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Trends in Police Training – Part 3

Here are parts One and Two covering the Law Enforcement Education Program presentation at this year's SHOT Show. Good Enough? How good do you have to be? No one will argue that you should not be as good as you can be. However, it is equally unrealistic to expect every officer to be a master-class shooter. When do you address other skills? AmericanCop writer John Hearne has tried to codify this. He looked at performance [...]

By |February 25th, 2025|

Familiarity Breeds Contempt — We Must Do Better

By |January 7th, 2025|

I stopped at my local gun store recently to check what they had in inventory.  There was a newly released pistol underneath the glass; the guy behind the counter asked if I wanted to handle it. I said yes, so he bent down and retrieved it. He locked the slide [...]

Inattention Or Just Confusion?

By |October 8th, 2024|

Over the past few (several?) years, the firearms training community has seen an influx of new and non-traditional students. These students are often new gun owners with minimal prior exposure to firearms. One frequent issue that I and others have repeatedly seen is unintentional lapses in awareness when handling firearms. [...]

Focusing on Manual Safeties

By |September 2nd, 2024|

As a trainer, I work with cops from a wide variety of agencies, and it’s always interesting to me when students from diverse backgrounds make the same mistakes in training. One example that I see a lot these days is failures to use non-passive, manually operated safeties (“manual safeties,” hereafter). [...]

Shifting From One Side To The Other

By |August 27th, 2024|

Lateral Transitions - No, not Literal. Lateral - moving side to side, sideways. Why? Two-fold. 1st, BadGuys move. Few people will stand there and not move once gunshots begin to be fired. You see it with both people in public settings and with animals in the wild. Second, multiple BadGuys [...]

On Target: Reading Wind and Trajectory

By |June 25th, 2024|

Understanding the impact of wind on a projectile's trajectory is crucial for precision shooting. Trajectory refers to the path that a projectile or object follows through space because of external forces acting upon it. For bullets or other projectiles, this path is typically a curved line due to the influence [...]

Dry Practicing Safely

By |March 12th, 2024|

It's good to see that there is a solid consensus on the importance of dry practice. Trainers of all backgrounds are recommending it to their students. There is a lot of discussion about what to practice sans gunfire and how to practice. What does not get touched on is the [...]

A BUG From My Pocket

By |November 22nd, 2023|

While revolvers are filling a retro niche these days, they are often overlooked and unappreciated by a fair amount of law enforcement. And there are many generational and equipment reliability reasons behind that.   Reasons When I started, there were three definite reasons that backup guns (henceforth BUG) were as [...]

50 ROUNDS | A Minimalist Approach To Practice

By |May 2nd, 2023|

It’s a constant mantra for American police, “Do more with less.” Today, with officers taking pay and benefit cuts it can be trying for LEOs to stay motivated and focused on training. Addressing personal fitness some-times does not garner the attention it deserves for individual officer safety. Firearms and tactics [...]

Why? Why did they choose their gun? Why do they continue training?

By |October 12th, 2022|

Why anyone makes the decisions they make is an interesting topic. What are the Whys behind the firearm someone chooses, taking their first class, venturing across the country to train once, and then doing it again? One of the advantages of teaching at Gunsite is having access to a student [...]

Mantis Blackbeard AR-15 Dry Fire Training System: Now Available with Integrated MantisX

By |October 12th, 2022|

Although dry fire training is essential to improving one's skills as a shooter, dry fire with most semi-autos has its issues. Racking the slide or charging handle after every trigger press to reset the hammer restricts training and introduces concerns about operating a semi-auto firearm by those who may not [...]

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