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Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine   Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine  I was born and raised in She wanted me home at night. I went to Columbus, Ohio and I have work for a regional bank as the Chief of spent the majority of my 39 years in and Maintenance for their flight department. A Each issue of CCM contains an article that “PROFILES” an everyday individual who carries a concealed weapon. around the central part of Ohio, with a lot of couple years later, my job was eliminated This article is an inspiration to our readers by helping traveling. After I graduated from college, I after a change in CEO and Board of them to realize that they are not alone in their lifestyle de- cision to always be armed. went to work for a Canadian airline as an Directors, and I once again moved. I am aircraft maintenance technician and spent now an instructor in Aviation Maintenance been cleaned for several months since the the next three years on the road, living in at a local community college, and spill and the cream had molded. I had to various cities, from Toronto-Canada, to a looking to stay. Seven moves in five years drift out the rounds and fully disassemble brief stay in Montana and in Phoenix, for and wearing out several sets of luggage… and clean the weapon. I worked on that one specialized schools. It was an exciting life, I am home. piece about eighty hours to get it functional but I missed sleeping in one place for an I received my first exposure to firearms again. My biggest piece of advice to anyone extended period. as a Civil Air Patrol Cadet. I was thirteen that carries a firearm is treat it well. It could When the airline went bust in the early and attending the annual summer camp at save your life if it is functional. 90s, I took a job with a plastics company as Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. We went My aviation career and firearms have the Chief of Maintenance and co-pilot. So through the standard aircrew firearms always been tied together. Piloting an much for staying in one place, I spent about training on the M-16 (22LR conversion). aircraft in Florida in the 90s was rather two days a week away from home. After a I shot an amazing 250 points out of 300 dangerous with the theft of aircraft for year of flying, I decided that I wanted to possible and was allowed to shoot again drug trafficking. We took courses in stay on the ground for a while and moved with .223 and full auto. I looked forward theft prevention and detection, as well as to southern Michigan, working for a small, to the summer camps every year and my firearms training around aircraft. Working but rapidly growing air freight company. love for the intricacy of firearms grew. I as a Safety/Operations Officer at a closing In 1993, my fiancé and I decided to get went on to shoot competition for the Naval Air Force Base, we had routine security married, and since I had been commuting ROTC rifle team in college. We shot two to briefings. I learned to develop threat 350 miles each week for the previous six three times a week, with an average of 500 assessments, which came in useful in my months, I decided to pack up again and move to 1000 rounds. later jobs. As a college instructor, I teach home. Once back in Columbus, I worked for The aviation bug bit me harder than law enforcement officers and firefighters a contractor for the Air Force Base Closure a career in law enforcement, so I went on about aircraft operations—the truth and Agency, turning over a former Air Force to get my degree in Aviation Maintenance. not Hollywood fiction. Base to the local community, working as I still competed, but mainly in local clubs I have managed to stay in one place an Airport Safety/Operations Officer. As and tournaments. I really enjoy the bowling for the last eight years, and I plan on many the contract was finishing up, I changed pin shoots at one local gun range. I started more. I am married, with a beautiful wife jobs and went to work for a fractional helping a retired Sheriff and part-time and two lovely daughters. I spend most aircraft ownership company, where I was gunsmith, working on duty weapons for weekends at the soccer fields or riding my responsible for the maintenance of 250 smaller police departments. I was always motorcycle. I am a Life Member of the aircraft throughout the world. amazed at the neglect that these weapons NRA, a member of USCCA, Ohio Gun After three years of the night shift undertook. One snub-nosed .38 that we Collectors Association, and the grassroots and the birth of my second daughter, my received was inoperable, due to coffee gun lobby organization, The People’s wife strongly suggested that I change jobs. being spilled on the weapon. It had not Rights Organization.

 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 CCM: Was there a specific incident that caused you to carry a gun?

Jeff: There isn’t any one specific reason for me to decide to carry concealed, other than my hope to protect my family and myself. I used to travel late at night, back and forth from the airport I worked at, which wasn’t in the best part of town. Being an employee of a bank and traveling to the CEO’s airplane did make me a little nervous. When Ohio legalized CCW, I decided to seek my permit.

CCM: Have you ever had to use your firearm in a defensive situation?

Jeff: Thankfully, I haven’t. My brother is a Practice shooting off-hand and in different Jeff: Federal Hydra-shok. police officer, so I get to hear his stories. positions, such as kneeling, prone, around corners, and with one hand immobilized. CCM: What concealment holsters do CCM: What training methods do The computer simulator helps in this type you use? you employ? Do you have any recom- of training. Take advanced training courses mendations? on clearing jams and shooting techniques. Jeff: DeSanti in-the-pocket for the Kel- Tec or a 5.11 Tactical Shirt. Uncle Mike’s Jeff: For firearms training, there is CCM: How long have you carried a Slide Holster for the Daewoo, and an Uncle nothing better than practice. Practice concealed weapon? Mike’s Shoulder Holster for the Walther. pulling the firearm from a concealed carry I try to limit the carry techniques to one position, practice loading and unloading, Jeff: For just over a year. or two for each weapon. This allows for but remember to always think—safety. muscle memory if I would need to draw. It When I practice, I always have someone CCM: What weapons do you carry? makes for a more natural draw. else verify that I have nothing but a snap cap loaded. For shooting, I practice point Jeff: I carry a Kel-Tec P-32 (.32 auto) most CCM: What do you do for a living? shooting, which is hard for me, coming often. I also carry a Daewoo DP51C (9mm) from a precision shooting past. It does help Tri-action and occasionally a Walther PPK Jeff: I am an Aviation Maintenance though. I am lucky enough to have access to (.380). instructor at a community college. I also a computer simulator for law enforcement run an aviation maintenance consulting academies. It really helps in situational CCM: What type of ammunition do company. awareness and conflict resolution training. you carry? CCM: Do you have any advice for our readers?

Jeff: My biggest piece of advice would be to know your weapon. Be able to field strip it accurately and reassemble it without fumbling. Handle your weapon often, knowing how to quickly put the safety on and take it off. Know where the magazine release is. Practice the best way to clear jams for each weapon. Keep the weapon clean, keep it clean, and keep it clean. I have helped “smith” a few firearms for police departments and found one that was completely inoperable due to mold from spilled coffee. I had to drive the shells out of the cylinder. Not a good situation if you should have to use it. If you are going to carry, you should know your weapon, keep it clean, and train/practice often.

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com ConcealedConcealed Carry Carry Magazine Magazine  issues light. Thirty-five hundred people attended his funeral, which is a testimony Each issue of CCM contains an article that “PROFILES ” an everyday individual who carries to the influence he had on others.” Lynn’s a concealed weapon. Lynn, as interviewed by Don father’s quiet, principled strength provided Myers, is an inspiration to our readers by help- ing them to realize that they are not alone in their the model that molded a vivacious and lifestyle decision to always be armed. Don Myers is precocious young girl into a strong, a professional pilot, a Vietnam era army captain, an author, a certified concealed handgun license intelligent woman. instructor for the state of Texas, and most impor- tantly of all, a proud grandfather. Lynn married after 3 semesters at the University of Texas, at Arlington. She and During those formative years, her parents her husband moved back to the Dallas-Fort guided her development with Christian Worth area after serving four years in the principles, resulting in Lynn’s forming a Air Force. She raised and home schooled relationship with Jesus that would be her three children, while attending Tarrant anchor to weather some difficult days that County College, during which time she also lay ahead in her interesting life. served 14 years as Nursery Director within “My parents lived Christianity in the children’s ministry in her church. everything they did. My dad was one of the “I love children and I loved that ministry.” One Sunday, while in church, my wife wisest, godliest men I have ever known, but Terrible marital problems in the early and I noticed a striking blonde along side not religious, in the sense that he did not 80s began a dark period in her life. “I was her husband whom we had not seen before. preach. He was a strong man with a gentle devastated. I had poured everything I was During a break, my wife and I found that manner who constantly showed agape into my family. This wasn’t supposed to we had both noticed their sartorial taste love when dealing with anyone. He was a happen to a Christian. However, through the in western wear, with her large silver belt positive influence on everyone, with his heartache, I found I was gaining strength and the silver conchos in her husband’s wonderful, dry sense of humor. He had the in my relationship with the Lord. I always belt accenting his crisply starched jeans wisdom, through his humor, to keep heavy thought I was a Christian, but I came to and western shirt, which gave them both an elegant look. Admittedly, talking about worldly things such as the way someone looks or dresses in church is not normal for us, but I have a friend who is one of the few artists in the state who makes silver conchos. As a result, I notice when someone is wearing them. As my wife and I were leaving the sanctuary, we happened to come along side the visiting couple. My wife commented to the blonde about how much she liked her silver belt. That led to an incredible conversation in which I discovered that she had a concealed handgun license and carried a .44 Special. Within minutes, we became good friends with Thomas and Lynn Moore and before we departed, I knew the readers of CCM had to hear Lynn’s story. Strangely, Thomas does not have his concealed handgun license yet. For a departure from the norm, it is the wife who is encouraging her husband to carry protection. He agrees and will be in my next concealed handgun class. Lynn was born in Longview, Texas to a loving and nurturing mother and father. This ebullient lady has lived in Texas all of her life, except the four years her husband served in the Air Force. She grew up between Dallas and Fort Worth, where she graduated from L. D. Bell High School.

 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 realize that I had a tremendous amount of I’ve hunted caribou in the Northwest head knowledge, not a personal relation- Territories and moose in the Yukon.” ship with Jesus Christ. I accepted Jesus as Pointing to the huge whitetail mount on the my Savior and was radically changed for wall, she said, “I shot that deer on the King the Lord, which was absolutely the most Ranch, so I’ve done a lot of fun things. I significant event in my life, since it changed absolutely love to hunt and during this time every aspect within me for the better. For developed a keen interest in guns and the CCM: Was there a specific incident that the first time, I began experiencing grace guns used in the hunt. The fact that my caused you to carry a gun? to endure.” friends are bow hunters still challenges me In 1995, after twenty-eight years of today to be as proficient with guns as they Lynn: Yes, I was already in the process marriage, Lynn walked through a very are with bows. of getting my CHL, but this incident just difficult divorce. “Even though I was strug- I was running three cleaning crews confirmed it was a good idea. I own a gling financially to get my two younger at this time. Of course, most of that work commercial cleaning business and had children through college, and processing was done at night, so I often worked until gone by to pick up one of my employees the hurts of a hostile relationship with my midnight or one o’clock in the morning. As one night, on the way to a client’s office. I ex, I had become self-sufficient in my own a result of these late hours, I realized the had just come from Austin on a hunt and commercial cleaning business. At the same need for some type of protection in the form before going to pick up my employee, I time, I decided to incorporate the business, of a handgun. It wasn’t so much fear, or dropped off my Jimmy to have it serviced. I having been under the counsel of three very thinking I would have to use it, as much as noticed there was a 12-gauge shotgun in my godly men. I also realized the Lord was it was the confidence I would have knowing truck I had forgotten about (and yes, it was abundantly blessing me in spite of what I if I ever needed to use a gun, it would be loaded), so I took it out of the Jimmy and felt had crumbled. This renewed strength available. So, I obtained my concealed put it in the rental car they had provided. I and closer relationship with the Lord are handgun license and have been carrying laid it in the back floorboard and went to the very essence of who I am and what I ever since. It’s unusual to find me without pick up one of the girls who worked for me stand for. my pistol on me or nearby.” at this clinic we cleaned. An interesting thing happened during In spite of the fact that Lynn is a I parked by the back door, since it was this time. Even though my dad and brother former honor student who graduated with a decent part of town. We had been there were hunters, I had never hunted much. a 97.6 GPA, she still gets the brunt of all about an hour, when the girl came in just Tracking rabbits in the snow and a little the blonde jokes. “Believe me, I get the white from shock and said, “Lynn, someone frog gigging were about the extent of my ‘blonde’ thing all the time! But then, I’ve broke into the car.” Since I’m always joking experience. About four years after my been accused of being a one-person party around, I thought she was kidding and said, divorce, I started thinking of some things because I just love, so much, to have fun. “Oh, get outta’ Dodge. Are you kidding I had always wanted to do and hunting It seems I must wear a neon sign stamped me?” She goes, “Yes ma’am, they did.” was one of them. I became friends with on my forehead that shouts, ‘Yeah, I’m I went out there with the knowledge a couple of people who were experts at blonde....go ahead....take a shot!’ I have a that I had that shotgun and a $500, King big game hunting and was offered the 28-year-old son who seems to have written Ranch, Limited Edition handbag in the car, opportunity to hunt all over the United the book on it. He is the absolute worst and along with her purse in the floorboard of States and Canada. so hysterically funny. the front seat, with my purse. They had After ten years of broken the back passenger window and being single, I met and taken the shotgun out. They had broken the married a man who front driver window and taken my purse did the impossible. He and her purse. I usually carried quite a bit secured my trust and of cash, but thankfully, I only had thirty- asked permission to six dollars that time. fill and seal the tender All of my concealed handgun issues in my heart. He information, including my application, is a rock, keeping me finger print cards, the notarized documents, grounded in Christ’s and a hundred and forty dollars in cash love by showing wisdom paper-clipped to the back of the envelope that still amazes me. In had been laying right next to the barrel addition to my children of the shotgun, but they didn’t touch that. and grandchildren, Thomas is the When I realized what had happened, a fear greatest gift ever given to me.” just consumed me because I didn’t know I sat down with Lynn and if they were standing somewhere behind a Thomas in their beautiful, Western wall, aiming at us. motif home to ask her some That theft confirmed a need to have a questions about her life. The walls concealed handgun because it happened in were filled with mounts of deer a nice area. I saw the need to carry a gun and other animals that have fallen anyway, since being out at night by myself to the skill of this blonde huntress. was getting a little rougher. I was traveling She proved, once again, that there a lot at night because of my business, so the is something special about people car break-in confirmed to me my former who are serious about being armed belief that I needed to be armed. at all times. Continued on page 8 Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine  CCM: Have you ever had to use your that he actually thought he could pull this firearm in a defensive situation? off. I had my gun in its holster, stuck in my belt, on my side and rage came over me as Lynn: I have never had to pull the trigger, I thought, “He’s not doing this to me! He but I had a friend, a while back, that turned will not put fear in me.” out to be pretty mean. I had some jewelry I probably should have called the that he demanded I return. It was given to police. That would have been the smart me as a gift and he wanted it back. thing to do, but I was in a hurry. I walked I was getting ready to leave my home out the back door and told him to leave, as I for a trip to San Marcos and had taken a moved my gun around to the front where he suitcase out to my truck in the back, then could see it. He started calling me terrible went back in the house to lock the doors. names, so I told him if he didn’t leave I was I saw this guy’s Jeep pull into the back going to pull this gun. He said, “You can’t driveway and then he walked toward the make me leave.” door. He had been out of my life for a while. Well, I just pulled it out and held it Our relationship had been completely cut down by my side, with my finger not on off and finished months before, so it was the trigger, but on the side of the gun. He unnerving to have him show up, beating on started backing up and told me that I had the glass at my back door. not seen the last of him. I said, “Oh yes, I He just stood there looking at me. I have,” and I pulled my cell phone out and debated whether or not to call the police, said, “If you persist, I will call 911.” Lynn: I started carrying when I got my but seeing him there just made me mad He started toward me and I just raised license, about five years ago. my gun, not aiming it directly at him, but to his side, with my finger still off of CCM: What weapons do you carry? the trigger. He backed up, never turning his back on me, got in his Jeep and left. I Lynn: I carry a little Charter Arms, Bulldog haven’t heard a word from him since. .44 Special. I started out with my brother’s Kahr 9mm, but I like the Bulldog, since it CCM: What training methods do you packs real flat and I like the power of the .44 use? Do you have any recommendations? Special hollow points for self protection.

Lynn: My brother was in law enforcement CCM: What type of ammunition do for years, so when I go out to the farm, he you carry? gives me tips on shooting. I used to go to the range two or three times a week, but I Lynn: I had been using Hornady hollow have been so busy the last couple of years points to carry in my handbag for protection, that I haven’t shot nearly as much. Also, I but when Hornady stopped production of didn’t want to quit shooting, but I realized that round, I switched to Remington, who how much it was costing in range fees and also stopped production of the .44 Spcl HP. ammunition. I love being at the range, but I For a while, the only HP I could find was had to cut back, just to keep the cost of my Blazer 200 GR GDHP. passion in line. I recently became aware of the dangers As far as recommendations go, since of over penetration from a gun like a .44 you don’t know when you are going to have Special, so last week I changed to Cor- to use your gun, you need to shoot on a Bon, 165 grain, jacketed hollow points to regular basis, just to keep your eye keen reduce the chances of having a bullet pass and feel refreshed because you can pretty through an attacker and hit someone else. quickly lose your accuracy. This load should have tremendous stopping An important safety aspect that some power, since the higher velocity will cause people may not think about, in regard explosive expansion of the lighter bullet, to training, is what to do about children. with less chance of getting an innocent I have thirteen grandchildren who are person hurt. being trained in gun safety and how to use I use cowboy loads for practice, since a gun. Since they are young, they aren’t they are cheaper and have less recoil. thinking seriously about a gun as a means of protection, but their fun now may save CCM: What concealment holsters do their lives later. As I said earlier, I love you use? children and one of the best ways to love them is to teach them to shoot safely, as a Lynn: I use a cloth holster with Velcro on family activity. the sides, made by Uncle Mike. I also have an Uncle Mike’s body belt that goes under CCM: How long have you carried a loose fitting clothing. It has elastic holsters concealed weapon? built into it and it fits real close to the body.

 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 CCM: What do you do for a living? carrying in church anyway, thinking I was I’m not a one-issue candidate, but I breaking the law. If someone had been have found that the conservatives, who Lynn: I am a sales rep for Xact Business packing, I can guarantee you only a couple share my world-view of Christian values, Solutions. It’s a printing company. I sell of those teenagers would have been killed, are virtually always strong in the area of every type of printing on every printable instead of the seven who had time to try to gun rights. You really must support the surface, and office supplies. My corporation talk the killer out of murdering them. candidates who hold your values. Don’t is also still alive and well, with several There was also that shooting at a be swayed by the lie that you so often diverse services. church in Wisconsin a few months ago. hear: “You can’t legislate morality.” All My husband and I, as Christians who are laws, in one form or another, are based on CCM: Do you have any advice for our actively serving the Lord, are targets for moral choices. If you don’t vote to uphold readers? the Muslim extremists too. I’m surprised the morality of self-defense, then you are Lynn: Don’t carry a gun unless you can there have been no shootings in the U.S., doing the same as voting that you don’t use it when necessary. Even though I had since there have been so many Christians have a right to protect yourself. been around guns all my life, I was very killed in Iraq, Pakistan, and Sudan, simply Finally, pray for our leaders. God does humbled when I got my concealed handgun for not being Muslim. answer prayer. I have no doubt that God license, realizing the responsibility that Be active in politics to protect the gun put George Bush in the White House as an came with it. It was a moment of reckoning rights we currently have and to regain the answer to the fervent prayers of thousands when I knew what I had in my hand if I ones lost while we gun rights supporters of the faithful, honoring their prayers for a had to use it. were asleep during the 70s and 80s. That’s steadfast leader who would bring dignity Absolutely carry all the time. You why I’m a life member of the NRA. I have and truth back to the presidency. Also pray don’t know when you are going to need been active in the Republican Party, serving for those who are trying so hard to strip us it. My car was broken into in a good as secretary at the precinct level and the of our guns. God has changed the hearts neighborhood. Bad things happen in good 10th state, senatorial district level. I have of tyrannical kings. He can change the neighborhoods too. been to two state, Republican conventions hearts of these lesser men and women who Stay current on the laws as well. I didn’t as a representative and have campaigned don’t understand. know the law had changed that allows me for several candidates, including George to carry in a church until you mentioned it Bush when he was running for governor. I CCM: What does a blonde have at a last Sunday. After that nut at Wedgwood campaigned for our current governor, Rick party that a brunette doesn’t have? Baptist in Fort Worth killed those seven Perry, who is even stronger on the 2nd Lynn: An invitation! young people a few years ago, I’ve been Amendment than George Bush.

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Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine  gunpoint. When the thief ran, Soiett followed him. “I yelled at him to stop, and he turned with the gun,” Soiett said. “I fired two quick shots because I thought he was going to shoot at me.” No one was hit, and the robber was never caught. Soiett lost his job because Cumberland Farms has a no-weapon policy. The owner of the Exit 3 Travel Stop in SHOOTING AT A CLUB Portsmouth was happy to hire him. MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin — A shooting “We feel more comfortable having that left one man dead and another critically into the ceiling and pointed the gun at people who can stand up for themselves,” injured in a bar early Saturday is being the bartender and other people in the bar, store owner Bharat Batel said. treated as a self-defense case, police spo- Schwartz said. The bartender, 36, who was Greenland Police Chief Mike Maloney keswoman Anne E. Schwartz said Tuesday. not identified, drew a gun from his holster said that while Soiett has every right to pack LaCharles Hester, 27, was killed and and shot Hester in the back of the head, heat at work, he has some concerns. another man, 23, who was not identified, she said. The 23-year-old man then tried to “The clerk might get killed over $200,” was wounded in the chest by a bartender at take the gun away from the bartender and Maloney said. “I find, in my opinion, it’s Club Lush, 2529 N. Hopkins St., Schwartz it fired, hitting the 23-year-old in the chest, just best to let us do our jobs.” said. The case has been referred to the Schwartz said. Soiett said that as long as he has a Milwaukee County district attorney’s office Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel job at a convenience store, his gun will be as justified but it will be up to prosecutors to December 27, 2005 loaded, just in case. rule on whether charges will be filed in the “If you come in and rob from me, you case, she said. CLERK FIRED FOR PULLING may get more than your money,” he said. The bar owner was trying to clear the GUN ON THIEF Manchester’s TheWMURchannel.com bar when Hester pulled out a gun, fired PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire — A December 29, 2005 store clerk fired for bringing a gun to work has a new job at another store. BURGLAR HIDES IN BUSHES Bruce Soiett said that he always brings BOULDER, Colorado — Deputies arrested his .45-caliber handgun to work. He used to an attempted burglar who was scared off by work at a Cumberland Farms in Greenland, a homeowner who fired a shot in the air on and on Dec. 7, the store was robbed at New Year’s Day.

10 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 An elderly couple called police when prison counselor fought with Soto and then the man tried to kick their door in at 4:15 pulled a pistol from his nightstand, sheriff’s a.m. on the 9100 block of Nelson Road. investigators said. When Soto advanced, After telling the suspect to go away the prison counselor shot Soto one time, several times, the man of the house fired a investigators said. warning shot over the suspect’s head. The Los Angeles Times homeowner told police he feared for his January 7, 2006 and his wife’s safety. When deputies arrived they found 22-year-old Michael Gadbois HOMEOWNER FIGHTS BACK hiding in some bushes. He was arrested on HOUSTON, Texas — A northwest Hou- charges of attempted burglary. ston father fought back and killed an armed Denver’s 9News.com intruder. The final straw came when one of January 2, 2006 the home invaders grabbed his 12-month- old daughter and threw her down the stairs. ROBBERY VICTIM FIGHTS BACK Police say three men forced their way into HARRIS COUNTY, Texas — A man tells the home of a man at an apartment complex police he shot a suspect who was allegedly on W. Tidwell near W. Sun Forest. The destroying his property. armed men demanded money. It happened around 2 a.m. Friday on The victim first tried to stop the men Antoine near W. Little York in northwest with a steak knife. The men grabbed a child Harris County. He spotted a group of men in the home and threw the toddler down breaking out the windows of his Suburban. the stairs. The toddler is okay. One suspect He scared them off, but says they returned. pulled a gun but the victim was able to get The homeowner heard a gunshot and it away from him and shot him. Then the grabbed his gun. He shot one of the men suspect pulled a second gun and the victim and they all sped off. got it away from him and shot him again, The man gave police a detailed killing him. Police say the other two men description of the suspects and the car. fled the scene. Police picked them up nearby. The suspect “The two suspects are known to the who was shot was taken to the hospital. The complainant. The dead man is not known to other men with him were arrested. the complainant. They left the scene before Houston’s ABCLocal.Go.com police arrived,” said Officer Philip Yochum January 6, 2006 with the Houston Police Department. Investigators say the victim knew the two man is slain after suspects who got away and that both the apartment break in victim and suspects are Katrina evacuees. RANCHO CUCAMONGA, California— Police aren’t sure if the dead suspect is an An Oxnard man who broke into the bedroom evacuee as well. of a Rancho Cucamonga apartment early Houston’s ABC13.com Friday morning was shot and killed by January 23, 2006 one of the occupants—a prison counselor for the state Department of Corrections, authorities said. The intruder, Hector Soto, 21, of Oxnard, died less than three hours after being shot and undergoing surgery at Arrowhead Reg- ional Medical Center in Colton, the San Bernardino County coroner said. The San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department did not release the prison counselor’s name. He will not be charged, a spokeswoman said. The break-in occurred about 2:50 a.m. Sheriff’s homicide investigators said Soto opened a front window to enter the apartment in the 8400 block of Fir Street, and walked to a bedroom. The

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 11 hen I first met Carolyn Lewis, (At that time, New Mexico required that you she had just won the concealed qualify with each caliber and category you carry class I donated to our club’s annual wanted to carry.) Not bad for someone who Women on Target day, a program sponsored had never fired a handgun a week earlier. by the National Rifle Association, designed And her enthusiasm grew. to introduce women to shooting. She told That was the beginning of her evolution me that she didn’t like guns, had never fired from disliking guns to someone who be- one before, and wouldn’t even allow her came very interested in handgun shooting. husband to have any in the house. Having experience as a substitute teacher, During that day, I had the chance to she decided that she wanted to become work with Carolyn as she fired her first certified to teach the concealed carry .22 handgun, a Ruger Super Single Six. class in order to teach women to be Her target was a paper plate comfortable with guns and how about 5 yards away. She to use them in self-defense. had no problem putting all After the class was over, six rounds in the middle of she realized she needed to do the plate. “Hey, this is fun,” more shooting and learn more. she said. Then she wanted During our additional range to shoot again. Progress, I sessions, she began looking thought. for a pistol to purchase for That evening she gave concealed carry. After firing me a call. “I think I would both my Glock 19 and Glock like to take that concealed 26 several times, she decided carry class,” she said. As it on the Glock 26 in 9mm as the turned out, my next class was one she wanted. A week later, the next weekend. she picked up her new Glock. It The concealed carry was late afternoon and we went class, which incidentally turned into a gunfight were also discussed. She immediately to the range. She out to be a women’s only class, went well saw that distance was her friend and not to shot her new Glock well, and even had the for Carolyn. During the 15 hour class, let people she was unsure of get too close opportunity to do some reduced and low- she learned how to handle revolvers and to her. She also learned the circumstances light firing as it got dark. She was happy semi-auto pistols safely. She learned safe under which she could legally use deadly with her new pistol, and I was very happy to handgun storage (particularly with children force in New Mexico and other aspects of get my Glock back. in the home), the basic fundamentals of the law, including places where she could Now it seemed like she couldn’t get handgun shooting (with an emphasis on not legally carry that apply to concealed enough. Every chance she got, she wanted sight alignment and trigger squeeze), how carry. Finally, she spent some time on the to go to the range. I encouraged her to shoot to clear malfunctions when they occur, how range, first practicing and then firing the as many different pistols as she could, trying to reload properly, and some tips on where qualification course. to get her familiar with a wide variety. After and how to carry a concealed handgun. By the end of the class, she was all, she wanted to become an instructor, More importantly, she also learned how hooked. She had managed to qualify with so she needed to be comfortable with the to avoid becoming the victim of a crime, both categories (defined in New Mexico as myriad of handguns that her students would along with ways to deal with a situation a semi-auto or revolver) and six different be bringing to the class. Within a couple of that was potentially violent. Ways to de- calibers of handguns, including the .45 ACP. months, she had fired almost 1,000 rounds. escalate an argument so it did not generate

12 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 We did all kinds of basic drills… The next step in her evolution was to drawing and firing two shots, failure drills, become trained as an NRA instructor in reloading, multiple targets, malfunction the Basic Pistol, Personal Protection in the drills, firing with her strong hand and Home and Home Firearms Safety courses. weak hand, shooting at ranges from 3 feet Then she was eligible to apply to the New to 15 yards, shooting while moving, using Mexico State Police for approval as a cover, shooting from the ground as well as New Mexico Concealed Carry Instructor. the kneeling position, and just generally She recently received that approval. Now having a good time and burning up lots she can follow her dream of teaching of ammunition. other women. In an effort to reduce ammunition I suspect that Carolyn’s story is not costs—it does get expensive if you shoot unique. Many women just need to be given a lot—we integrated a .22 Ruger, semi- the opportunity and some good instruction, auto pistol into our training sessions. We in order to handle firearms. (Most seem to even shot bull’s-eye targets to reinforce be interested in handguns rather than rifles the concepts of sight alignment and trigger or shotguns.) Women tend to learn the squeeze at the beginning of our sessions and basics quickly. Once they become somewhat then went to man-type silhouette targets to familiar with guns, their interest grows, finish the session as we worked on the rest and who knows where it will end? Carolyn of the drills. certainly didn’t know what the future would I used the work I did with her at the hold, that after training she would qualify range to develop an advanced concealed for her concealed carry permit, take classes carry class, an item that I’ve gotten lots of to become an instructor and actually end up requests for. The class will include a review teaching concealed carry classes. of basic firearms safety and a review of the All because she showed up that day at law, in addition to lots of drills. When she Women on Target. becomes a certified instructor, she will be teaching the class with me. One bright Saturday morning, Carolyn met me at the range to observe one of our club’s Action Matches (very similar to an IDPA match, but much more relaxed). After watching the first stage, she wanted to try it herself. After all, she had brought her own pistol and ammunition. Why shouldn’t she be able to shoot? She fired two of the stages and did quite well. (The other two included a shotgun and she wasn’t quite ready for that yet.) And equally importantly, because she was obviously grounded in the safety rules and handled her Glock well, she was immediately accepted by the group. The rest of the shooters went out of their way to provide her with assistance and advice as she tried this new experience. It appears that she has gotten hooked on this as well. To broaden her basic firearms knowledge, Carolyn took the NRA’s Home Firearms Safety class. This made her much more comfortable around rifles and shotguns. Now her husband could have guns in the house. In fact, he even bought her a Walther P22 for Christmas so she could practice more. She applied for her New Mexico Concealed Handgun License and received it in about 6 weeks. After she received her permit, we went out to lunch to celebrate. We were both carrying, and we did it to introduce her to the logistics of concealed carry in the real world, as opposed to a range environment. She began to see that you really do have to dress around your gun, rather than simply adding the pistol to your wardrobe.

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 13 time shooting friends, Mike Nastek and contractor. He started his firearms training Andy Langlois, we decided to spread the in the Army and as a member of the workload between the three of us and to Military Police. Until Mike took his first set up a website (www.Neshooters.com) to class at Front Sight, most of his shooting advertise our classes. The second decision was in the recreational category. Since then, that we made was that we would focus he has trained at Front Sight (numerous only on nationally known trainers, to times) and with Jim Crews, Randy Cain, minimize the amount of time spent on Gabe Suarez and Jeff Gonzales. Mike recruiting students. is certified by the NRA as a Handgun The biggest, single problem that we Instructor and a Range Safety Officer, faced was the negotiation with the clubs and by the Massachusetts State Police as a that will host our training classes. We have Basic Firearms Safety Instructor. Mike NEShooters consists of four active had one club that did not want a defensive normally carries a S&W, 1911 Commander, shooters, with a goal of bringing top quality, handgun class because we “teach people to built on a scandium frame and occasionally nationally known, firearm trainers to New shoot people.” Other clubs embraced the a S&W Lightweight, J-frame revolver in England. We are not trying to make any class content, but wanted range fees and/or .38 Special. money from the classes, and as such, the free seats. Roy Ward is a Vermont resident and profits from our classes have been donated In our second year (2004), we hosted the principal of a six person architectural to the host clubs. only one course with Jim Crews. In our third firm. Roy began his active shooting career My name is Jim Conway. I am 68- year (2005), we hosted Randy Cain, Gabe when he moved to Vermont in 1995. Since years-old and a very active shooter. I Suarez and Jeff Gonzales, and brought then, he has trained with local trainers, as have been shooting since high school in Roy Ward as our fourth member. For well as Gabe Suarez and Jeff Gonzales. and I thought that I was a good shot and next year (2006), we will be hosting Tom In addition to being a husband and father knowledgeable about firearms. All of that Givens, Gabe Suarez, Louis Awerbuck and of 4 children, Roy also co-pastors a local changed six years ago, when I attended a Jeff Gonzales. church. His preferred carry is a Glock 22, 2-day Defensive Handgun class at Front A little basic information on the .40 S&W. He also carries a Kel-Tec P3AT Sight, in Nevada. While this course gave NEShooters members: or a Sig 232, both in .380 ACP. me the basics of the legal and technical Andy Langlois is a New Hampshire Jim Conway is a Massachusetts aspects of shooting, the most important resident and has served as a police officer resident and a professional engineer thing that I learned was how little I knew and a firearms instructor in three states, for who operates an engineering consulting and how much of what I thought that I over seven years. His other claim to fame is business. Jim began his shooting in high knew was wrong. his custom rifle slings and holsters, which school, as a member of the rifle team and This realization was the beginning he markets through his website at (www. has dealt with a variety of rifles, shotguns, of my desire to get better. As I trained at shottist.com). Andy carries a Springfield and handguns until he started to carry a Front Sight and Gunsite, it soon became Gunsite Service Pistol or a Kimber Pro- concealed weapon about 15 years ago. After clear to me that I could not afford the travel Carry, for Duty, CCW and Training. trying to learn as much as possible about and course costs and the time away from Mike Nastek is a Massachusetts resi- how to carry a weapon properly, it became my business. dent and a heating and air conditioning obvious that some level of professional I had heard that Jim Crews of training was needed. This need Marksman’s Enterprise traveled led Jim to take multiple courses at to his students and that he was an Front Sight, a class taught by Jeff exceptional handgun trainer who Cooper at Gunsite and courses specialized in marksmanship. After given by Jim Crews, Randy Cain, scheduling a training date, locating a Gabe Suarez and Jeff Gonzales. suitable range, recruiting the students Jim is certified by the NRA as and dealing with all of the items that both a Handgun Instructor and a can make a class a success, I knew Range Safety Officer and also by that I had found part of the solution the Massachusetts State Police as to my problem. a Basic Firearms Safety Instructor. The remaining part of the Jim normally carries a lightly problem was that setting up and customized, full-sized S&W 1911 arranging a class still took a lot of in .45 ACP and occasionally a SIG time. After talking with two long- P239 in 9mm.

14 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 I’ve always wondered about Okay, on to the Toters jeans. The first the “Toters” jeans from Blackie thing I noticed about the “Toters” jeans Collins. They sounded like a pretty from Blackie Collins was that they were really heavy. I mean when I picked them neat concept, but I had never seen up, I thought, “Wow, these jeans are really anyone actually wearing them. substantial!” Well, I finally decided to stop Let’s start with the front pockets. Both wondering and just order a pair. left and right front pockets are lined with The folks at Blackie Collins were a super-strength, “Cordura Plus” material. back pockets with this same Cordura Plus very pleasant to deal with on the The pockets also have a super-deep holster material. All I have to say is…Wow! panel of this same material sewn right into phone. It seems like good customer How did the jeans fit? They were very these main pockets. These holster panels comfortable. As I am writing this article, I service is harder and harder to find have an adjustable lacing system built right have them on with my Glock 21 in my right these days, so when I get treated in that allows you to adjust the size of the pocket and my full-size 1911 in my left nicely, it really means a lot to me! opening. This opening is where you stick pocket. No, I don’t normally walk around your gun. You adjust this opening so that with two full-size .45 autos. I just thought your trigger guard just fits in and allows for I’d see if the jeans were still comfortable a nice, snug fit. while carrying around two big guns, and Now if you want to, you can just leave they were! the lace system out and use a traditional You’ll have to pay about $75 to get a pocket holster. The heavy-duty, Cordura pair of the Blackie Collins Toters, but if Plus material does a great job of masking you ask me, they’re worth every penny. any “gun-printing.” They’re made right here in the United The Toters jeans also have a nice, little States, and like I said before, they’re built knife pocket sewn onto both the left and like an Abrams tank. right thighs. These knife pockets are about Now, I’ll admit that I’ve purchased six inches deep and about three inches blue jeans from Old Navy for only $25. wide. They’re perfect for holding your I think the Old Navy jeans are made in folding knife. Bangladesh, Madagascar or someplace Another nice thing I noticed about like that. They look fine in the store, but both the front “holster” pockets and the they start to fall apart after you wash them knife pockets was that they have heavy 3 times! duty rivets on the corner stress points. This The bottom line is that these “Toters” makes a lot of sense. I have to tell you, these jeans from Blackie Collins are definitely jeans are designed to take a lot of abuse! worth the extra money. They are a really Finally, as if these design features unique product and I’m glad I have a pair. were not enough, the folks at Blackie CONTACT: 1-866-455-1327 Collins decided to line the insides of the wwww.totersjeans.com

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 15 n case you haven’t kept up with your Pistol instructors are not allowed Latin, those words mean Accuracy, by their political and public relations Power, and Speed. Together they form overseers to tell you that. They will the motto Jeff Cooper came up with to obediently explain to you that you are not define the essential elements of combat shooting to kill your adversary, you are shooting when he was putting together simply shooting to stop his aggression, an organization to govern realistic without going on to mention the obvious competition in combat shooting fact that the only way to stop a person skills worldwide. who is in the process of trying to shoot Combat shooting, by the way, is you to death is to kill him deader than a what you do when your intent is to kill Christmas Eve turkey. another person in order to save your life You will not find the word “combat” or the lives of other innocents. As in war, as part of the name of any private org- law enforcement and personal defense. anization related to combat shooting.

1616 ConcealedConcealed Carry Carry Magazine Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 Whichever political underling has the positions at known distances. The necessity of the International Practical Shooting job of protecting us from provocative to factor in the different power levels of Confederation (IPSC) to another subject of corporate names must have immediately various handgun loads has proved to be an mutual interest, Cooper said, “Fencing, of sensed the danger in such a straightforward inconvenience at best, and has generally course, suffered the same fate as IPSC. The use of the English language. The most been dispensed with except for an arbitrary fencing foil is of no use at all in a fight.” popular euphemism for “combat” is minimum beneath which gunshot wounds “practical,” occasionally “action,” and might be considered in the same category ACCURACY, POWER, AND sometimes “defensive” or “tactical.” In as mosquito bites. Speed, given the almost SPEED IN THE REAL WORLD the Bureaucratese language, these words complete elimination of time-consuming Let’s look at what Accuracy, Power, mean “to kill in order to save your life,” decision-making regarding whether, whom and Speed mean in the real world, a world just as the Latin words “Diligentia, Vis, and where to shoot, has been reduced to which, naturally, is ever-changing and full Celeritas” reveal the not-so-secret recipe a leather slap of the sort seen in grade-B of surprises. for doing so. From here on out, we will use Western movies. You may have to shoot accurately at plain English. Imaginative combat scenarios, meant ranges from point blank to 50 yards. Your The three elements of Accuracy, to challenge the mental agility of com- target may be as large as the distance Power, and Speed are not in any particular petitors, have been memorized, gamed between a set of nipples to as small as the order of priority and must work together out, rehearsed and added to the repertoires distance between a pair of eyeballs. The to be effective. Accurate shooting alone is of the winning players. The gamers have target is highly unlikely to be attached to of little use if your bullets do not penetrate learned to shave the dice at the expense of a metal stand facing you straightaway for your enemy’s body and destroy his vital the true martial artist. The goal of learning your convenience in measurement, is more organs. A powerful handgun does no to kill to save you life has been obscured probably going to be in motion, twisting and good if you miss your shot, or take a fatal in the dust kicked up by the run-and-gun turning and diving and leaping as it rushes microsecond too long to decide to pull the crowd who, after all, just want to have fun. toward your face or disappears behind a trigger. Speed means absolutely nothing Such “action” shooting does, indeed, parked car to get a steadier aim at the center if you’re just spraying and praying or increase your familiarity and facility with mass of your body which, hopefully, is not shooting blanks. your weapon and there’s nothing wrong just standing there waiting for the bullet to People like to play games, with a with it except that, in the end, it is neither arrive. There may be more than one target, tendency to cheat when the opportunity very “practical” nor “defensive.” It is all moving in different ways and divergent arises. This plays a part in the internal “tactical” only within the narrow confines directions as you move yourself as rapidly politics in all organizations. Even well- of the rules and regulations of the game, as you can. How accurately can you shoot meaning combat competition has seen the and it has little to do with “combat.” It is under these conditions? need to redefine the meaning of Accuracy, not exactly what I think Jeff Cooper had And what happens when you hit what Power, and Speed. in mind. you’re aiming at? Hint: your adversary is not Accuracy has become an exercise in In a discussion once when we going to go flying backward through the air shooting familiar targets from predictable drifted from comments about the state Continued on page 18

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 17 no matter what you hit him with. (Unless, You still have a long way to go in a very of course, you take the time beforehand brief period of time after that, and heaven to strap him into a leather body-harness help you if you make the slightest error of attached to steel wires running through an judgment or allow yourself a microsecond overhead pulley system and pay some guy of hesitation at any of the other steps along in the background to give the wires a big the way. yank at the opportune moment, which is The tissue that bonds Accuracy, Power, the way they shoot people in California.) and Speed together is a fourth and final You know your gun is powerful enough to crucial element called Mindset, without punch a hole in a piece of cardboard and which the first three elements simply fall ring a metal gong, but is it powerful enough apart. Mindset is the total commitment to to shred the heart or blow up the lungs or relentless violent aggression until the job is obliterate the brain of a human being? done, the ability to maintain absolute focus What if your bullet has to bore through a right through the jigsaw puzzle of muzzle heavy winter coat or a fat leather wallet or blasts, recoil, counter-attacks, pain and an automobile windshield before it even injury to the ultimate goal. touches the first layer of skin? The question naturally arises: How And how fast can you really shoot? do you practice all of this, train up your The test of speed is not how long it takes physical and mental proficiencies and you to whip out your gun, but how long prepare yourself so that you’re confident it takes you to plant a killing shot in your you can step up on stage and perform adversary. To get from here to there, you flawlessly to the best of your abilities if have to process a lot of diverse information and when your life is on the line? What and make innumerable critical decisions makes you think somebody else can give at a rate more rapid than you may have you the answer to a question like that? thought possible. Most gunfights are over Helpful training is available from a few and done with in a few short seconds, but select sources, but the real answer to the they are the longest few short seconds of question is something you have to figure the participants’ lives. The decision to draw out all by yourself. All alone. Just like in your gun, fire, and devote the entire sum the real world. of your skill, knowledge and experience to Robert H. Boatman is the author of Paladin Press books killing the human being in front of you is Living With Glocks, Living With The Big .50, Living a big step, but it is just step number one. With The 1911, and soon to be released Living With The AR-15. He can be reached at [email protected]. There will be no more Concealed Carry when the Bill of Rights Dies! Save Your Rights! Show the Bill of Rights or Bust to everyone today! - Timothy J. Schmidt (USCCA Founder)

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To order, please contact: Talkin’ to America P.O. Box 270143 - Hartford, WI 53027 (262) 673-9745 Order line: (800) 869-1884 http://www.your10rights.com $19.95 A made for television pilot. 18 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 19 Many readers have e-mailed me This gun is almost in a league of its that could be compared to the Glock 27, but many times requesting a review of a Kahr own when it comes to packaging fire power. we’re just talking about the 9MM today. pistol. Without further ado or delay, here is The only gun that comes close is the Glock Size-wise, the PM9 is smaller than the your review. 26. Now, the Glock 26 is a good handgun, Glock 26 in every dimension. It’s shorter in When Concealed Carry Magazine but many shooters complain that it is too length and it’s shorter in height. Thanks to contacted Kahr Arms, they were most thick. They often remark that they wish the single-stack configuration, it feels a lot agreeable to send us a pistol for testing. Glock would make a version just like it, but thinner. It’s so small that it makes you think, After a phone call from the factory rep. using a thinner, single-stack magazine. So “Wow, this is really a nine millimeter?” (good guy by the way), they promptly sent far, Glock has not listened to these requests. There are only a couple of other guns out out an example of their most popular little Evidently, Kahr Arms has, and the result is there in 9MM that are smaller than the pistol. Of course, all Kahr Arms pistols are the PM9. There is also a .40 caliber version PM9, but none that I would like to shoot rather small, but this one is just about the more than a few rounds out of. The PM9 smallest you would really want to go for in pretty much reaches the lower limit of a 9MM automatic. where you should go with size. It’s small The box says KAHR ARMS PM9, enough to be concealed in pocket, but you Black Diamond Stainless Steel Slide. can still shoot it. The PM9’s advantage is PM9094A is the official product number. that in spite of being so small, it remains Black Diamond is, from what I can tell, very shootable. a finish applied over a stainless steel Some shooters dislike handguns so slide. It has a nice, smooth, flat, black small that they dangle their pinkie fingers. finish. Stainless is an excellent material The PM9 is a pinkie dangler to be true. for concealed handguns because of its But for those so inclined, Kahr’s spare corrosion resistance. I’m not sure how this magazine is one with an extension that finish wears, but when it does at the normal allows for a full grip. Keep the short one in places, the metal underneath remains the for concealment, and then when you need resistant and tough stainless. This could be to reload, you can do so with the longer an ideal combination. one. Simple, really.

20 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 The sights are not the typical, mere suggestions of handgun sights that you get on tiny pistols, but real, usable sights. This example comes with a “dot the i” configuration mostly seen on SIG pistols. The rear sight as a white rectangle in the center, while the front has the standard dot. Lining them up is fast and easy. Some guys don’t like this setup, but being a long- time SIG fan and owner, I actually like this setup better than the common “three dot” setup. Helping the good sights is a good trigger, not a great trigger, but a good one. Not a heavy pull either—smooth enough to allow good control through the whole pull. Many shooters would be tickled to have a trigger this good on their bigger handgun offerings. The trigger feels like a traditional, double-action-only type pull, like what you would have in most revolvers. But it doesn’t allow for a second strike, meaning you can only pull the trigger once without having to cock the action again. If the pistol was loaded and you fired the gun, the action would cycle and cock the action per design. If the round was a dud, or you were dry firing (firing on an empty chamber), then you would have to pull the slide back by hand. There is one thorn in the PM9’s side that I found to be distracting. Let me correct that. It wasn’t so much a thorn in the side of the pistol, but the pistol’s thorn in my side when I was carrying it inside the waistband—the slide release lever. Most of the gun sports decent contours around the edges after the muzzle. One of the things I appreciate about a good firearm is the craftsmanship of its creation and the quality of the work. Kahrs generally sport a very high level of both. That is why the slide release is such a disappointment. It sticks out like a sore thumb. (More on that in a minute.) The slide release lever remains as sharp as a bitter teenager’s tongue. The edges are not sharp enough to cause damage, but they are squared Continued on page 22

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 21 enough to be painful if they scrape along about this one. (I think I know what to get the gun. A 200 round break-in period your side, going to and from a holster or her for her birthday now.) She mentioned is short, and you can do that in an hour. if your thumb encounters it during recoil that one reason for liking it so much was Before you carry any handgun for personal when firing. Some guys wouldn’t even the way the little gun shot. It shoots to defense, you should shoot at least that many think of it, but to me...? I find it irritating. near point of aim and groups well (about 3 just to get to know the gun and to train The argument is that the sharper edges inches) with little effort, thanks to the good your hands in its feel and function. While I allow the shooter a sure grip on the lever sights and trigger. When I fired it, I didn’t wouldn’t make it my primary carry piece, for a positive release. Unfortunately, I exactly dub it my favorite, but I do like it. it makes for an outstanding back-up gun don’t think that holds any water because The recoil was tame and controllable. The (or “bug gun”) or for deep concealment. other gun makers are putting out guns with .40 caliber version would be a handful, but I showed this piece to a friend of mine levers that can be easily operated without the 9mm certainly wasn’t. who happens to be a Police Chief. He was feeling potentially dangerous. This is The only downside was that which I impressed with size, weight, sights, and really my only complaint about the gun’s have already pointed out, the slide release. trigger. Being a Marine, this man is not one form factor, and it is a small complaint at During recoil, the sharp corner would to be easily impressed with any new gun that. I’m sure higher-end examples would intercept the thumb of my firing hand to come around the corner. One comment sport a bevel or two on this part. If not, this causing some…I’ll call it “discomfort.” he made was, “This would make for a would only take but a few seconds of time I could have adjusted my grip, but that hell of a back-up gun.” Yes, yes it would. at a belt sander or a couple of minutes work is the way I shoot. I didn’t have a single This is one gun that every serious shooter with a file to sort out properly. I’m not sure malfunction during testing. The gun or professional gunslinger should have in if this would void any warranty, but if it performed flawlessly. their arsenal. It’s small, light, reliable, and did, I don’t see that it would be any trouble Overall, I’m impressed with the Kahr, it shoots like a bigger gun. If I was Ian to buy a second lever to do the contouring and to be honest, I didn’t expect to be. I had Flemming, I’d have Bond packing one of work on. heard from some shooters that these things these babies. It would even look cool with a My bride, who helps me out with can jam up a lot when new. This wasn’t the suppressor. Does the Kahr PM9 get my nod camera work, likes to try out each new case in the example that I was sent. Maybe of approval? Absolutely. pistol that I review. She instantly liked the it wasn’t so new and had already been worn George Hill is an NRA Certified Pistol and Personal PM9 from the first time she saw it. After she in. If this is the case with all Kahrs, then Protection instructor and the writer and publisher fired it, she announced with no hesitation, it’s a simple matter of buying a couple of of MadOgre.com. Visit his website for more “This is my favorite out of all the guns so bulk packs of ammo when you buy the gun, information on Mad Ogre. far.” She’s said that before, but was adamant http://www.madogre.com and spend some time getting familiar with Photography by Deveni.

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9 guy GEORGIA ordinarON MY MIND Now, there was no wait time in Florida as entire adult y life for, to give his children long as one held a CCW and passed the the freedom to do what they want to do, he Ordinary Guy has been defenseless N.I.C.S. check, while those law-abiding without fear of reprisal from an overbearing (legally speaking) for over two months citizens who, for whatever reason didn’t government. now, since my recent move from Tampa, have a CCW, were forced to watch three We’re losing these freedoms every day Florida to Georgia, and as Jackie Gleason days of “Brady Bunch” re-runs until they in this country and we don’t seem to mind. might have once said, “How depressing it could pick up their handgun. You see, I had In fact, we get excited when another state is.” In the last issue, I touched on the fact gotten a little confused when reading my finally allows its residents permission to that reciprocity from one state to another GA concealed carry license application and carry a gun for self-defense. We forget that may leave you defenseless, depending on there was an insert that said that the BATF in order to do so, we must send fingerprints the laws of the state that you relocate to would no longer honor the GA license as to the FBI so they may create a file on us after becoming a “permanent resident.” a replacement for the N.I.C.S. check. I had and do “God knows what” with it. In some I had never really considered this an obs- mistakenly understood this to mean that states, we must make our good names tacle until my decision to relocate my all GA residents must now watch 3 days available to unscrupulous, liberal, hate- family, but now the realization of state of Brady re-runs before picking up their America-first, reporters to print in the local laws usurping my federally guaranteed, guns, with or without a concealed handgun papers (like Ohio), simply because we have Constitutional rights has smacked me right license. How wrong I was! been granted permission by our state of between the eyes and is foremost in my While standing at the counter of the residence to exercise our Constitutional ordinary mind. Bargain Barn, in Jasper, GA (which comes rights. We must have judges sign our There is a lot of fun stuff that goes with highly recommended for you outdoor folks) permission slips after state and federal the recent relocation though, besides my last weekend, perusing the fine display of governments determine us to be who we ability to purchase 50 gazillion times more guns, the gentleman behind the counter say we are. home here than in the bloated real estate politely informed me, “Georgia don’t play Keep this in mind: Even though we market of central Florida. For example, I was that waitin’ game, thang. Ne’er did and ain’t must wade our way through a myriad of standing outside on my back porch a couple ne’er gunna.” This made me ask about the local, state and federal regulations, and even of nights ago, grilling a steak, proud of the B.A.T.F. handout in the GA application and though we are fingerprinted like rapists and hickory smoke wafting from my charcoal he again straightened me out on GA law. willfully give the government whatever grill (no gas here, babe) throughout my new Apparently in this fine state, a buyer never information they may require, we still have neighborhood, when I heard it…pop, pop, had to fill out the N.I.C.S. check if licensed the uniquely American right to own and pop, pop…“Could it be, could it truly be?” to carry and could walk out with his/her carry our guns. And what about the hoops I wondered aloud. Why, …it was…Distant handgun without the federal government we must jump through to exercise these gunfire, the sweet sounds of…gunfire, needing to know his/her grandmother’s rights? We also have the uniquely American crackling through the evening sky like maiden name. That has changed since the right to change the things we do not like. dancing lightning bolts visible in a far off B.A.T.F. ruling, as one must now fill out the I’ll get over it because I have “Georgia on storm cloud, only more beautiful. Had I instant check forms, but still no 3 day wait. my mind,” not Canada, Mexico, England, heard that sound of exploding cordite while This is a beautiful thing. However, I Australia, Japan, France, etc., or any other grilling a steak in my Tampa neighborhood, have issues with all of this N.I.C.S./Brady, “free” country. You get my point! I would have put my family in the safe room licensing of a Constitutional right thing Thanks again to the fine folks at the Bargain and reached for the AK-47 and two 40- anyway, but for the moment, I want to get Barn. Their assistance was most helpful as I round magazines. back to the importance of those gunshots I become accustomed to the Georgia gun laws. If I knew then that my decision to move heard the other day while standing on my you ever find yourself passing through Jasper, GA, please stop in and see these fine folks. would not be as traumatic for me as I had back porch. Those weren’t just the sounds once thought and that things would be of gunshots…Those were the sounds of okay—that here in Georgia, there is no freedom. I envisioned a man teaching his 3-day “Shady Brady Lady” waiting time son or daughter how to hold that new Marlin to pick up your handgun purchase, with rifle Santa had just brought. I envisioned a or without a concealed handgun license. family on their own property, not needing local government permission to shoot on their own land—land that the federal, state or local government can’t take away under the guise of “manifest destiny,” so some local big-shot can build another condo complex—land that a man has worked his

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 23 By now, everyone has read or heard about the shooting in the Tacoma, Washington Mall. If you have not, I will keep the briefing brief: The location and motivation may be different, but the song is the same one that has been played in too many places—a psycho decided to go into the mall and kill people with his rifle. This time, a CCW carrier tried to intervene, but for a number of reasons, was not successful. So since this will probably happen again, I want to discuss the dynamics and options of such a dangerous, yet likely event. I have a theory that when a critical incident happens, the police will only coincidentally be there. Professionals don’t like to be thought of as irrelevant at the moment of truth, so I am often taken to task for this. The truth, however, is that unless the police are targeting a bad guy, in the sense of a surveillance hit squad operation of some sort, they will only be able to respond after someone advises them of something going down. The likelihood of an officer just so happening to be at the scene when the poop hits the fan is not very likely. What is likely is that there will be plenty of potential victims right there. Unless it happens in a state that has forgotten the Second Amendment, at least one of the potential victims is likely to be armed.

24 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 So what are we to do? This has at the bottom of your list. Remember, if developed into quite a thread on Warrior you are dead, legal stuff is moot. Talk (www.warriortalk.com), with varying I know a man who got stabbed several points of view as widely different as go fetal times and was lucky to live through an and wait, to run and save yourself, to attack attack because he was so brow-beaten the gunman with everything you have. The about getting sued and possibly prosecuted that he held fire on a man who was trying Some “professionals” advise that bottom line is of course that you should to stab him to death! His HK P7 remained if you are caught in such an event, you have a plan. So I will point out some things in hand, but unfired. Anyone who would should “duck and cover,” go fetal, and that perhaps will help you do just that. rather be shot than get in trouble needs a hope that the police can rescue you in The first consideration is where you check-up from the neck up. time. Stupid idea if you ask me! are in the fight. If you are the focus of If you are not the focus of the bad In virtually all active shooter events, the attacker (meaning he is specifically guy and you can egress, it may be a from San Ysidro to Columbine, the shooting at you or at a family member), consideration, epecially if you do not know killing takes place within minutes after all restrictions are off. Forget the legal what is going on. I’ve been told by survivors the event begins, after which the bad guy situation; forget the background; forget of events like this that all they had was will either kill himself or take hostages. everything. If you do not react immediately, the sound of shots “around the corner.” If you are one of the planned targets, you you will be shot. If that is all you have and there is an exit can wish for the cops to save you all you Some have voiced concerns over legal there, take It! Grab your family members want, but they probably don’t even know repercussions if you take action. Well, all (physically by the hair if you must), and about the event as you succumb to the I can say is that in a fight for your life, bad guy’s gunfire. thoughts of legal entanglements should be Continued on page 26

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 25 drag them out. Don’t stay; leave. You don’t 7) Although I like and teach point know what is going on. Don’t stay to find shooting (in its context), pro-active shooting out. If there is doubt, get out! Especially if like this requires traditional marksmanship. you are unarmed, as you may be in certain Be deliberate! Watch your front sight and liberal states. press carefully and repeatedly (with your Those are the easy situations, mouth shut). aren’t they? Being attacked specifically 8) Train with photographic targets and has an easy response—immediate and do force-on-force training. Get used to the overwhelming counter-attack! Hearing a idea that you carry your gun to potentially fight you are not involved in and being able shoot at a human attacker. The more you get to get out is also easy; you get out. But what comfortable with this, the easier it will be. about those other situations? Tommy Lee Jones’ character in the movie, Situations such as seeing that the The Hunted, told his students that when gunman was walking backwards and you can kill in your mind, the physical part firing at everyone. Situations such as is easy. He’s right. hearing the sound of gun shots, but not 9) Consider that under some cir- having your family right there with you, cumstances you may have to make do but dispersed around the mall, shopping. with a knife. I’m not saying that you will The circumstances may be varied, but the attack a rifleman with your Spyderco at 50 end result is that you cannot morally just yards, but that in the event that he is within run away and leave those whom you are arm’s reach (which was the case with responsible for, or you choose not to leave several of the Tacoma hostages), your for various personal reasons. What do you knife may be the only thing between you do then? and being killed. So learn how to kill with The answer may lie in how prepared your knife. you are. Most of us do not venture out of the 10) Last, consider that there may be a house unarmed. Even in non-permissive reason why God (or fate if you wish) put environments (NPE) we are generally you, armed and trained, at that very spot carrying something. So what now? and place in time, with the ability to save In the Tacoma incident, we read innocents. This is the life-giving sword that there was a CCW armed citizen that (or gun in this context) that some ancient “responded to the active shooter.” There is warriors discussed in their writings. still a great deal of fog surrounding what What you do is your choice, of course. actually happened, but bits and pieces are Perhaps its just me, but I would not be able coming to us from some who were there, to live with the fact that I, well-armed and from some of the officers who responded, well-trained, and with my family in no and even from the CCW shooter himself danger, ran away from a snot-nosed punk (who was seriously wounded, but whom I could have easily dropped in his survived). tracks, and who subsequently was free to Napoleon once said that a wise man kill innocent people, due to my inaction. learns from the mistakes of others. We can Invariably, what I’ve written here learn a great deal from what went wrong will be controversial. Oh, well. 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26 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 The Guns of America—Stories of Independence

Alexa H. Madison Yes, The Constitution Really Does Protect Your Right to “Keep and Bear Arms.”

Alexa H. Madison, a collector of fun historical facts and stories. Concordia University Graduate—History. the actual document reads like a ho-hum Madison traveled the Western U.S. for 20 years before As a gun owner, it would be best to settling in the Wisconsin area. have a few fast facts in your back pocket laundry list of rules. But the Bill of Rights e-mail: [email protected] when it comes to your right to own and/or portion of the Constitution is where we get carry a weapon. into our personal rights. To “bear” means to carry. “I come The original body of the Constitution Some people, at that time, felt that bearing gifts” does not mean I have to of the United States consisted of 7 Articles the Constitution did not fully protect “the leave them at home! Not only was the right (or sections) that set up the basic functions people” or individuals or individual rights. to keep them guaranteed, but also to carry of government offices, such as Executive The citizens of the new country wanted to them from place to place. functions like taxation, roads, post offices, be sure that an elite class of a bully king, and their legislative rhetoric, could never David Ramsay, a state legislator of the commercial regulations, armed forces, era, asked, “What European power will states rights, elections, etc. Try not to yawn again infringe on their newly declared rights as American citizens. Taking away dare to attack us, when it is known that the here. Hold on, it gets better! yeomanry of the country uniformly armed This document was signed by those the right for people to own arms, and to have a free press and free speech are the and disciplined, may on any emergency be fellas, sometimes referred to as the called out to our defense. Founding Fathers, all gun owners, on first steps on the journey to a Monarchy or September 17, 1787. George Washington, Dictatorship. For this and other reasons, John Locke (1632-1704) James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton The Bill of Rights was brought to life by “Whereas by supposing they have were some of the notables that signed it the first congress and fully ratified by the given up themselves to the absolute before it went to the states to agree upon it. states by December 15, 1791. The original arbitrary power and will of a legislator, they To them, owning and carrying a gun was ten amendments protect a variety of have disarmed themselves, and armed him as natural of a right as any they outlined personal rights, and among these rights the to make a prey of them when he pleases...” Second Amendment guarantees to you the in the Constitution. The opening sentence Did the image of people from flooded right to keep and bear arms. that begins with “We the People…” is a homes desperately waving helpless hands “…the right of the people to keep beautiful piece of enlightened thinking; in the air to be lifted to safely, or the and bear Arms, shall not be image of businesses being looted bring infringed.” home the fact that personal safely is each The Second Amendment person’s responsibility? The Constitution appears in the Bill of Rights does not guarantee your personal safety among the amendments or your family’s safety; that’s your job, securing individual rights, and the Second Amendment is the tool a placement that indicates that guarantees you the right to carry that the right of the people out your responsibility. We must not fall to keep and bear arms victim to the vague laws proposed, written belongs to individuals. The by legislators designed to subvert the true Amendment secures to “the spirit of our Constitution. Endless buried people” the right to keep and regulations, restrictions, and registrations to bear arms owned by them, cannot counter the simple and timeless not the National Guard. It words, “keep and bear arms.” That ranks secures the right for citizens right up there with freedom of religion to be able to use their own or speech. You just can’t mess with those firearms in time of invasion simple words. It is what it is. of home, family, or country. The Second Amendment is part of an These arms were used armory, both philosophical and physical, for hunting, and personal that can be used to defend your freedom protection. and the American way of life.

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 27 efensive shooting is all about training to fight with a gun, and the key word is fight. This is very different business than competitive target shooting. Recently, I had the opportunity to take John and Vicki Farnam’s Defensive Handgun Course. It was reality-based training at its best. John and Vicki are the principals of Defense Training International, Inc., a mobile, tactical, firearms, training school. What follows is an overview of their defensive handgun course, a preparatory course on how to survive in a real fight for your life, and how to avoid one if at all possible.

John Farnam is an internationally This was John’s class. Vicki worked in With that said, John takes safe gun handling acclaimed firearms instructor, and the a supportive and adjunctive role. John and very seriously, and he enforces his rules author of three books and numerous articles. Vicki complement each other magnificently with no exceptions. He runs a “hot range” The course text, which is a “must read” and make an awesome teaching team. The and a very “tight ship.” Suffice it to say, for all defensive handgunners, is John’s two-day class I attended took place over a no safety violations went unnoticed or comprehensive book, The Farnam Method weekend. School began with the academic uncorrected during the two days that we of Defensive Handgunning, published by portion of the class, which took up all of spent on the range. DTI Publications (Tel: 303-443-9817). Vicki Saturday morning. Farnam, John’s wife and business partner, John’s lecture style is both academic is also an accomplished firearms instructor and poetic. He is eloquent, interesting, and shooter in her own right. She is the witty, comical at times (always to illustrate co-author of the acclaimed, Teaching a point being taught), knowledgeable, Women to Shoot: A Law Enforcement thoughtful, friendly, approachable, student- Instructor’s Guide. oriented, and dead serious when he has to be. He speaks with clarity, decisiveness and authority. He’s attentive, he commands every bit of your attention, and you can be sure that everything he says is based on hard won, real-life experience. There are no safe guns. John made it clear from the outset that lethal weapons training is dangerous, guns are dangerous, there are no “safe guns,” life is dangerous, and we all should start thinking of ourselves as dangerous and harmful if we have to be.

28 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 LECTURE HIGHLIGHTS Feelers are losers. The body bag will Safety rules were explained and In the classroom, John covered the look exactly the same.” John advised that strictly enforced. John instructed that at things you need to know and apply to we become “thinkers, not feelers.” He the end of the day, before we left the range, stay alive and avoid or prevail in a lethal emphasized the importance of clearing he would ask us to decide how we wanted encounter: the “stealth lifestyle,” blending one’s mind of clutter, thinking about what our gun—loaded and holstered (the only into a crowd, how to avoid being selected as you’re doing, having a plan, and making a way to carry), or unloaded and in a case. a victim, mindset and mental preparedness, decision in a critical situation. Unloaded in one’s holster and loaded in the force continuum, the psychophy- John said, “You might be wrong, one’s hand were not options. He allowed siological aspects of lethal encounters, but never in doubt.” There is no room for no gun handling off of the line; guns threat evaluation, risk identification doubt because doubt causes hesitation and stayed holstered. John, Vicki and their and reduction, dealing with aggressors, hesitation leads to dithering. John reminded assistant instructors policed the range like controlling the focus of one’s attention, us of Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum, “The hawks and demanded continuous “muzzle the psychology of winning in a fight (and best thing to do is the right thing; the next consciousness” and attentiveness. That one in life), and ways to disengage from a best thing is the wrong thing; and the worst second when you’re handling a loaded gun potentially violent encounter. thing is nothing.” This might as well be a and become distracted is when the serpent He also covered basic gun handling lesson in positive living. John explained, strikes. Seventy-five percent of gunshot safety rules and essential considerations “Learn to get the crap out of your mind and wounds are self-inflicted accidents. in equipment selection. John explained, get on to the front sight!” John and Vicki’s loaded gun handling “Every technique works to one degree or safety mantras are: (1) establish your master another. We teach techniques that work SAFE GUN HANDLING grip as soon as you grasp your handgun; (2) in the greatest number of circumstances.” All guns are loaded. John pointed keep your trigger finger off of the trigger He encouraged us to learn to use a variety out, “We carry serious guns for serious and high in register (i.e., extended along the of guns the way they come out of the box social purposes all the time. Fighting guns frame and in contact with the slide of an because, “The one you get to use when are designed to be carried loaded. That’s autoloader and along the top of the frame of you need a gun may be the one that slides why we carry loaded guns and we handle a revolver) except when your sights are on across the bar room floor amidst the blood, all guns the same way all the time.” In that the target and you’ve made the decision to beer and sweat.” regard, John emphasized, ”We train so that fire; and (3) always be aware of the direction Be decisive. To raise one’s odds we don’t miss and don’t have accidents. in which your muzzle is pointed. of surviving a violent encounter, John There is no right way to do the wrong John said, “There is only one emphasized the importance of “thinking thing.” Having done the wrong thing 21 ‘go’ button—the trigger. Under five and doing” over “feeling and dawdling.” thousand times without injury is no excuse constellations of circumstances, you can He asserted, “You can feel any way to keep doing the wrong thing. pull the trigger without being aware that you you want; it doesn’t change anything. are doing it, and you’ll have a unintended Continued on page 30

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 29 discharge as a result: (1) when you’re tired; verbally and physically divide the intruder’s friend, Matt Del Fatti. With my Glock 30, (2) when you’re distracted; (3) when you’re focus and then disengage by verbalizing I used a horsehide, Greg Kramer IWB #3. startled; (4) if you lose your balance; and something like, “Sorry sir, I can’t help To keep it real, I used self-defense, jacketed (5) as a result of a sympathetic, inter-limb you,” as you keep moving away. If he hollow point (JHP) ammunition in 9mm, interaction. That is why the most likely continues to press the issue, you might yell, Cor-bon’s DPX (“Deep Penetrating X time of an accidental discharge (AD) is “Now back off buddy!” or “Get away from Bullet”—highly recommended by John), within two seconds of the last AD!” me now!” If someone is closing in on your Black Hills JHPs, and Federal Hydra-Shok Thus, John pointed out, “When loading, personal space, you might verbalize (with JHPs; in .45 ACP, I used Black Hills and unloading, performing a chamber check, eye contact and a commanding presence), Federal Hydra-Shok JHPs. I fired over 1000 and performing user-level maintenance, we “Can I help you sir?” No matter what he rounds, and both of my Glocks and all of need to have an attention span sufficient to asks for or says, your answer should always the ammo shot accurately and functioned complete the process. Interruptions will be the same, “Sorry sir, I can’t help you.” as reliably as a Swiss clock. Glad I have provide the deadly catalyst! As with parallel Your verbalizations should be rehearsed some left for carry! parking a car, handling guns requires that to the point where you can run them off John was equipped with three con- we pay full attention to what we’re doing like tape loops when they are triggered by cealed handguns: a Glock 38 in .45 GAP, in a throughout the procedure.” danger stimuli. low profile, Hoffners Ultimate Shirt Tucker John recommended that when moving Disrupt his plan. You disrupt the ITP, Inside-the-Pants, Kydex holster; a or stationary, the manual safety should assailant’s plan by moving and being Smith & Wesson 340PD Airlite revolver in stay “off” any time both hands are on the unpredictable. Whatever you do, don’t a Rusty Sherrick leather shoulder holster; pistol. John said, “Taking it ‘on’ and ‘off’ freeze! If the stranger attacks you, you and a Kel-Tec 3AT in .380 ACP carried in continually is a waste of time and adds a believe that your life and limb are in jeo- a Comp-tac “Centerline holster” suspended plethora of extra steps. The trigger finger pardy, and you have no other options for around his neck on an adjustable lanyard. should be in register until the sights are on avoiding imminent death or grave bodily He also carried Fox Labs O.C. pepper spray, the target and the operator has decided to harm, you may have to employ your final and two Cold Steel, combat, folding knives shoot. Having one’s finger on the trigger option and draw your gun. If being held at (their Ti-Lite and Vaquero). and the pistol simultaneously pointed at a gunpoint and given the verbal challenge/ Lethal threat containment and ‘target’ about which he has not yet made command, “Don’t move. Drop your management. The defensive shooter must up his mind, is an invitation to catastrophe. weapon!”, does not deter the attacker, you practice and become adept at precision ...However, manually decocking pistols, may have to shoot to stop the attack in and discretionary shooting under stress. like the SIG, need to be decocked before order to avoid becoming another violent Throughout both days on the range, John moving, so that the trigger is returned to its crime statistic. Your goal is to disable and Vicki, with the assistance of their forward position where the finger expects the attacker’s body and destroy his will helpful adjunct instructors, taught the to find it.” to fight. correct use of movement, verbal challenges, Disable his body and destroy his will. cover, and other tactical skills. THE “FOUR D’S OF In this regard, John teaches the “zipper” We learned and practiced diseng- WINNING A FIGHT method. The objective is to turn off the agement from close encounters, weapon John teaches that we want to: (1) divide attacker and stop the aggression as quickly control and retention, close range shooting, our attacker’s focus, (2) disrupt his plan, (3) as possible. This usually means inflicting hostage shots, shooting and moving, and disable his body, and (4) destroy his will to lethal shots—shooting at the naval and shooting multiple targets under radical time fight (if it gets that far!). In regard to numbers then shooting up the attacker’s midline, like pressure. The Farnams started us on square, 1 and 2, he teaches disengagement routines a zipper, until the attacker stops coming paper, humanoid targets and then moved us which incorporate rehearsed verbalizations, at you. on to steel, rotator targets, so we could track moving off of the line of attack, and using moving targets with multiple shots. a less than lethal force option if necessary DAY ONE ON THE RANGE Administrative procedures and and possible, such as O.C. pepper spray. I shot the course with my 9mm Glock tactical basics. The first day we learned Successful disengagement can usually 19 and my .45 caliber Glock 30. With my the proper way to chamber check and be accomplished via posture and firm Glock 19, I used a cowhide, IWB holster clear a handgun, and other administrative verbalizations, but you must be practiced made by master holster maker and my techniques, such as administrative load- and have your “tape-loops” ready to go! ing, unloading and reloading. We also Divide his focus. For example, if learned and practiced such “tactical you’re being approached by a stranger basics” as the “interview stance,” the draw asking for money, your immediate goal is to from concealment, covering suspects at

30 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 QUALIFICATION EXAM By the end of the second day, most of us were tired and on stress overload. However, to pass the course and earn our DTI pin and certificate, we had to shoot and pass John’s rigorous qualification examination. The bad news is that no one passed on the first round. The good news is that John and Vicki let everyone do it as many times as it takes to pass—criterion-based learning at its best! Some students cried; some cursed under their breath. John, Vicki and their instructors coached everyone through their “speed bumps,” encouraging each student to stay focused, “stay in the fight,” “fight through it,” and “solve the problem.” By the end of class on Sunday, everyone was exhausted, and everyone felt accomplished. We all eventually passed, although most of us had to fight through our own demons, as we repeated the final drill, until we got it perfect. Our pin and certificate of completion from Defense Training International was Sources: truly earned through sweat (no blood), and Black Hills Ammunition. Tel: 605-348-5150 in some cases, tears. www.Black-Hills.com To pass this rigorous course, we had Comp-Tac Victory Gear. Tel: 281-209-3040 www.Comp-tac.com to apply all of the things that we learned Cor-bon/Glaser Ammunition. Tel: 800-626-7266 and absorbed throughout the long training www.Corbon.com weekend. Psychologically, each student had Defense Training International, Inc., P.O. Box 917, to have a plan; stay focused; act decisively LaPorte, CO 80535 Tel: 970-482-2520 www.Defense-Training.com and without delay; jettison the clutter from Del Fatti Leather. Tel: 715-267-6420 gunpoint, properly and safely re-holstering, his mind; let nothing get between him and and marksmanship fundamentals (Farnam www.Delfatti.com his front sight; and recover quickly from John S. Farnam (2000). The Farnam Method of Defensive high thumbs grip, Weaver stance, trigger mistakes, errors, and frustrations. In order Handgunning. Boulder, CO: DTI Publications. manipulation, first shot, and multiple shot to accomplish this, we had to keep our Tel: 303-443-9817 strings). On Saturday evening, we learned emotions in check—think and not feel— John S. Farnam (1997). The Farnam Method of Defensive low-light shooting techniques (with and Shotgun and Rifle Shooting. Boulder, CO: DTI and never dawdle. This is just how it has Publications. Tel: 303-443-9817 without a flashlight) and practiced in to be done in real life to survive a lethal Vicki Farnam & Diane Nicholl (2002). Teaching Women the dark. force confrontation. to Shoot: A Law Enforcement Instructor’s Guide. Boulder, CO: DTI Publications. Tel: 303-443-9817 Keep moving! John and Vicki My own personal plan for passing the continually reminded us of the importance John S. Farnam (1990). 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Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 31 In the 1980s, when police departments civilians eschewed traditional full-size recently offered as a “standard” 3913, and across the country started trading in their guns and gravitated to smaller, thinner, is currently offered as a “value model” 908 Smith & Wesson revolvers, they looked lighter and easier to carry guns. It seems and 908S. In the past, this same basic gun to a familiar source for their new 9mm now that firearms companies rush to market has been made as a Model 39, and later as a autoloaders—Smith & Wesson. The first every year with new compact designs for 439, 639 and perhaps others. One attractive generation S&W semi-autos were standard concealed carry. aspect of these guns is that many, many of issue for law enforcement officers across While S&W certainly arms a very them have been made over the years, so the country, with full size, double-stack large portion of the CWP holders in this they can be found relatively easily on the “wondernines,” like the Model 59 for patrol country, it is most noticeably with their used market. officers, and more compact versions like lightweight snub-nose revolvers. S&W The 3913 TSW is a single-stack 9mm, the 69 and the 39 for detectives and plain- autoloaders are often overlooked by the gun meaning the magazine is designed to hold clothes types. These early autoloaders paved magazines and the glitterati of the firearms only a single row of ammunition. In a world the way for many more, and the wheelguns community as old news. However, S&W of double-stack Glocks, Berettas, Sigs and were eventually considered to be obsolete autopistols, and in particular, the 3913 H&Ks, the single-stack 9mm has become for modern law enforcement. The S&W and related models, have an almost cult- a bit lost in the crowd. While capacity is semi-auto guns evolved and improved, but like following that is not often discussed. “sacrificed” to a mere 9 rounds (8 rounds in were also met with stiff competition from This is a modern interpretation of a classic the magazine, plus one in the chamber), the other manufacturers. While the S&W guns firearm that deserves your consideration. benefits abound. A thin gun is much easier are still in wide use by law enforcement, to carry and conceal. The grip portion of a other guns like Glocks and Sig Sauers seem gun is usually the most difficult portion to to garner far more attention these days. The particular gun reviewed here hide, and the bulk of a double-stack 9mm Since the late 1990s, however, the is the 3913 TSW. The “TSW” moniker is grip can be problematic. The 3913’s grip is firearms market has changed dramatically. marketing-speak for “Tactical Smith & adorned with very thin, but decent looking The passage of “right to carry” legislation Wesson.” The TSW pistols are the top of plastic grips and is approximately one inch in states across the country has resulted in the line guns that have slightly different wide—quite svelte. The slide measures hundreds of thousands of civilians having sight packages and different checkering, only .9 inches across, although that width the ability to carry concealed firearms. and later models all sport a tactical light is increased by the width of the slide- A whole new market has exploded, as rail. This same, basic gun has also been mounted safety lever.

32 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 The 3913 is equipped with Lo Mount Double-stack 9mms have been the rage Novak 3-dot sights that provide a clear for so long, that I had almost forgotten sight picture. Night sights are available for how nice a single-stack 9mm fits my hand. upgrade, although the guns are not offered Obviously, the fit may be different for you, to the civilian market with factory night but I like it. The Novak sights also help put sights. The gun also comes with two high this gun easily and quickly on target. The quality magazines that have finger-rest trigger pull on this gun leaves a bit to be bases, clearly numbered index holes, and desired, but it is still quite workable. The a high-contrast, orange follower. Spare double-action is heavy, although reasonably magazines are a bit pricey (about $40 from smooth. Fortunately, most of your shooting S&W), but I have had great luck with the is likely done in single-action, which is a much cheaper Mec-Gar units. The TSW lot more manageable. There is little take- models also have an integrated light rail for up and a short reset, making the gun easy a weapon mounted light. A gun-mounted to shoot, whether slowly for accuracy or for flashlight won’t solve all your lighting quick follow-ups. A bit of attention from problems (a topic for another day), but it a decent gunsmith could make the DA can be nice to have. trigger quite a bit better, resulting in faster All in all, the 3913 is a very solid, and better first shots out of the holster. Of The 3913 comes configured with what well put-together gun in a proven design. course, you will always have to train and S&W calls “traditional double-action” or Take-down is relatively simple, and proper pay special attention to mastering the TDA. In the TDA configuration, the gun maintenance should not be a problem. Most transition from the first DA trigger pull to has an ambidextrous, slide-mounted, de- importantly, the gun is backed with the the following SA trigger pulls, which is a cocking/safety lever. The gun is designed S&W Lifetime Repair Policy and S&W’s common problem on traditional, double- to be carried with the hammer down, legendary customer service. action guns. This skill, like any other, is requiring a long, double-action pull to acquired through training and practice. fire the first shot. All subsequent shots are I don’t find a lot of value in firing single-action, with a bit of take-up, but a Yes! The 3913 TSW digested several concealed carry guns from a bench rest reasonably lightweight pull. The gun can types of ammo, including my carry at 25 yards. The target shown was fired be carried with the safety on (requiring the favorites, Gold Dot 115 grain JHPs, with without support in singles and pairs at 30 disengagement before firing the gun), or no problems at all. These guns are not feet. This gun is more than capable of good with the safety off (relying on the weight typically very ammo sensitive, and this combat accuracy. The “9 Tactical” will do of the double-action trigger pull for safety). particular example certainly was not. I have its job if you do. This is a matter of personal preference and personally put over 500 rounds of assorted training. If you don’t care for a safety, ammo through the gun used for this review S&W can convert the gun to a “de-cock without a single malfunction of any kind. I would not presume to tell you what only” configuration with no safety. If you The gun is rated for 9mm +P ammo, and gun you should carry. I can’t tell you what just don’t like levers at all, and don’t mind seems to handle it without any problems. model will fit your hands or your lifestyle. the double-action trigger pull, S&W can The TSW shoots very well for me. I can tell you, however, that the S&W 3913 convert the gun to a true “double-action I think it is a combination of a nicely is worth your consideration. It is not the only” with no protruding levers at all. ergonomic, single-stack grip, good sights, latest, the highest tech, or the most popular This S&W does not have a factory and a pretty decent single-action trigger. concealed carry firearm on the market. key-lock, which is appreciated by many. Unlike a Glock, you can’t walk into any gun It does have a “loaded chamber indicator,” show and buy hundreds of accessories and which consists of a small hole in the barrel do-dads to hang off of your gun (of course, at the top of the ejection port that will whether you need any of those things is show if a piece of brass is present. Not a another topic for another day). And yet, the bad thing to have, but you should never S&W 3913 TSW and its closely related kin rely on a visual inspection through a tiny have been out quietly doing their jobs for hole to determine if your gun is loaded. decades, and they are worth a close look in On a more controversial note, this gun your quest for the perfect carry gun. also has a magazine disconnect safety. The gun cannot be fired without a magazine in place. Some believe this is an undesirable, Duane A. Daiker is a Contributing Editor for unnecessary safety feature that may, for CCM, but is otherwise a regular guy, not much instance, prevent you from being able to fire different from you. Duane has been a life-long a round in the midst of a tactical reload if shooter and goes about his life as an armed, responsible, and somewhat opinionated citizen. necessary. Others appreciate the magazine Duane authors a regular column in CCM safety as a way of essentially disabling the entitled Real World Carry Gear. Duane can be gun if in danger of being lost in a struggle. reached at: That is your call to make, and the safety [email protected] could theoretically be disabled, although I and additional information can be found at: would never suggest that you do so. www.RealWorldCarryGear.com Photography by the aurthor.

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 33 iven the common maladies of aging, removed, and shouldn’t be mixed with bolt face and magazine well (through the such as arthritis, which affect hand strength gun oils, which can create a gluey, gooey ejection port) to make the sure the gun has and dexterity, old geezers like myself who mess! With that said, your Glock should be been cleared and made safe. carry a handgun everyday for self-defense cleaned regularly. NOTE: With a Glock, this first step want something reliable, that’s easy to My routine is to field strip and clean is super crucial because the pistol must be operate and simple to maintain. Amongst my gun after every two to three trips to dry fired in order to initiate disassembly. big bore, defensive, semi-automatic pistols, the range, or if I have run more than 400 Even after you have visually and physically that spells G-l-o-c-k. rounds through it since its last cleaning. checked clear, you still want to hold the The Glock is user friendly, durable, However, if you carry your gun a lot, even weapon pointed in a safe direction. reliable, low maintenance, and eminently if you haven’t shot it much, it should be shootable. Recoil in every Glock is very cleaned, lubricated, and function-checked Step two: Dry fire the pistol. manageable for its caliber. The Glock at least once every three months. Carrying 1) Pointing the gun away from any slide is easy to grasp and doesn’t require a gun exposes it to body oils, sweat, dirt, person or objects of value (i.e., a safe extraordinary strength to work. There dust, lint, moisture, etc. Once a year, you direction), rack the slide to return the slide aren’t a lot of buttons and levers to operate, also might want to consider taking your into battery and close the action. Check so extraordinary dexterity is not required. Glock to a Certified Glock Armorer or that the chamber is clear one more time. Glocks are built to take a lot of neglect and qualified gunsmith (who works on Glocks 2) With the slide in battery, point the abuse, and to continue functioning under regularly) to have it detail stripped and pistol in a safe direction and then press the the most adverse of conditions. A new, out- detail cleaned. trigger rearward. You’ll hear and feel the of-the-box Glock will have an expected What follows are ten easy steps to keep click of the firing pin moving forward. The service life of well over 200,000 rounds. your Glock up and running. Please note that trigger must be in its rearward position to That means it should outlast you! the basic cleaning steps described below remove the slide. Nevertheless, despite the Glock’s apply to most other semi-automatic pistols. Note. Apply your total attention to remarkable durability and dependability, it However, for each and every handgun you complete steps one and two above. Do still needs to be cared for. If you make the own, you should read the owner’s manual not allow yourself to get distracted! Most time to take care of your defensive firearm, for specific disassembly, reassembly, lub- unintentional discharges with the Glock it will stay in shape to take care of you. The rication and cleaning instructions. occur at this point when the operator good news is that you don’t have to be an gets distracted. Step one: Make sure the pistol is armorer or gunsmith to learn how to field unloaded. strip (disassemble) your Glock for routine It is vital for your own safety and the inspection and cleaning. Just read your safety of others that (a) you make sure your Glock owner’s manual (Instructions for pistol is unloaded before commencing to Use) and this article. field strip it and (b) that there be no live Maintenance Schedule: Unlike many ammunition whatsoever in the cleaning other autoloading pistols with tightly area. To prepare to field strip your Glock: machined tolerances, the Glock does not 1) With your pistol facing in a safe need to be over-cleaned. If you are one of direction, remove the magazine, and then those types who likes to clean your gun a rack the slide to eject a round from the lot (right before and after every shooting chamber if the chamber is loaded. Always session), exercise your need with another remove the magazine first before ejecting gun! Your Glock also doesn’t like to be a round from the chamber. Otherwise you over-lubricated. New Glocks come with a will just chamber another round! copper colored lubricant on portions of the 2) With no magazine in the magazine slide’s interior for long-term lubrication. well, lock the slide back and visually and This lapping compound should not be with your little finger check the chamber,

34 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 Step three: Disassemble the pistol into its four main component parts. Follow the Glock owner’s manual instructions for disassembling your pistol into its four main component parts: slide, barrel, guide rod/recoil spring assembly, and frame/receiver. No further disassembly is required for routine maintenance and cleaning of your Glock. You are now ready to clean. You will need the following materials to properly clean your gun: appropriately sized cleaning patches; Q-tips; a good following the same principle as with the down, use the toothbrush to brush clean quality cleaning rod; a screw-on, brass, patch (full–length, rotating passes). Scrub the breech face, the extractor, and the area bore brush of the appropriate caliber until the bore is shiny and clean when around the extractor. Keep in mind that you for your gun; a screw-on, slotted tip for inspected under a bright light. want to avoid getting solvent into the firing threading cleaning patches onto your 3) If the bore is heavily fouled and you pin channel. Solvent and lubricants collect cleaning rod; a two-ended, nylon, gun used a dry bore brush, swab the bore again dirt and grime and you don’t want to cake cleaning toothbrush; a quality gun cleaner/ five to six times with another wet patch. or grease up your firing pin and firing pin solvent; a quality lubricant/gun oil; and a channel! This could cause your gun to fail lint-free cleaning rag. to function. Step four: Clean the barrel. 1) Wet a cleaning patch with your quality gun cleaner/solvent. I like to use Break Free Cleaner Lubricant Protector (CLP). Thread the wet patch through the slotted tip on your cleaning rod. Insert the cleaning rod into the breech end of the barrel and swab out the chamber and bore. Work the wet patch back and forth through the entire length of the barrel at least five or six times. Don’t bottle brush 4) Dampen the large end of your inside the bore. This will just keep the two-ended cleaning toothbrush with debris inside the barrel. Rotate the cleaning some solvent and vigorously scrub 2) Swab the slide rail cuts and the rod clockwise, as you push the patch all the carbon deposits off of the barrel hood and inside of the slide with a clean, cotton way forward from the breech, out through feed ramp. Q-tip. Notice all the dirt that collects on the muzzle, and continue to rotate the rod 5) Wipe the exterior of the barrel down the Q-tip! clockwise, as you pull the patch all the way with a solvent dampened rag or patch. 3) Using a slightly solvent dampened backward through the barrel and out of the 6) Dry out the bore by swabbing with rag or patch, clean the underside/inside chamber and breech. Five or six full-length clean, dry patches until the patches come of the slide. You can also use the wide passes should do it. out clean and dry. end of the toothbrush to scrub the inside 7) With a dry patch, wipe down the of the slide. Dampen the small end of the exterior of the barrel. Put the barrel aside toothbrush (single row of bristles) with for now. solvent and vigorously scrub the slide Step five: Clean the slide. rail cuts. 1) Holding the slide vertically, muzzle Continued on page 36

2) Remove the patch from the cleaning rod and replace it with a brass bore brush. [Note: If the bore is heavily fouled, you can squirt some cleaning solvent onto the bore brush. Alternatively, you can dry brush the bore, as described here, and wet patch again afterwards.] Insert the rod into the barrel from the breech/chamber end and vigorously scrub the entire bore,

Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 35 3) Make sure to wipe clean the locking it go. It should snap down sharply into the block, the trigger bar, the connector, the frame. If it doesn’t, there’s a problem. See cruciform, and the ejector. (See the Glock a Glock armorer. owner’s manual for a list of parts.) Step eight: Lubricate the pistol. You just need six drops of oil. Use a quality gun lubricant/rust protective oil. Note: If you’re using a binary compound Step seven: Inspect the pistol’s main such as Break Free CLP, make sure to shake components and function check. the bottle vigorously to mix the ingredients Note: If your Glock fails any of the before applying it. Lubricate the following following inspection tests, have it inspected areas in the following order: by an experienced, factory trained and certified Glock armorer, or send it back to Glock. 1) Barrel: Inspect your barrel for dirt, lead deposits, bulges, obstructions, and cracks. 2) Firing pin and firing pin safety: There are four parts to this test: (a) With the barrel and the recoil spring assembly removed, hold the slide with the interior facing upwards. Pull the firing pin lug all the way rearward and then ease it forward until it stops, as it contacts the firing pin safety. Do not allow the firing pin to snap forward! Then, press the firing pin lug forward with your forefinger (toward the muzzle). It should not slip forward, past the firing pin safety and it shouldn’t protrude through the firing pin hole on the breech face of the slide. (b) Hold the slide muzzle down and press in on the firing pin safety button in the slide’s interior. The firing pin should move downward and its tip should slip through the firing pin hole on the breech face. (c) Retract the firing pin back into the slide. Now shake the slide vigorously with the muzzle facing downward. The firing pin safety should prevent the firing pin from protruding through the breech face. (d) Depress the firing pin safety button with your fingertips while you vigorously shake the slide from end to end. You should hear the firing pin moving freely inside the firing pin channel. If you do not hear and feel the firing pin movement, the firing pin and its channel could be caked with 4) Use a clean, dry patch to wipe down dirt and blocked, or the firing pin could be the interior of the slide and slide rails. broken. See a Glock armorer. 3) Extractor: Inspect the extractor on Step six: Clean the receiver. the breech face of the slide for cleanliness 1) Using the wide end of your nylon and to make sure the extractor claw is not 1) Slide: Hold the slide such that the cleaning toothbrush, brush off carbon broken or chipped. slide rail cuts face upward and the muzzle deposits on the metal contact points and 4) Ejector: The ejector is a piece of end is canted slightly downward. Using the locking block on the receiver. Use some metal that protrudes forward from the left a lubricant applicator, drag one drop of solvent if necessary, and if so, then use rear of the receiver or frame. Make sure it lubricant down the entire length of each dry patches or a dry rag to wipe off excess is clean and not chipped or broken. slide rail cut. That’s two drops of oil. Apply solvent. 5) Slide stop lever test: Grip the one drop of lubricant to the front inside 2) Using the wide end of your tooth- receiver in your strong hand and with the of the slide which rubs against the upper brush, brush out any unburned gunpowder thumb and index fingers of your other hand, portion of the barrel. That’s three drops of and debris from the interior of the pull upward on the slide stop lever and let oil. (See Photo 12.) receiver.

36 Concealed Carry Magazine www.concealedcarrymag.com Volume 3 - February/March 2006 2) Barrel: Wipe down your barrel’s in the magazine properly, and that the feed “Speed-Clean Your Glock!” by Gila Hayes. exterior with one of the oil dampened lips are not bent or crushed. When you In Glock Autopistols. Vol. 9. No. 1. 2003. pp. patches or the oil dampened rag that you’ve press down on the follower and release it, 62-65. used for cleaning. With your lubricant it should spring back all the way up and not applicator, apply one drop of oil on the stick inside the magazine tube. * The author wishes to thank Classic Pistol rear side of the barrel lug and one drop on (f) Slide lock open test: Insert an Indoor Range and Training Institute in the outside front of the barrel. That’s five empty magazine into your in-battery Southampton, PA (www.ClassicPistol.com) drops so far. pistol. Firmly pull the slide all the way and Pistol People Indoor Range and 3) Frame/Receiver: Hold the receiver rearward and it should lock open. Repeat Training Institute in Bensalem, PA (www. in your strong hand, left side facing down. with each of your empty magazines. A PistolPeople.com) for use of their excellent Apply one drop of oil to the curved, upper defective magazine can prevent the slide facilities and their generous assistance in extension of the connector, at the right from locking open. different phases of this author’s education rear corner of the receiver/frame where about Glocks. Step ten: Decide what condition the rear end of the trigger bar touches the you want the gun in and put it in that Bruce N. Eimer, Ph.D. is a board certified, licensed, connector. Hint: In this position, this upper clinical and forensic psychologist, NRA Certified condition. rear extension of the connector looks like Firearms Instructor, NRA Life Member, Glock Certified Wipe your gun down with a slightly the palm of a hand. (See Photo 13.) And Armorer, a Utah Dept. of Public Safety Concealed oiled rag or gun cloth. At this point, decide Firearms Instructor and an Author in Philadelphia, that is six drops of oil. Done. how you want your pistol. The two sensible Pennsylvania. As the co-owner of Personal Defense Step nine: Reassemble the pistol and choices are: (a) unloaded for storage (no Solutions, LLC, Bruce teaches concealed carry classes and NRA Basic Pistol and Personal Protection function check the reassembled gun. magazine in the magazine well, slide in courses, as well as offering individual shooting 1) Reassemble your gun. To reas- battery and the gun decocked with the instruction. 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Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 37 3838 ConcealedConcealed CarryCarry MagazineMagazine www.concealedcarrymag.comwww.concealedcarrymag.com VolumeVolume 33 -- February/MarchFebruary/March 20062006 Volume 3 - February/March 2006 www.concealedcarrymag.com Concealed Carry Magazine 39 ast summer, a Massachusetts man change for reasons beyond their control. prolonged illness? What if I discover a gun was killed in an apparent case of By his own admission, the shooter was carrying friend is taking mood altering road rage. While removing his baby taking several medications for depression drugs? We’ll have to make a choice if we from a car, he was shot four times when he left the scene of the original should find ourselves in a situation similar in front of dozens of witnesses. According incident. It was later, after the initial to one of the above. Whether for myself to Massachusetts police, the victim’s 10- confrontation, that he returned and shot or someone else, I dread being placed month-old daughter was found in a car the victim as he was removing his daughter in the position of deciding if it’s wise to seat on the floor of the vehicle, covered in from a car and his back was turned. carry a gun or should it be locked away? blood. Fortunately, she was uninjured. A In my opinion, there were numerous I can only pray I make the right call if it 60-year-old man, taking two medications places where this tragedy could have been happens and avoid a repeat of that tragedy for depression, was arrested and charged avoided if the shooter had only remained in in Massachusetts. with the murder of the 27-year-old father. control. He could have just walked away at The shooter told police he’d driven his wife Bob Childers has a Degree in Theology the start. I’m aware of no law that requires and retired from the United States Navy in to a train station earlier that day and as him to respond if another driver cuts him 1994. He’s a member of the NRA, Texas State he attempted to park, the victims vehicle off or makes a crude remark. Next, if Rifle Association, the East Texas Rife and Pistol backed towards him. There was a con- the shooter was medicated for emotional Club and holds a Texas CCL. You can find out frontation and the two men exchanged more about him at his website, problems, he was aware his judgment http://vchilder.home.netcom.com heated words. The man said it scared was possibly impaired. Knowing this, he his wife and he became angry over the could have decided not to carry a weapon. encounter. After dropping her off, he This would have prevented him from returned, pointed a handgun through unintentionally harming himself or others. a window of the victim’s car and fired. Finally, what could have compelled him to Police reported the shooter had a valid state kill the other man? Couldn’t he have written handgun license and no criminal history. off the first encounter as an annoying, but Quoting the local DA, “We have a homicide harmless experience? Again, this is the that resulted from a circumstance where sort of tragedy the anti-gun lobby and it’s somebody picked a fight with an individual cohorts use in their attempt to take away CALL who obviously lost control and exploded.” our right to keep and carry arms. The shooter in this case had a current Carrying a firearm brings with it great handgun license and used a legally owned responsibility. Being shoved at a bar or (262) 677-8877 pistol to kill someone, apparently because finding your fender dented in the parking he was mad at him. This happened in a lot is not reason enough to take a life. state with some of the most restrictive Lethal force should only be used for self- OR VISIT US ONLINE gun laws in the nation. Tragically, this has defense. It’s a last resort when lives are destroyed several lives, altered many others threatened with immediate and extreme www.uscca.us and gives anti-gun politicians an excuse to harm or death. When you hold a gun, pass more, increasingly restrictive, gun you hold the power of life and death. As Concealed Carry Magazine and its publisher Delta Media, control laws. For your safety and the safety in the Massachusetts tragedy, the results LLC are not responsible for mishaps of any kind which may of every person you encounter, when you occur from use of published firearms information, equip- are disastrous when that power was used ment recommendations, tactics and training advice or from carry a gun, you also carry an obligation to unwisely or carelessly. recommendations by staff or contributing writers. Carrying a concealed weapon can be very dangerous if you are not well know when as well as how to use it. We gun owners spend a lot of time trained and familiar with the weapon you carry. Notice: Some Most gun owners accept the debating where and how to best use our advertisements may concern products that are not legally for sale to California residents or residents in other jurisdictions. responsibility of owning a firearm very weapons, but what about not using that No advertised or reviewed item is intended for sale in those seriously. 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