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Ideas, analysis, and practical perspectives on firearms, tactics, mindset, decision-making, leadership, training, and professional development.
Effective moderators protect technical communities by demanding context and reasoning, correcting misinformation, managing authority, and keeping useful disagreement professional.
Armed citizens considering an active-shooter response must prioritize escape, family protection, threat identification, police contact, medical capability, and second-order consequences.
Defensive-rifle choices should be based on requirements, construction, reliability, documented performance, maintenance, and training—not ownership pride or brand loyalty.
Vehicle-stored rifles and armor may have legitimate uses, but access is never guaranteed. Real preparedness begins with judgment, training, medical capability, lawful planning, and secure storage.
By: Bill Blowers Mark was running training one day. I think we were rotating through single room, decision making type hits. There was a newer dude on the team with about nine months on the team. Dude is consistently fucking up the program. Big issue is lack of situational awareness and ability to see … Read more
Editor’s note: This article reflects information available when it was originally published. Laws, policies, products, personnel, technical standards, and recommended practices may have changed. Verify time-sensitive details through current authoritative sources before relying on them. I’m generally going to be writing about my experiences, and the experiences I’ve heard from others, regarding various academies … Read more
Quality Assurance in the Selection of Equipment & Information. By: Frank Woods (NYPD) What is “the best?” This isn’t so much a subjective matter, as it one of observation. To start, let’s determine what it is not: – Best is not determined by a cabal of industry & marketing masterminds scheming and plotting on how … Read more
Know your goal. Know your role. Slow your roll. We live in a world of appearances. It’s unavoidable when most of the data we accumulate is visual. How we look is important and can play a large part in what social groups we to which we gain entry. If you show up to your office … Read more
Arien Lee explains how skilled OPFOR role players improve force-on-force training through adaptive resistance, realistic feedback, equipment testing, physical pressure, and adversarial perspective.
By: Dr. Gary K. Roberts 8/23/11 Psychological and Physiological Incapacitation The last 30 years of modern wound ballistic research has demonstrated yet again what historical reports have always indicated–that there are only two valid methods of incapacitation: one based on psychological factors and the other physiological damage. People are often rapidly psychologically incapacitated by minor … Read more