This is the second of three planned posts reflecting on the civilian defensive firearms lessons to be learned from Matthew Ford’s book about military small arms innovations. Yesterday I wrote about balancing competing features of weapons, ballistic science and lethality. PART 2 of 3 DEFINING THE BATTLEFIELD Looming large throughout Ford’s book is the point … Continue reading
“We stand on the shoulders of giants. That’s why we are able to see so far.” – Tom Givens As I noted in an earlier post, part of which is repeated here, Givens is drawing on an aphorism commonly attributed to Sir Isaac Newton who said: “If I have seen farther, it is by standing … Continue reading
As I have done for my posts on the civilian gun training industry, Col. Jeff Cooper/Gunsite, the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo, the NRA Annual Meeting and Exhibits, gun ownership statistics, Rob Pincus, and Gabe Suarez, this page provides convenient access to continually updated links to all my posts about Tom Givens and Rangemaster. Links below … Continue reading
Following up on my (long) lost post yesterday, I found some notes on a session I attended at the 2014 Rangemaster Tactical Conference led by Tom Givens. Although posted here 3+ years after the fact, Givens continues to make the same point today (as as I saw at the Rangemaster Instructor Development course I attended … Continue reading
Finding comments I wrote on Rob Pincus’s Combat Focus Shooting class that I did not remember writing made me wonder what else I have written and forgotten. That took me back into the draft folders on my computer and blog site, in which I found a fairly lengthy reflection on attending my first (the 17th … Continue reading
I just registered for the 20th Anniversary edition of the Rangemaster Polite Society Tactical Conference. It seems I only attend the annual event on historic occasions because the only other time I attended, in 2014, was the last year the Tac Con was held at Rangemaster in Memphis. Registration is $349 plus an additional $20.19 … Continue reading
I have been so caught up trying to understand the overall structure of the gun training industry and its central individuals and organizations that I have neglected the proverbial elephant in the room: the National Rifle Association Education and Training Department. At some point this past summer I realized I had never taken the NRA’s … Continue reading
