With Thanksgiving upon us, many Gunsite family members will be travelling throughout the Republic for family festivities. We recognize the state of the world and the threats by our enemies to strike the homeland. As a result, we try to travel prepared. (Read: Armed!) We also need to remember that your Mental Awareness is something you can always improve upon. (Recall your Mindset Lecture and the Color Code. If not, time to re-read Principles of Personal Defense.) It would be incumbent upon you to review the laws of where you are travelling (and those states you transit through) to … [Read more...]
Left Handed Pistol Manipulation
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Gunsite Welcomes Eric Ingersoll on Staff
Eric is a retired Lieutenant with the Stockton Ca Police Department. During his career as an officer he worked the Street Crimes Unit, Traffic Unit, and the Problem Oriented Policing Team. His duties included Department FBI Terrorism Liaison Coordinator, FBI and ATF Task Force coordinator, Mobile Field Force Commander and Narcotics, Vice, and Gang Unit Commander. Eric was also a SWAT Officer, SWAT Sniper, SWAT Sergeant, and SWAT Commander. Eric is an instructor for pistol and carbine. … [Read more...]
Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row
AP BY: Stephen Gutowski Follow @@StephenGutowski November 4, 2015 10:30 am The Federal Bureau of Investigation processed a record number of background checks in the month of October, indicating that gun sales were at an all time high for the sixth month in a row. The FBI’s National Instant Background Check System processed 1,976,759 firearms related checks in October. That is a 373,290 increase in checks over last year and a new record for the month. It also makes October the sixth consecutive month to see arecord number of checks. Since every purchase of a new gun in the United … [Read more...]
Fear the Donga
This article contributed by Bob Owens of Bearing Arms. It’s relatively easy to build up a false sense of confidence in your defensive firearm skills on a square range shooting at stationary targets from a fixed position. Things get a bit more interesting, however, when we start incorporating movement, and encountering targets hidden in rugged real-world terrain. At the Gunsite Academy 350 Intermediate Pistol course we had the opportunity to put our skills to the test not just on square range, but in indoor simulators both during the day and at night, in force-on-force training against … [Read more...]
