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Ken has some sage advice...this is one you should read!!
Gunfighter Moment - Ken Hackathorn - Soldier Systems Daily
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One of the most interesting things that I continue of learn as I study real world shootings is the fact that the degree of difficulty is not particularly high. Most shootings/shootouts require pretty ...I always like what Steve Moses has to say this is no exception. Retention shooting is a skill that should not be tried by beginners. Get some professional help so you don't shoot yourself or someone else.
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The term “shooting from the retention position” simply means that the concealed carrier is shooting from a retracted position in order to protect the ...some good info on appendix carry
6 Reasons Why You Should Carry Defensive Tools in Front of the Hips
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Appendix carry has exploded in popularity in the past decade, but carrying defensive tools in front of the hips offers advantages beyond just the firearm.I know where you can get .40 S&W JHP ammo!!
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Some tips on revolver ammo
Tips on Choosing Ammunition for Your Concealed-Carry Revolver
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Many factors go into determining what carry ammunition to choose; make sure your choice is an informed one.Have a great 4th of July and be safe.
July student newsletter is published read it at
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Recent Newsletters for your review Sign Up for our monthly newsletter which will include special events and information for gun owners around Colorado. If you are a student of Have Gun Will Train C...Background checks set new record
FBI gun background checks set new record in June amid coronavirus, rioting fears
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Background checks for gun sales surged again in June, smashing the record for the highest number of background checks in a single month, according to FBI data released Wednesday.Dave Spaulding
Guest Shot: The Three S Test | Tactical Wire
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For many years the words “survive” and “survival” have played a major role in how we think about inter-personal conflict. Phrases like “Street Survival,” the “Will to Survive” and “S...The last resort
Your Firearm As Your Last Resort | The Armory Life
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It’s hard to overstate the important lessons that come from studying, training and competing with firearms. With so many new first-time firearms buyers around now, I am hoping this article will be o...Here is some info on racking the slide7
[How-To] Rack a Pistol Slide With Weak Hands - Pew Pew Tactical
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Have trouble racking pistol slides because of weak or arthritic hands? It's about technique not muscle! We'll walk you throughwith picturess & videos.www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/1/darryl-daniels-clay-county-sheriff-vows-deputize-g/
Sheriff vows to deputize gun owners if protests turn violent
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A Florida sheriff says he will deputize every gun owner in his county to put down any violent protests his deputies can’t handle alone.How do you answer these questions? Take a moment to fix one of them and you will be a better self defender
Mike Seeklander one of the industry greats recently wrote an article that contains a series of questions that every person that carries a concealed firearm should be able to answer. These include:
Do you know how to select and utilize gear that will ensure your survival versus allow you to lose your gun during a dynamic situation?
When dealing with a potential threat more than three yards away can you access and draw your firearm efficiently and quickly (under 2 seconds), and do you practice those techniques weekly (at a minimum)?
If you were forced to deal with that same threat and they were less than three yards away, do you know what to do in that close proximity?
What if that same threat was so close they could grab or punch you (less than a yard)? Would you know how to handle that situation (could you protect yourself against the punch)?
If you were seated in your vehicle, seat-belted in, would you know how to handle that?
If during your critical incident, you drew and shot the threatening person, yet they failed to be affected, would you know how to handle that or what caused it?
What if during your critical incident you were injured or had one of your hands occupied. Could you still draw, reload, or clear malfunctions in your handgun with one hand only?
What if you had something that provided cover, could you use that cover efficiently and still return fire?
During your incident, you might experience some physiological and psychological effects that if misunderstood could easily rattle you. Do you know what to expect?
Lastly, have you ever exposed yourself to simulated stress that simulates the real fight, and if not, do you know what it will be like?
understanding hammer-fired handguns and actions in general
What Is a Hammer-Fired Action, and why is it useful? - AmmoMan School of Guns Blog
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It's hammer time at the School of Guns, where we try to answer your questions about what is a hammer-fired action.Fixing cross eye dominance for handguns
Fixing cross eye dominance for handgun shooters
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Fixing cross eye dominance in handgun shooting is easy. All you do is: move the gun 2-3 inches under your dominant eye. That's it. That's really, super it.Great info on self-defense cases with an eyewitness
Massad Ayoob: Countering Eyewitness Tunnel Vision
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In the heat of the moment, what an eyewitness sees and hears isn't necessarily the whole truth.Great article for you history buffs
Famous Assassination Guns - Wideners Shooting, Hunting & Gun Blog
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We discuss famous assassinations in history, detailing the events leading up to each, along with the weapons used and the aftermath.Walmart Open Carry
I saw a woman today in Walmart open carrying a firearm in an Uncle Mikes type cloth holster with a clip attached to her pants and not even wearing a belt. The holster was hanging out at about 45 degrees and I confronted her about the safety of it. She stated that she was in the Army and was an instructor and that it was perfectly safe. People if you are gonna wear a gun open have a secure belt and a proper holster. Anyone claiming to be an Army instructor ought to be ashamed of themselves and what image they project to the public about the safe ownership of firearms. The military does not do a good job of handgun training anyway and I see a lot of these types of people who think they know what they are doing. DO NOT COPY these uneducated individuals they will get you killed.
Some great history about the 40 S&W
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For those who might be interested: I was just rereading a book titled “Handguns Afield,” by Jeff Cooper published in 1961. It is about “outdoors-mans handguns, a subject that most of us are at l...I went to the gun store with one of my students and all the guns were gone, as we stood there discussing what to do next, the owner of the store brought out one of these. He said if she didn't buy it he was gonna......guess what happened??
Smith & Wesson Launches Performance Center M&P9 Shield EZ
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NEW BLING: Smith & Wesson Launches Performance Center M&P9 Shield EZ - Today S&W launched the Performance Center M&P Shield that sports a bit more flair than its predecessors.I realize due to Covid 19 and the Race wars we are short on alligators, ammunition and guns, but do your best to read and understand this article. It will hit HOME..!!!!!
Shot Placement And Alligators | Gun Digest
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Proper shot placement is a rather effective at solving complex problems—whether they’re caused by a human or a large and toothy reptile.I have been contacted by many people who have wasted money for online training thinking they would be able to get a concealed carry permit with this training. In 2013 Colorado outlawed the use of online-only training for concealed handgun permits. I have taken some wonderful training online in the past but it's not to get a CCW permit. These places are taking your money and not telling you that the training is no good for your Colorado permit requirements. As many have found out there is no shortcut. Also remember any other states permit is no good in Colorado. Colorado requires a resident-only permit. If you are here visiting from another state that we recognize (reciprocity) and you have driver's license to match your permit your good to go. If you live here as a Colorado resident and have any other states permit you are carrying illegally. Anyone carrying a Virginia permit and a Colorado drivers license is not carrying legally.
This article has some great stuff.....you might get a chuckle
I know things are bad......but do we really need to pull our gun over dog poop??
Suspect in homicide near Coors Field opened fire because of dispute over dog poop, police say
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The suspect in a shooting that killed a 21-year-old woman and injured her boyfriend Wednesday opened fire from his apartment near Coors Field because of a dispute about the victims’ dog poopi...With all the things we are going through right now! OC/Pepper Spray is your friend...
OC/Pepper Spray and Important Part of EDC
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OC/Pepper Spray is an Important Part of your EDC (Everyday Carry). Let’s look at some of the great aspects of this tool as part of your overall self-defense strategy. legality- OC/Pepper Spra...Openrange Defense - Is Awareness Mightier than the Gun?
Openrange Defense - You could have beaten Billy the Kid, Wild Bill and Others.
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Awareness is more powerful that firearm skills. Some of the best gunfighters have been killed by amateurs using distraction.This is a good one to read...
When We Play With Guns - But We Shouldn't
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The Lucky Gunner Lounge team takes a look at common concealed carry mistakes shooters make revolving around handling firearms when they don't need to.Greg wrote this sometime back, but now people think they can carry open and its a bad idea
Friends Don’t Let Friends Open Carry
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Written by Greg Ellifritz It’s no secret that I’m not a fan of open carry (carrying an unconcealed handgun or long gun in public). Except in a hunting context or in ...This is a good routine you can follow..not to complex but important skills to hone
Practicing for Concealed Carry
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Buying a gun and a CCW holster are just the first steps. Here's what's next.shooting through glass
Fundamentals of Shooting Through Glass – Dr. Tindall
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Terrorism Fundamentals of Shooting Through Glass 3 years agoby DrTindall2,206 Views17 min read This post is written for the Special Operations Police in Ankara, Turkey as a follow-up module to the lon...Bob Livingston Alerts
Authoritarianism, or criminal government, can never feel free from fear as long as millions of people own guns, hence the long-term effort to disarm us.
Almost all national politicians want Americans completely disarmed, even if few admit it, though they have done all possible to impress upon the public mind that private arms possession for any reason is un-American and not in the "public interest" because guns are "dangerous." Their debate is twisted nonsense, but people believe it.
The politicians realize that mass forced confiscation will not work. It would result in the deaths of thousands of federal agents, if they could find enough of them to attempt such a thing. Nor have efforts at soft confiscation — requiring self-reporting and voluntary surrender of arms and accessories suddenly deemed illegal — been anything more than marginally successful in recent years.
The truth is, the local sheriffs, rank-and-file police and military members are by-and-large pro-gun. Listen to Polk County (Florida) Sherriff Grady Judd's message for those who would come to his town to riot and loot, rather than peacefully protest the killing of George Floyd by a now-former police officer:
"I would tell them, if you value your life, they probably shouldn't do that in Polk County. Because the people of Polk County like guns, they have guns, I encourage them to own guns, and they're going to be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded, and if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns."
The families and friends of the police and military are pro-gun as well. Many do indeed exercise their rights, and conceal carry their firearms using this Online CCW Certificate. For the most part, they would be loath to join federal agents in a forced confiscation program, though as we saw in the Katrina aftermath there are mindless drones who will follow confiscation orders without question. But most would likely join citizens in resisting such efforts. The result would be a bloody mess.
So the elites have employed their propaganda machine, to great effect. Vast swaths of ignorant people have swallowed the notion that certain weapons — based only on appearance, form and function — are inherently more dangerous than others.
In fact, the nature of one's weapon of choice is something about which the gun grabbers often like to ask the same question: "Why do you need an 'assault weapon?'"
First, their definition of "assault weapon" includes… well, anything they are scared of. Which is everything. But to answer their question, as the Department of Homeland Security so aptly put it in its own request for proposal for 7,000 .223 cal. select fire weapons, they are for personal defense.
In Thoughts on Standing Armies, Josiah Quincy Jr. wrote in 1774:
No free government was ever founded or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state…. Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals and their rights as freemen.
Gun grabbers lack the moral authority to determine what weapon a lawful gun owner needs for defense, or target shooting or whatever. Only the gun owner can make that decision.
Many gun owners were shaking their heads as the coronavirus pandemic swept the nation and many "progressives" lined up a gun stores hoping to buy a weapon for that very reason — self-defense, since the police are not going to help you against looters, and especially not during a pandemic — only to find that their own laws prevented them from doing so. "What do you mean there's a three-day waiting period?" was a common complaint from the socialist crowd who ushered in this tyranny themselves.
They fully supported the anti-gun lobby that loves to pull out figures and statistics that it claims show that America is the most violent place on the planet. They say if guns were simply banned, America would be a crime-free utopia.
Let me give you some real statistics. Most of the "mass shootings" you see in the news occur in so-called "gun-free zones." That means the shooters who made conscious choices to disregard our laws were able to freely attack a group of adults who were restricted by their desire to obey our laws from defending themselves and the children in their charge. Both shooters, as is the case with the vast majority of recent mass shooters, were on prescription psychotropic drugs before the attacks.
The gun control problem is a mind control problem. The authorities know full well that they, with all their high-tech weapons, cannot subdue a determined people with private arms. Therefore, they use all manner of spurious persuasion to get you to give up your arms and to exert hostility toward others who won't. Same old divide and conquer.
We should refuse to make criminals out of law-abiding citizens. You should be able to buy a gun, own a gun, carry a gun legally, and conceal it if that is your preference. As I mentioned earlier, there is a multi-state online concealed carry certification you can obtain. It is the only one I know of.
Americans have been pushed and pushed until they are near the brink. Much of the blame for their anger falls on a government that is out of touch with regular Americans and tone deaf to its pleas.
Most Americans see Congresses past and present inserting fingers into every aspect of daily life. The 2nd Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights — as were all the first 10 Amendments — to restrict what government can do. It was designed to ensure that Americans could deter or, if necessary, overthrow a tyrannical government, and ensure liberty.
George Washington said, "Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people's liberty teeth and keystone under independence." And as was the case on April 19, 1775, at Lexington and Concord when the British came to confiscate arms and weapons, patriots should rise up to resist the usurpation of "gun control" at every turn, and stop the slippery slope we are on now that could make all weapons in the hands of regular citizens illegal.
Yours for the truth,
Bob Livingston
Editor, The Bob Livingston Letter®
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"I have been a subscriber to your letter for many years and have always looked forward to receiving it. Health 'info' is important, but I always look forward to your 'info' on the economy and markets....Great info for 1911 owners and fans
Don’t Do These Things with Your 1911! | The Armory Life
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Having used 1911 pistols since 1960 and learned from the best 1911 gunsmiths and shooters, this advice has served me well, and should do the same for you.When 6 is not enough
When Six Is Not Enough - Myths of the Self-Defense Revolver - Lucky Gunner Lounge
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Chris, of the Lucky Gunner team, takes a look at some common myths surrounding the use of revolvers as a self-defense firearm.Great appendix carry information from Mas
Massad Ayoob's Concealed Carry Techniques
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Appendix and cross-draw concealed carry styles get your handgun into action fast!I think some of this information is helpful for you to understand
Your Tactical Training Scenario- Dealing with Molotov Cocktails and Fire Bombs
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Written by Greg Ellifritz I posted this video on my Facebook page the other day and asked my friends to comment. If you haven’t seen the video, it is footage of an attack on innocent m...