Hosted by my famous friend and colleague, Tom Givens, this annual Conference has grown into a major entry on my personal training calendar…
Defense Training International
Today is Sunday, March 01, 2015 
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‘Dead-Gulations’ Keep Our Military Personnel Unarmed, Defenseless & Unprotected
Our active-duty military wives are now receiving pernicious threats from ISIS, via e-mail messages sent directly to them…
Killing Modern Visigoths With Kindness
My son left for his assigned post today. Of course, he could not take anything along that might even resemble a weapon, including a utility knife…
Serious Rifle Optics – Start with Freddie Blish
The idea of having one rifle that does ‘everything,’ from close-range, multiple engagements, to long-distance sniping, is delusional…
Islamist Scare Germany, Wound Police in Denmark & Slaughter Christians in Libya
Curiously, Europe’s notorious anti-gun laws don’t seem to apply to Islamic jihadis…
Access To Empty Guns, A Dead End
I am reminded of the attack of Pearl Harbor, 7 Dec 1941. All those soldiers, sailors, and Marines, and virtually none with loaded guns! Guns and ammunition were “safely locked away.” They still are…
‘Offical’ Reports on US Marines Surrender in Yemen
However, given the lying history of the BHO Administration, I believe little contained in any such “official” statement…
DOD Orders Marines to Surrender Weapons to Yemeni Rebels
Today, our State Department ignominiously ordered proud US Marines guarding our, now abandoned, embassy in Yemen to surrender their rifles & pistols, & dignity, to snickering Yemeni rebels…
Sterile Guns, Sterile People!
To the empty-gun crowd, “hot” ranges are unthinkable. Thus, real training never happens. None even carry a gun on a regular bases, and they or-so piously eschew those of us who do…
Eric Holder ‘Great Failure’
Like all leftist radicals in the BHO Administration, Holder clearly believes he knows what is best for us insignificant peons, even when we don’t…
Police Use of Force
The problem is not that we’re shooting too many people. The problem is that we’re not shooting nearly enough…
2nd System Check, The Fallacy of Shared Guns
The Art of War teaches us to rely, not on the calculated likelihood of the enemy’s coming or not, but on our own readiness to receive him, no matter what he does…
Test Quip, New System! Its Just Electronics!
The bright young aviator confidently looked at me with a slight smile, adjusted his shoulder-holster containing a large-frame S&W, and, as he delivered a gentle kick to the box…
Just Wallpaper Restraining The Dogs Of War
We never see any in field uniforms, nor, heaven-forbid, actually carrying weapons…
Learn From History or End Up Islam’s Bitch
France has obviously forgotten chapters of their own history. The only difference is that now Islamists want all of France, in addition to their own country…
Western Civilization Once Again Must Defeat Islamic Terrorism
Seems Islam has never been anything more than an ever-expanding system of brutal slavery, masquerading as a “religion”…
Paris Islamic Terror Murders Follow-Up
The real hero is editor Stephane Charbonnier, Le Monde editors advised him to tone-down his cartoons, so not to “offend” Moslems. He declined, saying, I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees..
Recent Firearms Accidents, Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
All gun-owners need to attend a competent and serious defensive shooting course, so they can learn, hands-on, from accomplished instructors how to handle guns safely and proficiently…
Weaponized Medicine
No warning and no explanation. The retired officer was forcibly disarmed, and remains defenseless to this day. He will never get his guns back…
Last Qip of 2014 ~ 2015 Will Be An Exciting Year
The good man need not think beforehand of his words, that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may be honorable… he simply speaks and does what is right…
Res Ipsa Loquitur, “The Thing Speaks For Itself. It Is Self-Evident”
I believe and profess that a people must never value anything higher than dignity and freedom; that it must defend these with the last drop of its blood…
Arma Virumque Cano, Free Men, Armed and Unafraid Since 19BC
We trust you to bear arms competently and honorably for personal defense, and that you, thus armed, will gallantly stand with the rest of us when our nation is threatened…
‘Little Mistakes’ – In Gun-Fighting, Spectacular Feats Of Accuracy Don’t Win The Day
What does drastically affect final outcomes is “little mistakes.’ When they aren’t made, you’ll have an insurmountable advantage over your opponent…
Boko Haram Pigs, They Are on the March!
Predictably Administration officials will cynically label such incidents with intelligence-insulting terms such as, “workplace violence,” “lone-wolf incidents,” and “random attacks.”…
Armed PA Dog Walker Saves His Own Life, VCA Now Dead
Like this prepared person, when your very life is threatened, you, and only you, will be in a position to effectively act in your own behalf…
Out West vs Life Behind New Jersey’s Iron Curtain
Do you hear that? Silence! No gunfights here, in spite of all these privately-owned guns in the hands of ordinary citizens…
I Can and I Will, Despite Youmaynots
Human evolution has resulted in the current presence, at least in Western Civilization, of three subspecies: Icans, Youmaynots, and IguessIcan’ts…
Can We Have Loaded Guns Now?
Once more, to oh-so pious politicians, from both sides of the aisle, cynically decry CIA practices which for years they’ve all known about, and tacitly approved.
Perfectly Useless Guns (negligent discharges) Continued
When loaded pistols just stay in holsters and are not touched, except in emergencies, most unnecessary gun-handling, and thus most NDs, will be eliminated…
Woefully Ignorant, Or Willfully Ignorant?
It is possible and practicable to maintain a comfortable and reasonably secure social order with lethal weapons not only ubiquitously present, but carried in a high state of readiness…
Revealing Personal Info Without Even Trying
Kill the disbeliever, whether civilian or military, for they have the same ruling. Both of them are disbelievers…
Bad Outcomes Are Not Always The Result Of People Doing Bad Things
I am persuaded that current riots in any number of metro areas are being promoted by leftist race-baters, like Al Sharpton, with the furtherance of the goal to neuter local police…
Illinois Tactical Officers’ Association Annual Convention – After Action Report
My long-time friend & colleague, Jeff Chudwin, organized a spectacular Program for all of us who are privileged to attended the 2014 Illinois Tactical Officers’ Association Annual Convention…
Ma’alot Massacre, Israel, 15 May 1974
It’s been over forty years, but I well remember the massacre at Ma’alot, where over a hundred people, mostly high-school students, were held hostage for two days by Islamic terrorists…
With ‘Friends’ Like These!
A conspicuous placard at the front door, attendees are reminded that those carrying concealed pistols, and other weapons (not specified), are required to ‘check their guns with guards upon entry…
One-Handed Shooting
We include one-handed shooting, with both rifles and pistols, in our training curriculum. We don’t do it nearly enough & anything less is little more than self-deceptive masturbation…
