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From SSR:
I was just reading a blog post where the author proudly noted that he had a new floorplate & a high power spring installed in his magazine, which made it highly reliable.
You see aftermarket springs advertised for just about everything under the sun. Magazine springs, hammer springs, firing pin springs, slide springs, ejector springs, extractor springs, anal springs and the list goes on. Springs are cheap to make and usually easy to install.... Thus the owner isn't likely to have a conversation with a gunsmith that can talk him out of it. Not that many would anyway, if they are doing the spring installation.
In my experience, probably 95% of these items are bullshit that actually decreases the reliability and/or utility of the firearm. I've tried a good number of them in my early years before knowing better.
Sure, if you have a cheap Norinco knock off, perhaps the springs in it will or already are bad due to crappy materials or poor heat treating. But a Glock, AK or Springfield is not likely to have such problems.
The springs in most automatic firearms are carefully selected to balance the force required to do the job with the energy available to load them (the springs). Changing this force can drastically alter the functioning & functionality of the firearm. Case in point, my Mini14. It's known to have way too much gas venting out of the barrel port into the op rod (Ruger deleted the gas piston to save money..). This results in the op rod hammering the receiver at the end of it's stroke and the high velocity during the unloading cycle flings steaming hot brass 10+ yards away, making you a favorite when on the line.
So the obvious answer is to just put in a bigger op-rod spring in right? Wolfe will be happy to oblige you with one for $17. Except that once you install the spring, low power ammo will no longer fully cycle your action. Try using your support hand to drop the action on a freshly loaded magazine. Now, only a gorilla can release the oprod when it's locked back with a fully coiled spring. And hope you don't have soft primers in your ammo, as the return velocity of the bolt is way faster. Maybe next time you should change the gas port bushing instead....
Magazine won't feed reliably? Let's add a high power mag spring to help! Now it's worse. No shit, you just added even more pressure to the stack of cartridges, increasing friction between them and mag lips, making it even harder for the bolt to strip the cartridge (let's add more spring force to the action, to make up for this!) And watch what happens next time you do a tactical reload with the bolt closed. That nice shiny new spring is gonna push back extra hard against the bottom of the bolt while you are trying to stuff it into the magwell. Maybe, if you're lucky the magazine will stick and then fall out when you fire the first shot. And the joy of loading such magazines. But I'm a man. I can take it!
You can see where this is going; Hammer spring - adds force to cocking/slide pullback and makes bolt lift force higher on a bolt guns. Slide spring - makes it harder to run the slide, low power loads may not cycle. Maybe useful if you have a suppressor. Extractor spring - Makes it harder for the action to close, as the extractor has to be forced over the rim of the cartridge. May cause out of battery conditions. Ejector spring - Ditto. May also cause ejection problems as there is much more force pushing the empty case against the side of the chamber, thus altering the timing of ejection vs. bolt position.
To sum it up, I've never replaced a spring with a stronger one and not regretted it. I've also never worn out a spring except on the 590 tube magazine and that was due to bad metallurgy. After 4000+ rounds and many years sitting fully loaded it finally became weak. I added a Wolfe spring and... regretted it, as loading / unloading the last shell is now much harder to do. I cut it down but it's still not as good as the factory spring was. They must have spent a bunch of time figuring out just the right spring rate. Imagine that.
Posted 07:50PM Jul 31, 2008 by MCSA
Sweet...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that overturned Washington's 32-year-old handgun ban has filed a new federal lawsuit against the city.
In a complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court, Dick Heller and two other plaintiffs allege that the city's new gun regulations still violate rights guaranteed under the Constitution.
Posted 06:17PM Jul 30, 2008 by MCSA
Eric Zorn's article is here and he lists 6 reasons why he thinks they're bunk. I'll add one more to his list: The Heller decision stated, flat out, that the gov't barring people from keeping guns in their own homes is unconstitutional.
Posted 02:03PM Jul 30, 2008 by MCSA
This is a done deal, folks, but they're still not getting the memo: Trib. article here.
But Trustee Georgianne Brunner, the only one to vote against the repeal, said she may be back with a proposal to require Morton Grove residents to register guns with the village.
And, in case that wasn't enough:
She said contrary to what some supporters of the repeal have said, the state law that requires gun owners obtain firearm owner identification cards does not provide enough protection.That law, she said, does not require that owners notify the state if their weapons are stolen or if they are sold. Also, she said, state registration is good for five years, even if a gun owner becomes a felon during that time and is not eligible to own a gun.
"I don't know yet if it's feasible," Brunner said. "I don't feel there's support on the board yet."
Trustee Dan Staackmann called the handgun ban a "noble experiment," but said the village cannot afford to defend it in court.
There you have it folks: they try to take away your rights and call it a "noble experiment."
Posted 01:58PM Jul 30, 2008 by MCSA
Law-abiding gun owners in Illinois still can't carry concealed in Illinois, however, they can become carry permit holders in other states like Florida and Utah. Many local stores will teach the law-abiding gun owner how to properly become a carry permit holder in these states.
One example is D&J Guns in Lakemoor, IL. Find their link in the sidebar and call 'em for more info!
One final item of note is that Winnebago Co. is going to put the firearm carry permit issue on the November ballot so that voters can decide if the Sheriff can issue carry permits to law-abiding gun owners.
News article here.
Posted 03:06PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
This is a great read from the "Front Site, Press" blog.
"International evidence and comparisons have long been offered
as proof of the mantra that more guns mean more deaths and that
fewer guns, therefore, mean fewer deaths.1 Unfortunately, such
discussions are all too often been afflicted by misconceptions and
factual error and focus on comparisons that are unrepresentative.
It may be useful to begin with a few examples. There is a compound
assertion that (a) guns are uniquely available in the United
States compared with other modern developed nations, which is
why (b) the United States has by far the highest murder rate.
Though these assertions have been endlessly repeated, statement
(b) is, in fact, false and statement (a) is substantially so…
…If the mantra “more guns equal more death and fewer guns equal
less death” were true, broad based cross-national comparisons
should show that nations with higher gun ownership per capita
consistently have more death. Nations with higher gun
ownership rates, however, do not have higher murder or suicide
rates than those with lower gun ownership. Indeed many
high gun ownership nations have much lower murder rates.
Consider, for example, the wide divergence in murder rates
among Continental European nations with widely divergent
gun ownership rates…"
Posted 02:34PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
From CBS2Chicago, we hear of another gun buy-back program. $100.00 prepaid MasterCard for any gun turned in.
"Today I'm asking every resident of Chicago to turn in their firearm -- shotgun, rifles, automatic, semi automatic, pistol, revolver… No questions asked," Daley said.
I think that the SecondCityCop (Chicago Police Officer, blogger, and 2nd Amendment supporter) summed it up the best:
Because god forbid you have guns around when the crime running rampant across the city comes to your home. After all, didn't the governor just say he's going to send the National Guard and State Troopers to the City because it's out of control? Yeah, we know he backtracked a bit, but J-Fed still had his first meeting with the troopers to see how an agency short 500 officers is going to expend the manpower necessary to shore up another Department that's short a few thousand street officers.
If you've got a piece of crap gun that's rusted shut and wouldn't fire if you soaked it for a week in a vat of machine oil, go get your $100 card. Use it to buy a decent gun. But Daley's gun laws are going to come tumbling down around his ears in short order. No need to give away decent guns for $100. You know the criminals aren't.
By the way, this raises some interesting question about our FOID policy: How can people who don't possess a FOID card legally turn guns in without being subject to the law? I mean, seriously, they're transporting guns to a church illegally and they're basically admitting that they kept unregistered long arms or illegal handguns in willful violation of the law!
Oh, I see, one law applies to them and another applies to us... Hypocrites...
Posted 02:17PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
There has been some buzz about this - NYPOST Article
"An outspoken Long Island gun owner's home was raided by Nassau County detectives, who seized two dozen weapons he lawfully owns just one day after Rep. Carolyn McCarthy's office made a 911 call about him."
Waiting for more info as this develops...
Posted 02:07PM Jul 23, 2008 by MCSA
Looks like S&W is releasing a commemorative 442 revolver marking the ruling on DC vs Heller.
Check out Smith and Wesson's homepage.
Posted 08:36AM Jul 22, 2008 by MCSA
I'm lucky! Here's the kicker: I'm not even Irish!
I thought that July 12th starting off bad would jinx me; see, I left my car windows open overnight and went out to a personal swimming pool on wheels early in the morning. My first lucky break was that I was running early and had a chance to annoy my neighbors by firing up the wet-dry shop vac to suck the worst puddles out and give 'er a once-over with a few towels. Next was to add a little Fabreeze and things were looking up...
Coming back to our point, that feeling of being jinxed when one is about to put 500-1000 rds downrange is not the most confidence inspiring. Being the lucky SOB that I am, my second lucky break was that I was getting ready to head out to the Harvey, IL police range to take Team Spartan's "Advanced Pistol 2" class with John Krupa and Vince Jamison. See, Krupa and Jamison are consumate instructors that'll ensure you do everything safe, but push you to your limits so that that you won't make a mistake on the street!
Furthering my lucky streak, the weather kept partly couldy (nice to mimize sun) and we didn't get delluged or vortex-ed like last time!
Ok... So enough about me yapping about my good luck, what is AP2 about?
AP2 builds on a lot of the techniqes that were presented in AP1 - the natural shooting stance, thumbs forward grip, etc - but focuses on deploying the pistol as an offensive weapon that is used to engage an active shooter. This is not without its own controversy: 1.) A pistol as an offensive weapon(?) and 2.) the idea that offensive tactics that are, well, potentially "offensive" to the sheep. In exploring the justifications to those two issues, we'll see more of what AP2 is all about.
The Pistol as an Offensive Weapon(?)
First off, keep in mind that Krupa and Jamison are Chicago Police and that until the recent decision to equip some officers with M4's, the rank-and-file didn't have access to rifles. If faced with an active shooter scenario, the operator is going to use what is available to them at the time: the pistol. This meshes with the reality of active shooter incidents in the real world - Say Uncle explores some of those situations in his article "Mass murderers vs. Armed Citizens".
While the pistol is usually understood to be defensive in nature, especially so for its civilian role, it can make for an effective offensive weapon: it's small size in close quarters where a rifle wouldn't be effective and the fact that most folks train more with their pistols than any other platform.
So with that in mind, what are the parameters for maximizing the pistol in an offensive role? We come to our second topic...
Offensive Tactics
The pistol is most effective at short range, so getting into range is paramount: AP2 had us doing a lot of footwork!
Examining the footwork component, in the first half of the class, Krupa had us working constantly on continous motion during stoppages, magazine changes, and "hunting scenarios" - the pistol at low-ready, eyes scanning, waiting to see a threat and challenge or asses. Most active firing was done from tanding position, firing a short string (2-3 shots).
These basics culminated during a continous motion drill while firing on a swinging target (windmill-type): two cones setup ~10' apart. Starting from one cone, move off the line of force, fire 2-3 shoots and move to the next cone, fire 2-3 shots, etc. The key is to keep moving during magazine changes, while working/clearing stoppages. Oh, and don't forget that you've got to get that target to turn over and that you'll run out of ammunition at some point!
After lunch, we focused on putting movement together with firing: we discussed the concepts of "warrant service speed" and "hostage resuce speed" and focused on motion forwards and backwards with the rest of the firing line while a partner ensured (by pushing or pulling) that we weren't too far forward or back. It was interesting that movement backwards was often smoother than movement forwards!
During one of our breaks, Krupa set up a series of blue barrels and we began working on lateral motion around cover while engaging multiple targets. At this point, most people were already engraining movement and felt pretty comfortable working around the barrels.
At somepoint during this drill, the point was raised how to approach the situation if someone was working with you: enter position "SUL". SUL is a simple concept that is much talked about - it specifically points the pistol, held vertically, to the ground just before your feet. While the weapon is in SUL, it is possible to move around friendlies or other people without sweeping them with the muzzle. This rotational motiong was practice and on the line under the instructors watchful eyes. Final culmination was a live-fire "snake drill" through a section of barrels with friendlies interspersed!
The day ended and was, in my opinion, far too short, but even my luck had to run out at some point...
Posted 04:27PM Jul 18, 2008 by MCSA
Dick Heller is the man who brought the lawsuit against the District's 32-year-old ban on handguns. He was among the first in line Thursday morning to apply for a handgun permit.
But when he tried to register his semi-automatic weapon, he says he was rejected.
From the WarOnGuns blog... Wow.
Posted 11:54AM Jul 18, 2008 by MCSA
Just FYI - there is a small section that had ranges and some sympatico local business listed...
Posted 11:05AM Jul 17, 2008 by MCSA
I'm adding a link to AWOL... They're on Rt 120 in Lakemoor.
Check 'em out here (they've got an online store): http://www.awolarmysurplus.net/index.html
Posted 10:31AM Jul 17, 2008 by MCSA
If anyone lives near Crystal Lake and wants to buy 5.11 gear, tac-boots, etc, check out Today's Uniforms at 35 N. Williams St. in Downtown Crystal Lake. They supply most of the area PD's with uniforms and gear.
If they don't have something in stock, they can order it fast. Bonus point: They are a retailer for the super-awesome ESS eyewear line. The ESS "Ice" shooting/sports glasses are simply the BEST around.
I know we've decided on cheap, durable and good OD gear, but this is for folks who might want anything extra, special, or extra-special such as MOLLE Chest Rigs, Mag Pouches, Dump Pouches, etc...
Posted 10:18AM Jul 17, 2008 by MCSA
The Lake County Pro Second Amendment Resolution will be brought before the Lake County Board in August.
Date: Tuesday, August 12th 2008
Time: 9:00 AM
Location: 18 N. County St. (10th Floor) Waukegan, IL
Note: There is a security checkpoint at the County Building where you must pass through metal detectors. Please leave all items that may be construed as contraband at home; Flashlights, pocket knives, etc. Give yourself ample time to get through this checkpoint. Try to be there about ½ hr before the start of the hearing.
The Lake Co. people appreciate all the support you have shown them and would like to see as many supporters as possible at this meeting. Come show your support for the Constitution and the Second Amendment.
Posted 06:48PM Jul 16, 2008 by MCSA
Blogger Brigid at "Home on the Range" brings us this old poster:
My, how times have changed! Click the image for a great article on the fallacy of gun control...
Posted 02:37PM Jul 16, 2008 by MCSA
Caleb, aka NRAhab, at "Call me Ahab" hosted gun bloggers Breda and Tracy on the lastest "Gun Nuts" podcast (just a fancy word for streaming audio)!
It is a very interesting look into the motivation on why these two women choose to carry, practice, etc.
Tracy blogs at http://www.planettracy.typepad.com/prettypistolera/ and has focused, it seems, a lot on USPSA/competitive shooting as a jumping off point.
Breda, whose fantastic artilces we've re-posted (with permission, of course!), blogs at http://thebredafallacy.blogspot.com/ . She overcame a significant lack of exposure to firearms to develop a stellar hobby and defensive interest.
Catch the podcast at http://www.nrahab.com/2008/07/16/podcast-chicks-and-guns/ and click the button for the audio.
Posted 03:38AM Jul 16, 2008 by MCSA
Added a link on JCR's "How to Start a Local Pro-2 A Group" (it's available in PDF or a zip of each separate doc.)
Also added a link to the Illinois State Police FOID page...
Posted 03:29AM Jul 16, 2008 by MCSA
A great article from Steve Chapman at the Chicago Tribune that debunks the so-called public health link between firearms and suicide rates.
Read it here.
Best quote:
But let's suppose science could establish that people who obtain firearms do indeed increase their death rate (or the death rate of their family members) from suicide. So what?
Buying a car may shorten your lifespan, since traffic accidents are a major killer. Building a backyard swimming pool creates a potential fatal hazard to you and your loved ones. But nobody says the government should interfere with such decisions.
Posted 08:21PM Jul 15, 2008 by MCSA
From Kurt at "Armed and Safe", we find out that DC is trying to pass fantastically stringent laws in DC, post-Heller.
Go read his article by clicking the link above, but if you don't have time, here are some salient points:
--As has been mentioned before, ban semi-automatic pistols--they might have trouble upholding this one, since the majority decision refers to the "common use" test as a criterion for judging gun laws;
--Allow the registration of only one handgun per person;
--Require that guns be unloaded and locked up--this is another provision that might have some trouble holding up, as it seems to fly directly in the face of what small protection of gun rights is provided by Heller;
--Require fingerprints, photographs, written test, and vision test;
--Require that firearm undergo ballistic identification testing--which could take "weeks or months"--I wonder if they'll find that as useful as Maryland has in terms of fighting crime;
--Prohibit taking the gun outside--even as far as the porch;
Kurt was being sarcastic when he asked if new gun owners would have to wear a yellow revolver to mark them... Probably not far off.
Posted 07:17PM Jul 15, 2008 by MCSA
Do you like old slabsides? Do you like t-shirts?
Why not buy a picture of an old 1911 on a t-shirt! $14.99 courtesy of Oleg Volk.
Posted 12:40AM Jul 14, 2008 by MCSA
There has been little coverage of Friday's pro-civil rights/Second Amendment rally. NPR and WJBC picked up a bit, ABC a blurb.
Hundreds of people gathered at a pro-gun rally in Chicago Friday. The Illinois State Rifle Association sponsored the event, which celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that struck down a handgun ban in Washington, D.C.
Mike Weisman, first vice president, Illinois State Rifle Association, says his group is looking to overturn the handgun bans in Chicago, Evanston, Oak Park and Winnetka, and are lobbying for the right carry a gun in the state
If anyone has pictures they want to share, leave a comment.
Posted 01:23AM Jul 12, 2008 by MCSA
From the NW Daily Herald:
A 25-year-old man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head on Thursday at an indoor shooting range at G.A.T. Guns, police said.
G.A.T. is run by good folks and is a great facility, I hope that they're alright and get through this...
Posted 05:26PM Jul 11, 2008 by MCSA
The New England Journal of Medicine
It is well documented in the medical literature that regulation of guns benefits the public health. For example, a careful study4 demonstrated that the 1976 restrictive handgun law in the District of Columbia, which was the focus of the Heller case, resulted in an immediate decline of approximately 25% in homicides and suicides by firearms, but there was no such decline in adjacent areas that did not have restrictive laws.
Wait a minute! Guns are available in the neighboring states and they don't have the same crime rates that DC has! More gun doesn't mean more crime! The truth is that DC has a cultural violence problem that has been displaced by gentrification, much like Chicago's "gun-problem".
They are right about this:
With the Supreme Court's decision and the expectation of a substantial reduction in gun regulation, we are poised to witness another epidemiologic study of the effect of regulation on gun violence. With this experiment, which may play out in many American cities, we will know in the coming years whether the overturned laws reduced death and injury from handguns.
Since the cultural problems seem to be getting better, mortgage-crisis to boot, I doubt that we'll see "blood in the streets" like DC through the mid-1990's.
Posted 04:12AM Jul 10, 2008 by MCSA
You might want to bring some rain gear too!!
I'll be at Argo Tea (16 E Randolph at ~10:30 AM)...
The blogger, Second City Cop, put it best:
Posted 03:57AM Jul 10, 2008 by MCSA
Morton Grove was the first city in the US to ban handguns. After Heller, they're going to be reviewing their ordinance:
Posted 12:06AM Jul 08, 2008 by MCSA
Juliet A. Leftwich (insert your best pun about "The Left" here...) argues that the Supreme Court got it wrong on Heller. Interesting idea that her and her friends at the Legal Community Against Violence know better than the Supreme Court... The article is here, and if you read it you can read some of our corrections to her flawed logic.
Christmas came early for the NRA this year.
What is interesting is that it wasn't the NRA that bought Heller before the Court... No, it was Robert Levy of the Cato Institute. The NRA had little to do with it in the beginning.
The court did just what the gun lobby wanted - it disregarded long-standing judicial precedent (including a 1939 Supreme Court decision holding that the Second Amendment confers a right to bear arms only in the context of a well regulated state militia)...
Let's explore that "1939 Supreme Court Decision" that she conveniently sweeps under the rug for a moment: Leftwich is alluding to the Miller case and what she ignores is the fact that the Miller case stated that people, who are considered part of the "unorganized militia", should have access to Military small arms. Miller was arrested for transporting a short-barreled shotgun across a state line while running moonshine. Miller, being a bootlegger and gin-runner, didn't want to appear before the court for possessing a sawed-off shotgun. If he had, his legal team probably could've argued that since sawed off shotguns were used in WWI and overturned the "Short-Barreled Shotgun" clause in the 1934 NFA Act. Either way, since he was a no-show, they kept the NFA "Short-Barreled Shotgun" clause on the books.
Further, since all able bodied people between 18-45 are considered part of the "unorganized militia", then it makes sense that the bulk of the population would have legal access to military small arms.
The court also found that laws imposing conditions on the commercial sale of firearms and banning dangerous and unusual weapons, such as M-16 rifles used by the military, would pass muster.
The civilian version of the M-16, the AR platform, is now the most popular semi-automatic rifle platform by sales figures. Calling the most common, most popular, most widespread platform "unusual" is just wrong. Further, the truth is that all firearms must be considered dangerous and handled accordingly. The idea that putting a simple folding stock on a firearm makes it somehow more dangerous is like arguing that "infinity plus one" is somehow more than infinity...
I refer everyone to this 1989 video talking about "Assault Weapons":
...is that Heller leaves the door open to a variety of gun laws. The bad news, however, is that the opinion provides no guidance whatsoever to lower courts regarding the standards they should use to review those laws.
Instead, the decision creates uncertainty where none existed before, inviting the gun lobby to file lawsuits and forcing litigants to battle it out in the courts on a haphazard, case-by-case basis. The first salvos in that battle were fired immediately after the Heller decision was issued, when the gun lobby sued San Francisco, Chicago and other Illinois cities that ban handgun possession (the San Francisco prohibition applies only to public housing).
But that is the point. Since the door is open, we have to establish the new case law, consistent with the Courts Ruling - the Chicago, New York and San Francisco cases will be what establish those legal precidents! Most legal analysts say that those have a excellent chances of winning.
Although the Heller case has changed the legal landscape surrounding gun regulation, it has not changed the realities surrounding gun violence in our nation. It has not changed the fact that more than 30,000 Americans die each year from firearm-related homicides, suicides and accidental shootings - an average of 80 gun deaths each day.
Sorry, but this line of flawed reasoning is spouted so often that it people thought it was true! Why is it that the cities with the prohibitions on handguns - DC, Chicago, New York - had the highest handgun homicide rates?
Posted 01:53PM Jul 07, 2008 by MCSA
YANKS
O’Leary, from Chicago, and a first-class fightin’ man,
For his father was from Kerry, where the gentle art began:
Sergeant Dennis P. O’Leary, from somewhere on Archie Road,
Dodgin’ shells and smellin’ powder while the battle ebbed and flowed.And the captain says: “O’Leary, from your fightin’ company
Pick a dozen fightin’ Yankees and come skirmishin’ with me;
Pick a dozen fightin’ devils, and I know it’s you who can.”
And O’Leary, he saluted like a first-class fightin’ man.O’Leary’s eye was piercin’ and O’Leary’s voice was clear:
“Dimitri Georgoupoulos!” And Dimitri answered “Here!”
Then “Vladimir Slaminsky! Step three paces to the front,
For we’re wantin’ you to join us in a little Heinie hunt!”“Garibaldi Ravioli!” Garibaldi was to share;
And “Ole Axel Kettleson!” and “Thomas Scalp-the-Bear!”
Who was Choctaw by inheritance, bred in the blood and bones,
But set down in army records by the name of Thomas Jones.“Van Winkle Schuyler Stuyvesant!” Van Winkle was a bud
From the ancient tree of Stuyvesant and had it in his blood;
“Don Miguel de Colombo!” Don Miguel’s next of kin
Were across the Rio Grande when Don Miguel went in.“Ulysses Grant O’Sheridan!” Ulysses’ sire, you see,
Had been at Appomattox near the famous apple-tree;
And “Patrick Michael Casey!” Patrick Michael, you can tell,
Was a fightin’ man by nature with three fightin’ names as well.“Joe Wheeler Lee!” And Joseph had a pair of fightin’ eyes;
And his granddad was a Johnny, as perhaps you might surmise;
Then “Robert Bruce MacPherson!” And the Yankee squad was done
With “Isaac Abie Cohen!” once a lightweight champion.Then O’Leary paced ‘em forward and, says he: “You Yanks, fall in!”
And he marched ‘em to the captain. “Let the skirmishin’ begin.”
Says he, “The Yanks are comin’, and you beat ‘em if you can!”
And saluted like a soldier and first-class fightin’ man!–James W. Foley
Have a happy and safe 4th!
Posted 12:12PM Jul 04, 2008 by MCSA
Our prayers go out to the family of Chicago Police Officer Richard Francis who was gunned down early yesterday morning as he tried to resolve a dispute on a CTA bus.
Posted 09:40AM Jul 03, 2008 by MCSA
While at the Team Spartan course last month, John Krupa and Vince Jamison touched on the concept of "Dynamic Motion" in self defense and pointed to a body of research being conducted by Prof. Bill Lewinsky at Minnesota State University. I bring this up because a lot of people have been griping due to the recent Texas/Joe Horn incident - where he is alleged to have shot the two robbers in the back.
Lewinsky's research shows that, often during imment attack, the bodies "startle-flinch" response will contort the "targets" position in such away that a "front-to-back" entry of the projectile is not possible. His research vindicated two British Officers. (Excellent article, by the way - the animations are very interesting.)
This is similar to what Tony Blauer has been advocating for a while - he focuses his "martial response" system along development of mind immediately (MOV file, 44MB) after the "startle-flinch" response.
Posted 10:51PM Jul 01, 2008 by MCSA
