Dry Fire Drills: The Key to Success

The price and availability (or lack thereof) of ammo shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone reading this blog. With fears that Obama & Co. will ban/outlaw/tax guns and ammo like crazy, both have been flying off the shelves.

With the lack of available ammo for purchase locally, I’ve resorted to practicing more with dry fire drills which is a quick, cheap alternative. It should already be a part of your regular training routine, but if it isn’t, there’s never been a better time to start. 

When Seconds Count: Stopping Active Shooters

Reported by: Brendan Keefe
Email: Brendan.Keefe@wcpo.com
Last Update: 4/20 11:31 am

There have been so many school shootings over the last 40 years that researchers have been able to develop a profile of the typical mass murderer.

They’re called “active shooters” or “active killers” and their crimes play out in a matter of minutes.

After the Columbine High School massacre in 1999, police changed their tactics. The two student gunmen killed 15 people and themselves before the SWAT team was in position.  

Professor Calls Police After Student Presentation

NEW BRITAIN, CT — This from the Central Connecticut State University student newspaper, The Recorder:

For CCSU student John Wahlberg, a class presentation on campus violence turned into a confrontation with the campus police due to a complaint by the professor.

On October 3, 2008, Wahlberg and two other classmates prepared to give an oral presentation for a Communication 140 class that was required to discuss a “relevant issue in the media”. Wahlberg and his group chose to discuss school violence due to recent events such as the Virginia Tech shootings that occurred in 2007.

Support your local criminal: Enact tougher anti-gun laws.

I can’t find anything that says it better than this video. Enjoy.

Gun Control: 60 Individual Rights: 0

By Adam Winkler

In June, 2008, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on the Second Amendment right to bear arms, D.C. v. Heller. For over 70 years, the federal courts had read that amendment to protect only a state’s right to organize militias, like the National Guard. In a long-awaited victory for the gun rights movement, the Court reversed course and held that the Second Amendment protected an individual’s right to own guns for personal self-defense.

New Gun Control on the Horizon

By Allan Scholl

No sane person wants innocent people victimized, maimed, or murdered, nor to see the perpetrators escape justice. This is true, whether the perpetrators use their hands or objects — like baseball bats, rocks, knives, vehicles, or a host of other readily available inanimate objects of endless variety — or a firearm. It is the intent and the will of the criminals, and not the inanimate objects they use, that are responsible for the criminal acts and the harm done to victims.  

CCRKBA: Police fatalities validate CCW Laws

Police Fatalities for ‘08 Prove CCW Laws No Threat to Cops, Says CCRKBA

BELLEVUE, Wash., Dec. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Another bogus argument of gun control extremists – that sensible concealed carry laws create an increased threat to police officers – has been refuted by statistics from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and published by USA Today.

If everyone had a gun: Lesson from Mumbai

by Richard Munday. The article originally appeared here.

The firearms massacres that have periodically caused shock and horror around the world have been dwarfed by the Mumbai shootings, in which a handful of gunmen left some 500 people killed or wounded.

For anybody who still believed in it, the Mumbai shootings exposed the myth of “gun control”. India had some of the strictest firearms laws in the world, going back to the Indian Arms Act of 1878, by which Britain had sought to prevent a recurrence of the Indian Mutiny.

Smartcarry: 2 month review

I purchased a Smartcarry holster in early November and have worn it long enough and in enough situations to give you a full review.

I purchased a medium, white-colored Smartcarry holster from Smartcarry.com. When you place your order, you make a few selections, tell them your weapon and hand preference and they send you the appropriate size holster for your weapon and your waist. I chose to get the Smartcarry for my Sig P229 but find that I can carry my Ruger SP101 in it equally well.

Take a friend along: A shooter’s legacy

This post is dedicated to my friend Jeff; everyone should have a friend like him and far too few actually do.

My whole world has changed over the last four months. I’ve moved back to Texas, started a new job, and moved into a new residence. I’ve gone from being able to shoot with my buddies once a week at a local lake to barely being able to squeeze in a few shots to sight-in my deer rifle on a lunch break.