The goal of most firearms trainers: turn you into them. If a trainer’s tactical dress, clipped tones and head-on-a-swivel stance makes you suspect that they’re ready, willing and able to do wet work in Mogadishu, they may not be the best option for self-defense instruction. As Clint Smith asserts above, not shooting is the armed Americans’ primary goal. If your trainer is all about the shooting, Houston, we have a problem. Saying that, I’m not that picky about my firearms training save the safety component. I take everything I learn with a grain of salt the size of the Hope Diamond. Besides, all that tacticool stuff is fun! So how do you choose training? Price, proximity, style, what? BTW: Did a SWAT team visit Thunder Ranch recently? There’s a motionless dog behind Clint . . .
I swear, do Liberals not know how to read graphs? Because every single graph in existence (and the evidence for those graphs) shows a downward trend not only in gun violence, but violence in general.
That can be the only explanation for why they think crime is going up… they’re reading the graph backwards.
Song at the end is perfect: burn mfer burn.
GTFO then. P.O.S.
This is great news! With the 25 bucks you save on the rifle, you can buy yourself a whole quarter of a box of ammo.
By the way, if they would just show up at the front door and stop the skulking around and kidnapping rednecks there would probably be less interest in just blowing them away. Maybe.
The flat out fact is if they have near light or faster than light capability (which they would need in order to get to us in any reasonable time frame) then there is no reason at all to beat around the bush with us, since it probably means they have weapons capable of cracking earth like an egg and killing our entire race almost instantly. It would be like Delta Force going up against a large tribe of neanderthals. No contest.
This is the kind of article I was hoping for from this site, one that combined an interest in and respect for self defence and gun ownership with a charitable, unifying vision of society, and a respect for the complexity of social problems. Thanks for this (and for many of the comments).
like the thought process and training to build flexible tactical mindset vs range drills. this takes more time but can cost less than lots of range time that might build bad habits like holstering gun or dropping to low ready before confirm bad guy stopped.
ok class. compare and contrast:
brazil cops AGAINST bikers using deadly force on civilians
vs
Nypd undercover cops AS bikers using deadly force on civilians…
Can anyone tell me how hard it is to rack the slide for someone with limited strength?
1911. No mag limits where I live, just prefer .45 to 9mm (although I own and CC both, alternating), and tend to be leery of sooper extended mags as anything but a range toy.
agreed he needs to keep his ass in court.
I’ve read the review and all the posts. Here’s my experience with Kahr. I bought one of the original, blued Kahr K9s in 1995 as a back-up/off duty weapon. It functioned flawlessly, thousands of rounds, from round 1 ’till 1998 when Kahr introduced their 2’nd generation K9. I sold the original and bought a new-version stainless model. It had been milled in a few places making it just a tad lighter. From 1998 ’till 2012 and about 10k rounds, it worked without a single failure of ANY kind. ZERO, ZLICH, NADA failures! I have 4 mags and rotate them weekly. I replace the internal gun springs with Wolff springs on the recommended schedule. At qualification, Spring 1012, the trigger return spring broke. Sent it back to Kahr. Even though it was long out of warranty, the fixed it, gratis. Turn around was two weeks. Spring 2013 qualification, not locking back on empty mag. I replaced the mag springs, followers and just to be sure, the slide stop lever. No hitches since. I can’t speak for their plastic guns or the Mk9, but Kahr has done right by me.