This article by Frank Winn writing for America's First Freedom. If you consider only the lowest-hanging fruit, there are still about six ways to come at an “Exercise Your Freedom” column about Gunsite Academy. Choosing the most proximate topic, you’d have to observe how close to the 40th anniversary of the original school of “The Modern Technique” of pistol craft we are. The first week in October will mark the actual occasion, but don’t gloss over those 40 years: No other remotely similar institution comes close to that longevity, or the pervasiveness of its influence. Photo by … [Read more...]

Article taken from 'The Dallas Morning News' Sunday June 23, 1985 by Terese Greene David Keith is tense.  Scanning the dusty clay banks of the gully, he tries to figure where his enemies hide.  He knows they are somewhere in the ditch waiting to attack.  He must stop them first.  Breathing rapidly, Keith descends into the wash and draws his .45 caliber (semi) automatic pistol from its leather holster.  His two-handed grip is firm.  Pointing the gun down at the ground in front of him, he starts walking.  Within seconds, Keith spots an assailant camouflaged behind a juniper bush and fires two … [Read more...]

This is part three of an article taken from the ‘Tucson Citizen’ May 1981 by Thom Walker At the moment, he is testing a new laser-aimed pistol.  He aims and a red laser beam cuts through the dusky-lighted gun room.  Rifles hang on the knotty-pine paneling, walnut stocks gleaming. Think about how far lasers have come since 1981. It does not surprise Cooper to hear law enforcement officials admit that crime is out of control.  Police have never been able to stop crime, he said.  "They take care of problems afterwards." But he is concerned that the breakdown of law and order seems to be … [Read more...]

This article taken from the ‘Tucson Citizen’ May 1981 by Thom Walker The 'modern technique" of training that Cooper helped develop is based on "open, unrestricted, unlimited, realistic, diversified competition," he said.  Two handed Weaver stance, flash=sight technique, "kinesthetic" presentation - an approach that makes "this fairly inefficient hand weapon" an effective instrument. In terms of learning objectives, the goal of the general pistol course is to "place a student in command of an environment," Cooper explained. "That's it - he controls.  When he leaves here as an expert of … [Read more...]