Challenging the double standard on violence
I was going to finish up the ongoing discussion of capacity this week, but something else has been rattling around in my brain and it has such a stranglehold on...
Author: Tim
The Capacity Question – Part 3
We’ve discussed the capacity question in terms of speed and in terms of attempting to keep track of what’s happening under extreme stress. There are...
The 1986 Miami Shootout
April 11, 1986 was an important date for gun nuts. On that date a unit of FBI agents were involved in a hellacious firefight with two military-trained armed rob...
The Capacity Question – Part 2
The capacity question is not defined entirely by the speed with which you can pull the trigger when you believe someone is trying to kill you. There are other c...
The Capacity Question – part 1
Last week Caleb posted a little article on the obsolescence of revolvers that mentioned the capacity of the revolver as one of the factors working against it in...
Bill Wilson and Ken Hackathorn talk 1911’s
I grew up reading gun magazines, which means that my formative years were plastered with gun magazine layouts featuring 1911 pistols that, frankly, bordered on ...
Competence vs. Excellence – Round 2
I threw out a lot of words trying to quantify the concepts of competence and excellence in last week’s post, but this week thanks to the joys of the inter...
Excellence vs. Competence
The other day I read an article on the Firearm User Network discussing an Army white-paper that contained a comparison of the error rates between snipers and up...
Guns Save Lives…sometimes in strange ways.
We often say that guns save lives…well here’s an example where that proved to be true, only not in the way you might expect. The picture shows what&...
Book Review: The Law of Self Defense
A little while ago I went on a bit of a rant about what I termed “gunstore lawyers”, people who have absolutely no verifiable knowledge of the laws ...