Year: 2016

For decades now many American officers have heard use-of-force instructors discuss the “21-Foot Rule” during officer safety, firearms, and deadly force training. As a use-of-force instructor and a practicing forensic police practices expert, I have also trained and testified to this concept myself. The 21-foot rule was developed by Lt. John Tueller, a firearms instructor

A new study released by the University of Pittsburg finds that nearly 8 in 10 gun crimes are committed with illegally-possessed guns. The findings are summarized in this Washington Post headline: “New Evidence Confirms what Gun Rights Advocates Have Said for a Long Time about Crime.” What the NRA has been saying all along is that criminals, by definition,

On Friday, July 22, just as members of his party were gathering in Philadelphia to coronate Hillary Clinton as their presidential nominee, the Obama Administration once again released a sweeping gun control measure by executive fiat. This time the bad news came via the U.S. State Department’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC), which is

A study conducted by the Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health shows that four out of five criminals acquire their guns illegally, while one out of five acquires them through legal means, prior to building up a criminal record. The Washington Post published the study, which looked at guns recovered from Pittsburgh crime scenes in 2008 and found that “in

This article will seem controversial to some. Let me preface it by stating emphatically that I believe only the terrorists are responsible for the death of 129 Parisian citizens last week. However, to ignore the decades old French government policy of civilian disarmament as a direct cause of the helplessness of the French citizens and

OUTLINE: The 4th Edition (published by the international text book publisher, Taylor & Francis) contains all new HD photos and over 10k words of additional instructive material. The title has now been in continuous print since 1986. INSTINCT COMBAT SHOOTING is defined as:The act of operating a HANDGUN by focusing on the target, as opposed

On July 20, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) issued a directive expanding the state’s “assault weapons” ban to cover sales of weapons that had previously been interpreted as outside the ban. Now the ban on firearms with certain cosmetic features — “flash suppressors and folding or telescoping stocks” — also includes those that lack

Hopefully, gun groups will do what they are supposed to be doing and filing law suits. Still have no idea how just about every single law infringing on the Constitution just slides right through in California. That is the real crime.