Month: October 2017

Automatic fire is considered “area fire”, where you don’t home in on a particular target but blanket the killing zone with fire. In a military situation, troops are (if properly led) dispersed and know how to use cover, with some cover available. In this case, people were massed and there was no cover to speak

Every time something like the Las Vegas shooting happens, the question is asked, “Why do people do these things?” Because of my profession, I get asked that a lot. But no matter how many times I answer, or how many times I refer people to the best and definitive work on the subject, “Inside the Criminal

A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear a challenge Monday to Washington’s voter-approved background check law for person-to-person gun transfers. The lawsuit challenges provisions of Initiative 594 which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2014. Specifically, the plaintiffs argue that the background check requirement fails to exempt certain temporary, non-commercial gun transfers

Are you 100% sure you know all of the new rules and regulations that your state has passed since you got your concealed carry permit? Like, reaaallllly sure?  Did you hear about the new rules that went in to effect last week/month/year? Since I took my training course, Minnesota stopped accepting my Wisconsin and Utah Non-resident permits.  This

Do movies ever get guns right? Guns and movies have an odd relationship.  Sometimes gun fights are portrayed realistically. But 9 times out of 10 the portrayal of firearms is often quite humorous (and entertaining) for those in the know. So who does it right? I always get a little giddy when a movie gets

In July, a D.C. Circuit panel held, by a 2-1 vote, that the Second Amendment secures a right to carry guns in public. This leaves considerable room for “shall-issue” licensing requirements (under which pretty much any law-abiding adult can get a license but might have to undergo various checks, training and the like) and other