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You will often read comments on social media that it is unreasonable, or paranoid, or silly to carry a concealed handgun on a routine, daily basis, because your need for that gun is “a one in a million chance”. Wrong. Here are some facts from the US Bureau of Justice Statistics, part of the Justice Department.
First, the BJS completed a study in 1987 that concluded that among US citizens who were 12 years old in 1987, 83% would be the victim or intended victim of a violent crime in their lifetime. That’s four out of every five people. ( Note that is lifetime, not per year.)
More recently, the annual BJS report for 2017 showed the following
numbers, for just that one year:
Total Violent Crimes- 5,612,670 (includes unarmed assaults)
Rapes, female victim- 393,980
Robbery- 613,840
Aggravated Assault- 993,170
Serious violent crime involving injury to the victim- 643,760
Stranger Violence (Victim and offender unknown to each other) 2,034,100
The 2019 numbers came out in October. Counting ONLY four major
crimes, Murder, Aggravated Assault, Robbery, and Rape, there were a total of over Two Million of them. That’s 5,517 of those four crimes PER DAY.
So, the odds are not “one in a million”, they are “one in a few dozen”. If we only consider Aggravated Assault and no other violent crimes, there were an average of 2,721 Aggravated Assaults per day in 2017. The FBI’s definition of Aggravated Assault is “an unlawful attack involving serious bodily injury to the victim, or the use of a deadly weapon or other means likely to cause death or serious injury”. In other words, that’s almost 3,000 times each day someone tries to kill someone else in this country. Taking
sensible precautions against something that common is not being paranoid, it’s being smart.
I love revolvers and I shoot them very well, but in most cases, it will not be my primary carry gun for many reasons. This is a good article
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Wheelgun Wednesday: 5 Reasons Why Revolvers are the WORST
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In this Wheelgun Wednesday, we take a look at 5 Reasons Why Revolvers are the WORST in light of last week's discussion as to why revolvers are rad.Interesting numbers on Chicago Shootings....Check it out
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Chicago Crime, Murder & Mayhem | Illustrating Chicago Values | HeyJackass!
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Illustrating the Chicago Values of Crime, Murder & Mayhem with comprehensive charts, precise graphs and exhaustive data sets of Chicago stupidity.Mega Gun Show sells guns and ammo to those who are new to guns
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Where ‘Black Lives Matter’ T-shirts meet MAGA hats: the gun show.
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A Week Before Election Day, More Than Half the 2016 Vote Is Already InLast Updated Oct. 28, 2020, 3:36 a.m. ETOct. 28, 2020, 3:36 a.m. ETJoe Biden campaigned in Georgia, which Democrats have not carri...Great idea for drills
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Skill Set: Control Drill | Tactical Wire
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The only two things you can control in a confrontation is what you do, and the speed at which you perform. This is especially true if you are required to engage the threat with accurate fire. You’re...students ask this all the time
5.56 vs. .223: Which Can I Shoot? | The Armory Life
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Listed case dimensions are the same for 5.56 and .223, and both will chamber in barrels bored for the other. But that’s not the full story.Fit and Feel they are not the same thing
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Fit versus Feel - GUNS Magazine
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Ever since there have been gun writers, there has been the advice, “Choose the handgun that feels the best.”I talk frequently about purse carry and its hazzards
Purse Carry is the Worst Carry - A Concealed Carry Analysis
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The Lucky Gunner team takes a close look at concealed purse carry and some of the advantages and drawbacks it presents.this is a good article about situational awareness
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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.Warning shots are illegal and have been in the news again. We all know that warning shots are a bad idea.
1st it's very dangerous and you can be charged with several crimes in Colorado.
2nd it's a waste of precious ammo that you may need to survive the encounter.
3rd you don't know for sure that a bad guy will flee or stop his bad actions from a warning shot not all bad guys will
Warning Shots Are A Terrible Idea
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Please thank MantisX for bringing us today’s video of Warning Shots Are A Terrible Idea! Check them out at get-asp.com/mantisx or their FB page at ht...Some great advice in this article
Advice for Self-Defense Training During the Ammo Shortage - USA Carry
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The lack of ammunition availability has led most shooters to re-evaluate their activity, but there is no need to abandon good training.Learn more about the ak47 platform
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21 Important Questions & Answers About the AK-47 - Ballistic Magazine
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To understand more about the world’s most populous long gun, we will sift through and answer some frequently asked questions about the AK-47 platform.how did guns get their name??
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How Certain Gun Models Got Their Name
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Ever wonder how or why certain guns got their name? I do. Using my "google-fu" I found out some guns have some interesting stories in how t...Hollowpoint ammo may not be available...now what???
Why Hollow Points Are The Only Option For Self-Defense
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Every so often we come across opinions on the wonderful World Wide Web that makes me scratch my head a bit. One of those things is when I read comments about people saying 'this is why I don't use hol...This is a great discussion about guns, training and new gun owners
from Claude Werner and Michael Bane
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Your Best Defense: Staying Out of Trouble
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This week on Triggered we present a new addition: YOUR BEST DEFENSE. Michael Bane and co-host Mike Seeklander welcome Cecil Burch, BJJ master and member of the ShivWorks Collective for an in-depth loo...Warning shots are never good and are illegal and unsafe
Uber driver arrested for allegedly firing gun, injuring passenger in Mesa, MCSO says
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The bullet ricocheted and struck one of the passengers in the lower leg, according to MCSO.Clint Smith/ Thunder Ranch is always very entertaining here he talks about shot placement
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RAW CLINT 7: SHOOT THEM IN THE CROTCH
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Title explains itself. Want training? Go here: www.thunderranchinc.comShot placement the key to survival
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Placement of the shot is more important than any other factor in stopping the threat posed by the homicidal madman!Press Check (no silly not NBC or CBS)
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Why You Really Should Be Conducting a Press Check
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Ahhh the press check, is it a lost art? A useless technique only used by old crusty gunfighters of yesterday? Or an important procedure that we all should be doing? I didn't realize there was even a d...IS YOUR GUN LOADED.........????
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Always Treat the Gun As If It's Loaded
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The firearms safety rules are of extreme importance. They were created to keep people out of trouble and to prevent what we call negligent discharges, or NDs, from taking place. An ND is basically the...AR15 Failures
8 Most Common AR-15 Failures & How To Fix Them - Pew Pew Tactical
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The AR-15 is reliable but can still have some hiccups. We go over a couple of the most common AR-15 failures and how to fix them.interesting article about the .45 ACP
Fading Away? The .45 ACP Isn't Going Anywhere | Gun Digest
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Don't believe the hype over the .45 ACP as some dusty relic of a by-gone era. The cartridge is better than ever and is here for the long haul.Lake City Army Ammunition Plant
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Winchester Assumes Full Control of Lake City Army Ammunition Plant -
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In one of the most significant achievements in the 154-year history of Winchester, the company has assumed full management and operational control of the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant from Olin Corp...The Real Threat to Your Guns
Is Not Just Rust and Politicians
By Alan Korwin
The biggest threat to your fundamental right – your right to keep and bear arms – may not be what you’ve always feared. It may not be new laws. The risk may not even be from the two main political parties, though they both need constant watching, as Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers warned.
No, the threat may be coming from something we were keenly alerted to back in the 1950s and 1960s, which we’ve grown inured to, bored with, discarded onto history’s trash heap. We may have forgotten it as a guns-and-ammo threat, but it’s still there. As alive as ever, active as ever, working its nefarious magic, seeking to take every gun you own, every round of ammunition you possess, either by direct force or through subversive covert action. That enemy is our old friendly villain, Marxism and communism, now in control of fully one third of the world’s population and making inroads here. Mass media, infected with that scourge, is not alerting us. They hide it, disguise it, aiding and abetting a mortal enemy of our Republic.
Thomas Jefferson warned, “Be eternally vigilant” to preserve freedom. He could never have imagined an enemy like Karl Marx. The rioting, looting, arson and upheaval we have witnessed on our televisions every night, is being run by dedicated Marxists with announced plans, signage, upraised fists. They make no secret of it. Class warfare. Call it “racism” if you want, but that’s not it, we are as free from racism as any nation you can name, which is why American immigration is basically a one-way street – inbound. No one is breaking into Cuba, China, Africa or lining roadways escaping here. These nightly mobs have communist influences and international provocateurs at their heart. Leaving you armed to resist is not their plan.
In fact, leaving your police armed to resist is not the plan either. Stop and think. Could true Democrats or Republicans support any version of eliminating armed police, abandoning swaths of cities to mobs? No. They have been overwhelmed by a mindset, a propaganda wave, a core tool of communism. The very brainwash that turned 5,000 years of a brilliant Chinese empire’s art, music, religion, history, culture and the rest, into a monolithic, terrified, follow-the-leader brutal dictatorship is here, proposed right now, in your face.
“The United States will eventually fly
the communist flag. The American people
will hoist it themselves.”
–Nikita Khrushchev
The proof is in writing, in Congress (HR5717), and the Senate (S3254). While our primary gun-rights networks have been distracted with familiar lists of horribles – these bills have them all – the real gun bans are more subtle, more total, and more devastating than anything our enemies ever presented before.
You’ve heard these before. Sure, it’s not good. At least it’s familiar, mostly:
• AR-15 Confiscation
• AR-15 Lookalike Confiscation
• Ammunition and Magazine Limits
• Shopping Restrictions
• Carry and Loaded-Possession Bans
• Semiauto Bans
• Bans by gun type – Including guns with grips
• Taxation on Arms, Ammo, Accessories
• Registration Schemes
• Background Checks
• Personal Transfer Bans
• Private Sale Bans
• Gun Show Bans
• Training Restrictions
• A “Heller Ban,” Overturned in D.C. by the U.S. Supreme Court, no loaded or accessible gun at home unless under attack
• Plus, Joe Biden’s website calls for prohibiting teaching teachers about marksmanship and firearms.
THE REAL GUN BAN: PSYCH TESTS
None of that matters though. It’s a distracting smokescreen – a diversion. Hidden in page after page of gun bans and conditions, no one will be allowed to have a gun or ammo at all – including anything you already own – without the new “comprehensive” federal gun license. That’s only issued at an official’s discretion.
Democrats wrote this and put it in both houses of Congress, ignoring the fire it sets to the U.S. Constitution and the Second Amendment. Republicans have stayed quiet, regardless of their oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution from all enemies foreign and domestic.
Gun ownership under Democrat’s control requires a psychology evaluation. There is no indication who will conduct this, or how it might be appealed if unfavorable. An unelected federal board of decision makers will decide:
• Are you of “sound mind and character” (no standards described, to be Board determined later);
• Do you have “factors that suggest that the individual could potentially create a risk to public safety” (what armed citizen doesn’t potentially pose such a risk?);
• Do you meet or fail to meet “any other requirements the State determines relevant” (to be set after elections, without any statutory parameters – completely arbitrary limitless control);
• And then authorities shall, “make a determination of suitability” for your ownership and possession of arms, including your own (in other words, a “may issue” vs. “shall issue” license at the federal level, with socialists in charge, if they get their way);
• These are written into the bill. In addition, authorities, “shall establish standards and processes by which licensing authorities can revoke, suspend, or deny the issuance or renewal of a covered license” required to possess firearms;
• The new required federal gun license, with mandatory written and shooting testing in addition to the psych tests, and numerous other conditions, applies to all guns you own or seek.
Gun-averse mass media has “overlooked” this. The Second Amendment is being changed from an uninfringed right to a might-be-issued licensed and scrutiny under dictatorial control. Go ahead, say it: “They can’t do that!”
How can an armed electorate even resist this wild scene? Democrats’ “representatives” are “with them.” Speak against them, they attack your principles. The few people standing up against this cultural revolution find themselves the ones facing “hate” charges – thought crime. Police are ordered to stand down! The ones who stand up are decommissioned, disbanded and defunded. It’s the socialist way. One election is all that stands between this and collapse of the Constitution.
“The United States will eventually fly the communist flag. The American people will hoist it themselves,” Nikita Khrushchev predicted. Even now, our leaders propose funding Red Flag Laws (in HR5717/S3254). Mass media and many citizens think that’s great. “No, you won’t accept communism outright, but we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you finally wake up and find you already have communism.... We will destroy you from within,” Khrushchev again.
In 1963, communism’s 45 goals were put in the Congressional Record. These few lines illuminate the mob’s movement and threat to your guns and way of life:
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers’ associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV and motion pictures.
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. “Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art.”
It’s Marxism, infecting America – as predicted – our guns’ and liberty’s greatest enemy.
Award-winning author Alan Korwin has written 14 books, 10 of them on gun law, and has advocated for gun rights for nearly three decades. See his work or reach him at GunLaws.com. This article originally appeared in Dillon’s Blue Press.
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gunlaws.com / Bloomfield Press is the largest publisher of gun law books anywhere. Website has links to firearm laws in all 50 states. Author, Alan Korwin is also a consultant, instructor and publishe...Good Stuff
The Wolf's Fangs: Observable Indicators Of An Illegally Armed Person
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Learn what the tell-tale signs and observable indicators of an illegally armed person are, in this all inclusive Skillset breakdown.The new numbers are out
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2019 FBI Crime Statistics Show Hammers, Knives Outrank Rifle Murders
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The 2019 FBI crime statistics are out with crime dropping in most categories again, while knives, fists and clubs again prove much deadlier than rifles.Chatas-do you own one? do you shoot it?
Ed's Manifesto: Beware Of The J-Frame Revolvers Known As Chatas
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There's a war going on south of the American border involving the Mexican cartels. Beware of the J-Frame revolvers known as Chatas.Shotguns could be man's best friend!!!
New Gun Owners: How to Pattern Your Shotgun for Home Defense
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This is going to be a post that is directed primarily at new gun owners that may have recently acquired a shotgun for defensive purposes. Both Robert and I have written extensively about shotguns, ...Stay alert, be careful,and keep your powder dry
Should you carry or keep your self defense gun on an empty chamber? - Prepared Gun Owners
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I recently read a story where a civilian who was concealed carrying fought back against an armed bank robbery and won. He shot the guy 3 or 4 times and the armed robber didn’t shoot back once, inste...Some very good information about ammo for new shooters
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Ammo 101: The 4 Parts Of A Cartridge - Pew Pew Tactical
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Curious about how ammo works? Toying with the idea of reloading? We review the four basic but essential components of the modern cartridge..223 vs. 5.56×45 NATO which one can I use????
AR-15 Basics: .223 vs. 5.56×45 NATO
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Same round? Not quite. Here is the difference between the .223 and the 5.56x45.Expandable Baton is classified as a weapon in our area. The city of Pueblo lists it as a weapon. Pepper Spray is much better and Greg recommends it in this article
Why I Don’t Carry an Expandable Baton
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Written by: Greg Ellifritz With all the violent protests going on, people are interested in supplementing the firearms they carry on a daily basis with some less lethal alternative weapons.&...Some very interesting numbers in this survey
22% of Gun-Owning Households Have Added A Gun Since Anti-Police Protests Began
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Over one-fifth of Americans who have a gun in their household have added one since the Black Lives Matter anti-police protests began in late May and feel safer because they’ve done so.Steve Moses discusses WHAT IS "SERIOUS BODILY INJURY"?
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The moment that a concealed carrier fires the first bullet at another person is the start of a journey that will likely change his or her life forever. ...Colorado's definition of serious bodily injury CRS 18-1-901
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Here is some history you might want to read....
Texas Ranger Frank Hamer: Lone Star's Lethal Lawman
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One of the Lone Star State's most legendary lawman, you've never heard of. An up close and personal account of Texas Ranger Frank Hamer.some good practice drills in this article
5 Sure-Fire Training Drills For Your Concealed-Carry Pistol
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Here's how to get the very most out of your pocket pistol.Discussion on concealment
Colorado Knife Laws
Ballistic knives are illegal to carry (actually, 1+ years in prison and a felony). Dirks, daggers, push knives, stilettos, bowies, large blades, disguised knives, balisongs, butterfly knives, gravity knives, and switchblades are legal. Any knife with a blade over 3.5” is illegal to conceal carry. It is not illegal to conceal carry a knife on your own property. It is not illegal to carry a concealed knife if you are driving. Hunting and fishing knives larger than 3.5” can be carried concealed. City laws may be different however, and there are several them. Boulder County makes it illegal to carry any knife concealed.
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Massad Ayoob analyzes a robbery and highlights the importance of waiting for the right opportunity to act.
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if you own an AR15 read this article....if you don't own one there is some great info on pistol ammo in this article also
Why you should NEVER rechamber the same AR-15 round twice - Prepared Gun Owners
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Recently I pointed out that you should almost NEVER unload your self-defense handgun for two major reasons: 1.) A loaded gun is not necessarily more safe than an unloaded gun and 2.) Because constantl...This works I have done it!!
Industry Secrets To Buying Ammo (What Nobody Tells You)
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Up until recently ammunition was relatively easy to find. Up until March 2020, ammo was abundantly found in stores across the nation and at online retailers. Then panic struck and ammunition is almost...Bri was the only one that really tried to help us get the shooting range open when it was closed in the COVID scandal. Please support her as a 2A second amendment advocate. She would appreciate your vote..
Michael Bane and Claude Werner talk about decision making in self defense gun usage. The information is very good
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Your Best Defense: Staying Out of Trouble
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This week on YOUR BEST DEFENSE, we have a candid conversation with “the Tactical Professor,” Claude Werner, on how the brain AND the gun need to work...Tom Givens sent me this info. Check it out I think the study is important to understand
NEW STUDY: Muzzle position can have major impact on your shooting decisions - Calibre Press
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You confront a suspect you’ve been told may be armed. No weapon is visible, but his hands are hidden in his pockets. You have no cover, no concealment. If he suddenly whips a hand out, he may be gri...Our industry called these AD's accidental discharges until they figured out they were really ND's negligent discharges
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If You Follow These Steps, You'll Never Have A Negligent Discharge – Concealed Nation
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If you carry your firearm safely and correctly, you’ll ensure that you are Negligent Discharge-Proof. Something that gives all concealed carriers and firearms enthusiasts a bad name is a negligent d...Grant always has some great things to discuss. This article is no different
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When training defensive shooting techniques, it’s common — too common, in fact — to focus on the skill used rather than the task to be performed. Now someThis is a good article on damage to ammunition that you have loaded and unloaded int.o your carry gun. Many of us unload our carry ammo to practice with FMJ rounds. Check it out
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Common Sense Duty Ammunition Rotation | Winchester Law Enforcement
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Winchester Ammunition manufactures ammo for all shooting activities: hunting ammo, shooting, target ammo, and personal defense ammo. Winchester offers rifle ammo, shotgun ammo, and handgun ammo.wow, this one is worth reading for sure.....
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Written by: Greg Ellifritz I had an unusual experience at the range today. The gun I was shooting blew up in my hand. In a 20+ year career as a full time firearms instructor, I&#...The importance of retaining control of your firearm
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The Importance Of Retaining Control Of Your Firearm
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It should go without saying that retaining control of your firearm during an actual fight is important. That is not what this is about (even though our lead picture is probably misleading). Instead, t...