Wednesday Wisdom: 7 October 2026

The Rise of Women Gun Owners

A generally neutral (from a political perspective) article from the RAND Corporation an organization that is not known as a friend of the Second Amendment. The article addresses how the long-standing relationship between American women and guns is changing. As more women become gun owners, the ripple effects—on safety, public health, and even cultural attitudes—will likely change too. What's certain is that the old assumptions about who owns guns and why, changed markedly in the 2020s. Policymakers, researchers, and communities alike will need to pay attention to how this new era of firearm ownership develops.

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Trending Data Among Women First-Time Gun Owners – 2025 Update 

While we are on the topic an article from A Girl and A Gun—the best source for women and firearms: The growth of women in the firearms community has become one of the defining shifts in the shooting industry over the past several years. Headlines often focus on record firearm sales, but the more meaningful story begins after a woman purchases her first firearm. Why she decided to buy, what motivates her to seek training, and what keeps her engaged offer a much clearer picture of where our industry is headed.

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), approximately 11 million Americans purchased their first firearm during 2020 and 2021, the last years for which data is available. It is estimated that roughly half of those first-time buyers were women.

To better understand this historic influx, A Girl & A Gun surveyed thousands of new female gun owners during those years. Our 2025 survey revisits that original research, allowing us to compare motivations, behaviors, and purchasing patterns over time. Rather than capturing a moment in history, these three data sets now reveal an emerging trend: women are entering the firearms community with different expectations, different experiences, and an increasingly intentional commitment to developing lifelong skills.

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Smith & Wesson No. 1 Third Issue Revolver Made for Presentation to Swedish Opera Singer Christina Nilsson

 

Continuing with the theme of women and firearms ownership: The Smith and Wesson factory delivered this beautiful revolver to D.B. Wesson’s office on February 19, 1870 and it is believed that Wesson presented the revolver to Swedish Opera Singer Christina Nilsson during her 1871 American tour. Christina Nilsson was born in 1843 and essentially became the equivalent to a pop star of her day, enjoying a 20-year career as one of the world’s leading operatic dramatic coloratura sopranos. Nilsson passed away in 1921 at the age of 78 and the revolver remained in the Nilsson family until 1994. Gustave Young embellished the revolver is to the highest standards of the day in the same style he used for Ulysses S. Grant’s revolver and other important arms. The revolver features the finest quality detailed foliate scrollwork and filigree with gold inlaid bands at muzzle and rear of cylinder, grape vines along sides of barrel, bird heads spewing scroll along sides of frame and wolfs head with scroll at top rear. The unique mother-of-pearl grips are also quite spectacular inlaid in gold with Nilsson’s initials on the left panel and “S&W” on the right. Nilsson performed at Steinway Center in New York City in September of 1870 and Roy notes that D.B. Wesson frequented New York City, possibly delivering it to her around that time.

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Sloppy Gun Carrying is a Real Problem 

From TSA: The record number of firearms discovered at TSA checkpoints was set in 2023. This means more people are carrying guns, at least off body, and the 93% loaded means that most of them are properly ready for defensive use. It is possible that TSA’s designation of “loaded” does not differentiate between a chamber that is loaded or empty, so it’s possible that some or many of the “loaded” guns did not have a round chambered.

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Random Thoughts on Being ABLE to Intervene 

Unless you live completely disconnected from current events, you probably know about the In-N-Out Burger mass murder incident. Three people attempted to intervene with varying degrees of success with no one actually stopping the violent criminal actor (VCA).

One individual who attempted to intervene was a former Twin Falls Police Officer and a former Idaho State Police Officer; however, he was not employed in law enforcement when the incident occurred, so he was an “armed citizen.” He presumably had firearms training in both law enforcement organizations for which he worked; however, he was not able to intervene.

What happens to skill sets (assuming that you have them) when you encounter a situation that elicits “immediate onset threat to life stress” i.e. something that causes your body to dump massive amounts of chemicals into your body to prepare you to fight to the death or flee? Why would your combative skills, empty hand or weapon, not transfer from the gym/range to the street when you need them the most? In other words, why do would we choke and perform sub-optimally when under immediate onset threat to life stress?

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Russia’s Hybrid War Hits NATO

 

 

In the additional noteworthy information category from a very informative source: Russia is no longer only fighting in Ukraine. Drones, sabotage, and electronic warfare are testing NATO’s defenses and political resolve. The next disruption may arrive as a grounded airport, a darkened grid, or a bank unable to process payments.

That is hybrid warfare: inflicting damage while complicating attribution and discouraging a collective military response. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk warns that Moscow may stage supposedly “accidental” drone or missile strikes to test whether NATO’s Article 5 commitment is practical or theoretical. Danish intelligence says Russia is accepting greater risks, including sabotage that could cause casualties.

The incidents are accumulating. Germany blamed Russia for the failed August drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport. On Sept 13, a Russian drone struck a Ukrainian passenger train two kilometers from Poland. NATO fighters downed a drone over Lithuania two days later. Warsaw this week called a fire at a Starlink ground station sabotage, although responsibility remains unconfirmed. These developments follow the unprecedented mass Russian drone incursion into Poland on Sept 10, 2025.

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Belly Bands: Not a Universal Solution

A useful article via the Rangemaster October 2026 Newsletter. In my younger days I lived on the economy in a city where high levels of crime and terrorist threats were a daily fact of life. When I would go running, I carried my Glock 19 in a Neoprene sports support belt tightly wrapped on my upper chest. The pistol stayed in place when I was running and the one time, I had to draw my pistol it worked well. Tom Givens suggests taking a Kydex IWB holster, remove the belt attachment, and super glue the holster into the pistol pocket of the belly band. This gives you a rigid holster and makes one handed re-holstering possible--a much better idea.

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Defenses Against Unarmed Aggressors

Comments from Massad Ayoob: The use of deadly physical force is only allowed in a situation of immediate, otherwise unavoidable danger of death or grave bodily harm to oneself or other innocent people. That situation is determined by three criteria, which have to be simultaneously present. Ability: the opponents possess the power to kill or cripple; Opportunity: they’re capable of immediately employing it and third, Jeopardy: their actions and/or words indicate to a reasonable and prudent person that their manifest intent is to kill or to cripple.

Disparity of force is one of the elements that can create the “Ability” prong of the three-pronged test of Ability, Opportunity, and Jeopardy. Disparity of force means the opponent or opponents are not armed with a weapon per se but something about their capability in the assault makes it so likely that the defender will be killed or crippled that it is the equivalent of them having a deadly weapon and it warrants the defender’s recourse to a weapon such as a firearm.

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Chiappa Firearms M1-9 Carbine M1 Carbine-Style 9mm Blued Rifle

 

The Chiappa M1-22 creates the look and feel of the venerable USGI M1 Carbine, but chambered in the inexpensive and easy to shoot .22 LR. A great .22 rimfire rifle in its own right, the M1-22 has the exact overall dimensions as the original M1 Carbine. Available with either a wood or polymer stock, they are interchangeable with genuine M1 Carbines. Each M1-22 comes with two 10-round magazines. The 9mm Luger-chambered carbine has the same overall dimensions, trigger groups design and sights as the original. The receiver has a 3/8" dovetail machined into the receiver, and dovetail-to-Picatinny adapters are also included for mounting optics. The straight blowback design makes the M1-9 ultra-reliable and easy to clean and maintain. Cartridges are fed from standard Beretta M9/92 magazines. 

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PXT--A New Era of Rifle Barrel Technology

 

 

As the U.S. military pushed to extract greater performance from existing weapons platforms, PROOF Research moved into medium-caliber cannon barrel development and conducted a complete reassessment of rifling profiles, twist rates, pressure, projectile behavior, and barrel manufacturing.

By the early 2020s, that same focus had expanded into small arms — from 5.56 up through .338. Researchers realized that certain applications would require significantly more energy on target. Achieving that meant pushing chamber pressures to roughly 80,000 psi, well beyond the more common 62,000 psi.

Initially, this presented major challenges on the ammunition side. Containing that level of pressure without cartridge case failure required extensive experimentation with materials and propellants. Once the ammunition began to produce the needed performance, the barrel’s performance became the next hurdle.

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Wednesday Wisdom: 30 September 2026

Medal of Honor: Marvin Glen Shields

Construction Mechanic Third Class Marvin Shields was awarded the Medal of honor for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Although wounded when the compound of Detachment A-342, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), 1st Special Forces, came under intense fire from an estimated reinforced Viet Cong regiment employing machine guns, heavy weapons, and small arms, Shields continued to resupply his fellow Americans who needed ammunition and to return the enemy fire for a period of approximately three hours, at which time the Viet Cong launched a massive attack at close-range with flamethrowers, hand grenades and small-arms fire. Wounded a second time during this attack, Shields nevertheless assisted in carrying a more critically wounded man to safety, and then resumed firing at the enemy for four more hours. 

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Apex Optics Vapor 1-4X Variable Prism Sight

Prism sights are nothing new, but they have certainly taken off over the past decade. When Trijicon introduced the ACOG and it began appearing on military weapons, other manufacturers quickly took notice. Their compact size, etched reticles, clarity, and easy-to-use sight picture have made prism optics increasingly popular.

One of the reasons prism sights are so durable is their simple fixed-magnification design, although that same characteristic can also be considered a limitation. The Apex Optics Vapor takes a different approach by combining the advantages of a prism optic with variable magnification.

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Attorneys Try to Build on ‘Negligent Marketing’ Claim to Include Independent Reviews of Guns

They author was subpoenaed in an anti-gun lawsuit. . .for being a guntuber. The case is Roberts v. Smith & Wesson, and it’s the same playbook, almost copy+paste, of the Soto v. Bushmaster “Sandy Hook” lawsuit against Remington, which put them out of business.

This one arises from the Highland Park July 4, 2022 shooting, where the killer used an M&P15. The plaintiffs are of course attempting to blame S&W for the incident and the theory, you guessed it, “negligent marketing.” They say S&W appealed to young men interested in militaristic imagery and that this influenced the shooter to select the M&P15, and that this more or less was a cause of this incident. Insanity.

Now they are reaching beyond S&W and into firearms media. The author received a subpoena demanding years of info and analytics concerning S&W and reviews. The part that should concern my fellow gun reviewers: Their subpoena defines an “Advertisement” to include even unpaid organic social-media content. In other words, by the plaintiffs’ definition, even an independent review of a lawful product is “advertising,” and they think they are entitled to any info that touches on essentially any YouTube video about the M&P15 during the relevant period.

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Influencer Baloney: Beware of “Influencers” Passing False Propaganda

On social media, an influencer-type put up an out-of-context video of John Farnam. John was depicted on a range giving information and shooting a demonstration. The response was to use John’s demo to discount someone who was a “typical anti-competition fudd” (sic), who’d allegedly trained at DTI. It was alleged that John “told him to stop competing because it ingrained bad habits …” something that is unlikely to have happened.

This is why many classes prohibit video and/or audio recording.  It is too easy for someone with an agenda to publish the video out of context. This is going to get worse as AI proliferates. I was out with Massad Ayoob at dinner one evening when Mas showed me a video with him speaking fluent, flawless Spanish.  Since Mas does not speak Spanish I found this curious. He said that a student using AI had modified the video.

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The Bren Ten

A Bren Ten Prototype Pistol

Largely the brainchild of Thomas F. Dornaus and his business partner Michael W. Dixon, personal friends who shared a passion for firearms, the design that would become the Bren Ten began conceptualization in 1979. The two sought to create a semi-automatic pistol with greater capacity and cartridge power than the .45 ACP out of the Model 1911 and .357 Magnum out of double action revolvers, which were some of the most prevalent and powerful sidearm options available for law enforcement at the time. 

 

Jeff Cooper (of Gunsite fame) was impressed and suggested two alterations which would come to define the line, changing the name to "BREN TEN" in recognition of CZ and re-chambering the pistol for a new 10 mm automatic cartridge. As a result, Dornaus & Dixon contracted Norma to design Cooper's conceptual cartridge, resulting in the creation of the 10 mm Automatic cartridge, with the Bren Ten being the first firearm chambered for it.

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The 10mm Auto: History & Performance

Many shooters believe that the 10 mm Auto round LtCol. Jeff Cooper conceived was invented in 1983. However, the story goes back at least another decade. In the early ’70s, an editor at Guns & Ammo magazine, Whit Collins, became greatly interested in writer George C. Nonte’s experiments with a wildcat .40-cal. cartridge based upon a shortened .41 Magnum case with its rim turned down to a rebated style to fit a 9 mm Luger breech-face.

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Stop Practicing Shooting – A Response

Karl Rehn's thoughts concerning a older Ralph Mroz article lists 25 things an armed person needs to be good at to be well prepared for armed self-defense. The Massad Ayoob Group MAG 40 program covers fourteen of the twenty five.

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Springfield XD Mod.4 Review: New, But Not

The new XD Mod.4 is what appears to be an entirely new pistol, but it isn’t. The internals are the same as they have always been, with improvements to details such as manufacturing efficiency and fit and function. The frame is the same polymer shell with the internals fitted and pinned into place, with a bladed safety-trigger on the flat-faced trigger, and striker-fired mechanism. There is the grip safety at the rear, adding to the suite of safety designs internally, so the XD Mod.4 OSP is drop-safe and still ergonomic to handle and use.

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Garmin Chronograph VS Athlon Chronograph

Two of the most interesting modern Chronograph options are the Garmin Xero C1 Pro and the Athlon Rangecraft Velocity Pro. Both are small, rechargeable radar chronographs, capable of measuring a wide variety of projectiles at various velocities. Both can be operated independently of the firearm, meaning they don’t need to be attached to the gun or barrel to make them work. They also don’t use optical sensors, so you don’t need to shoot projectiles through a set of screens or antennas to get a ballistic reading.

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The Stenzel Industries SAK-21: A Uniquely American AK

The AR-15/M16 vs. AK-47 debate is often framed in a Cold War West vs. East. The reality is that AR-15-type firearms are now made around the world, while plenty of AKs are made in the U.S. An example of the latter is the Stenzel American Kalashnikov – 2021 or SAK-21.

While maintaining some basic design features and aesthetics of the Kalashnikov, the SAK-21 makes significant departures. Its receiver is machined out of billet aluminum with a steel trunnion insert, and it has a user-changeable barrel.

I personally never felt the need to own an AK, although I have fired many original former Communist-Bloc versions. This one looks to have addressed many of the shortcomings of the traditional AK—it is an expensive example though.

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Police Responding to an Unknown Situation

Police practices have strong regional overtones. Four retired officers from various regions of the country contributed to this study. In addition to addressing west coast practices Roy Huntington publishes American Cop magazine. Rich Grassi writes for the NRA’s Shooting Illustrated and the Tactical Wire; his comments in this study are representative of the mid-western states. After a 35-year career in policing and corrections, Herb Furhman now teaches firearms classes, and here he speaks to his experiences working in Connecticut. Police procedures expert Edward Mamet served a distinguished almost-forty-year career in New York City, including 20 years in NYPD’s detective bureau, and he speaks about policing in large, metropolitan areas.

Armed citizens bristle when told that they may be treated like a violent criminal after defending themselves. They forget that law enforcement enters the scene with only limited knowledge. Queried about how law enforcement approaches a call about an armed citizen, the respondents in this article (experienced police officers) explained that safety of the responding officers must be foremost (at least in the officer’s minds).

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Don't Get Shot: Dealing With Police During a Traffic Stop

While we are on the topic: This article analyzes Opelika Police Officer Phillip Hancock’s furtive movement shooting of Air Force Airman 1st Class Michael Davidson.

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Scout Rifle Requiem: Q&A With Gunsite Legend Giles Stock

I have quite a few rifles among which is a Steyr Scout I purchased in the late 1990’s. I purchased the rifle standard and then had the stock cerakoated a medium brown. I have the original Leupold fixed two-power Scout scope on the rifle.

I love my scout rifle. It vies with an M1A match rifle as my favorite. This article is a Q&A with Mr. Giles Stock who worked closely with Jeff Cooper as he developed the Scout Rifle concept.

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John Hearn’s Mississippi Casino Drill

I recently attended John Hearn’s Who Wins, Who Loses, & Why: Understanding Human Performance When Death is on the Line and Cognitive Pistol with Tactical Anatomy classes – great classes; everyone should attend. Karl Rehn of KR Training hosted the classes.

John introduced the Mississippi Casino Drill variation of the Classic Casino Drill that Tom Givens of Range Master originally developed. The classic casino drill is fired from five yards, uses the original casino target (see picture at the right), with a total of twenty-one rounds. The shooter loads seven rounds in their pistol and has two spare magazines with seven rounds each. On the signal, shooters engage target numbers 1-6 with the same number of rounds as the target number: e.g. one hit on the #1 target, two hits on the #2 target, and so on; reloading as necessary until all twenty-one rounds are fired. The shooter’s score is their raw time plus one second per missed shot or shot fired on the wrong target.

John’s Mississippi Casino Drill variation is fired from five yards, uses the original casino target or variations thereof, with a total of fifteen rounds. The shooter loads five rounds in their pistol and has two spare magazines with five rounds each. On the signal, shooters engage target numbers 1-6 with the same number of rounds as the target number: e.g. one hit on the #1 target, two hits on the #2 target, and so on; however, the shooter DOES NOT engage target #6. Like the classic casino drill, the shooter reloads as necessary until all fifteen rounds are fired. The shooter’s score is their raw time plus one second per missed shot or shot fired on the wrong target. John’s Mississippi version uses six fewer rounds so shooters can log more repetitions for the same round expenditure.

Rangemaster uses the Classic Casino Drill in many/most of their classes so naturally people practice the drill. That’s not the point of the drill however, Tom designed the drill to stress the shooter’s ability to perform the primary task of recognizing and hitting the target while simultaneously performing the secondary tasks of reloading the pistol and remembering what target to engage (and with how many rounds) after a reload.

So how do we maintain the drill’s purpose and preclude shooter’s from memorizing the engagement sequence? In class, John turned some of the targets upside down which did provide some variation.

I recently used the Mississippi version in one of my classes and tried some other variations which worked to keep my students motivated and precluded them from memorizing the sequence. For starters, I found that there are at least three version of the casino target available with the number/shape targets different in each version. That being the case, by turning some upside down you would have six variations. If additionally, you rotate some ninety degrees left and right, you have nine variations.

If you are an instructor and you have a mixed group of intermediate and advanced shooters in your class (it happens a lot), you can use white masking tape to reduce the outline of some targets or you could draw a line across some targets (diagonal or horizontal) and challenge the advanced students to make ½ of the hits in each half of the target. You can add a dummy round in one magazine. You can tell the students to shoot in sequence from one to five, five to one, or start with a number (e.g. three) and then shoot in ascending or descending sequences. There are probably other variations.

John mentioned a method for training alone using modified dice. Take one die and add labels for up and down--one on each face while leaving the other as is.  Roll the dice and shoot as indicated.  For example, if you roll an "up" on one die and a "four" on the other, start with target #4, then engage target #5, then target #1, and so on. 

John’s Mississippi Casino is a useful drill that accomplishes the goal of stressing the shooter’s ability to perform the primary task of recognizing and hitting the target while simultaneously performing the secondary tasks mentioned above. If we add the variations and modifications we can maintain the challenge for everyone.

Wednesday Wisdom: 23 September 2026

Medal of Honor: Glenn Harry English Jr

SSG English was riding in the lead armored personnel carrier in a four-vehicle column when an enemy mine exploded in front of his vehicle. As the vehicle swerved from the road, a concealed enemy force waiting in ambush opened fire with automatic weapons and antitank grenades, striking the vehicle several times and setting it on fire. SSG English escaped from the disabled vehicle and, without pausing to extinguish the flames on his clothing, rallied his stunned unit. He then led it in a vigorous assault, in the face of heavy enemy automatic-weapons fire, on the entrenched enemy position. This prompt and courageous action routed the enemy and saved his unit from destruction. 

Following the assault, SSG English heard the cries of three men still trapped inside the vehicle. Paying no heed to warnings that the ammunition and fuel in the burning personnel carrier might explode at any moment, SSG English raced to the vehicle and climbed inside to rescue his wounded comrades. As he was lifting one of the men to safety, the vehicle exploded, mortally wounding him and the man he was attempting to save.

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Zev Technologies x Magpul FDP-C

An interesting firearm released in 2026 was the Zev Technologies FDP-C, a folding pistol-caliber design that the company produced in conjunction with Magpul Industries. It's actually a short-barreled rifle, so it does fall under the National Firearms Act.

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Carrying Vintage Pistols: A Practical Guide

Whether you call it retro or vintage or old-school, there’s something to be said about the classics, but deciding to go with that type of carry presents some challenges, both practical and aesthetic. First, I’ll argue that if you’re carrying any sort of revolver you’re already carrying a vintage design. Revolvers are 150-year-old technology—people still carry them because they work. On the semi-auto side, you’re looking at actual vintage pistols, collectors’ items, family heirlooms, or newly-made retro/classic versions of famous models; as an American you’ll most likely think of the 1911 first, then maybe iterations of the Browning Hi-Power. In fact, it was the arrival of a newly-manufactured Inglis L9A1 which gave me the idea for this column.

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A Guide to Many but By No Means All Suppressors for 2026

This is by no means a comprehensive list of all available suppressors on the market. However, it does include many of the new and innovative models being offered in 2026. Some are built for performance in the hunting fields or in competition. Others are built for tactical applications or compactness. All provide a measure of safety from hearing damage. As industry-wide testing standards have yet to be implemented, it’s difficult to compare suppressors and many makers opted not to provide sound attenuation figures.

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STATION SIX 45

Tracing its roots back to the covert World War II-era Welrod pistol and the more modernized contract VP9 (not to be confused with the H&K VP9), the all-new Station SIX-45 (Silenced Project caliber 45) harkens back to the famed Birtley Hall weapons development section—known as SOE Station VI and later Station IX—where the British originally conceived of the concept. This updated, integrally suppressed pistol features a new grip and updated magazines while maintaining its non-descript appearance, whisper-quiet sound signature, and unique rotating bolt operation.

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Fixing Problem Shooters – Part 1 

If we take the time to understand just a little bit about how the brain functions, we can use that knowledge to inform ourselves about how to improve student's shooting ability. Here, we’ll focus on the remediation aspect.

First the bad news. There is no “secret sauce.” Or, more precisely, if there is, we haven’t found it. There’s no quick formula, no incantation, no set of standards, no whiz bang drill, and no pill that can zap a student with immediate and lasting improvement in these types of skillsets. The human brain simply doesn’t function that way.

The good news, however, is that there actually is a lot that can be done in these in-service settings, both to conduct effective and lasting remediation for problem shooters and to run highly effective training that can maintain and enhance even the most advanced skillsets. 

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How A 3D Printed Suppressor Is Made

Opens to a video showing behind the scenes at Griffin Armament where they manufacture the 3D Additive Manufacturing 3D Printed Suppressors. If you are interested in some of the new 3D printed suppressor technologies, this is a fascinating video showing how they actually make them.

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Suppressor Mirage Cover: Stop Heat Distortion in Your Scope

Heat mirage occurs when ground surfaces, rifle barrels, or suppressors heat the surrounding air. As this air warms, it expands and becomes less dense than the cooler air above it. Light passing through these air layers of varying densities bends, a phenomenon known as refraction.

Through a rifle scope or spotting scope, this refraction appears as shimmering heat waves that can obscure distant targets or create optical illusions, making objects appear to shift from their true position.

Mirage impacts long-range marksmanship in both positive and negative ways. When generated downrange across terrain, heat waves serve as an accurate tool for reading wind vectors. However, when generated near the muzzle, heat waves become an optical obstacle.

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A New Feature: Dumb Criminal of the Week Tried to Rob a House Full of Construction Workers Half His Age

I will have a dumb criminal of the week periodically as I come across the stories. Look at that sad face. We should not tell anyone to limit themselves, but if you’re a 60-year-old, 15-time convicted felon, maybe robbing a house full of construction workers half your age isn’t the best career move. But William Garrett didn’t ask for career advice, and prosecutors say that’s exactly what he did in West Pullman.

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The LVAW: JSOC’s Micro Sized Blaster

 

The name Low Visibility Assault Weapon is an interesting one and is a weapon that should be looked at with military eyes and not civilian. It’s certainly not a concealable platform. It is a very compact carbine design that features a super short barrel — it’s a mere 6.75 inches long. I have handguns with a six-inch barrel, for reference. Finding official measurements is tough. This isn’t a rifle that pops up in SIG’s catalog.

The LVAW does feature a folding stock and has been seen with both a standard metal folding stock and the modern folding and collapsible design we see in numerous MCX rifles. It’s a rifle design that can be very small and compact. It’s not designed to be hidden under a coat, but it does help the operator keep a low profile in other ways.

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Trigger Press Casualty

A post is circulating about a fellow whose hand became a casualty when the chambered round in his Glock 44 (.22 Long Rifle caliber) failed to eject. He then pressed the trigger and a loud noise occurred instead of the ‘click’ he expected. Unfortunately for him, his hand was over the muzzle and the bullet injured his hand.

When you put your hand over the muzzle of a loaded pistol and then pull the trigger it should not be surprising that you will shoot your hand.  Another example: Don't Shoot Yourself

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Communism In America - Part 1

From someone who knows the evils communism firsthand

It seems that an affinity toward communism is growing in America. If Americans were not historically illiterate, they would see incredible parallels between the agenda of the left...the liberals, the progressives, and the avowed socialists (democratic or otherwise), with the agenda communism’s founders promoted. Please read history before scoffing as uninformed opinions are as worthless as the results of communism.

Communism remains as the greatest threat to humanity and the greatest danger to the success of this country and those who live here. What we are seeing now is the American Communist Machine at work to hold on to a sliver of power while seeking to discredit those who defeated it.

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