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Self-Defense Training: Does Anyone Ever Really Have Time for the OODA Loop?
A TTAG Reader writes:
Innumerable articles have been written about the defensive use of firearms, especially handguns. Due to the high number of current and former combat veterans, much of the self-defense literary efforts seem to be influenced by small unit tactics. One of the significant theories of defensive tactics is the famous (infamous?) OODA loop.
Many gun owners who have had some personal defense training are familiar with the concept of the OODA loop.
The ATF’s Prosecution of Larry Vickers Was About Headlines and a High Profile Scalp
By Lee Williams
The ATF wants to imprison a decorated American soldier for a series of victimless crimes, even though the federal regulations he’s accused of violating may not be constitutional, and questions about ATF’s potential involvement in the case remain unanswered.
The same federal agency that ran guns across the border into Mexico – which were used by drug cartels to murder Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry and scores of Mexican nationals – believes that retired special operations veteran, Larry Vickers, needs to be locked up, even though none of his weapons ended up in cartel hands.
Dickey: The World of the AR-15 is a Frightening Place Where All That Matters is the Gun
A lucid, straightforward, and well-researched and -reported work, American Gun promises, via its back cover, “fairness and compassion.” By the book’s end, I found myself wondering why fairness is a worthy goal here. I don’t know what fairness we owe these manufacturers or the individuals who buy their products. There is no argument here—compassionate or otherwise—that can explain why an everyday person needs a weapon designed solely to kill as many people as possible in seconds.
We Know Exactly What the Founders Thought About Guns Because We Can Read What They Wrote
By Daniel Kowalski
In all my years of existence, the Second Amendment of our Constitution has always been considered controversial. Opponents claim it is the cause of gun violence. Proponents assert that it helps guarantee freedom and safety.
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
These twenty-seven words have been the subject of much debate during the 20th and 21st centuries.
News From Israel and Canada Highlight Why Defending Second Amendment Rights Here is So Critical
Israel Loosens Strict Gun Control Laws To Arm Citizens https://t.co/8Ux3yJTGre
— Leon W Todd (@leontodd) October 19, 2023
Citizens in two countries are reminding Americans that Second Amendment rights and a robust firearm and ammunition manufacturing base cannot be taken for granted.
Israel is preparing for a ground invasion into Gaza after more than 1,400 of their citizens fell victim to Hamas terrorists storming into their homes, murdering, torturing and dragging off innocent civilians as hostages.
Angstadt Arms Announces the New AXL-9 AR9 Modular Lower Receiver
Angstadt Arms has a new AR-9 lower designed to work with a wide range of magazines. It features interchangeable magazine wells to use magazines from a number of pistol makers as well as different calibers.
So if you have, say, GLOCK 33-round magazines along with 30-rounders for an MP5 that you’d like to be able to use in a pistol caliber carbine format, the new AXL-9 lower lets you swap out mag wells to accept them.
Federal Law Follies: Auto Switches Show the Failure of Gun Control Laws…Again…Still
From the NRA-ILA . . .
In recent years there have been several articles complaining about the proliferation of auto or GLOCK switches (auto sears). These items are used by criminals to illegally modify commonly-owned semiautomatic handguns into machineguns. Those concerned about these items should focus on enforcement of existing federal law.
Reasonable people can question the wisdom of banning the mere possession of inanimate objects, rather than focusing on their intentional misuse.
Gear Review: Swampfox Sentinel 2 Red Dot Sight
Swampfox has carved a name into the red dot, LPVO, variable, and prism optic world as a budget-friendly manufacturer that isn’t afraid to do things differently. They’ve been pretty active in the world of pistol red dots, and their latest is the Sentinel 2. Well, it hasn’t technically been released yet, but it’s coming soon. It’s an optic they’ve been teasing since SHOT Show in January, and it’s finally ready to hit the market.
Like the original Sentinel, the Sentinel 2 was designed for subcompact or micro-compact pistols like the P365, the Hellcat, the GLOCK 43X and 48 MOS, and basically every modern micro-compact pistol.
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Real World Personal Defense Lessons from Hamas’s Drugged-Up Terrorists
The original assassins had hashish, the Moros in the Philippines used a native opioid, the Somali pirates and terrorists chew khat, and now there is a new terrorist drug of choice…Captagon. Numerous dead Hamas terrorists in Israel were found with pockets full of what is called “the poor man’s cocaine”.
What is Captagon and why should we be concerned about it?
Captagon was the brand name for a legal drug used to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, narcolepsy, and depression in the 1960s and 1970s.
US v. Vickers: Larry Vickers Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy to Illegally Acquire Machine Guns
By Lee Williams
Special operations combat veteran, firearms industry consultant, tactical instructor and YouTube personality with more than a million loyal followers, Larry Allen Vickers, pleaded guilty last week to a multi-count federal indictment that accused him of conspiring to illegally import and obtain machineguns and other restricted firearms, and conspiring to violate U.S. sanctions against a Russian arms manufacturer.
Vickers, 60, faces up to 25 years in prison, according to a press release from the U.S.
Personal Defense Tip: Train to Move When You Shoot and to Shoot When You Move
Movement is a topic that’s mostly misunderstood and rarely practiced. As a foundational skill, it should be part of every competent gunman’s skill set. Why is movement so important? Because a moving target is harder to hit than a static one.
Movement is life
If all you practice is static shooting — drawing and shooting your firearm while standing still — there’s a good chance that’s exactly what you’ll do in a gunfight.
CDC Data Show Gun Homicides Fell in the Middle of America’s Historic Gun Buying Spree
We have some terrible news for the Gun Control Industry™. The CDC — yes, the same CDC that desperately wanted more taxpayer dollars for more “gun violence research” — is reporting that firearm-related homicides fell in 2022. If you’re a regular reader, you know that 2022 was smack-dab in the very fattest part of the now 50-month gun-buying binge the American public embarked on during the pandemic and the George Floyd Summer of Love.
But wait, you say.
Jersey City, NJ Sues to Block Cops From Using Marijuana
Federal law, it’s very, very clear that if you use Schedule 1 drugs, based on the federal guidelines, you’re not allowed to have a firearm. That’s very clear. And then New Jersey law is you cannot be a police officer without having a firearm. So in the case of a police officer doing something that results in, let’s say, injury or death and a lawsuit is filed after that, the city is responsible for tens of millions of dollars in liability because they’re obviously going to be in that lawsuit.
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Attempted Seattle Home Invasion Shows – Once Again – Why You Need More Than 10 Rounds [VIDEO]
You’ve heard it dozens of times. No one needs more than 10 rounds in a magazine. If you can’t stop a threat with 10 rounds, you’re doing it wrong. Woolly-headed utopian anti-gun activists justify the limits they want to impose on all gun owners as some kind of safety measure that might some day, somewhere, slow down a spree killer who chooses to comply with a gun control law…while he’s murdering people.
Joe Biden went so far as to assert that 100 rounds in a chamber is crazy…whatever the hell that means.
ATF Agent Caught Smuggling Guns Into Mexico…Again
Maybe you thought that Fast and Furious, the Obama administration ATF operation that moved guns across the border into Mexico, was a thing of the distant past. Apparently not. Fast and Furious was reportedly shut down by the Obama Justice Department in 2011 when the whole disaster spilled into public view and resulted in deaths on both sides of the border, including US Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry.
The sitting Attorney General at the time, Barack Obama wingman Eric Holder, was eventually held in contempt of Congress over his lack of cooperation with the subsequent investigation.
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Judge Benitez Wonders What the Hell Ryan Busse Knows About AR-15 Rifles
The State offers declarations from a number of other expert witnesses to address subjects other than historical analogues. In general, these are subjects that this Court has already addressed in its earlier opinion and is beyond the Court of Appeals remand order. Nevertheless, some of these opinions are mentioned here. …
Ryan Busse is a Giffords senior advisor and former firearm industry executive for a manufacturer and seller that specializes in pistols and revolvers, but not AR-15 platform rifles.
Gun Meme of the Day: Organized Joy Edition
Better keep it, then!
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