Recent content by Gomez

Tony Blauer wrote an excellant article on this topic years ago. It's called "Presumed Compliance". It should be available in the archives on his site (www.tonyblauer.com). Definitely worth reading. To answer your question, from my own experience going through one civillian law enforcement...

Caz, No offense taken, and if my "tone" came across negatively, I apologize. (Ask me about a five week old and a two year, both coming down with a cold and neither sleeping through the night.:() If you look at my earlier posts, I'd already agreed that a second gun and movement were both...

In response to the gentleman who observed that training one-hand drills on the range does not duplicate reality, well, du-uh. And shooting with two hands on the range doesn't duplicate reality either. And shooting on flat paper targets doesn't duplicate reality either. Since all of these events...

Run a search, as this has recently been discussed. I think some of the threads were "Airsoft as Training Tool?" and "Purdue Anarchists...." Gomez

There's the question. I hear/read/see a lot about the individual being a "warrior". What does the word "warrior" mean to you? Do you consider yourself a warrior? Why or why not?

I'll throw in my two cents, I think that the knife is an excellant tool and is a lot more useful than a gun in certain situations. Like a gun, it does require training to be truly useful. "Knife fighting" is a misnomer, I don't know that there's a lot of use in learning to "knifefight" but there...

Nashville is a relatively easy drive from Red Stick, so if Nashville happens, I'll be there. And I'm pretty sure some of the TN OPS crew will be interested. Several of them have trained with Sully before & all spoke well of the course (tac rifle, as I recall).

Preacherman, Absolutely, they make Glock copies. KSC offers the finest Glock M19 airsoft that I've seen. If you look at the pics in Karl Rehn's presentation, there's a pic showing a couple of real guns mixed in with a couple of airsofts. One pair are live & airsoft Glocks. Take a look...

FWIW, I started carrying a 6P back in '91 or '92, switched to an M3 for duty and a Z3 for plain-clothes sometime in '99 or '00. Loved them all, but the real gem, the light that is always with me, nowadays is an E2e. When I first got the E2e, I thought "ain't it cute". But once I actually started...

Marty & Gila offer very good training at a better-than average price. They have invested a lot of time and money in developing a solid curriculum and a wonderful range complex and, unlike some who pretend to be "sometimes a teacher, always a student", Marty & Gila continuously bring in outside...

Come to think of it, Shooting To Live and Kill Or Get Killed are available online. If you check out www.gutterfighting.org, I believe they offer them for free download.

Shooting To Live (With The One Hand Gun) and Get Tough! are both excellent books in several regards. First, Shooting To Live offers great coverage on the Fairbairn/Sykes method of point shooting. It covers a surprising amount of "modern" material for a book written in the early part of the...

By all reports, Bill is an outstanding instructor. I've not had the pleasure of training with him, but Andy speaks highly of him. I'm hoping to get out there late this year or next.

Guys (plural, non-gender specific), Thanks for all the responses. Several of you have helped clarify, for me, what I was going for. IE, my problem with so-called "perfect practice", is I'm not perfect so what I think is "perfect practice" is not and there is the very real possibility that...

Perfect Practice Absolutely Does Not lead to Perfection, that's for sure. Time and again, I encounter the idea that, "if only I practice more, I won't make mistakes. If only I practice enough I'll be able to do it perfectly." What practice does is twofold. It decreases the frequency of errors...