Guns are items highly prized by thieves and robbers, and people walking out of gun retailers are likely to have some in their possession…
Ready or Not? I Choose to Stay Deadly
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Inflation Is Alive And Well, It’s Going To Be A Bumpy Ride
As individuals, there is little we can do to sway history, so we need to stay active, current, connected, alert, mobile, agile, flexible, and dangerous…
The Pentagon’s ‘Improved’ AR?
It seems that firearms-design engineers aren’t being assigned the task of producing the best weapon for a set of operational parameters
CCW Naivety of Genuinely Good People
As more good citizens make the decision to “go armed,” many have had precious little relevant training, and much of it fraught with errors and unrealistic expectations…
Political ‘Bait-and-Switch!’
Such “enforcement measures,” while coddling real criminals, permit, indeed encourage, criminal and civil and harassment of honest gun owners who don’ t commit crimes…
Love Freedom Enough to Fight the Machine Yet?
More cameras! More lights! More signs! More ” Gun-Free Zones” And, they are even suggesting that automakers stop making vehicles that are so difficult
NO, WE WON’T! A Proud American Tradition Since 1775
You can relentlessly fill their black hearts, day and night, with hideous dread! You can make them tremor anxiously at the mention of your name. You can ever be, must be, their worst nightmare…
Going to Guns, Part II
Old-timers, who broke me in, fired their first shots at places like Anzio and Inchon and were as serious as an open grave…
Going to Guns!
Officers, and Operators in general, need to be “fully armed,” with all skills, mental/philosophical preparedness, and equipment they will need to be victorious in this dangerous world…
‘Hot’ Modern Urban Rifle Training… Carry Loaded, We Do
When we take breaks, go to the restroom, and eat lunch, rifles stay with students and stay loaded. A challenge can come at any time…
NJ and CA Democrats Considering Mandating ‘Smart’ Guns
I resent leftist politicians who want to mandate this dangerous trash. Anybody who wants one, probably deserves one…
Los Angeles Police Department Cocked & Locked
Popular Chief of the LAPD, Charlie Beck, was photographed today carrying on his waist a, are you ready for this?? A 1911 pistol…
Institutional Firearms Training & Failed Logic
In private sector gun training, we’ve moved forward rapidly, but many institutions, state & federal, still lag far behind,,, ever timid, ever afraid, ever suspicions of anything not invented there…
‘Jam’ Is Something I Put On My Toast
When a student says, “My gun is jammed,” or “My gun keeps jamming,” that provides me with scant useful information…
Spring is Here in Chicago – Dam Those Lawful Gun Owners
The chief laid the entire blame for all this mayhem squarely on the shoulders of all of Chicago’s & Illinois’ honest gun owners, who don’t commit crimes, but who also don’t vote for liberal Democrats…
Somebody Else Defend Me, Once More
Somebody-elsers, otherwise nice, polite persons, now instinctively and nervously look for “somebody else” to take action whenever danger threatens…
When Making Life or Death Decisions, Get your Priorities Straight!
It strikes me that there has been a subtle shift of emphasis, a shift from: “Officer Victory” to “Liability First”…
Caught Unprepared!
This uncomfortable lesson comes to us from the recent drama at the Boston Marathon, on the anniversary of last year’s bombing incident…
Unarmed Equals Unprepared
The world is as it has always been: a harsh, brutal, dangerous, indifferent place, no matter what part of it you live in…
US Military Officers Too Dangerous???
Our division commander at the time was a cowboy from east Texas who, needless to say, also wore his M1911A1 everywhere…
Victims, by Policy will Continue Status Quo at Military Bases
We can all clearly see how much mayhem a single lunatic, armed only with a pistol, can do among unarmed members of our ‘armed’ forces, all the base ‘ security’ notwithstanding…
That’s Right, You Never Know…Readiness Is A Chosen Lifestyle
The point here is that “readiness” is a chosen lifestyle. When the challenge comes, usually unannounced, and you’re unprepared, you perish. You’ve heard of “Quick or Dead?”…
FSM4 (Farnam Signature M4 Rifle) Addendum
My long-time friend and colleague, Pat Sweeny, reminded me to provide the following critical information about the Farnam Signature M4 Rifle…
Weird News from Chicago, Murder Rate Drops After Concealed Carry Forced on IL
The City of Chicago, formally ‘murder-capital of the nation’, has just reported it’s lowest murder rate since 1958…
The ‘Farnam Signature M4’ Rifle
The FSM4 is tough, durable, reliable, reasonably accurate, but not so tight as to be “super-accurate”, and built for action rifle. For serious duty, it has everything you need, and nothing you don’t…
The Gun Free Argument from Lickspittles & Ethical Cowards
Imagine Vlad P’s “career track’ for a self-righteous, pontificating Russian three-star who allowed defenseless, unarmed troops under his command to be casually slaughtered by a single lunatic…
Will it really happen? Armed American Military Bases…
Analysis of arming officers and staff NCOs on American military bases, from a friend recently retired from active service…
Farnam: Ft Hood Shooting Of Yesterday, Arm the Victims / 1st Responders
Fort Hood’s shooting victims, all were military, & none were armed or able to defend themselves, nor each other, from a gun-wielding, lunatic who didn’t get the memo about the “Gun-Free Zone!”…
The Fall of Rome!
You can’t make this stuff up! If you ever wondered what it was like during the fall of Rome, just look around…
When It’s Least Expected, You’re Elected…!
Last week, I was using my H&K MP5, with dummy rounds, while instructing students in stoppage-reduction. At the end of my demonstration, one dummy round was missing…