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UN vs. Gun Owners: Article opens with an account of how the UN disarmed
one combatant in Liberia and proceeds to discuss whether or not it could
disarm American gun owners.
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilton/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1148681735345&call_pageid=1020420665036&col=1112188062620
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NICS "Improvement" Act Clears House Subcommittee: Sponsored by famous
prohibitionist Carolyn McCarthy, the National Instant Check System
Improvement Act would deny federal funds to states that fail to meet new
standards for reporting to the FBI database.
http://www.longislandpress.com/?cp=162&show=article&a_id=8595
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NYC FFL Disputes Publicized Charges: Joseph Benfante, a lawyer for DF
Brothers Sport Center - which the city says sold a gun illegally to an
undercover investigator - claimed the store first sent the former cop
packing for providing insufficient paperwork and then the ex-cop misled
the gun dealer on her application.
http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/66675.htm
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Slow News Day: Some of you may have read this a few years back but the
list has probably doubled since I last recall sharing it. Some of you
may also recall reading similar material in my book
(
http://www.spw-duf.info/book.html).
STREET VS. GAMES
Stephen P. Wenger
The following article was originally written as a series for a shooting
club newsletter. It is not intended to belittle those who enjoy the
action pistol sports. Rather, it is an effort to create tactical
awareness among those who may use a firearm in self-defense by comparing
examples from the different arenas. The article has been published
previously in the SMITH & WESSON ACADEMY NEWSLETTER..
DOUBLE TAPS: A staple of the IPSC crowd, the double tap has two sets of
problems on the street:
When faced with a single assailant the best course is to shoot until the
threat ceases. If the assailant goes into surrender mode after the first
shot, the second shot is no longer justifiable. If the assailant is
still charging you it is foolish to pause after the second shot.
When faced with multiple assailants it makes more sense to put a round
into each aggressor as quickly as possible, then go back and place more
rounds into anyone who is still a threat. About ten years ago there was
actually an incident in the Dallas-Fort Worth area where an
IPSC-shooting cop went up against three assailants. He double-tapped the
first two and was shot and killed by the third. Had he shot each
assailant once initially he might have had a better chance of prevailing.
SCORING BY THE CLOCK: Virtually all of the action pistol sports use a
timer. Speed is certainly a useful attribute in a gunfight, although it
is worth remembering the words of Bill Jordan, "Speed is fine but
accuracy is final."
I'm not trying to discourage people from developing speed in placing
accurate fire on the target. My concern is when rewarding the shortest
time over a course of fire encourages people to do things like leaving
cover and reloading on the move. If the cardboard targets or steel
plates were shooting back, would you want to leave cover with an empty
gun? Even if you have a high-capacity gun and it isn't empty yet,
wouldn't you rather have the gun fully loaded when circumstances dictate
your move to the next piece of cover? What if you get shot in the leg
and can't make it to the next piece of cover?
MOVING TO COVER: Most sport shooters try to shorten the distance to the
target to make the shot easier. Couple this with shooting against the
clock, then set up a stage where the shooter starts in the open and has
to move to cover which is somewhere downrange. Most competitors will run
directly to the point where they intend to shoot, on a straight line.
Years ago the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center disseminated a
concept known as the "FLETC L." If you're really under fire, you want to
get the cover between you and your assailant as quickly as possible.
Move laterally to get behind the cover, then turn, making an "L," if you
need to move closer to the cover.
DISTANCE FROM COVER: Most sport shooters try to shorten the distance to
the target to make the shot easier. Most sport shooters have also
learned to use "barricades" to gain support to steady the gun. One
IPSC-style shooting academy teaches resting the back of the support hand
on the side of the barricade when shooting from the gun-hand side of cover.
First of all, this technique will usually expose greater than 50% of
your body to the target, but that's all right when your target is just a
piece of buff-colored cardboard. Secondly, if the target and the cover
were real, shots fired by the target could "skip" off the side of the
cover, such as a wall surface parallel to the direction of the incoming
fire, and strike you if you were within six feet of the cover. For this
reason people who train for the real world generally try to leave at
least six feet of space between them and cover which is large enough to
permit it.
LATERAL FAULT LINES: To protect the competitor from hostile fire from
cardboard or steel targets, most action shooting sports which use cover
in scenarios place fault lines to the side of the cover. If your foot
strays over the fault line you lose points. If your head and body hang
out there, that's okay.
Cardboard and steel targets generally stay in one place whereas people
intent on harming you move around. If you're in an upright position it's
not likely that your foot will project noticeably wider than another
part of your body. People who train to deal with targets that shoot back
will usually "slice the pie." This means that if they are approaching a
doorway or a corner they will stay back about six feet, keep the gun in
a low ready position of some sort and inch themselves past the edge of
the cover. Every inch yields a new fan or pie-slice of view and if a
threat is found in one of these slices, the gun rises and the shot is
taken. If they were to insist on hiding the feet while incrementally
exposing head and body, they would merely place themselves off balance
at a time when balance might be very valuable.
RIGHT TO LEFT OR LEFT TO RIGHT: Most right-handed sport shooters, when
faced with a bank of targets, will shoot them from left to right.
When faced with real threats, you want to shoot the most immediate
threat first. This is going to be a split-second judgment, but those
come easier if you have dealt with them in training. However, in cases
where two or more threats are of comparable urgency and similar
distance, it makes sense to protect your gun side first. An awful lot of
gunshot wounds are to the gun hand, the arm of the gun hand or the
shoulder of the gun hand. Eliminating or reducing the threat on your gun
side increases the likelihood of being around to finish the fight. For a
right-handed shooter this means that when you've got a bank of targets
it makes more sense to shoot from right to left.
--
Stephen P. Wenger
Firearm safety - It's a matter
for education, not legislation.
http://www.spw-duf.info
