The FBI publishes the annual Uniform Crime Report (http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/ucr) to keep us informed about what is going on with crime in the US. It would be impossible to summarize this report in just a couple of pages. However, I have been able to pull out some significant facts from the Bureau of Justice Statistics. You […]
Report 15 Continued Training
You have completed your Basic Pistol Course and provided a copy of your Certificate of Training (along with a couple of cashier’s checks and application) to the good folks at the sheriff’s office. About a month or so later you received your bright shiny new Concealed Handgun Permit (CHP). You are ready to get on […]
Defensive Pistol
The Defensive Pistol course is designed to take shooters beyond the basics of shooting a handgun. This course is two days of shooting, concentrating on drawing the gun from the concealed holster, engaging the target (or targets) and stopping the threat. This course includes about an hour presentation called “Handgun Terminal Ballistics.” This presentation goes […]
Personal Protection Outside The Home
Course Introduction The Personal Protection Outside the Home course continues where the Personal Protection Inside the Home course leaves off. The prerequisite for participating in this course is the Basic Pistol course. While not a required prerequisite for the Outside course, the Inside course presents valuable principals used in this course. The Outside course goes into new techniques of shooting, […]
National Geographic Video
Here’s a cool video from the National Geographic via Facebook Balloons Stop a 44-Magnum Bullet by National Geographic Channel.
Report 14: The Jihad Menace
There is a problem affecting the world, and despite many years of trying by many nations, this problem is growing at an alarming pace. The problem is jihadism. Jihad, as defined by Webster’s Dictionary, is “a holy war waged on behalf of Islam as a religious duty; also: a personal struggle in devotion to Islam […]
Report 13: Why Practice?
In this report, I want to look closer at the reason I so strongly advocate practice. Let’s start by looking at a scenario with which, I pray, none of us will ever personally experience. You are relaxing at home in the evening, and a couple of bad guys break into the house. You grab your […]
Report 12: Civil Unrest and Jihad, a Linkage?
As a departure from my normal type of report, I am inspired to take keyboard in hand to bang out an editorial. This is not going to be a comprehensive discussion of the situation that has taken place in Ferguson, MO over the past couple of weeks but rather my thoughts on the causes and […]
Report 11: Why Reload
There are two main reasons people don’t get in the necessary range time required to maintain proficiency: accessibility of a range and the cost of the ammunition. There isn’t much I can do about the range accessibility, but I can address the ammunition cost issue. All shooters wrestle with practice costs, specifically, how to keep […]
Report 10: Attitude of Awareness
In my last report, Kids and Guns, I discussed attitude. In this report I want to expand on that idea. While knowing how to apply the five fundamentals of shooting is important, possibly even more important is the application of an Attitude of Awareness. I have been asked how I can justify not issuing a […]