Category: Weapons Education

The Italian military went into WWI having already adopted a semiautomatic sidearm – the Model 1910 Glisenti (and its somewhat simplified Brixia cousin). However, the 1910 Glisenti was a very complex design, and much too expensive to be practical for the needs of the global cataclysm that was the Great War. In response to a […]

Ingesting lead is a serious thing and can cause numerous problems for people with constant exposure. As you’re likely aware, you come into contact with lead during every trip to the range. You even come into contact with it each time you handle your firearm, especially if it hasn’t yet been cleaned after a visit […]

A southwest Florida man fatally shot his wife and his newlywed neighbor who tried to mediate an argument between the couple, police said. (FOX)- Lee County Sheriff’s deputies arrested 47-year-old Placido Moreno-Torres late Saturday following a shooting at his home near Fort Myers. Neighbors told investigators they heard Moreno-Torres arguing with his wife around 9:25 […]

The FR-8 is a Spanish rifle manufactured in the 1950s as part of Spain’s adoption of the CETME semiautomatic rifles. Spain was not only moving to their first semiauto rifle, but also changing from 8mm Mauser to the new 7.62mm NATO. It was not possible to immediately equip everybody with the new rifles, so a […]

The .223 Remington is a cartridge with almost the same external dimensions as the 5.56×45mm NATO military cartridge. The name is commonly pronounced either two-two-three or two-twenty-three. It is loaded with a 0.224-inch (5.7 mm) diameter jacketed bullet, with weights ranging from 40 to 90 grains (2.6 to 5.8 g), though the most common loading by far is […]

I really enjoy these videos from the crew at Active Self Protection. They use real world videos and surveillance footage to educate others on the importance of self protection and the rights and wrongs that can occur. Don’t think for a moment that you don’t need every bit of Active Self Protection you can muster […]

William Whiting was an engineer who spent his entire adult career with the Webley company, and was responsible for all of their in-house self-loading pistol designs. This work initially focused on a behemoth of a pistol, the Model 1904 intended for military contracts. The gun proved insufficiently attractive to the British military though, leaving Webley […]

It all began in 1980. That year, Glock saw an opportunity when the Austrian government announced that it would seek a modern pistol to succeed their Walther P38 pistols.  (OutdoorHub)- Glock already had connections to the Austrian military through contracts for curtain rods and field knives. However, those items were far from what would later become a […]

In this article we are going to break down IDPA and USPSA, not to figure out which one is better, but to just break down and figure out which is which.  Hopefully by the end you (the reader) and me (the writer) will have a better understanding of which one we (both of us) think […]

The concealed carry permit holder was trying to intervene in a domestic dispute, trying to disarm the fleeing shooter, trying to do the job ordinarily reserved for police. (WashingtonPost)- Instead, he was killed. Just before noon on Monday, 35-year-old T.J. Antell, who had served in the Marines, watched the unfolding of a domestic dispute between a man […]