Jim Cirillo: Modern-Day Gunfighter In his book, “Guns, Bullets, and Gunfights”, NYPD veteran Jim Cirillo revealed the hard-won knowledge he gained in more than a dozen gunfights with some of New York City’s most vicious criminals. Now he brings his words to life in this 12-part video series. In his own unique style, Cirillo gives…
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Motor Learning and Firearms Training: Why Good Reps Matter Most
Motor Learning and Firearms Training: Why Good Reps Matter Most In September, I taught several blocks of instruction at the ConcealedCarry.com Guardian Conference focused on vehicle defense. Video clips made their way onto social media, and one in particular generated comments that warrant further discussion. The Danger of Short Form Content On Social Media…
Gunfighters’ Ethos of Honor in the Old West
Gunfighters’ Ethos of Honor in the Old West They were called gun-men, gunmen, shootists, man-killers, and gunslingers, but the Western press eventually settled on the all-inclusive term “gunfighter.” By definition, they were “anyone in the Old West who took part in one or more notable exchanges of gunfire among civilians, not involving Native Americans…
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Armed Citizen Corner: Shooting at Moving Vehicles
Shooting at moving vehicles To shoot or not to shoot is the decades-old question when confronted with the decision to shoot the driver of a vehicle you perceive as intending to run you over. Some departments strictly forbid their officers from shooting at moving vehicles. As with any use of force, there are many…
The Armed Citizen Corner: Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill
Criminal Mindset – Make Yourself Harder to Kill It might be cheesy to open an article up with a quote from Sun Tzu’s Art of War, but it applies so well; if you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Today we are going to talk about…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: Close with the Enemy Most hand-to-hand fighting is over who controls the weapons. The Irrigation Ditch The Rangers had been on the ground for less than a minute when small-arms fire cracked from close range. After evacuating two wounded—one with a life-threatening gunshot wound—they began clearing a large grassy…
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off Memorizing TTPs won’t save you; fighting under resistance will. Baghdad Checkpoint The gunner let loose a long burst of machine-gun fire through the windshield of a speeding car. Days earlier, two Rangers had been killed nearby when a “pregnant” woman detonated a suicide vest at…
Resource Library: Seven Pillars of Small War Power
Seven_Pillars_of_Small_War_Power THE WORLD SEEMED to breathe a collective sigh of relief at the end of the long Cold War. That momentous event, however, did not mark the end of global armed conflict. While the number of armed conflicts worldwide has been declining since peaking in the early 1990s, and a conventional war between two…
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation
Young Men, Political Violence is Your Obligation Young Men, We Need a Factory Reset For our entire lives we’ve heard schoolmarms, the media, liberal Christians and other subversives lecturing young men that “violence doesn’t solve problems.” Every time we have a public killing, we are told “political violence isn’t the answer.” Now, anyone who…