FOF: Pros and Cons, Part 1
Back in August 2012 I wrote an article called Competition: Pros and Cons. Today, it is followed up by a similar discussion about another oft-debated aspect…
Category: Safety
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Prerequisites
A thread over at pistol-forum about class prerequisites has been bouncing around in my head for a while and I wanted to talk about it in…
FBI Revolver Training, circa 1961
Thanks to JAD on pistol-forum for finding this great video: “The revolver is no respecter of persons. It will kill anyone at whom it is…
The Safety Sin, Revisited
More stuff I didn’t write: Thinking Critically on Safety by Tim at Gun Nuts. TL;DR version is that a guy gets on YouTube, shows video…
Is Your Ammunition Dangerous
Outstanding video by SAAMI detailing just how little risk there is from ammunition subjected to impact or even being in a fire: Train hard &…
Muzzle Direction, a Big Deal
Tim explains it well over at Gun Nuts. Tim and I were in a class together recently where we ran into a similar issue. Another…
Finger: Safe When?
A couple of recent discussions over at pistol-forum have touched on the question of when is it ok to touch the trigger during the draw stroke?…
One Picosafety
In the metric system, “pico” is the prefix denoting one trillionth (0.000000000001, or 10 to the -12th power). It’s ridiculously small. Pico is also the…
Free Crack at Tam’s
Read all about it at View From The Porch. As a reminder, Heckler & Koch remains the only handgun manufacturer that designs all of its…
When Smart Is Stupid
… or, Trying to Profit from the Sandy Hook Massacre Makes You a Giant Twit! Yesterday, Computerworld published a story about Safe Gun Technology, a…