nbsp; (That could be read as same type of gun, same type of holster, in the same place.)&nbsp; It was to make sure that if you reflexively needed to draw [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7206","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7206\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}