Greetings Sheepdogs,
"If ye love wealth better than liberty,
the tranquility of servitude than the animating contest of freedom,
go from us in peace.
May your chains sit lightly upon you,
and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen!"
-- Samuel Adams
"Independence Day" by John Farnam
"Don't have a gun? Buy one.
Don't know How to use it? Learn.
Don't believe in guns? Get ready to hide behind someone who does."
-- Charlie Daniels
Follow up to the incident in Montreal, Canada where a female police officer
shot a civilian running away from the bad guy.
The bad guy targeted the building, not because it was in a Jewish community,
but rather because the building was the Headquarters of Porn Hub.
The civilian that the police officer shot and killed was a Rabbi.
Andrew Branca did a video on the incident and posted it on YouTube.com.
YouTube.com took the video down. Because YouTube.com will always support
Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. No matter how many people die on the alter of
DIE.
Thanks to Docent.
Tennessee Firearms Association annual banquet
September 12, 2026 (the Saturday after Labor Day).
Farm Bureau Expo Center, Lebanon, TN
09:00 to 16:00
Table of Contents:
Software --
Prevention
Mindset
Situational Awareness
Safety
Training
Psychology
Practice
Intervention
Strategy
Tactics
Techniques
Postvention
Aftermath
Medical
Survival
Education
Legal
Instruction
Hardware --
Gear
Intelligence --
Counter Intelligence
Signals Intelligence
Cryptology
Politics and Religion --
"No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
-- Thomas Jefferson
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Things you can do to avoid the lethal force incident.
Table of sections:
Mindset
Situational Awareness
Safety
Training
Psychology
Practice
“To those who have fought for it,
freedom has a flavor that the protected will never know.”
― P. McCree Thornton
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Figuring out the correct way to think.
"Nobody is coming to save you.
On the bright side. . . it means
nobody is coming to stop you either."
-- Gabe Suarez
"About This Whole Defensive Firearms Thing . . .
You Need To Think “Reality,” Not “Theory” "
by Massad Ayoob
Excerpt:
"Anyone who invokes the KISS Principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid)
needs to be reminded — it ain’t Simple, and you ain’t Stupid."
"Survival is a mindset, not a skill set."
-- Greg Shaffer
"The Nature Of Danger" by Tiger McKee
Excerpt:
"Over 90 percent of human communication is non-verbal.
A person’s body language tells you what they’re thinking,
as opposed to what they’re saying. "What Every Body Is Saying"
by Joe Navarro
ISBN-10 : 9780061438295
ISBN-13 : 978-0061438295
isn’t a tactical book, but you’ll learn some surprising facts.
The most expressive part of the body is the feet.
The feet tell you what someone is thinking, usually before
they’re even consciously aware of their own thoughts or decisions."
"Tiger cautions you should be very careful about the
source of information when searching online."
"It’s part of your responsibility to be in the know."
"You learn while violence may seem random and chaotic,
there are identifiable, definable baselines. Learn how these
will apply to your life."
"Without discrimination,
you're going to shoot the wrong person really fast."
-- Paul Howe
". . . only shoot as fast as you can assess, and . . . assess after each shot,
both of which, we should be training to do all the time anyway."
-- Ralph Mroz, "Street Focused Handgun Training"
"Your gunfights will always be anomalies.
So are those of all the instructors you venerate.
It’s useful to keep those facts in mind."
-- Greg Ellifritz
‷If you look at someone bigger, faster, and stronger and immediately think,
‶I'm at a disadvantage″, I have news for you: you are.
But that's only because you just put yourself there for no reason.
The truth is that anyone can do debilitating violence to anyone else.
Your size, your speed, your strength, your gender -- all the factors that
untrained people think make the difference when it comes to violence --
all matter far less than your mindset and your intent.‴
-- Tim Larkin
"An unarmed man can only flee from evil and
evil is not overcome by fleeing from it." -- Jeff Cooper
"Creativity is not rewarded.
What is rewarded is precision and analytical thinking."
-- Magnus Carlsen
"Your life is as good as your mindset." -- Nicola Cavanis
"Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist.
Children already know that dragons exist.
Fairy tales tell children that the dragons can be killed."
-- G.K. Chesterton
‟If violent crime is to be curbed, it is only the intended victim who can do it.
The felon does not fear the police, and he fears neither judge nor jury.
Therefore what he must fear is his victim.
It is high time for society to stop worrying about the criminal,
and to let the criminal start worrying about society.
And by "society" I mean you.”
-- Col. Jeff Cooper, "Principles of Personal Defense"
"There are no victims, only volunteers.
You volunteer by looking uncertain and afraid.
You volunteer by being, as grass-eaters invariably are,
unprepared to confront the hazards of life."
— Jeff Cooper
"Be so focused on watering your grass that
you don't have time to check if someone else's is greener."
-- Nicola Cavanis
‟Fear is an instinct. Courage is a choice.”
-- Rear Admiral Joseph Kernan, U.S. Navy
"The line between everyday life and sudden violence is thinner than most realize."
-- Tim Larkin
“You need to have the capacity for danger. You need to be ‘dangerous’.
Yet, you need to learn how to not use it except when necessary.
And, that is not the same thing as being harmless.
There's nothing virtuous about harmlessness.
Harmless just means you’re ineffectual and useless.”
-- Jordan Peterson
“Your character is what you do when no one is looking.”
-- Thomas Jefferson
“The Man in the Arena”
by Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909), 26th President of the United States
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how
the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have
done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in
the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who
strives valiantly; who errs, who comes up short again and again,
because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who
does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms,
the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at
the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and
who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so
that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
neither know victory nor defeat.”
"I do not carry a pistol so that I may impose my will on others.
I carry a pistol so that others may not impose their will on me."
-- Tom Givens
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How to avoid being taken by surprise.
"Many people don't realize that your awareness skills
are more important than your marksmanship skills.
Well, you can't shoot something you don't know is there,
or don't know it needs to be shot!" -- Tom Givens
"Do You See the Threats?" by Steve Tarani
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Jeff Cooper's Color Code exists to help you get your head
around the need to kill someone in the immediate future."
-- John Hearne
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Jeff Cooper's Color Code of Mental Awareness
UNAWARE - of what's going on around you. (White)
AWARE - of who is around you and what they are doing. (Yellow)
ALERT - to a POTENTIAL threat and taking action to avoid the threat. (Orange)
ALARM - by a REAL threat and taking action to escape the threat,
which might include shooting to PREVENT the attack. (Red)
COMBAT - front sight, press. Shooting to STOP the attack. (Black)
"Detecting the Covert Accomplice" by George Hupp
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
Excerpt:
"If somebody catches the principal in the act, the covert partner may
sneak up behind them and shoot them in the back. Unidentified accomplices
pose a grave risk to anyone who intervenes while a crime is in progress."
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"Your Tactical Training Scenario-Look Out for Lookouts"
by Greg Ellifritz
To calm yourself, breathe: inhale on slow count of 4, exhale on slow count of 4,
hold respiratory pause between exhale and inhale for a few seconds, repeat.
"An officer may be forgiven for losing a battle,
but never for being taken by surprise."
-- Jeff Cooper
Zugzwang is a thing. But with situational awareness, you can avoid it.
"Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone"
– James Madison
In Matthew 10:16, Jesus says,
"Stay alert. This is hazardous work I'm assigning to you.
You're going to be like sheep running through a wolf pack,
so don't call attention to yourselves. Be as cunning as a snake,
inoffensive as a dove."
-- The Message (The Bible in Contemporary Language)
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How to prevent the bad thing from happening in the first place.
How to avoid shooting yourself, friendlies, and innocent bystanders.
How to prevent unauthorized persons from using your guns.
The people had not fought the British only to be "brought under despotic rule
under the notion of ‘Strong government,’ or in the form of elective despotism."
-- Richard Henry Lee to Samuel Adams October 5th, 1787
Deep truth, well worth your study.
"The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 1):" by Matt Thornton
Excerpt:
"When it comes to the majority of problematic violence,
masculinity is never the problem – a lack of masculine fathers in the home, is."
"The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 2):" by Matt Thornton
Excerpt:
"Don’t ever say I told you so. It’s pointless, and it erodes the most important
thing that can exist between parent and child – trust.
Don’t ever call her weak. Parents who say these sorts of things are never
doing more than revealing their own character – through projection.
Don’t be that coward.
Don’t ever tell her that crying, or displays of emotion are a sign of weakness.
That’s a lie. And it betrays a lack of wisdom on your part.
Don’t ever lie to her.
Don’t ever encourage delusional thinking about the nature of conflict,
or human beings."
"The ABC’s of keeping our daughters safe (part 3)" by Matt Thornton
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
“It is usually impossible to know when you’ve prevented a bad outcome.”
-- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Email from Tim Larkin --
In 1981, 2 researchers put a camera on a New York sidewalk. For 3 days
they filmed ordinary people walking to work. 60 of them. No actors. No setup.
Just people moving down the street.
Then they showed the tape to 12 convicted violent criminals. Men who had
attacked strangers for real. The question was simple. Watch these people.
Tell us who you would pick. The prisoners did not hesitate. In a few seconds
of footage, they marked their targets. And they agreed with each other.
Different men. Different cells. Same choices.
Here is what should stop you cold. It had nothing to do with size.
Some of the biggest people on that tape got marked. Some of the smallest
were left alone. Gender did not decide it. Age did not decide it. Fitness did
not decide it. Something else did. Something every one of those targets was
broadcasting without knowing it.
The prisoners could not always put it into words. But they could all see it.
And they all read it the same way, in seconds, from across a street.
Now move that off the sidewalk. Put it in a parking lot. 5 men instead of 1.
A group runs the same calculation. Faster. They watch. They read the same
signal those prisoners read. And they do not move until they all agree the
outcome is already decided.
By the time they close in, the selection already happened. Before a word
was spoken. You did not fail the fight. You failed the audition. And you never
knew you were in one. The signal is mechanical. It is specific. It comes down
to a handful of exact things your body does when you move.
Most people never spend 1 second thinking about it. Predators spend all
of theirs. You can learn to read what they read. And stop sending it.
Stay Safe,
Tim Larkin
[Ya, you can take the seminar and Tim will explain it to you. Or, you can think
about it and figure it out. You're smart. It's not that hard. -- Jon Low]
"Safety is something that happens between your ears,
not something you hold in your hands."
-- Jeff Cooper
Jeff Cooper′s Rules of Gun Safety
RULE I: ALL GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED.
RULE II: NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING
THAT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY.
RULE III: KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF THE TRIGGER
UNTIL YOUR SIGHTS ARE ON THE TARGET.
RULE IV: BE SURE OF YOUR TARGET.
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RULE V: Maintain control of your gun. -- Stephen P. Wenger
"Gut feelings are guardian angels."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"You brought a gun to the fight. That doesn’t mean it’s YOUR gun.
The gun belongs to whomever can keep it. Think about that before
intervening in other folks’ problems. When is the last time you practiced
your in-hand weapon retention skills?"
-- Greg Ellifritz
"It's easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble."
-- Claude Werner
"You are not responsible for negative reactions to your boundaries."
-- Nicola Cavanis
John Farnam's rules to keep you out of trouble:
Don’t go to stupid places.
Don’t associate with stupid people.
Don’t do stupid things.
Have a “normal” appearance.
Be in bed by 10:00 PM (your own bed).
Don’t fail the attitude test.
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Emma Mankova
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------------------------------ Training --------------------------------
Figuring out the correct tasks to practice.
John Murphy says, "The training market has shifted . . . people just don’t have
the time for two day, or even one day, classes any more."
I beg to differ. (I consider John a friend. I am not bashing him. I am
disagreeing with him.) I am presently teaching a course, the class schedule of which is:
Theory in the classroom in Greenbrier, TN; 10:00 to 13:00;
6/29, 7/1, 7/3, 7/6, 7/8, 7/10, 7/13 of 2026 A.D.
Practicum at an outdoor range in Greenbrier, TN; 10:00 to 15:00;
7/15, 7/17, 7/20, 7/22 (19:00 to 24:00, night shoot)
Law of Self Defense in classroom in Greenbrier, TN; 10:00 to 13:00;
7/24, 7/27, 7/29
Tactical scenarios (USPSA match, shot in a tactically correct manner,
not racing to win the game) Chapel Hill, TN; 08:00 to 14:00; 8/15
(I don't shoot the match with the students. I watch and coach the students.
I make sure they don't get disqualified for safety violations, if I can.)
The students are doing the Force-on-force at Royal Range in Nashville, TN
under Bob Allen in the first weeks of August.
https://www.royalrangeusa.com/
The students are doing the Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Course -
(NAEMT Certified) with DEFEND SYSTEMS in Nashville, TN,
in the first weeks of August.
https://www.defendsystems.com/
When I taught at Front Sight, the students would pay $2000 per person for
a 4-day handgun course. They had to pay round trip airfare to Las Vegas, NV;
hotel in Pahrump, NV; rental car; and food in the restaurants.
The point is, there are students willing to attend long classes, if you've got
a product worth their time and money. The student's money and the training
that you are giving them are unequal, but comparable. Ignatius Piazza would
preach "exchange in abundance", meaning to give the students more information
and experience than they could possibly absorb, so that they would think that
they were getting their money's worth. But, I think the abundance should be
in quality, not quantity. As Jordan Peterson says, "You must have 50 times
more knowledge in your head than you are presenting in your lecture."
Because, the students will ask questions that you must be able to answer.
The students will go down rabbit holes, and you must be able to guide them.
(Not block them. If you think the students are asking stupid questions, your
attitude is WRONG!)
"You need training because:
You don't know what you don't know.
Much of what you know is false.
It's good to the have the answers before the criminal tests you."
-- Claude Werner (paraphrased)
"Hard Skill #3 Lethal Force Tactics" by John Murphy (Citizen-Defender)
Ansatz is a thing. And the better your training, the better your guesses / estimates.
As John Farnam says, "If you're missing in scenarios, it's a judgment problem, not a
marksmanship problem." You've already demonstrated you can shoot tight groups with
point of impact equal to point of aim. So, you're misjudging the size of the target, or
the distance to the target, or the speed at which you can shoot while maintaining a
given accuracy. Lots of optical illusions, especially in high stress situations.
"Wherefore Art Thou, Red Dot" by Erick Gelhaus
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Those motivated by a desire to improve their gunfighting skills
as opposed to a quest for trophies, must be willing to bleed ego on
the match results to avoid shedding blood in combat."
-- Andy Stanford
"Red Dots banned from LE training [in Pennsylvania]" by Ben Stoeger
The red dot sights (RDS) give an "unfair" advantage to those who are
issued RDS or those who choose to use them. To make it "fair" for those
who are not issued RDS or can't afford them, the commission forces all
cadets to use iron sights. Sort of like making all courses of fire 6 rounds
or less so as not to disadvantage those using revolvers. (I'm old enough
to remember that.) The effect of "Equity" on law enforcement training.
Long live Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. It will never go away, no matter
how many officers get killed, because it's for the greater good.
J. K. Rowling explained this in "The Crimes of Grindelwald" (2018).
All evil policies are justified as being for the "Greater Good".
In case you didn't notice, the Harry Potter books are the most anti-government,
pro-gun books you will ever read.
"Ineffective and potentially dangerous, point shooting should be avoided
at all costs and aimed fire employed in any lethal-force scenario."
-- Massad Ayoob
"Scared Bunny"
You need training because it will change your personality, your attitude, and
of course, your behavior. Especially, if you display scared bunny behavior.
Scared Bunny hears knocking on her door at 21:00. What would you do?
Typically, you would not open your door. You would ask, "Who is there? What can
I do for you?" And go from there.
Scared Bunny does not answer the door. She fears a home invasion.
So she calls the police. As you might imagine, this leads to a horrible chain
of events.
The neighbor was only trying to deliver mail that had been mistakenly
delivered to his apartment. The police charge the neighbor based on
Scared Bunny's complaint. So, the neighbor has to hire an attorney.
Huge expense. The process is the punishment.
Scared Bunny complains to her friend (another resident of the apartment
complex) and asks him to talk to the neighbor. The friend thanks the neighbor
for delivering the mail and tells the neighbor that in the future he may leave the
mail on the welcome mat.
Scared Bunny calls the apartment manager to complain. And runs her
mouth (always a dangerous activity). Mentioning that she had asked her friend,
who is a firearms instructor to tell the neighbor not to bother her.
The apartment manager writes a letter, based on Scared Bunny's statements,
telling the friend not to confront, intimidate, and threaten other residents. And
of course, that his lease is being terminated. So he has to hire an attorney to
handle the landlord-tenant action.
All of Scared Bunny's girlfriends tell her that she was right and that she
behaved correctly. Because Scared Bunny only associates with other Scared Bunnies.
Get training. Don't be a Scared Bunny.
"There are three different areas, or disciplines,
in which the armed person must train.
These are mindset, gun handling, and marksmanship.
Each is equally important, and you must be at least
competent in all three areas."
-- Tom Givens
"What an Escaped Mental Patient Taught Me" by Greg Ellifritz
Excerpt:
"As a side note, looking back, I had completely forgotten about the screwdriver
in my pocket. I had never carried a screwdriver as a weapon and had never
practiced drawing one during stressful scenarios. It makes me wonder how many
armed citizens stick a weapon in their pocket “just in case” and then forget about
it when they actually need it."
"If you’re not measuring your training,
what you’re doing is called playing."
-- Chris Sajnog
"In order to measure, we must be able to quantify."
-- Aaron Cowan
“The Body cannot go where the mind has not been”.
There is an enormous difference between stopping an armed murderer who
will not stop killing innocent men, women, and children until such time he
or she is physically unable to do so and being able to shoot small groups
on a static, two-dimensional paper target or steel target under more or less
stress-free conditions."
-- Palisade Training Group
"When you're training to protect yourself and others, speed always comes last.
In the more than twenty-five years I've been training people in self-protection,
I've never heard from someone who used self-protection tools in the field and
felt like they suffered from a lack of speed at the moment of truth. In fact, I
usually hear the opposite: it's much more common to suffer from a lack of
accuracy or force." -- Tim Larkin
"In reality, we are training for an unknown event, against unknown threats,
by developing as many known skills as possible."
-- Jeff Gonzales
"A mistake that makes you humble is better
than an achievement that makes you arrogant."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Shoot sooner, not faster."
-- Matt Little
“The secret of success is this.
Train like it means everything when it means nothing –
so you can fight like it means nothing when it means everything.”
-- Lofty Wiseman
"Most deadly force encounters occur spontaneously, without warning and
at extremely close ranges. Realistically, you may not have the time or the
space to effectively draw, no matter how fast your draw stroke."
-- Jeff L. Gonzales
“The world is filled with violence. Because criminals carry guns,
we decent law-abiding citizens should also have guns. Otherwise,
they will win and decent people will loose.”
-- James Earl Jones
"Proper training ingrains the proper responses.
Repetition is the mother of all skill. With skill comes confidence.
With confidence comes the ability to think under pressure and
make sound tactical decisions."
-- Tom Givens
“You are no more armed because you are wearing a pistol
than you are a musician because you own a guitar.”
from "Principles of Personal Defense" by Col. Jeff Cooper, USMC,
(1920 – 2006 A.D.)
Simple is faster. Simple is more reliable. So, simple is better.
"Before all else, be armed." -- Nicolo Machiavelli
"Safe gun handling and knowing how to operate the gun competently is one thing.
How to fight with the gun is a whole other plane of knowledge."
-- Tiger McKee
"Superior judgment trumps superior skills." -- Dan Millican
Care enough to continue your training.
"Never believe anything you read or hear.
To figure out what’s best for you,
experiment until you have no doubt."
-- Brian Enos
"Having a gun is important.
But knowing WHEN to use it is even more important."
-- Greg Ellifritz
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“Training deals not with an object,
but with the human spirit and human emotions.”
--Bruce Lee
"Train and practice so that you can stay in your rational mind,
and force your enemy into his emotional mind. The emotional
mind makes bad judgments which will allow you to win."
-- John Hearne
"Be stronger than your strongest excuse."
-- Nicola Cavanis
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Attending classes and conferences is required for growth.
There is nothing worse than teaching obsolete shit. Because your
students don't know any better.
"The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword;
because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force
superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense,
raised in the United States."
-- Noah Webster
3rd Annual GOALS Convention in Des Moines, Iowa, USA
August 1st and 2nd, 2026 A.D.
Welcome to Prepper Camp™
The #1 Self-Reliance, Homesteading, Off-Grid-Living, and
Preparedness Conference – Anywhere.
August 14, 15, and 16, 2026.
At Tryon International Resort, Mill Spring, NC
Bullets & Bibles 2026 (The registration fee is a tax deductible charitable donation).
Friday, August 21, 2026 A.D. – Sunday, August 23, 2026 A.D.
Hosted at Living Water Ranch, north of Manhattan, KS.
Food and lodging included in registration price.
To register,
If you have already pre-registered,
We're carpooling from Summerville, SC and Nashville, TN if you would
like to join us.
The Guardian Conference, $800
September 18th - 20th, 2026 A.D.
in Oklahoma City, OK.
Gun Rights Policy Conference, Second Amendment Foundation, $25
September 25–27, 2026 A.D.
in Dallas at the Westin Dallas Fort Worth Airport hotel.
Click on the link to book a hotel room for $159.00 per night.
2026 Combatives Summit, $897
When:
Range Day: October 22, 2026
Conference: October 23, 24, and 25, 2026
Where: American Top Team
10380 Auto Mall Pkwy, D'Iberville, MS 39540
Rangemaster Tactical Conference
www.TacCon.info
Friday-Sunday, April 2-4, 2027 A.D.
Dallas Pistol Club; Carrollton, TX
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Toni Marie Graham
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------------------------------ Classes --------------------------------
Attend classes so you know what the best practices are.
Rule #4, Round #2, & the Monkey:
Preparing to Counter the Active Shooter with a Handgun
When: July 16th, 2026 | 8:00 PM ET, 7:00 PM CT
Where: Online Webinar (Approx. 90 minutes)
Cost: $5 (Free for Guardian Nation Members)
Project Appleseed
Pistol Clinic
Memphis, TN
Jul 31st, 2026 A.D. (One Day Event)
Information,
Registration,
Other Appleseed Pistol Clinics,
They are usually 2-day events.
Intensive Pistol Skills, $ 495
Sat, Aug 22, 2026 – Sun, Aug 23, 2026
8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CDT
Royal Range, 7741 Highway 70 South, Nashville, TN, USA
Gunsite – 250 Defensive Pistol, $2,135
Royal Range, Nashville, Tennessee
Monday, August 24, 2026 - Friday, August 28, 2026
Duration: 5 Days
Prerequisite: None
Ammunition: 1000 rounds ball (ball means copper jacketed round nose bullets)
available for purchase on-site.
The student will also have to purchase approximately 1 box of Simunitions
from Royal Range for the indoor simulators.
Church Security Team Critical Skills, $200.00
October 10, 2026 A.D.
8:30AM-5:00PM
Dallas Pistol Club
1830 W Belt Line Rd
Carrollton, TX 75006
Register at
Protective Pistolcraft Instructor, 5 Days, $ 1350
Mon, Nov 2, 2026 – Fri, Nov 6, 2026, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST
Last Resort Firearms Training, 4220 Gravel Pit Road, White Hall, AR, USA
This is the 3-day Firearms Instructor Development Course and
the 2-day Advanced Firearms Instructor Course given in 5 days.
Taught by Tom Givens, Tiffany Johnson, Aqil Qadir, and John Hearne.
No prerequisites. Includes a night shoot and much more.
Defensive Handgun by John Farnam, $850
14 - 15 November 2026 A.D.
Description of course at
Deer Hollow Range, White House, TN
"The Tactical Anatomy Summit", $650.00
January 30-31, 2027 A.D.
Lakeland Training Center
1421 Fish Hatchery Rd
Lakeland, FL
Time: 8 a.m - 6 p.m.
*$35 per day Range Fees will Apply at Location
Suggested Lodging: Best Western Auburndale
Last Resort Firearms Training (Ed Monk)
Agile Training and Consulting (Chuck Haggard)
Thunder Ranch (Clint Smith)
Classes,
ConcealedCarry.com (Jacob S. Paulsen et al)
Project Appleseed
Memphis, TN
Jul 31st, 2026 A.D. (One Day Event)
Pistol Clinic
Information,
Registration,
Appleseed Pistol Clinics,
They are usually 2-day events.
Gunsite Academy
Lee Weems
Massad Ayoob Group
West Coast Armory North, Martha Holschen
Active Response Training, Greg Ellifritz
Dustin Salomon
KR Training
Kari Grayson
Citizens Safety Academy
Carry Trainer, Mickey Schuch
Paladin Training, Inc.
Citizen-Defender, John Murphy
Defensive Training International, John Farnam
Rangemaster, Tom Givens
Trident Concepts, Jeff Gonzales
Apache Solutions, Tim Kelly
Harris Combative Strategies, Randy Harris
Mead Hall Range & Tactics, Bill Armstrong
Two Pillars Training, John Hearne
Mike Seeklander
Claude Werner, The Tactical Professor
Tatiana Whitlock - Training in Context
Rangemaster Certified Instructors
Map of Rangemaster Certified Instructors
NRA Instructors and their classes.
‟Training is NOT an event, but a process.
Training is the preparation FOR practice.”
-- Claude Werner
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Toni Marie Graham
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------------------------------ Practice --------------------------------
How to get proficient at that task.
“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.” -- EF Schumacher
Why practice?
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment
when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and
offered the chance to do a very special thing,
unique to them and fitted to their talents.
What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or
unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
-- Winston Churchill
"Standards Matter, But Standards Are Not the Point" by Jeff Boren
"Be careful what you practice.
Because you will do in combat whatever you have practiced,
no matter how ridiculous."
-- "Shooting in Self-Defense" by Sara Ahrens
"Shooting quickly in a staged environment under no stress
does not make you tactically proficient."
-- John Hearne
"Good habits and skill beat luck every time."
-- Sheriff Jim Wilson
‶Practice is the small deposits you make over time,
so that in an emergency, you can make that big withdrawal.″
-- Chesley Burnett Sullenberger, III
"Why are the little things called little things?
They are everything."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"People rust faster than equipment."
-- John Hearne
"Remember, the day you plant the seed is not the day you earn the fruit."
-- Nicola Cavanis
“Willingness is a state of mind. Readiness is a statement of fact!”
-- Lt. Gen. David M Shoup, USMC Commandant 1960-1963
"Your speed [in mastering the art and science of your discipline] doesn't matter.
Forward is forward."
-- Nicola Cavanis
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.”
-- Aristotle
"Maybe you can't achieve it in one day.
But you can achieve it one day."
-- Nala Knight
"Remember, growing may feel like breaking at first."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"You have to be lucky to win. And the more you practice, the luckier you get."
-- Col. Lones Wigger
"Calluses are a status symbol that money can't buy."
-- Jim Beaumont
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Lauren Marshall
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***** ***** ***** Intervention ***** ***** *****
Suggestions on how to deal with the incident that you failed to avoid.
Table of sections:
Strategy
Tactics
Techniques
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------------------------------ Strategy --------------------------------
Deciding on the end state and how to achieve it.
Generally speaking, you want to escape.
“How do you win a gunfight?
Don't be there.”
-- John Farnam
"You win gunfights by not getting shot."
-- John Holschen
"Never let fear decide your fate."
-- Nicola Cavanis
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Maneuver and fire in support of your strategy to escape.
Sometimes you must close with the enemy to
destroy him with fire and close combat.
“No possible rapidity of fire can atone for
habitual carelessness of aim with the first shot.”
-- Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States,
"The Wilderness Hunter", 1893
"Defender Executes PICTURE PERFECT Disarm" by Active Self Protection
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Real fights are short." -- Bruce Lee
"He Had a Gun and Still Lost His Home Invasion Gunfight"
by Jacob Paulsen
Excerpts:
"You can't draw a gun you had to go find"
"The point is to already be armed, not running to get armed."
"Carry on your body, even at home.
Train for the attacker who doesn't flee.
Know your cover. Stage it in advance.
Have a plan for your family and the phone,
not just the trigger."
"Owning a firearm is the starting line, not the finish."
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I always carry on my body. Even when at home. So should you.
“When you’re in the dark, stay in the dark;
when you’re in the light, light up the dark.”
-- Stephen P. Wenger
"Off-Duty Gunfight: Winning Then Losing" by Rich Grassi
"You often don't know where the bad guy is who is shooting at you."
-- Phillip Groff
“People shoot you because they see you.
They see you because you let them.
Don’t let them see you.”
-- Clint Smith
“Fortuitous outcomes reinforce poor tactics.”
-- Chuck Haggard
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"Just look at Bill's face - that is the original, unedited expression on his face!"
-- John Harris, Director, Tennessee Firearms Association
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Ways to execute a given task in support of your tactics,
especially when disabled or under stress.
"The foundations of your grip are established
before you even draw the pistol from the holster."
-- Tanner Denton
"Mastering The Revolver Reload" by Richard A. Mann
The 5th picture is correct. The 6th picture is wrong. The 9th picture is correct.
---
There are one handed techniques for reloading the revolver. Open cylinder.
Point up, hopefully the spent cases will fall out. If not, push ejector rod against
the underside of your jaw. Trap the muzzle against a wall with your support-side
shoulder or upper arm. Load with firing-side hand. Re-establish grip with
firing-side hand. Twist forearm of firing-side hand with a snap to close cylinder.
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Don't use revolvers. They require reloading too often. They are much more
difficult to reload than semi-autos, so they take much longer to reload than semi-autos.
"In my strategy the footwork does not change.
I always walk as I usually do in the street."
-- Miyamoto Musashi
"Reloading Techniques for Your Handgun" by Richard Nance
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Gunfight! An Integrated Approach to Shooting and Fighting in Close Quarters"
by Richard Nance
ISBN-10 : 1608851400
ISBN-13 : 978-1608851409
I have read this book. I highly recommend it. As does Greg Ellifritz.
“What’s the number one reason for reloading?
Missing the target!”
-- Claude Werner
"Open Carry" by John Farnam
“The only real difference between suicide and martyrdom
is the amount of press coverage.”
-- Palahniuk
"The secret is applying extreme force with the pinkies and
working your way up the rest of the digits."
-- Jeff L. Gonzales
"It's not daily increase but daily decrease - hack away at the inessentials!"
-- Bruce Lee
". . . only shoot as fast as you can assess, and . . . assess after each shot,
both of which, we should be training to do all the time anyway."
-- Ralph Mroz, "Street Focused Handgun Training"
"I can always do nothing more consistently than I can do something."
-- Ben Stoeger
"Grip first, then press."
-- Mike Seeklander
"Use only that which works,
and take it from any place you can find it."
-- Bruce Lee
"Whatever you leave alone is perfect." -- Brian Enos
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Cross Country, not downhill.
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***** ***** ***** Postvention ***** ***** *****
Suggestions on how to treat your wounds or the wounds of your loved ones.
Suggestions on how to avoid prosecution, conviction, and prison time.
Suggestions on how to avoid the civil law suit and judgment.
Table of Sections:
Aftermath
Medical
Survival
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------------------------------ Aftermath --------------------------------
You must be alive to have these problems: criminal and civil liability.
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him,
but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton
In the right hand column of this web page, click on "Never Talk To The Police"
or use the address,
In the right hand column, click on the link labeled "Self Defense Insurance".
Or, the link is,
Read this before you buy insurance. You need to make an informed decision.
The various policies are drastically different.
"You need to read the fine print." -- Massad Ayoob
“Your understanding and consent are not required
for someone to take your life, kill your loved ones,
and destroy all you hold dear.”
-- William Aprill
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------------------------------ Medical --------------------------------
Tactical Emergency Casualty Care Course - NAEMT Certified, $495.00
DEFEND SYSTEMS
(615) 480-7758
"If you prepare for the emergency,
the emergency ceases to exist!"
-- Sherman House
"The shorter the fight, the less hurt you get."
-- John Holschen
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"Survival is not based solely on technique.
Survivability may hinge on the use of the correct technique
appropriate to the environment you are fighting in.
Oh, and yes, marksmanship is always valuable."
-- Clint Smith
"A means to an end: three lessons" by Orion Taraban
No strategy survives first contact.
“By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.”
--Benjamin Franklin
"SHTF Home Defense: A 5-Layer Plan When Help Is Gone"
by Warren Bud
"If you stay fit, you do not have to get fit.
If you stay trained, you do not have to get trained.
If you stay prepared, you do not have to get prepared."
-- Robert Margulies
"Survival is a mindset, not a skill set."
-- Greg Shaffer
‟We don’t decide what is necessary to survive a
lethal force encounter initiated by someone else.
That person decides what’s necessary for us to survive.”
– William Aprill
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Sophie Simnett (on the left, unable to identify person on the right)
Why do girls so love to take pictures of themselves in the bathroom?
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***** ***** ***** Education ***** ***** *****
Table of contents:
Legal
Instruction
Gear
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"You will never get smarter or broaden your horizons
if you're unwilling to learn from others and read."
-- Becca Martin
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"Interview With Active Shooter Incident Expert, Lt. Col. Ed Monk"
by Semper Verus
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"The Armed Defender's Dilemma"
by Shawn Vincent
Videos from Langdon Tactical Technologies.
Gun University
"Defensive Use of Firearms" by Stephen P. Wenger
Get on his emailing list for his newsletter,
Greg Ellifritz's reading list,
American Rifleman
and American Hunter
are now online free of charge.
Practical Eschatology
2nd Amendment News & Articles
Citizen-Defender, John Murphy
YouTube.com channel
Blog posts,
Rangemaster Newsletter, Tom Givens
Active Self Protection, John Correia
"My Gun Culture" by Tom McHale
Quips, John Farnam
Active Response Training, Greg Ellifritz
Make sure to check out the Weekend Knowledge Dumps.
The Tactical Professor, Claude Werner
American Handgunner Magazine
Tactical Science
International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors
Alien Gear blog
Shooting Classes Blog
"Cogito, ergo armatum sum." (I think, therefore armed am I.)
-- John Farnam
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
-- Second Amendment, Constitution of the United States of America
"Tennessee’s New Property Defense Law:
The Real Limits on Using Deadly Force
Tennessee’s new property-defense law sounds simple.
The actual law is not, and every property owner needs
to understand the difference before trouble comes."
by Ken Berry, MD
Hat tip to C. Richard Archie.
Check out the table, scroll midway down the article.
"Judge Refuses To Toss Most Claims In Fatal ATF Raid
Lawsuit Over Bryan Malinowski Killing"
by Duncan Johnson
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
Good! Hold those fucking assholes accountable for murdering Bryan Malinowski.
There is no excuse for going to a man's house at night in the darkness, disabling his
security system (not just putting tape over the camera), kicking in his door, and
shooting him in his head (resulting in his death days later). NO EXCUSE.
Remember, the federal agents did not have an arrest warrant. They only had a
search warrant (issued by a corrupt judge, I might add). The federal agents did a
no knock entry at night based on a search warrant. Did they think Malinowski
might flush his guns down the toilet?
ATF policy is to always wear body cameras. None of the federal agents were
wearing body cameras during this raid in direct violation of policy. Can you guess
why? No one inside the house heard knocking on the door or shouting from
outside the house. So, it was effectively a "no knock" entry. The body cameras
would have shown no knocking and no shouting.
Not all federal agents are corrupt. By trial, I expect at least one of the agents
who participated in the raid will testify that there was no knocking and no shouting.
Or, maybe he'll have a training accident before the trial, and be unable or not
available to testify. Or maybe he'll be dead. Whistle blowers don't last long in
federal law enforcement, especially the ATF. They consider honest cops traitors.
Watch, you'll see.
Gun Law Database
Tennessee Firearms Association:
Supreme Court’s Wolford v. Lopez Decision May Impact "Intent to Go Armed" Ruling
by John Harris
"Build A Reciprocity Map:" by Concealed Carry, Inc.
"He Did NOTHING Wrong But Still Went To PRISON" by Kaery Dudenhofer
(Active Self Protection Extra)
Being innocent doesn't mean you won't be prosecuted and convicted (a plea
deal is a conviction).
“Is there no virtue among us? If there is not, we are without hope!
No form of government, existing nor theoretical, will keep us from harm.
To think that any government, in any form, will insure liberty and happiness
for a dishonorable population represents the height of self-deception.”
-- James Madison, 1788
"SUPREME COURT DENIES CERT IN 18-20 CARRY CASE, SAF WIN STANDS"
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
The U.S. Supreme Court handed the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF)
a victory today by declining to hear a case brought by the organization to
vindicate the firearm carry rights of young adults in Pennsylvania. By refusing
to take the case, SAF’s victory in Third Circuit Court of Appeals is now final.
The Third Circuit twice ruled in SAF’s favor, finding that adults under 21 are
indeed members of “the People” as contemplated by the Second Amendment,
and therefore enjoy the same scope of rights as all other adults.
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people.
It is wholly inadequate for the governance of any other."
-- John Adams, October 11, 1798
"Wolford v. Lopez Shows Why Gun Rights Are Rights,
Not Government Permission Slips" by Sean Maloney
"Plaintiffs File Supplemental Authority in Hughes v. Lee
Following U.S. Supreme Court’s Wolford Decision"
by John Harris
“When you will not fight when you can easily win, without bloodshed,
and when you still will not fight when victory is sure and not too costly,
you may well come to the moment when you will have no choice but to
fight with the odds against you, and you have only a small chance of survival.
There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no
hope of victory, simply because it is better to perish as warriors than to
live as slaves.”
-- Winston Churchill
"Amber Guyger Case Brief" by Shawn Vincent
---
"Daniel Perry Case Brief" by Shawn Vincent
“Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore,
be construed by the ordinary rules of common sense. Their meaning is not
to be sought for in metaphysical subtleties which may make anything mean
everything or nothing at pleasure.”
— Thomas Jefferson (1823)
"Florida Woman FATALLY Shoots Army Veteran Over Walmart Parking Spot!"
LEGAL ANALYSIS by Andrew Branca (The Andrew Branca Show)
Advancing on a person who is pointing a gun at you is an act of criminal stupidity.
"Firearms are second only to the constitution in importance,
they are the people's liberty's teeth." -- George Washington
The strictest gun laws in the country and no effect on the criminals.
Because gun laws only affect law abiding citizens.
The purpose of gun laws are to create unarmed victims for armed criminals
to prey upon. Anyone who tells you otherwise is lying to you.
States executing persons for capital crimes is not the problem. The problem
is junk science, the judges who allow the junk science in their courtrooms
(due to lack of critical thinking, lack of education, political bias, etc.), and
the juries who believe the junk science (due to lack of critical thinking and
ignorance due to exclusion of expert witnesses who would have testified
that the "science" is nonsense).
"Self-Defense and the Law: Should You Engage or Stand Down?"
by Massad Ayoob
"BREAKING NEWS!
US SUPREME COURT 6-3 DECISIONS HANDS 2A SECRET WIN!"
by Mark Smith
"Woman's Defensive Gun Use Proves Mag Bans Are Deadly" by Liberty Doll
"Law of Self Defense" by Andrew Branca
(free book, just pay shipping so you don't have to go to Colorado to pick it up)
This is why there is any support at all for "defund the police". (Yes,
it is crazy, but the effect has a cause.)
The process is the punishment and police (not the prosecutors, not the courts)
initiate it. This is why people are willing to kill cops to avoid arrest.
They know the result of being arrested: loss of job, loss of children, loss of
home, loss of reputation, etc. And they are willing to take the risk because
the probability of getting caught for the crime is about 50% (nation wide
average, much lower in large cities).
Police alienate the good citizens by abusing their arrest powers. False
arrests directly cause protests and riots against police abuse of power
under color of law.
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Lilly Moreau
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------------------------------ Instruction --------------------------------
"Remember,
the students who require the extra effort
are the ones who need us the most!"
-- John Farnam
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----- Instructors -----
"The limited time you spend with students
may be the only training they ever receive!"
-- John Farnam
“Pick a lane, master that lane, and stay in it.”
-- Chuck Haggard
“The most valuable resource that all teachers have is each other.
Without collaboration, our growth is limited to our own perspectives.”
-- Robert John Meehan
“The student’s purpose is to expand their body of knowledge and social network.
The instructor’s purpose is to help the student achieve the student’s goals.”
-- Amy Schwartz
Colonel Robert Lindsey to his fellow trainers:
"We are not God's gift to our students.
Our students are God's gift to us."
“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”
-- Richard Henry Dana
"Every time I teach a class,
I discover I don't know something."
-- Clint Smith
“Qui docet, discet.” (Who teaches, learns.)
-- American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers
Be careful what you teach.
Because your students will do in combat
whatever you have trained them to do,
no matter how ridiculous.
-- "Shooting in Self-Defense" by Sara Ahrens
"A false path will always be tensely, angrily, violently defended
by those it has deceived, because those who are so easily deceived
are ever too arrogant to repent.”
-- Instructional axiom
"You must teach skill sustainment as part of training."
-- John Hearne
"You don't have to memorize formulae.
Because you can always derive them from first principles."
-- Sven Hartman
"Your curriculum needs to be recent, relevant, and realistic."
-- Austin Killmer
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----- Students -----
"Try.
Try again.
Try once more.
Try differently.
Try again tomorrow.
Try and ask for help.
Try find someone who's done it.
Try to fix the problem.
Keep trying until you succeed."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"5 Key Factors for Choosing a Firearms Instructor" by Jeff Gonzales
“It may seem difficult at first but everything is difficult at first.”
-- Miyamota Mushashi
"It's better to be wrong than to be vague."
-- Freeman Dyson
"Thinking is the hardest thing a person can do.
That's why so few people do it."
-- Henry Ford
“Train, Practice, Compete
are the key elements in the development of humans.”
-- John M. Buol, Jr.
"Keep in mind that this is some seriously next level material.
It is totally normal that the first time you see this stuff, you find
it confusing. You find it difficult to understand. So, confusion
should not discourage you. It does not represent any intellectual
failing on your part. Rather, keep in mind that it represents an
opportunity to get even smarter."
– Tim Roughgarden, Professor of Computer Science and other
stuff at Stanford University
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----- Andragogy (as opposed to pedagogy) -----
‟An instructor should not expect any learning to
take place the first time new information is presented.”
-- ‶Building Shooters″ by Dustin Salomon
"Growth is uncomfortable because you've never been there before."
-- Nicola Cavanis
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Nala Knight
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------------------------------ Gear --------------------------------
And the safe storage thereof.
"Self-Defense and the Law: Weapon-Mounted Lights for Concealed Carry"
by Massad Ayoob
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
---
Never use your trigger finger to manipulate your weapon mounted light!
Task Overload Confusion, lots of documented cases where the police officer
intended to turn his WML on or off, and instead fired the pistol. Take a class
from Chuck Haggard to get a deeper understanding.
The purpose of a high capacity magazine is NOT to let you shoot more;
it is to let you reload less.
-- Tom Givens
"IWI Masada Slim Review: GU [Gun University] Tested" by Bucky Lawson
MSRP of $450. ". . . street price of around 415 bucks . . ."
Manual,
Product page,
"Magazine release can be swapped for either left or right handed operation."
So it is not ambidextrous, as are other versions of the Masada. Very strange,
as this was a selling point. As seen on the Masada™ 9mm Parabellum,
"Fully ambidextrous operating controls: slide stop lever, magazine release."
Holsters, magazines, etc.,
“Mission drives the gear train.”
-- Pat Rogers
"Paper cartridges were the 'speed loaders' of the 18th century -
combining the powder and projectile into a single package that could
be loaded much faster than carrying each component separately."
-- Target Sports USA
"Why are the little things called little things?
They are everything."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"In my opinion, the two essential accessories for EDC don't clamp on your gun;
they're
1) a spare magazine, since magazines cause more malfunctions than anything else, and
2) a handheld flashlight, because you never know where you'll be in a power failure,
but it probably won't be on a sunny beach."
-- Orcosaurus
"There are no dangerous weapons, only dangerous men."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Compensators or ported barrels on self-defense pistols is a bad idea,
because when shooting from the close contact position, which is common
in real world self-defense, hot gas, smoke, and burning propellant will be
blown up into the shooter's face, and in particular into his eyes.
I disagree with Gabe Suarez.
“Your car is not a holster.”
-- Pat Rogers
"Springfield Echelon VIS: The Smartest Optic Mount Going" by Jacob Paulsen
“An ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory.” -- EF Schumacher
"Silly!" by John Farnam
"Bad Methods Masquerading as Education: John Reacts"
by Active Self Protection Extra
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Tools to Track Ammunition Prices:
Ammo Seek
BulletScout
Caliber King
AmmoSquared Inc.
Ammo sources:
Lucky Gunner
Boro Bullets (manufactured in Murfreesboro, TN)
Unlimited Ammo
Target Sports USA
GunMag Warehouse
SGAmmo
True Shot Ammo
The Mag Shack
If you know of any others, please let me know.
Parts sources:
Numrich Gun Parts
Wolff gun springs
Brownells
Midway USA
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Carolina Stein
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***** ***** ***** Intelligence ***** ***** *****
Always cite open source. There is always some conspiracy theorists who has said
what you want to say. Quote him. Everyone will understand.
"Trump's Strong Message About Poland and NATO Security" by Poland Daily Live
The enemy has killed several of our field grade intelligence officers recently,
some of whom were retired and operating in the private sector. A CIA field
officer recommends taking appropriate precautions. I recommend inappropriate
precautions. As Lt. Col. Jeff Cooper says, Be "offside" on the play.
No referee will call it back. No one has the authority. And if a law enforcement
agency were to investigate, much less prefer charges, we could claim national
security. If the enemy causes you to lose sleep, they win. If you kill yourself,
they win. Don't let them win.
I pray the enemy die peacefully in their sleep. Drowsiness to stage one
to stage two to stage three to stage four to REM to unconsciousness to the
brain neglecting to send signals to all vital organs. Not too much, we don't
want them dying on the road or at work. It is very natural for people to die
sleeping in their beds at night. Let it be so. We must stop the bleed.
"Declassify Whatever You Want" says Trump as Firings Begin!
by Robert Gouveia Esq.
Firing spies and traitors.
Michelle is asking for help with land mine detection and disposal for
a small rural village in Burma, Myanmar. They have suffered lots of casualties.
Any help would be appreciated, expertise, equipment, resources. Let me know.
No, the government is not helping. No, the NGO's are not helping.
From the Patriot Post --
"Waltz says Iran has ongoing assassination plots against Trump"
UN Ambassador Mike Waltz acknowledged on Sunday that the Iranian regime
has active assassination plots against President Trump. Even more troubling,
Waltz told ABC's "This Week," "They have operatives here in the United States.
[Millions allowed in by the Biden administration. -- Jon Low]
Plots are ongoing. But our intelligence community, the FBI, our law
enforcement entities are absolutely on top of it."
Last week, Trump issued a warning to Iran in a Truth Social post:
"1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran,
with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government
act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or
attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America,
in this case, ME!"
---
If we had left things to "our intelligence community, the FBI, our law
enforcement entities", Trump would have been dead long ago. -- Jon Low
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Counter Intelligence
The intelligence agencies are grossly incompetent at weeding out the spies within
their ranks. We cannot allow them to compromise our operations. We must act.
As my rifle team coach would say, "If your friends offer you alcohol or drugs,
tell them you can't, because you're in training. Blame it on me." I'll take the
responsibility. Mature adults take responsibility for their actions. Leaders take
responsibility for the actions of their subordinates. Delegate authority and assume
responsibility. Death Before Dishonor.
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Institute for the Study of war
The Dispatch
Strategy Page
"The Merge"
Breaking Defense
Intrigue
1440
29155
Global Recaps
Timber Sycamore
Ground News
Soldier Systems
Executive Order 12333
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Erica Rhodes
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***** ***** ***** Signals Intelligence,
Ground Electronic Warfare,
Cyber Warfare,
(sometimes Air Electronic Warfare too) ***** ***** *****
Always cite open source.
"A free people ought not only be armed and disciplined,
but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain
a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them,
which would include their own government."
-- George Washington
Soldier Systems ** Commentary
Electronic Warfare continues its ascendency in the US Army and along with
it are growing pains.
In this article published in “Grey Space” the cyber branch journal, authors
MAJ Herbert “Trey” Norton III and CPT Gabriel Barreto Diaz lay out the
challenges as they see them. I empathize with their frustration. However, I
don’t believe they really understand the underlying problem. This isn’t an
indictment of their position because their opinion is based upon their experience.
Their perception is that EW is a relatively new capability that was forced into
an inferior role within the Cyber branch. The reality is that while it is less sexy,
EW is crucial to Warfighting at all levels and offers the commander an
indispensable tool. I fully expect maneuver formations to demand more EW
support as they become accustomed to it. The branch should really be named
EW with Cyber as a subset.
The real culprit is ignorance of the past as well as how others operate
within the Electromagnetic Spectrum. The EW community doesn’t know
what it doesn’t know and that’s because institutional knowledge in EW was
attrited during the period in the 90s where the Army divorced itself from
the capability and then recreated EW in its own silo.
This EW silo doesn’t communicate well with the other silos it should be
combined with, Cyber and Signal Intelligence. Aside from the obvious branch
issue, there are classification and authorities issues afoot. Even within Cyber
branch, EW and Cyber capabilities are kept at arm’s length due to these last
two issues.
What is ultimately needed is a seamless Cyber / EW / SIGINT capability.
The longer this issue metastasizes the harder it is going to be to fix, as
bureaucracies become entrenched.
We are asking the squad to do a lot but this is something they are going
to have to master if they are going to survive and dominate future battlefields.
Drones and multi-domain sensors make the modern battlefield transparent,
rendering traditional efforts to hide from enemy detection insufficient.
To increase survivability and regain the tactical initiative, the United States Army
must institutionalize and train small-unit deception tactics. By adopting a formal
framework and empowering young leaders to innovate, the Army can mitigate
critical vulnerabilities associated with persistent enemy observation.
smallwarsjournal.com/2026/06/19/train-to-lie-small-unit-deception-on-a-transparent-battlefield (https://us.list-manage.com/olMVlBmqTPc?e=3976638edf&c2id=13efe53da350fe5b6688136db5a51eec)
"Executive order jumpstarts Pentagon’s quantum sensor projects
Two executive orders signed today direct the Defense Department
to field three new types of quantum sensors by 2028,
assist the Energy Department in building a quantum supercomputer,
and advise other agencies on defeating quantum hackers."
by Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
Hat tip to Soldier Systems.
[All "quantum" work in the Department of War is nonsense.
Including Executive Order 14411,
All DARPA "quantum" projects are nonsense. Just handing out money to idiots.
A typical redistribution of wealth from the tax payer to the politically connected
or politically correct (academically prestigious), not the scientifically correct.
The DARPA "scientists" deciding who gets funding, couldn't discern real
quantum mechanics if their lives depended on it.
-- Jon Low]
"Some Companies Facing AI [Artificial Intelligence] Woes" by Docent
And you thought the Israeli cyber attack using pagers and radios was brilliant.
"How The FBI Finds Your REAL IP Address" by Privacy Matters
Cover Your Tracks
You see the problem. It's an arms race. You just go up another level of indirection.
"Very few problems cannot be solved by another level of indirection."
Which CompSci great said that?
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Cover Your Tracks
To get the IP address you are presently using,
Breaking Defense has a weekly newsletter, "Networks & Digital Warfare" at
Crypto-Gram by Bruce Schneier
2600
Soldier Systems
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Martina Di Giovanni
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***** ***** ***** Cryptology ***** ***** *****
Always cite open source.
Cryptosystems are considered "arms" by federal law, ITAR,
International Traffic in Arms Regulations. That means cryptosystems are
protected by the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Never let the
government infringe on your right to keep and bear cryptosystems, to
include home made cryptosystems, to include sharing cryptosystems with
others.
Lagrangian
"You don't have to memorize theorems.
Because you can always derive them from first principles."
-- Sven Hartman
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that?
We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
We must believe that we are gifted for something,
and that this thing must be attained."
-- Marie Curie
Executive order 14412.
"Five Eyes Alert: The AI Deception Has Already Begun | Threat Wire"
by Hak5 (Ali Diamond)
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of
producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."
-- John von Neumann
Applied topology.
"Computer science has nothing to do with computers or science."
-- Donald Knuth
"All that we don't know is astonishing.
Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing."
-- Philip Roth
"Premature optimization is the root of all evil."
-- Donald Knuth
"Never memorize anything. Rather, study it until it becomes obvious."
-- Norman Christ
Plain text → data compression → encryption → error correction coding
→ transmission (storage) → reception (recalling from storage) →
error correction decoding → decryption → decompression → plain text
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe,
and preserve order in the world as well as property.
Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of their use."
-- Thomas Paine
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Arχiv
Sci-Hub.Pub
Explanation,
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS)
"Handbook of Applied Cryptography"
by Alfred J. Menezes, Paul C. van Oorschot and Scott A. Vanstone
"Computer Security and the Internet:
Tools and Jewels from Malware to Bitcoin", Second Edition
by Paul C. van Oorschot
ISBN: 978-3-030-83410-4 (hardcopy), 978-3-030-83411-1 (eBook)
"An Introduction to Error Correcting Codes with Applications"
by Scott A. Vanstone , Paul C. Oorschot
Research and Publications (P. Van Oorschot)
Alfred J. Menezes
Scott A. Vanstone
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Martina Di Giovanni
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*************************** Politics and Religion *****************************
Who’s Funding the Attack on Your Second Amendment Rights?
Find out at,
Who’s leading the attack on the Second Amendment?
Find out at,
[I would add Southern Poverty Law Center. -- Jon Low]
What does the anti-Second Amendment movement want to see in the future?
Common firearms banned
Forced Confiscation
National Registry of Gun Owners
Gun Companies Bankrupted by Frivolous Lawsuit
Guns And Ammo Taxed To Death
Read all about it at,
"NSSF to Expose Billionaire Funding Behind the Gun Control Movement
Anti-Second Amendment funding reveals gun control is anything but grassroots."
by Darwin Nercesian
Hat tip to Stephen P. Wenger.
National Shooting Sports Foundation, Inc.
"A firearm is only an “assault weapon” if it is used in an assault.
My semi-automatic rifle with detachable magazines is a home-defense gun."
-- Stephen P. Wenger
Thomas Jefferson resigns as Secretary of State two years into his term,
because he could not tolerate the corruption in the U.S. Government.
The purpose of war is not to die for your country.
The purpose of war is to ensure that the other guy dies for his country.
— George S. Patton
"Democrats Have Different Priorities From Normal Humans" by Docent
"Minnesota's Democrat Governor Tim Walz pardons
illegal migrant PEDOPHILE who raped girl aged 10
to stop the predator from being deported"
by Will Potter
There is evil in the world. Tim Walz is evil.
" 'He Has Been REMOVED' - Marco Rubio Bombshell Rocks DC "
Beginning of segment at
14:41 / 19:11
Marco Rubio speaks at
17:03 / 19:11
"I hate it when I'm trying to eat a salad and
it falls in the trash and I have to eat a taco instead."
-- Nicola Cavanis
"Why Did the NYT Hide the Nazi Rapist Under the Floorboards?"
“Recent polling shows that Graham Platner was going to lose to Susan Collins,”
so Democrats had to act quickly to swap candidates.
by Nate Jackson
Excerpt:
"Why does it say “nobody could corroborate” when I offered them
sources that COULD corroborate?"
[Because the New York Times lies. -- Jon Low]
"To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of people always
possess arms and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them."
-- Richard Henry Lee
"We should not forget that the spark which ignited the American Revolution
was caused by the British attempt to confiscate the firearms of the colonists."
-- Patrick Henry
"The Agenda" by John Farnam
“Fools ignore history, but history always revisits fools!”
-- Carr
From an email from John Lott --
The widespread belief that the United States is far more violent than its peer
countries drives much of the gun control debate. But my new piece at
Real Clear Investigations
shows that many developed peer countries actually have much higher violent
crime rates than the U.S. Most comparisons mistakenly rely on crimes
reported to the police, even though most crimes are never reported. Americans
also report violent crimes to the police at much higher rates than victims in
many other countries. As a result, even if two countries had identical actual
crime rates, the United States would appear more violent simply because
Americans have greater confidence that police will respond and are therefore
more likely to report crimes.
My latest Real Clear Politics piece examines the debate over national concealed
carry reciprocity.
Gun control debates often focus on hypothetical risks,
but on reciprocity we don't have to speculate. Decades of experience show what
actually happens when states recognize one another's concealed carry permits.
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Martina Di Giovanni
************* Psychology **************************************
"The death of speech: why we need men" by Orion Taraban
An armed society is a polite society.
"Wanting a wife: the secretary problem" by Orion Taraban
Email from Orion Taraban, Psy.D. --
"Who benefits?" Wednesday, July 1st, 2026
The Roman statesman Cicero was famous for asking “cui bono?”
The question translates to “who benefits?” Cicero believed that the
person who most benefited from a crime was most likely to be involved
in its perpetration. The principle is sound, and it has survived to the
modern day in various forms, most notably the investigatory tactic of
following the money.
However, “cui bono?” holds true for all kinds of behavior – not just
criminal actions. If you ever want to know why a certain (otherwise baffling)
behavior persists through time, ask yourself who most benefits from its
execution. You'd be surprised. Look carefully, and you'll notice that many
things – from ignorance to chaos to cruelty – often produce advantages for
those involved.
The key is to understand that “benefit” doesn't always look like a reward,
which is why it may be difficult to identify. For example, a benefit could
look like alleviation of guilt or boredom, or it could look like confirmation
of a core (but self-defeating) identity component. People are complicated.
This week's behavioral experiment:
Consider your most enduring vice. How do you benefit from it?
Warmly,
Orion
"Never restore a woman: don't take her back" by Orion Taraban
"Your best life: an ideal Tuesday" by Orion Taraban
"Women are dirty: understanding their dark desires" by Orion Taraban
Deep truths.
"REJECTING WOMEN is a SKILL: wanting is free, giving is costly"
by Orion Taraban
Time is your most precious resource. You need to be able to reject persons to
safeguard your limited resources. Rejecting persons is a skill and all successful
men must master it.
Email from Orion Taraban, Psy.D. --
"The places you'll go." Wednesday, July 8th, 2026
We typically underestimate the extent to which our moods, our thoughts,
and even our sense of self are determined by the structures in which we
embed our lives. When we relate to the same people, commute to the same
places, and experience the same things, it's more difficult to come into contact
with unexplored (or unacknowledged) parts of oneself.
This is why – according to more than one recent study – taking a trip to a
foreign country can actually lead to greater personality change than a year of
psychotherapy. Now whether that change endures once people return to their
home countries is another story, but the finding makes sense. Unfamiliar
environments (among other things) demand higher levels of attention to
navigate, and this can produce subjective benefit almost independent of the
actual conditions of those environments.
In a foreign country, you are constantly engaging with novelty. This (to steal
a phrase from Huxley) opens the doors of perception. You see with your eyes
and hear with your ears – as you cannot operate on autopilot in such situations.
So if you're feeling stuck, sometimes the easiest solution is simply to switch up
your context and notice how you respond.
This week's behavioral experiment:
Pick a random point on a local, national, or global map. Go there (within reason).
Warmly,
Orion
"Mate Selection for Modernity
Hypergamy is an evolved sexual strategy where individuals mate with
and/or marry those most capable of providing long term security.
It is the act of marrying up."
by Vincent Harinam
Hat tip to Greg Ellifritz.
"Love bombing: the two budgets" by Orion Taraban
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"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
-- Mary Flannery O'Connor
"Happy Independence Day" by Docent
“You can’t truly call yourself ‘peaceful’ unless you are capable of great violence.
If you’re not capable of violence, you’re not peaceful, you’re harmless.
Important distinction.”
-- Stef Starkgaryen
Limnic eruption
There is a data center planned for the Grassmere area in Nashville, TN
(where the Nashville zoo presently sits). Activists are collecting signatures
to stop the building and lobbyists are working on the city council
and mayor.
I love data centers, but not in my backyard. Yes, I am a hypocrite.
Semper Fidelis,
Jonathan D. Low
Email: Jon_Low@yahoo.com
Radio: KI4SDN
If you're wondering why you should consider my opinion,
I'd be happy to send you my training record (pertinent to firearms instruction) and
resume (not very pertinent to firearms training, mostly software engineering and cryptology).
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