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When we receive testimonials like this, it makes all of our efforts worth while.  At the same time, it also makes it clear that the world we are living in is getting scarier, not safer.

> Hi bill,
>
> I hope you remember me, it’s ___. I took your classes for six
> months roughly 3 years ago and the skills you taught me saved my life
> only a few hours ago. I’m driving to LA from Austin and I stopped at a
> bar in ft. Stockton to watch the rest of the bcs championship game. I
> was cornered by two men and at first they were just talking to me, and
> something I said pissed one guy off and his buddy pulled a knife and
> told me to go outside, I did as I was told. The guy I pissed off then
> confronts me and tells me he runs this city and now I “fucked with the
> crazy cricket”. He told his buddy to go inside then he pulled a small
> 9mm semi auto on me and told me some bullshit about being the wrong
> person to mess with or something of that nature. He kept saying that I
> thought he wouldn’t shoot taunting me to provoke him. He then pointed
> it at my head from probably 6 feet away then raised it up higher and
> fired. As soon as he shot I heard the unmistakeable sound of a double
> feed and saw the slide was stuck half back so I tackled him and took
> the gun away. I dropped the mag into my hand and popped the slide to
> clear the second round. I pointed the gun at him and called my brother
> who was inside the bar and we ran to our car. I cleared the gun and
> took the mag and chambered round with me, and left the gun on the
> ground. I honestly believe that if it weren’t for you, I might be not
> be alive or at the very least would have been injured. I cannot thank
> you enough!!! I will be in la for a few weeks ,if you want to call me
> at ___________ or email me back.
>
> Thank you very very much,
> _________________
>

Scores from the last two Warriors tests on February 21st and June 7th have been posted.  Thanks Steve.

Check out the American Warriors Test tab on the left or click here for the scores.

Well, it was fun shooting with you all.  If you think the current ammunition shortage is bad then you are in for a rude awakening.  Yesterday Assembly Bill AB 962 was sent to the State Assembly floor for a vote that could make it law.  In the current bad economy we need to focus our attention on more pressing matters.  We do not need another government mandated program to regulate the sale and transfer of products and services.  This law will put out of business firing ranges, gun stores and firearms training classes in California.  Additionally this bill will decrease the state revenue from these business and leave the people they employ jobless.

The gist of the bill is that it will:

1) stop internet ammo sales (forcing all ammo sales to be face-to face)

2) require registration and thumbprint at each ammo purchase

3) require certification of ammo sales personnel

4) require all ammo kept inside a secure enclosure

And the worst part …

5) limit the sale or transfer of ammunition to 50 rounds per month

PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE AND TELL THEM YOU OPPOSE AB 962!

Text of AB 962

Existing law requires the Department of Justice to maintain
records pertaining to firearms transactions.

This bill would require the department to maintain additional
information relating to ammunition transfers and licensed handgun
ammunition vendors, as specified.

Existing law generally regulates the sale of ammunition.

This bill would establish a program administered by the Department
of Justice for licensing handgun ammunition vendors, as specified.

The bill would establish a database maintained by the department
to serve as a registry of handgun ammunition vendors.

This bill would require that commencing July 1, 2010, unless
specifically excluded, no person shall sell or transfer more than 50
rounds of handgun ammunition in any month unless he or she is
registered as a handgun ammunition vendor, as defined. The bill would
also require these vendors to obtain a background clearance for
those employees who would handle ammunition in the course and scope
of their employment. The bill would require the Department of Justice
to maintain a registry of registered handgun ammunition vendors, as
specified. Violation of these provisions, as specified, would be a
misdemeanor.

So, you want to learn how to Hard Boil and Egg, Pick a Lock, Make a Christmas Tree Pop up Card, or even Maintain a Pistol from someone who are likely not experts in any way on their subject and written articles of questionable utility?  Well look no further than wikiHow to improve your wikiLife with new wikiSkills.

Actually, I was recently very surprised to see this well written article on How to Clear a Building with a Firearm.  I have no idea who wrote the article (wikians?), but it contains some fairly good information similar to that taught during handgun classes. Granted it will never replace practice, but some of the concepts like the fatal funnel and cutting the pie are covered if you need to refresh your memory after class.

In response to a recent internet discussion regarding the manageability of a shotgun, I was reading the large number of comments about the shotgun being too unwieldy to be effective in home defense.  This is easy to test at ADE .

So, we hijacked a student during today’s class and at the break and threw a
shotgun at him.

The student is not big (~5′8″, 130-140lbs) and had no experience with
rifles or shotguns.  He got 5 minutes of training on safety,
operation and general technique and let him run the course.  His
practice consisted of 2-3 dry operations of the shotgun so he would
understand the mechanisms.

The course was one close (4′) and one slightly distant (10′) opponent.
He performed this course, twice each, with a pistol and a shotgun.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTZvhcYj-ek

Summary:
- 12 gauge recoil 00 Buck on winchester low recoil law enforcement ammunition is manageable even by those that have never shot a shotgun before.  He didn’t drop the shotgun.  it didn’t jump wildly about.

- acceptable accuracy with a rifle/shotgun is much easier to accomplish than with a handgun.  Even his point shooting was dead on.
In contrast, his pistol shots were in both in the lung on the distant target.  I would not bet that these pistol shots would instantly take
down an opponent and this is from a person that has trained  ~5 hours with a pistol. With 5 minutes instruction he shot it as I would in a
close contact situation and was dead on.  His 1st run though the course was low on the distal target and dead on in the 2nd run.

- the big downside seems to be the pumping mechanism.  I considered him to be slow in operating the shotgun.  With 30′ of
practice we could get him pumping with the recoil and his speed would probably be similar to his handgun work with more lethal results.

- This exercise really reaffirmed that the pistol really is a remarkably difficult to master weapon.  With 5 hours of training, he
was somewhat lethal with a pistol —  I tried to build up the stress during the exercise, his pistol shots were drifting as a
result.  If you believe in shot placement, I would not want to rely on this skill level under the stress of a “real” engagement if you needed to stop somebody now.  In
contrast, the shotgun was dependably operated (although slightly slowly) with this level of stress and SIGNIFICANTLY less training.

All for what it’s worth for 1 test case example… But, it was fun to test.

For those taking the shotgun class this Saturday, I found a well timed posting on The Box o’ Truth website.

He has put up an introductory How to Fight with a Shotgun tutorial.  Its not bad at all.

Your homework?  Read it, see what is similar and what is different about the ADE training on Saturday.