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PRO-ARMS PODCAST: THE TIM GRAMINS INCIDENT

In just under a minute, you fire almost three dozen rounds before finally killing the heavily-armed bank robber who opened fire on you.  It’s the story of Tim Gramins, available again on YouTube and filled with lessons that can save your life. For those who find it easier to read than to listen, my Ayoob […]

THE AFGHANISTAN CLUSTERCOITUS HAS PARALLELS…

International diplomacy and geopolitics are out of my lane. However, what’s happening now in Afghanistan has multiple parallels for armed citizens in America, and that is in my lane. Do not eat the yellow snow, do not give weapons to your enemies … these are basic laws of life. Here are some of the weapons […]

SHOOTING IN DOG DAYS

Alert, fellow shooters: if we’re pursuing our live fire interests outdoors, we’re doing so at the hottest time of the year. Heat brings on fatigue. Fatigue brings on carelessness.  We’re handling loaded firearms.  You don’t need me to tell you what risks ensue. So far this summer, we’ve taught outdoor live fire classes during record […]

AH, FICTION…

Most of my reading is non-fiction, but I can enjoy an occasional realistic novel.  Grisham and Turow, for example, lawyers who write courtroom fiction.  Scott Turow, formerly an assistant US attorney in Chicago, makes you feel like you’re right there as he takes you through a US attorney’s sting operation in “Personal Injuries,” published 22 years ago […]

SOMETHING BIG IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN MICHIGAN!

My friend Rick Ector has introduced an amazing number of people to safe firearms ownership and practice. He is looking at a record achievement this coming August 21-22. It’s all in the news release below from the group Legally Armed in Detroit. For Immediate Release Firearms Group Aims To Give 4,000 Women FREE Shooting Lessons […]

PRO-ARMS PODCAST RETURNS

The Pro-Arms Podcast ran from 2008 to 2017.  The producer/editor and therefore PrEditor was Gail Pepin, winner of many state and regional shooting championships and twice high woman at the famous Rangemaster Tactical Conference match.  Steve Denney was the host: retired police supervisor and SWAT cop, and still an ace instructor when he feels like it in […]

MORE SOLID ANALYSIS FROM HALBROOK

I find myself citing gun owners’ civil rights authority Stephen Halbrook, Esq. for the second time in only a few weeks.  The man has argued before the Supreme Court of the United States. When Halbrook talks, the wise listen.

WHEN IS NOSTALGIA RADICAL?

Harper’s magazine is not what you would call pro-gun, but I found some inspiration in its July 2021 issue, particularly the article “Radical Nostalgia” by Christopher Lasch.  The article itself is a bit of nostalgia, from 1984 in the magazine’s “From The Archives” section. It had nothing whatsoever to do with firearms or Second Amendment […]

INTERESTING COMMENTARY FROM AN UNLIKELY SOURCE

An article in the (very) liberal magazine The Nation is much in a dither about a case soon to land in the collective lap of SCOTUS. The author doesn’t care much for the Second Amendment, nor for cops, nor for gun owners (whom he calls “ammosexuals”).   He bemoans the fact that some liberals are on the side of […]

A 2A VICTORY FOR YOUNG AMERICANS

If you’re old enough to die for your country with a Government-issue machine gun in your hands, you’re old enough to buy a firearm for yourself.  Read the following, from Second Amendment Foundation: BELLEVUE, WA – The Second Amendment Foundation said this week’s ruling by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals declaring the ban on handgun […]