Gun “Fights” and Gun “Battles!”

By John Farnam

Gun “Fights” and Gun “Battles!”
Gun “Fights” and Gun “Battles!”
Defense Training International, Inc
Defense Training International, Inc

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- Gun “Fights” and Gun “Battles!”

This week’s, particularly yesterday’s, raids by French Police and Special Operators on multiple hideouts used by Islamic terrorists set the stage for what is going to become commonplace there and here.

Witnesses described “continuous gunfire” for over three hours. Also multiple explosions. When the dust finally settled this morning, several terrorists were DRT (dead right there), several others taken into custody. At least one French officer was wounded, and a police K-9 was killed.

French “gun control” laws, and similar laws throughout Western Europe and the UK, have been pitifully ineffective in disarming/dissuading, even inconveniencing, terrorists. Mark that well!

Here in CONUS, American police, particularly in big, metro areas, are accustomed to OISs (officer involved shooting). Such “gunfights” usually last only a few seconds and end with a suspect down, or in the process of running away. In the latter case, suspects commonly surrender meekly shortly thereafter.

By contrast, “gun battles,” involving multiple teams of heavily-armed tactical officers deploying from armored vehicles, lasting for hours (maybe days) and consuming hundreds, sometimes thousands, of rounds of ammunition, as well as much pyrotechnics (not to mention IEDs used by suspects against police) have been, up until now, exceptional.

That is all changing!

Our domestic police departments, big and small, now need to prepare for “gun battles,” not just “gunfights,” as Islamic terrorists, who are already here, plan and execute simultaneous attacks with the sole intention of slaughtering large numbers of innocent citizens.

That means all patrol officers, individually, need military rifles, plenty of ammunition, and intense training in their effective use. In some cases, rifles will have to be carried during the entire shift and routinely deployed on every call.

Protracted gun battles between police (maybe citizens too) and Islamic terrorists are about to become more common than ever before.

Citizens and Police (not just SWAT Teams) alike need to be heavily armed and trained, if we plan on living through our current period of world history.

Freedom’s home is here. She needs our protection!

“We are not here today to bow before the representation of a fierce warlike god, filled with wrath and vengeance, but we joyously contemplate instead our own deity keeping watch and ward before the open gates of America and greater than all that have been celebrated in ancient song. Instead of grasping in her hand thunderbolts of terror and death, she holds aloft the light which illumines the way to man’s enfranchisement. We will not forget that Liberty has here made her home, nor shall her chosen altar be neglected. Willing votaries will constantly keep alive its fires and these shall gleam upon the shores of our sister Republic thence, and joined with answering rays a stream of light shall pierce the darkness of ignorance and man’s oppression, until Liberty enlightens the world.” ~ President Grover Cleveland, Statue of Liberty Dedication speech, “Liberty Enlightening the World,” 28 October 1886

/John

About John Farnam & Defense Training International, Inc
As a defensive weapons and tactics instructor John Farnam will urge you, based on your own beliefs, to make up your mind in advance as to what you would do when faced with an imminent and unlawful lethal threat. You should, of course, also decide what preparations you should make in advance, if any. Defense Training International wants to make sure that their students fully understand the physical, legal, psychological, and societal consequences of their actions or inactions.

It is our duty to make you aware of certain unpleasant physical realities intrinsic to the Planet Earth. Mr Farnam is happy to be your counselor and advisor. Visit: www.defense-training.com

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TSgt B

Service sidearm (Colt .45 ACP w/several mags) at my side at all times. Colt M-4 w/several mags close at hand. AR-10 w/several mags within easy access. Bacon to apply to ISIS wounds in cooler in trunk.

Wild Bill

Yeah, I moved out of the big kill zone, too!

Vanns40

Hopefully Clark did what I did after he retired, armed himself heavily, and moved to a very rural area far away from the Metro area he used to work in. In my case 100 miles which I hope was far enough.

Bobby Smith

Well then Clark maybe the liberals who apparently run the city in which you reside should be put on the front lines and maybe try to negotiate with them eh?That may work or if not maybe just throw rocks instead.

Clark Kent

Good luck. The large metropolitan west coast agency I just retired from even got rid of shotguns in patrol vehicles years ago. Rifles in every patrol car? Fuggittaboutit; the liberals who run the city hate firearms even more than they despise law enforcement officers. Like the minister in the movie Blazing Saddles said: ‘You’re on your own!’.

John Keith

I was a cop in a CA city in the Bay area in the 1970s. Muy chief didn’t like shotguns and round a reason too take them when a reserve officer ran thru a school yard with a shotgun during a daytime suspicious circumstances call. He let the shift supervisor carry two shotguns in their trunks. We started calling them on every call, until they forced the chief to relent. He had taken out the racks so we were to keep them in the trunk. We did what all good cops did…as soon as we were out of sight of… Read more »

lowell

“Our domestic police departments, big and small, now need to prepare for “gun battles,” not just “gunfights,” as Islamic terrorists, who are already here, plan and execute simultaneous attacks with the sole intention of slaughtering large numbers of innocent citizens.”

Absolutely, all of this will be used against muslims, not say, Oath Keepers or other patriots.