We’re working on bringing training videos to the blog! Let’s start at the very beginning with the most basic 3 handgun manipulations that you should learn, practice and know very well as you advance in your gun-fighting skills. For left handed shooters,...
This week’s teachable moment comes from this photo of what happens when the shooter has poor grip on the pistol. Note the separation of hands. It is important to hold onto the gun by using force generated by both the strong and support hand. With a weak grip,...
We want to help you guys prepare for a great Dynamic Drills Day (or any other Monarch Defense class, really) We recommend starting to prepare at least a week in advance so you have time to test your gear and if needed, buy what you need. Prepare for the weather In the...
Click the image above to play video. Friends and students, I want you to sit down and carefully watch this video from start to finish. It’s hard, but please, for your own sake and the sake of those you love, watch it, and dispel denial from your mind. Bad things...
It’s true. We can live perfectly well without the Armalite AR15. Common sense will tell you that the Armalite AR15 is out of patent, which means anyone can make a facsimile of it, so go ahead, make the AR15 illegal. We will use the LMT Defender2000, the Noveske...
Everyone has heard of the Second Amendment, yet many people don’t know what exactly it means. Let’s dissect and define the components of the second amendment together. In its entirety, it reads: “A well regulated militia, being necessary for the security of the...
Below is the comment which I submitted to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives regarding the proposed legislation that would classify bump style stock equipped rifles as machine guns, thereby forcing current owners to surrender or destroy them...
Newton’s third law states that any action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is as true in the hard sciences as it is in public policy. Each decision has a consequence, and any solution to a problem will introduce new problems. “What do you give up to...
You cannot legislate away bad apples. By definition a criminal is deviant, an outlier, a small fraction of the data sample, an atypical specimen. Fortunately, the outliers are few and far between. In order to achieve effective use of our policy making resources, we...
Like many of you on the left and the right, I am a reasonable person, and I don’t want to see more innocent children or concert goers slaughtered mercilessly by sick twisted psychopaths. If we agree we share this common goal, of reducing violence in our society,...