tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77313134972880642382024-03-13T09:20:46.483-07:00Illinois Concealed CarryIllinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.comBlogger792125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-25547382771812347542016-12-06T07:40:00.001-08:002016-12-06T08:01:29.140-08:00$125 - Utah, Florida & Arizona CCW License Class - for Illinois
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height: auto; clear: both;"><div class="credit" style="max-width: 100%; margin: 1em 0px 0px; line-height: 1.5em; width: 288px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Image Credit:</span> <a href="http://www.armedcampuses.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2013/07/COgfk.png" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Armed Campus</a></span></div><div class="caption" style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 0.1em; width: 288px;"><div style="max-width: 100%; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 3px;"></div><p style="max-width: 100%; margin-top: -2.875px;"></p></div></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All too often we hear horror stories about school shootings. These stories are tragic, and heartbreaking to hear. When these horrific events occur, the media is quick to point the finger at the weapon, and are insistent on restricting the availability of them. However, I think we need to <em style="max-width: 100%;">increase</em> the availability.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In today's society, it is very difficult to receive a permit for guns. If you do have a gun, it is very difficult to use it and carry it. When people make the decision to buy and own a gun, it is decided for a number of different reasons: hunting, sport, or self-defense. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">With so many school shootings that have happened, you never know when something might happen at your college. Almost all of the past school shootings have occurred at schools with gun free zones...so what's the point? A school banning its students from having guns is a school failing to protect and keep its students safe. If students are allowed to have guns on campus, they would be safer in an emergency situation. With violence increasing, it is always better to be prepared for the worst. When it comes to weapons and guns, many think of it as a safety insurance of some kind. One of the biggest issues with allowing guns on campus is that the topic is taboo and controversial. If guns were simply allowed on campus, it wouldn't be such a big deal when someone has one. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Certain schools are located in crime-ridden areas of town. There is no telling whether someone, who may or may not even be a student, will come onto the campus and start shooting. That is why it is very important to be proactive and prepared for anything. If someone has a strong desire to shoot, they will find a way to do it; all we can do is be ready and prepared for the worst of situations. Colleges and universities should not <em style="max-width: 100%;">require</em>students to have guns, but they should by no means ban students from having them. When students attend college, they want to feel safe and protected. If a student feels a little bit safer having a gun, let them! The best thing a university can do to keep its students safe is allow them to have guns for protection. If even one person has a gun, and is in the right place at the right time, hundreds of lives can be saved.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://theodysseyonline.com/grand-canyon-university/concealed-carry-for-college-students/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">http://theodysseyonline.com/grand-canyon-university/concealed-carry-for-college-students/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-77530063957322487612016-11-30T11:48:00.001-08:002016-11-30T11:48:00.227-08:00Fighting From A Vehicle — Recap Of Atlanta Car Thug And Reviewing What
We Need To Do<h1 class="title" style="font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.2em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Fighting From A Vehicle — Recap Of Atlanta Car Thug And Reviewing What We Need To Do</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kevin Michalowski of United States Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) introduces a very familiar concept for Concealed Nation readers: fighting from inside a vehicle.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you recall, we did an article discussing an incident that was captured on dashcam. A driver captured an <a href="http://concealednation.org/2016/08/video-gun-brandished-during-road-rage-what-would-you-do/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">armed thug stepping out of a vehicle</a> at a red light and threatening him with a brandished pistol.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thankfully, the driver got away without incident. It could have gone much worse.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In this episode of Into The Fray, Kevin Michalowski discusses the realities we’re faced with when fighting from a vehicle. In short: <strong style="max-width: 100%;">it’s bad</strong>.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bullets striking the front windshield may actually be deflected down, giving a lot better of a chance of a critical hit on the defender. He briefly mentions that a concealed carrier is going to have to make a decision — take your chances being a sitting duck or get out of the vehicle.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In almost any case where you feel your life is physically threatened and you are in grave danger, it’s always best to nip it in the bud and use decisive defensive force.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Giving the initiative over to an attacker only means we have fewer critical moments to react. This is a criminal’s best case scenario and a worst case scenario for the concealed carrier.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Michalowski appears to advocate for dismounting from the vehicle prior to engaging a known armed adversary. This is echoed by a lot of other firearms professionals and instructors.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What About The Safety Belt?</span></h2><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s a bit more detail given in a SIG SAUER instructional video about drawing a gun from inside a vehicle.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe width="500" height="281" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ek50iqNOfus?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin" style="max-width: 100%; width: 288px; height: 162px;"></iframe></span></p><p></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One of the biggest considerations: your seat belt.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most states — like Georgia — require you to <a href="http://www.gahighwaysafety.org/campaigns/click-it-or-ticket/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">wear your safety belt</a>while operating a vehicle. This means that in addition to the heightened adrenaline of dealing with a life or death scenario, you’re also worried about getting unbuckled from your vehicle.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One exercise we can all practice is properly dismounting to engage a target.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">SIDENOTE</strong>: Check out an article we wrote on <a href="http://concealednation.org/2016/08/airsoft-or-paintball-for-training-any-benefit-for-daily-carry/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">using an airsoft gun to practice</a> complicated techniques that you can’t do at most conventional ranges.</span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dismounting Vehicle Exercise</span></h2><ul style="max-width: 100%;"><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scan</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Assess target</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Unbuckle safety belt</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Open driver’s side door</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Draw pistol from holster and bring to the ready position on target</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Exit vehicle, staying low to driver’s side door (<em style="max-width: 100%;">this door will not stop bullets</em>)</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Move to the rear of the vehicle, using the driver’s side door as very limited concealment</span></li><li style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Scan and assess for threat</span></li></ul><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This exercise requires zero rounds to be fired and should be done in a controlled, safe environment away from bystanders. Using an airsoft replica of your everyday carry handgun can help you judge the basic mechanics of how you will deal with transitioning out of a vehicle.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="http://concealednation.org/2016/09/fighting-from-a-vehicle-recap-of-atlanta-car-thug-and-reviewing-what-we-need-to-do/">http://concealednation.org/2016/09/fighting-from-a-vehicle-recap-of-atlanta-car-thug-and-reviewing-what-we-need-to-do/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-13006938675380303162016-11-23T07:14:00.001-08:002016-11-23T07:14:45.752-08:00Protecting others is a noble act. It’s also a dangerous one<div class="post_title" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 245.359375px; float: none;"><h3 class="entry-title" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 25px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em;"><a href="http://www.grantcunningham.com/2016/02/protecting-others-is-a-noble-act-its-also-a-dangerous-one/" title="Protecting others is a noble act. It’s also a dangerous one." style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#454545">Protecting others is a noble act. It’s also a dangerous one.</font></a></h3><p class="posted-by-text" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Posted by:</span> <span class="vcard author" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span class="fn" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.grantcunningham.com/author/grant1709/" title="Posts by Grant Cunningham" rel="author" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Grant Cunningham</a></span></span></span></p></div><div class="post_content" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: -5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 20px; width: 245.359375px; position: relative; min-height: 170px; overflow: hidden; float: none;"><div class="shadow_img_frame tt-blog-featured" style="border: 1px solid rgb(207, 207, 206); vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 7px 8px 9px; position: relative; float: none; max-width: 556px; box-sizing: border-box; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.14902) 0px 2px 4px 0px; display: table; height: auto !important; width: 100% !important;"><div class="img-preload" style="border: 1px solid rgb(255, 255, 255); vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; width: 227px; height: 92px; position: relative;"><img src="cid:EE683A4B-3863-4478-A705-E965CCB62667@mobilenotes.apple.com"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Today’s blog post was suggested by a reader. <a href="http://www.grantcunningham.com/2013/12/should-a-ccw-holder-get-involved-in-someone-elses-fight/" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">I wrote a piece a while back about the dangers of intervening in an active incident</a>, and he asked if I could extend my comments to intervention in a chronic incident: one which has been going on for some time. Such situations do exist, and they can be very dangerous to both the victim and the person who intervenes.</span></p><h4 style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When someone is being stalked</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stalking and domestic violence are crimes that are, unfortunately, very common. (While it’s not unheard of for men to be victims of stalking and abuse, the majority of the victims are women and so that’s what I’ll address in this article.) Victims of these crimes frequently seek shelter with friends and family in the hope that their attackers will be deterred by the presence of other people. If you live a prepared lifestyle and someone you know is the victim of stalking or violence, they may be more likely come to you for help and protection.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While I would never presume to make your decision for you, there are some things that you should take into account before you agree to become a protector.</span></p><h4 style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your family will face her threat</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A stalking victim seeking shelter with you (and your family, if applicable) will very likely put you and those around you in danger. Ex-spouses or ex-boyfriends are unpredictable, and can be quite violent — often not caring who stands between them and the object of their wrath. If you’re in the middle, you might become a victim yourself.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Doesn’t happen very often, you say? You’d be wrong. In one case, <a href="http://www.ketv.com/news/man-wanted-in-double-homicide-turns-himself-in/36852730" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">a woman with an abusive ex-boyfriend asked three of her girlfriends to stay with her</a>for protection. The ex-boyfriend ended up killing the woman and her 2-year-old child, and critically wounding her three friends.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In reality, assuming any responsibility for the protection of another person is a highly specialized task. You’ve become a bodyguard or, in technical terms, an executive protection specialist. The people who do that job are trained how to look for and how to deal with a threat directed at other people; do you have that training and knowledge? If not, are you really doing her any favors by agreeing to do a job you’re not qualified to do?</span></p><h4 style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What happens if the problem escalates?</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Understand that your mere presence won’t be enough to ward off a determined attacker. I know how validating the feeling of being trusted is, and how easy it is to believe that nothing will happen to the person under your care simply because you’re around to “protect” her. Your presence may not be enough; in fact, you may enrage a stalker or abuser who feels that you are inappropriately involving yourself in “his” business and their fight becomes yours. <a href="http://www.ketv.com/news/man-to-stand-trial-for-seconddegree-murder-charge-in-enclave-shooting/35927954" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">You might find yourself in the unenviable situation of having to justify your presence</a> at a fight the prosecutor thinks wasn’t yours in the first place.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s assume that you can deal with the threat and it actually happens; you’re put into a situation where you must use lethal force against the attacker. If you talk to any police officer who has experience with domestic violence calls you’ll learn that the victim, upon seeing her attacker hurt or killed, <a href="http://www.wowt.com/home/headlines/Wife-Opens-Up-For-The-First-Time-After-Husband-Shot-and-Killed-290155791.html" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">often turns on the people who saved her</a>. In some cases she may use a great deal of emotionally-driven violence against her former protector, to include stabbing or shooting them! What would you do if that happened to you in your home?</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, I’m not saying that you should or shouldn’t assume the role of protector; that’s your decision alone. I am saying that you should make that decision only after a thorough assessment of your own training and abilities, and that you factor in the threat from both the attacker and his victim to you and the innocent people who share your life.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is not an easy decision, and it’s not one to be made until you’ve thoroughly considered all of the issues involved.</span></p><h4 style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are other ways to help that might actually be better for her</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now you’re probably thinking that it would be cruel and heartless to send someone away because you’re scared of getting hurt. That guilt may even drive you to make a decision you otherwise wouldn’t. Honestly, I’d probably feel the same way if someone came to me with this problem. That needn’t be the case, however. There are two specific things you can do to help her stay safe while at the same time maintaining your own safety — which is, after all, your <b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">primary</i></b>responsibility.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First, in any community of size there are domestic violence shelters that are accustomed to dealing with these issues and provide sanctuary to women who are at risk. They are usually unmarked, intentionally not well known, and your friend will not be able to tell anyone where she’s staying — for her own protection.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your local police department and social service organizations can point her in the right direction, but sadly many women don’t take advantage of those resources. They fear an imagined stigma or are untrustworthy of strangers. You can play a valuable role by helping her transition into a shelter and by providing financial and emotional support for what is no doubt a traumatic decision. By getting her into a safe place, one where she can sleep soundly knowing that her attacker can’t get to her, you may be doing the greatest favor of all.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Second, once she’s made that transition you can serve as a catalyst for her to adopt a prepared lifestyle of her own. The reality is that her attacker may stay active for years, and she won’t be able to stay in a shelter (or your home) forever. Teaching her how to protect herself and any children she may have will give her the means she needs to live the independent life she was meant to live.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, though, unless you’re an experienced instructor with appropriate training and/or knowledge, this is not something you should do yourself. No matter how long you’ve been carrying a gun or how well you shot qualifications when you were in the Army, dealing with a surprise (ambush) attack in the private sector is a very specialized area. Teaching those skills is even more specialized. Luckily there are a lot of resources for solid training, and you can likely find some in your area that are appropriate. For those victims who feel understandably skittish around strange men there are female instructors who can take her under their wing and give her the training she needs. If she doesn’t have the resources for the firearm or the training, that’s something you <b style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">can</i></b> help with — and feel good about doing.</span></p><h4 style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 12px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 1.2em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Support doesn’t mean taking a bullet</span></h4><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your most important protective role may be that of facilitator and, where necessary, financier for her transition and education. These are ways in which you can make a positive difference in her life without exposing yourself and your family to a threat you might not be prepared to face.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When considering any kind of intervention to help others, think through the ramifications very carefully. The life you save may be your own.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px 5px 5px 0px; line-height: 2;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.grantcunningham.com/2016/02/protecting-others-is-a-noble-act-its-also-a-dangerous-one/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">http://www.grantcunningham.com/2016/02/protecting-others-is-a-noble-act-its-also-a-dangerous-one/</a></p></div>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-45007651669705395242016-11-19T10:48:00.001-08:002016-11-19T10:48:57.197-08:00Proactive Situational Awareness for the Armed Citizen<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Proactive Situational Awareness for the Armed Citizen</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most individuals who take their own self-defense seriously should be well aware of the somewhat broad topic of situational awareness. Certainly the principle of maintaining awareness of one’s surroundings is an old one, but like so many things related to self-defense Jeff Cooper did wonders for this concept and the ability to teach it to others. Cooper urged all of his disciples to maintain a condition of relaxed-awareness, which he referred to as condition yellow on his now-famous color code awareness scale. Situational awareness is one element of defensive mindset that is of the utmost importance for anyone who chooses to be prepared for the evils this world contains, but there is a great deal of misunderstanding regarding the topic.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I encourage students of self-defense to practice what I refer to as “proactive” situational awareness. This approach suggests a level of action on the individual’s part beyond simply remaining alert to your surroundings. As armed citizens, or even unarmed citizens that seek to further our own safety, we want to be aware of the things that surround us in the world. Look at the masses of humanity that we live among on a daily basis. The people in the streets, in the shopping malls, in public places, in your place of work, the majority of these people have no clue as to what is really happening around them. These folks inhabit “condition white,” the mental state of complete lack of awareness as Jeff Cooper so warned us against. The modern example that typifies condition white is the individual who walks right through a door into a new environment while staring at the screen of his phone or some other electronic device. If you are concerned with your own safety, don’t be that guy.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We typically consider situational awareness a state of being observant to what is transpiring in our general vicinity. This, of course, is a big part of it. When we are in a public place we want to know what is happening around us, and always conscious of what is behind us, the general direction that we cannot easily observe. We should be primarily looking for anomalies in the environment. If we are surrounded by many people in a public place, we want to be alert to anyone who appears out of the norm. Learning to trust our instincts regarding individuals is a good thing, as often our sub-conscious mind knows something is wrong when even our conscious mind tells us that we are just being paranoid. Being aware of anything that is potentially dangerous, as well as being aware of that danger‘s proximity to our own location, is what we should strive for. However, simply observing is not necessarily enough.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The concept of “proactive” situational awareness that I propose is the active investigation into one’s surroundings at the outset of inhabiting a space. Simply watching what happens around you is a good thing, but more may be required if you wish to avoid being in a bad place at a bad time. A proactive approach to awareness involves specifically reading the environment of a space and determining if you should even be there in the first place, and if you have to be, identifying what can go wrong right from the outset. Let me explain further:</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is a somewhat common image projected onto serious gun people that they like to “sit with their back to the wall.” This, of course, can be greatly embellished like any other stereotype. But essentially we should all admit that positioning ourselves in a place that grants us a visual of the environment and also minimizes our vulnerable back, where we do not have eyes, is a good thing. The problem is, even just walking into a public place and going immediately to a location where you can sit with your back against the wall is hardly enough if that is the extent of what you do. A proactive approach to situational awareness would begin as soon as we enter a new environment; let’s say a restaurant, for the sake of this example. If we walk into a restaurant and go straight to the table in the back of the room and sit with our back to the wall like we are Wyatt Earp, does that do us much good if we ignore the fact that there is an armed robbery already in progress when we walked in? Obviously not.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Realistically most would probably not miss the robbery in progress, although it has certainly happened, but the point is that our situational awareness should begin at the very moment that we are entering, perhaps even before we enter, a new space. When we walk through a threshold into a new environment we should proactively scan and see several different elements in that space. I suggest looking for these four criteria: First, who is there and what are they doing? Second, where are the entries and exits in the room? Third, what is the most likely target area for trouble in the space (hint: probably the location of the cash registers) and fourth, what in the space could serve as cover or concealment if things go bad in a big way? Now, I am sure there are many who will read what I just suggested and label me as paranoid and declare their refusal to live in such a manner. Sure, your choice. But this whole process takes about three seconds and goes unnoticed by anyone else. I consider pre-emptive preparation a relief from anxiety, not the cause of it.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When we scan a room to observe individuals that are already there, what should we be looking for? There are too many possibilities to even begin to list, but there is one essential element that covers it all: we want to look for anything that is unusual within the context of the current environment. Sticking with our restaurant example, if we scan the room what should we typically see? Obviously, people sitting and eating, or perhaps people sitting and conversing. We know what normal behavior should look like within this context because we have witnessed it so many times and we are also, at least sub-consciously, aware of what would be abnormal behavior for such a setting. A person seated alone will probably be either eating or doing some other activity. If the lone individual at a table is not eating, what would constitute normal behavior? Probably reading, or on an electronic device. If not, there might be something unusual happening. Is the person sitting quite relaxed, perhaps just waiting for their food to come out, or do they seem very observant, nervous, or tense? That might be a clue.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Groups of people sitting together in a restaurant are also going to fit into a predictable pattern of behavior. Groups of people typically talk to each other. Perhaps a couple of individuals are sitting without conversation, but reading or looking at their phones. However, a group of men sitting and not talking, while appearing unusually observant or nervous, is possibly an indication that there is something unusual going on. The bottom line is this: you have been in similar environments, probably hundreds of times in your lifetime, and you can generally identify what is normal and what is abnormal within such an environment. When something does not seem right, you might be right. As humans we live in constant denial about many things, one of which is our own safety. It is easy to say to ourselves, “it won’t happen to me, it won’t happen here.” This, of course, could prove to be the last thought to ever cross our earthly mind. If something does not feel right, there may be more to it than simply being “paranoid” and typically acting on your instinct is the best thing to do. What is wrong with simply walking right back out the door from which you came and eating at a different restaurant? This is an option when we exercise proactive situational awareness. I am not suggesting here that you be scared of your own shadow and never go to a restaurant, I am suggesting that you be cognizant of a situation that truly raises your suspicion and taking preemptive action.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another example, let’s say you need to use an ATM machine late at night. The ATM machine sits in an isolated location directly adjacent to a proverbial dark ally. Is the best time to be aware of a criminal intent on holding you up at the ATM machine when he is already directly behind you? Rather, proactive situational awareness would involve knowing what is in the environment surrounding the potentially dangerous zone. A dark corner or ally next to the machine? Light it up with your Hi-lumen handheld light before using the machine. You do always carry a good light don’t you? If not, this is a far more likely use for it than actually using it in conjunction with a handgun for a defensive shooting. If there is a criminal of opportunity lurking there, what do you suppose has just happened to the predator/prey relationship when you actively light him up with a hi-powered light? You now know that he is there, and he knows that you know he is there. His element of surprise is gone and you are now a hard target rather than an easy mark, hopefully avoiding a violent encounter before it even transpires.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s say you are a woman leaving the office late and you approach your vehicle in the parking garage only to notice that there is another vehicle in close proximity to your own, in an otherwise vacant lot. Giving the unknown vehicle a wide birth to provide some reaction time, walk past it and scope it out before you stand with your back to it while getting into your own vehicle. If you have a bad feeling about it, listen to your instincts and avoid the situation entirely. Feel free to go right back into the office and call for help or enlist an escort to your vehicle. Might you feel silly for taking such precautions? Sure. But you may feel quite silly when you ignore your instincts and get dragged into a vehicle by an assailant who quickly emerges when you are vulnerable.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Situational awareness should not simply be reactive, but proactive, as is illustrated with the examples provided here. Just as you proactively seek to ensure your own security in a financial manner, or as it may pertain to minimizing other hazards such as accidents or fire, so should you proactively seek to secure yourself and those that you love from the criminal element, even if it is inconvenient sometimes. Seek out the surprises before they surprise you and control your space, and feel free to simply walk away from a potentially bad situation if you think you should.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://concealednation.org/2016/03/proactive-situational-awareness-for-the-armed-citizen/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">http://concealednation.org/2016/03/proactive-situational-awareness-for-the-armed-citizen/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-6758502785418403532016-11-16T06:21:00.001-08:002016-11-28T07:15:56.076-08:00llinois Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW/CCL) License Training Class<h2 style="margin: 0px; position: relative; font-weight: bold; line-height: normal; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">$250 - Illinois Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW/CCL) License Training Class</span></h2><div style="border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">VETERANS / MILITARY QUALIFY FOR THE (8 HOUR) CLASS - $100</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Get your Illinois Conceal Carry License... 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the US Can Truly Be<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here's an Example of How Wrong a "Prestigious" Medical Study on Guns in the US Can Truly Be</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mar 23, 2016 | </span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is why you should challenge <em style="max-width: 100%;">everything</em></span></h2><p style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nutrition-Science.jpg" alt="Nutrition-Science" width="370" height="286" srcset="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nutrition-Science-300x232.jpg 300x, http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Nutrition-Science.jpg 432x" sizes="(max-width: 370px) 100vw, 370px" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Recently major British medical journal Lancet released <a href="http://www.ammoland.com/2016/03/why-medical-research-on-gun-laws-cannot-be-trusted/#axzz43kiMv2PC" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">a study</a>called “Firearm legislation and firearm mortality in the USA: a cross-sectional, state-level study.” Is it a surprise to us that the majority of the information they published is bogus and easily debunked?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How convenient for a major medical journal in an anti-gun country to point out the “faults” of a pro-gun country like the U.S? They are scratching their own backs and tootin’ their own horns, people.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love how <a href="http://www.ammoland.com/2016/03/why-medical-research-on-gun-laws-cannot-be-trusted/#axzz43kiMv2PC" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Dean Weingarten of Ammoland</a> broke this down for us, lets take a look.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Arizona –</strong> -(<a title="AmmoLand Reports" href="http://www.ammoland.com/" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Ammoland.com</a>)- My Colleague at <a href="http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Gun Watch</a>, <a href="http://jonjayray.tripod.com/main.html" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">John J. Ray (M.A.; Ph.D.)</a>, has published extensively. He has some insight into the recent “study” published in the Lancet:</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The major British medical journals are heavily politicized — both Lancet and BMJ. Lancet even criticized the Iraq intervention under George Bush II. When they stick to their knitting — medical research — they do publish some good studies and are prestigious because of that. But the people running the journals are obviously Left-leaning — like most academics — so they can’t help misusing the platform they have to hand in order to promote their Leftist views.</em></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That is of course bound to be an amusing exercise. Leftist claims are so counter-factual that a political study is bound to require all sorts of distortions and evasions to make any case at all. And the political studies they do publish are so unscholarly that the editors have obviously put their brain into neutral before publishing them.</em></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://press.thelancet.com/Firearms.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The latest such study in Lancet</a>(“Firearm legislation and firearm mortality in the USA: a cross-sectional, state-level study”) is a good example of that.</em></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">An article covering the “study” in The Hill starts out with pure misdirection: <a href="http://www.medicaldaily.com/gun-violence-gun-related-deaths-377597" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">From medicaldaily.com</a>:</span></p></blockquote><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><i style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The United States has some of the most lenient gun ownership laws in the world. It also boasts one of the highest <a href="http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">gun-related death rates</a> of any country. Researchers from Boston University <a href="http://press.thelancet.com/Firearms.pdf" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">say</a> the U.S. can cut those deaths by more than 80 percent by enacting three specific <a href="http://www.medicaldaily.com/new-california-bill-bar-mentally-unstable-purchasing-firearms-lawmakers-argue-gun-laws-should-be" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">laws</a> on <a href="http://www.medicaldaily.com/gun-safety-needs-uniform-laws-work-firearm-deaths-still-show-huge-racial-divides-303852" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">a federal basis</a>. These rules would require background checks for all ammunition and gun purchases as well as ballistic imprinting or microstamping of firearms so they leave identifiable traces when fired.</i></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Brazil, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Venezuela, and South Africa have much higher “gun related” death rates than the United States. but the very term “gun related” is a propaganda term. It includes suicides, which are about two thirds of the total for the United States. When you look at total homicide and suicide rates, the U.S. is far from the top. Using the Washington post pick of 26 “developed” countries, this is what we come up with:</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SuicideHomicide26DevelopedCountries-e1458742501639-600x597.jpg" alt="SuicideHomicide26DevelopedCountries-e1458742501639-600x597" width="580" height="577" srcset="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SuicideHomicide26DevelopedCountries-e1458742501639-600x597-300x299.jpg 300x, http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SuicideHomicide26DevelopedCountries-e1458742501639-600x597.jpg 600x" sizes="(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You can see that the U.S. is a little closer to the top than the bottom, but not by much. As a multicultural society, I would expect as much. Suicide and homicide are culturally driven, not implement driven. After all, there are a lot of people from Mexico, and other cultures in the United States.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The “study” claims that:</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“Background checks for all people buying guns and ammunition, including private sales, are the most effective laws we have to reduce the number of gun deaths in the U.S.”</em></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet two thirds of “gun deaths” are suicides. How would background checks stop them?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other two laws touted are gun identification through ballistics, and gun identification through microstamping.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not a single crime has been solved by the ballistic identification laws. Two of the three states where they were <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/11/08/maryland-ends-ballistic-fingerprinting-database-15-years-5-million-no-crimes-solved/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">passed have repealed them </a>because they were so costly and ineffective.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Not one state has implemented a microstamping law. Yet the “study” claims that microstamping and ballistic imprinting laws reduced gun related deaths by 84%!</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is complete junk science. Pure correlation causation confusion.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What the “study” authors found is that states with low numbers of gun owners are able to pass insane laws that have no effect. Because those states have low numbers of gun owners, and because “gun deaths” include suicides, they could find statistical artifacts to support their preconceived bias.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">States that have more hospitals have more deaths in hospitals. That does not mean that hospitals cause the death rate to rise.</span></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I absolutely love this article, it’s absolutely true what Dean is saying. These medical researchers and publishers truly believe that guns cause violence and death more than they prevent it. And unfortunately, it bleeds into their studies.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You <em style="max-width: 100%;">cannot</em> believe every “accomplished” study that comes out and claims this and that about guns. The truth is there for the taking, and I believe it is up to each individual to find it.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#454545"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://gunbelts.com/?=d&c-article" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="cid:B0F0BAA2-1715-43F6-8625-5391BC2CAD9E@mobilenotes.apple.com"></a>The Second Amendment was created as a means of protection for the American people in more ways than one. We each have the constitutional right to own a gun to protect us and our family from the precariousness and unpredictability of every day.</span></font></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yet also, a large number of Americans owning and carrying guns protects <em style="max-width: 100%;">the people</em> from the valid threat of tyranny. It may seem preposterous to some, but our forefathers knew how imperative it was for the people to be able to protect themselves from their own government.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They unfortunately had to experience this themselves to release how important it was. Hence the exact words, “Shall not be infringed.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s up to us to point out the faults of ridiculous studies like this, and to ultimately protect our right to bear arms.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://defendandcarry.com/heres-example-wrong-prestigious-medical-study-guns-us-can-truly/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://defendandcarry.com/heres-example-wrong-prestigious-medical-study-guns-us-can-truly/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-77225371605817347782016-11-07T08:14:00.001-08:002016-11-07T08:14:00.534-08:00Gun Control Endangers More Lives Than it Saves<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gun Control Endangers More Lives Than it Saves</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the Newtown, CT, vigil, Obama <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-speech-at-prayer-vigil-for-newtown-shooting-victims-full-transcript/2012/12/16/f764bf8a-47dd-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_print.html" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">said</a>, “if there’s even one step we can take to save another [life] … then surely we have an obligation to try.” The president reiterited this view, nearly verbatim, during the press conference announcing the 23 executive orders, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-remarks-on-new-gun-control-proposals-jan-16-2013-transcript/2013/01/16/528e7758-5ffc-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_print.html" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">saying</a>, “if there’s even one thing we can do to reduce this violence, if there’s even one life that can be saved, then we’ve got an obligation to try.” Vice President Joe <a href="http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/01/live-president-obama-announces-gun-control-proposals/61070/" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Biden</a> also said during the press conference, “We have a moral obligation to do everything in our power to diminish the prospect that anything like this could happen again.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This sentiment is often heard from gun control advocates. It’s sloppy – because it <i style="max-width: 100%;">seems</i> correct on its face, it doesn’t require you to do any thinking about it. This can be very dangerous. We ought to be thinking very critically about this idea and asking ourselves several tough questions: <i style="max-width: 100%;">How many lives will it save – <b style="max-width: 100%;">and at what cost</b>? Will this policy endanger lives, and if so will it endanger more lives than it might save</i>?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We ought to compare the potential for lives saved vs. lives endangered, and then weigh the cost we pay in exchange for any benefit or loss.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Endangered lives: the D.C. gun ban</b></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jeffrey Scott Shapiro, a former <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0/1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0/1">Washington, D.C.</a> prosecutor wrote in the <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578235460300469292.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Wall Street Journal</a> about the endangered lives and risks, stating: “a nationwide firearms crackdown would place an undue burden on law enforcement and endanger civil liberties while potentially increasing crime.” He would know something about it; as prosecutor, Shapiro enforced firearms and ammunition cases during D.C.’s gun ban. Though he dislikes firearms, he is skeptical of benefits “many <i style="max-width: 100%;">imagine</i> will result from additional gun-control efforts” (emphasis added).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Chief among the dangers to the people of D.C. is that the gun ban had unintended consequences. “It emboldened criminals because they knew that law-abiding District residents were unarmed and powerless to defend themselves,” Shapiro continued. He states that violent crime and homicides <i style="max-width: 100%;">increased</i> after the law was enacted, with homicides going from 188 in 1976 to 369 in 1988. By 1993, annual homicides reached 454.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Civil liberties were also endangered and police efforts wasted – leaving citizens with less police protection. Legislative changes empowered judges to hold gun suspects in pretrial detention without bond for up to 100 days. There were also efforts to enact curfews and seize automobiles found to contain firearms. Police cracked down on guns, creating a special Gun Recovery Unit in 1995. It was disbanded two years later in 1997 having been found ineffective, so more uniformed officers could be assigned to patrol the streets. Police periodically tried other gun crackdowns over the next decade, all with little effect.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Contrary to gun control advocate worries, after the gun ban was struck down, homicides in the D.C. have steadily <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324081704578235460300469292.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">gone down</a>, from 186 in 2008 to 88 in 2012 – the lowest number since the law was enacted in 1976.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kennesaw: To save a life, allow more guns?</b></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kennesaw, GA is among the <a href="http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/georgia/kennesaw.html#.UPepjcIaPoR" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">safest</a>placest in the United States. The violent crime rate for Kennesaw in 2010 was lower than the national violent crime rate average by 85.16%, and the city property crime rate in Kennesaw was lower than the national property crime rate average by 46.46%.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This chart shows violent crime over a 10 year period, comparing Kennesaw against the state of Georgia, and the U.S. national violent crime incidents per 100,000 people (to get an accurate apples-to-apples comparison, adjusting for population size).</span></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="cid:F1CDBB43-1F37-45AE-B7DF-CB6D7C835310@mobilenotes.apple.com"></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This chart shows various violent crime offenses for just 2010. Remarkably that year, Kennesaw had <b style="max-width: 100%;">zero</b> murder or manslaughter crimes.</span></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="cid:42F3682A-57E6-41CA-A866-A14D9F9EB18A@mobilenotes.apple.com"></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What may hold the key to Kennesaw’s secret? In 1982, Kennesaw passed a law <a href="http://www.kennesaw-ga.gov/visitors/about-us" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">requiring</a>“every head of household to maintain a firearm together with ammunition.” After passage of the law, the burglary rate in Kennesaw declined and still today, Kennesaw has the <a href="http://www.kennesaw-ga.gov/visitors/about-us" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">lowest</a> crime rate in Cobb County.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><b style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trampled liberty, endangered lives of average people</b></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="max-width: 100%;">They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety</i>. This is a parapharse (with “liberties” added) to what Benjamin Franklin actually said, but regardless I believe it holds true. It certainly has bearing in our quest to answer the question: “<i style="max-width: 100%;">How many lives at what cost … to liberty? to other lives</i>?”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Often lost in the debate is that homicide and violent crime in the U.S. are at a <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/23170/gun-control-facts-homicides-and-violent-crime-have-dropped-50-over-the-last-20-years" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">20 year low</a> or longer. (Homicide numbers are actually the lowest on record since at least 1976, according to the <a href="http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/homicide/tables/weaponstab.cfm" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Bureau of Justice Statistics</a>, a DoJ agency). Mass shooting homicides have qualitative differences from “plain ol”” homicides that elicit an emotional response from us; that response is valid. However, when all is said and done – for all the media coverage these shootings receive – mass murder accounts for a <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/22774/mass-shootings-are-responsible-for-less-than-100-out-of-12-000-annual-homicides-in-the-us" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">fraction of 1%</a> of homicides.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How many lives are we talking about saving? And at what cost to our liberty? Some may scoff at the question of “liberty,” but some are quite alarmed at <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/09/iowa-lawmaker-calls-for-retroactive-gun-bans-confiscations-of-semi-automatic-weapons/" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">calls</a> to <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/observers-see-2016-in-andrew-cuomo-speech-85983.html" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">confiscate</a>weapons, as well as calls for a national registry – fearing if not today’s administration, perhaps a future administration could abuse such a list and confiscate citizen’s guns. What cost to liberty will we accept when homicide is the lowest it’s been in decades?</span></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><b style="max-width: 100%;">“Lost in the debate is that average people use guns to defend themselves”</b></span></p></blockquote></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lost in the debate is that average people use guns to defend themselves; that average people are victimized by criminals – sometimes in their own homes – and want the means to defend themselves secured. These stories often don’t make headlines, as most homicides don’t make headlines, but are a part of us nonetheless.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">One <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/10/us/home-invasion-gun-rights/index.html" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">story</a> that has made headlines involves Melinda Herman, a Georgia mother who shot an intruder while protecting her kids in their own home. Fortunately, she didn’t face more than one attacker as her 6-round revolver was empty after confronting a single attacker. In the Pacific Northwest, a <a href="http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/crime-law/kitsap-family-apparently-targeted-violent-home-inv/nQSrm/" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">group of masked men</a>, one of which had an AR-15 rifle, tied up a family in their home during a home invasion. This <a href="http://www.kitsapgov.com/sheriff/mediareleases/2011/10-28%20Home%20invasion%20robbery%20arrest.pdf" data-blogger-escaped-target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">home invasion</a> also involved multiple attackers. The video below shows an average citizen confront a thief with his shotgun (also note this is a solid argument against those who claim “guns only purpose is to kill” – he points his shotgun at the criminal and holds him until the police arrive; no shots fired – no one killed, just an average guy protecting himself and his loved ones their home).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><iframe type="text/html" width="1080" height="638" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/I68_LG22VaE?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="true" style="max-width: 100%;"></iframe></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Whether the individual chooses a revolver, a shotgun, or an AR-15 rifle (should there be multiple assailants to defend against) – shouldn’t the law-abiding be able to decide how to defend their lives and their families in their own homes?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The rebuttal is often: “<i style="max-width: 100%;">Would you just do nothing? Gun rights advocates never want to budge on any reasonable gun laws.</i>” Of course, every gun control advocate thinks their version of new guns laws are simply “common sense.”<i style="max-width: 100%;"></i></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><i style="max-width: 100%;"><br style="max-width: 100%;"></i>The truth is though, there are many gun rights advocates that <a href="http://www.policymic.com/articles/22802/gun-control-facts-existing-gun-laws-would-reduce-crime-but-these-are-not-enforced" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">do advocate some changes</a>, such as stronger background checks, fully funding NICS (the background check system), stronger prosecution of those who falsify background check forms – which the Justice Department rarely prosecutes, as well as stronger enforcement and prosecution of straw man purchasers and illegal gun trafficking.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gun rights advocates want safer streets, homes, neighborhoods, and schools too. Many of them have families of their own and want to be able to defend and protect their lives should the police be minutes away when seconds count. They want to put the emphasis on enforcing existing laws, which our government is not doing fully. Washington D.C.’s residents fought a long battle and suffered high crime for many years – as well as restricted liberty. We shouldn’t make the same mistake nationally. Restricting gun rights of average, law abiding folks, puts us all in danger.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://2ndamendmentfight.com/gun-control-plan-will-endanger-more-lives-than-it-saves-guns-save-lives/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="3">http://2ndamendmentfight.com/gun-control-plan-will-endanger-more-lives-than-it-saves-guns-save-lives/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-14602336307500843122016-11-02T07:26:00.001-07:002016-11-02T07:26:42.344-07:00Gun Permit Holders to Sue Gun-Free-Zone Businesses If Incident Occurs
Moves Forward In Senate<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gun Permit Holders to Sue Gun-Free-Zone Businesses If Incident Occurs Moves Forward In Senate</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Mar 18, 2016 | </span></p><h2><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tennessee gives the go-ahead to bill that would allow legal repercussions for gun-free-zones</span></h2><p style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gun-in-waistband.jpg" alt="gun in waistband" width="455" height="342" srcset="http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gun-in-waistband-300x225.jpg 300x, http://defendandcarry.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/gun-in-waistband.jpg 534x" sizes="(max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, gun-free-zones are unconstitutional, and yes this does seem like not the best of compromises, but at this point it will have to do. To me it’s disappointing that it has to come down to this when gun-free-zones are targeted constantly and should be abolished- not just sued.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#454545"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://defendandcarry.com/crime-prevention-report-92-of-mass-shootings-happened-in-gun-free-zones/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">92% of mass shootings since 2002</a>have happened in gun-free-zones. It’s time we do something about it.</span></font></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Take a look at this update from <a href="http://aliengearholsters.com/alien-gear-cloak-tuck-3-0-iwb-holster-inside-the-waistband.html/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The Tennessean</a>.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Several other gun bills have been proposed this session, with some gaining momentum recently, including one sponsored by Sen. Dolores Gresham, R-Somerville, that originally sought to allow any valid handgun permit holder the ability to sue a person or business in the event that the gun holder was injured or killed by “invitees, trespassers, employees of the person or entity, vicious animals, wild animals and defensible man-made and natural hazards” while in a gun-free zone.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gresham amended her <a href="http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=SB1736&GA=109" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">bill</a> to address concerns expressed by some of her colleagues. While discussing the amendment, Gresham said her goal was to rewrite the bill to get property owners to take down signs indicating gun-free zones.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">She cited comments from John Lott, a Fox News columnist, who spoke in favor of several gun bills <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">on Feb. 10</a> and who also said posting gun-free signs can create problems.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“What you are essentially doing was saying ‘Active shooters welcome here,’ ” Gresham said, noting that the original version of her bill would have made a business owner liable for anything that happened to a gun owner while on the premises.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">“This one says, take the sign down and you will have civil immunity in case anything happens,” she explained.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Harris said he opposed the bill because it would set a dangerous precedent in the treatment of private property owners.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Gresham’s amendment was adopted before the committee voted 6-2 in favor of the bill, which now heads to the Senate floor. Harris and Kyle voted against the measure, while Overbey abstained.</span></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So, once again, I appreciate this bill, but I still think it’s not enough. Gun free zones should be removed for the kill-zones that they are.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#454545"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://gunbelts.com/?=d&c-articles" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="cid:1D245D74-5CEE-4512-968E-3F791EE47B3E@mobilenotes.apple.com"></a>This means that law-abiding citizens who have a lawful permit to carry a gun and use it for self-defense have to wait until they are injured or dead before they or a family member can sue the person or business responsible for the gun-free-zone. To me that’s not enough.</span></font></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It is our constitutional right to bear arms, we should be able to defend ourselves wherever we go without being faced with a felony.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We hope Tennessee has the sense to pass this, in the meantime be aware of your local bills and changes happening in your state.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://defendandcarry.com/bill-allowing-gun-permit-holders-sue-gun-free-zone-businesses-incident-occurs-moves-forward-senate/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">http://defendandcarry.com/bill-allowing-gun-permit-holders-sue-gun-free-zone-businesses-incident-occurs-moves-forward-senate/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-91462283735439974772016-10-30T10:30:00.001-07:002016-10-30T10:30:18.208-07:00$125 - Utah, Florida & Arizona CCW License Class - for Illinois
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Against<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Modifying The Trigger On Your Defensive Firearm: The Case For And Against</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Robert Farago via <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The Truth About Guns</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><font color="#454545"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/03/robert-farago/cops-ar-15-dust-cover-inscription-used-against-him-in-court/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">We recently ran a story</a> about a cop who shot someone with an AR inscribed with the words “You’re F*cked.” A modification that was used against him in court. Responding to that incident, the Yankee Marshall advises against modifying your handgun’s trigger. “If you ever have to use that gun for self-defense and it’s a questionable shoot, a prosecutor could easily say ‘Maybe you didn’t intend to shoot them but you made your trigger so light you fired accidentally.’” Yes, well, I’m generally pro trigger modification . . .</span></font></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Other than a handgun’s ergonomics (how it feels in your hand), the trigger is <em style="max-width: 100%;">the</em> key to user accuracy. A gun with a heavy, gritty and/or unpredictable trigger is difficult to shoot well. A handgun with a light, crisp, perfectly predictable trigger brings out the best of any shooter’s ability.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Think of it this way: you can play a lousy piano well. But a Steinway automatically ups your game.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So why <em style="max-width: 100%;">wouldn’t</em> you modify your handgun’s trigger to increase your shooting accuracy? Because you bought one with a Steinway-class trigger. The FNS-9c, Walther PPQ, SIG SAUER Legion, any Performance Center Smith & Wesson revolver and the Ruger LCR spring immediately to mind (so to speak). Why mess with perfection? Which reminds me . . .</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While GLOCK detractors point out that Gaston’s gats don’t have a natural point of aim, the Austrian handgun’s trigger is the real “challenge.” So as not to antagonize firearms fanboys, let’s just say a GLOCK 19 with a Ghost trigger is a blessing whereas a stock GLOCK’s trigger-related accuracy issues can be a curse (especially if you’re <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2012/08/foghorn/nypds-choice-of-firearm-may-have-contributed-to-the-terrible-shooting/" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">a New York City police officer</a>).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Again, you can master a less-than-wonderful trigger. Jessie Duff could outshoot me with a NYPD duty GLOCK, regardless of what handgun I had to hand. But if you want to improve your shooting accuracy and pleasure without trading in your gun, I say go for it. Modify your trigger. Lower the pull weight (if you like) and improve its function. Enjoy the extra accuracy — which could save your life.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">That said . . .</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If we’re talking about a handgun used for self-defense, the Yankee Marshall’s case against modifying your handgun’s trigger pull weight isn’t entirely wrong.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Under stress, blood flows away from your extremities towards you internal organs; you can’t “feel” your fingers as much. Or maybe even at all. Worse, under stress, most shooters “register” their handgun’s trigger (i.e. place their finger on the trigger before they intend to shoot). This is not an ideal combination.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you think it’s impossible to trigger a gun before you consciously decide to fire, try switching straight from a standard GLOCK to a Walther PPQ. I’ve seen it happen lots of times: that surprised look of “Holy sh*it, the gun went off before I meant to shoot!” Once a shooter acclimatizes to the trigger, all is well.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The way to avoid that unfortunate occurrence: consider buying a gun with a DA/SA trigger (heavy initial trigger pull, followed by a lighter one). Alternatively, recognize the danger and train accordingly. I know of only one way to <em style="max-width: 100%;">know</em>you’ve got that sussed: force-on-force training. If you can keep your booger hook off the bang switch under <em style="max-width: 100%;">that</em> kind of stress, you’re good to stow.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As for a prosecutor suggesting that your modified, lighter trigger indicates a cavalier attitude towards human life or a lack of ballistic control, I’ve never heard it argued. More than that, as the Yankee Marshall rightly informs, a judge or jury examines the totality of circumstances surrounding a defensive gun use.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you don’t have <em style="max-width: 100%;">Molon Labe</em>tattooed on your forehead or some other indication that you’re an irresponsibly hot-headed gun owner (e.g., “You’re F*cked” inscribed on the inside of you AR’s dust cover) , it would be hard for a prosecutor to argue that making your gun more accurate makes you a trigger-happy killer. Which, of course, you’re not.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://concealednation.org/2016/03/modifying-the-trigger-on-your-defensive-firearm-the-case-for-and-against/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">http://concealednation.org/2016/03/modifying-the-trigger-on-your-defensive-firearm-the-case-for-and-against/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-92064966569120984002016-10-26T07:13:00.001-07:002016-10-26T07:13:03.174-07:00Defensive Gun Use: Here’s How Your 911 Call Should Go<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Defensive Gun Use: Here’s How Your 911 Call Should Go</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Robert Farago via <a href="http://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">The Truth About Guns</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Calling 911 during or after a defensive gun use is a necessary practice fraught with danger. If you call the cops during an attack (e.g., a home invasion), the operator <em style="max-width: 100%;">will</em>try to keep you on the line. Not only will his or her questions distract you from the business of defending yourself and your loved ones, but anything you say — and the <em style="max-width: 100%;">way</em>you say it — can be used against you in a court of law. If you call after a defensive gun use, same thing, with bells on (as the Brits say). My advice: call 911, give important info as calmly as possible and hang up. Here’s what I think you should say and the one thing you MUST say . . .</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First, remember: less is more. The less you say, the better. BUT you need to give the police vital information <em style="max-width: 100%;">and</em> prepare a defense of your defensive gun use (which includes “simple brandishing”). Here’s a sample 911 call for a defensive gun use during an attempted street robbery.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">NAME: “</strong>My name is Robert Farago.” [Please use your own name, m’kay?]</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This isn’t <em style="max-width: 100%;">the</em> most important information, but it gives you time to gather your thoughts and helps you start speaking when you’re high on adrenaline. Also, people who commit crimes generally don’t provide their name. Stating your name helps establish your innocence.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">LOCATION: “</strong>I’m at the corner of <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="address" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">6th Street</a> and Waller.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Pretty obvious really. But again, adrenaline may make it difficult to process <em style="max-width: 100%;">anything</em>. Give the best location you can. If you’re flummoxed and there’s a witness, ask them for your location. Feel free to say “hang on” to the operator at any point to stay silent and gather your thoughts, or if the situation changes and you’re distracted.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">DESCRIPTION: “</strong>I’m white, 5’10” wearing a blue shirt, blue jeans and glasses.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">THIS is the bit you MUST say. Police responding to an incident don’t know the bad guys from the good guys. Mistaking you for the bad guy — especially if you’re holding a gun — could have fatal consequences. And the police may already be on the way (if someone else heard a gunshot).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">WHAT HAPPENED:</strong> “I’ve been attacked.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There’s no need to provide a full account of your defensive gun use to the 911 operator. Again, any account you provide is recorded and can be used against you in a court of law. Do NOT say “I shot someone” or “I pulled my gun on the guy.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">YOUR FUTURE DEFENSE: “</strong>My life was in danger.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While you don’t want to describe your defensive gun use to a 911 operator, this simple statement will form a basis of your legal defense, should you need one. This and no more.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">OPTIONAL BUT VITAL: </strong>“My attacker was a big guy, around 250 pounds, wearing a grey sweatshirt” (and any other details you can remember, such as the direction of an escaping perpetrator).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">ACTION: “</strong>Please send the police and an ambulance.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Requesting an ambulance — even for simply drawing your gun — also helps establish your innocence: you were focused on protecting the innocent (yourself <em style="max-width: 100%;">and</em> others). It’s also common sense: you or others may be injured without being aware of it.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It doesn’t matter if the bad guy’s lying on the street bleeding out or disappeared down an alleyway. Again, responding cops can’t tell the players without a scorecard; you want them to have a good idea of who’s who before they arrive on scene. Also, of course, you want the police to arrest or transport the bad guy.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DONE</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some people carry a concealed gun also carry a card with a 911 script on it, knowing that they may not be able to think clearly during or after a defensive gun use. That’s not a bad idea.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In any case, don’t be distracted (i.e., tricked into providing more information than you have to) by the 911 operator’s inevitable follow-up questions. You are under no legal obligation to answer. 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(Reuters / John Sommers II)" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000"><img src="https://www.thenation.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Donald_Trump_NRA_rtr_img.jpg?scale=896" alt="Donald Trump addresses NRA members" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto; display: block; height: auto; width: 320px; -webkit-margin-start: -16px;"></font></a><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses members of the National Rifle Association in Louisville, Kentucky, on May 20. <span style="max-width: 100%; font-style: italic;">(Reuters / John Sommers II)</span></span></p></aside><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%; font-weight: bold;">W</span>hen he ran for reelection in 2012, Barack Obama never talked about gun control. That’s almost hard to remember now, after Newtown transformed Obama and he spent massive political capital trying to make Congress act on comprehensive reform. While Obama has since pledged <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/obama-guns-town-hall/423210/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">not to even campaign</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"> for Democrats who don’t support gun-control legislation, his speech at the Democratic convention in Charlotte four years ago never alluded to gun violence.</span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">This was no small feat, considering mass acts of gun violence shook the country throughout the summer of 2012. After the Aurora, Colorado, theater shooting in July killed 12 people and wounded scores more, Obama </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/whats-obamas-record-on-gun-control/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">said only</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"> that he wanted “to arrive at a consensus around violence reduction—not just of gun violence, but violence at every level, on every step, looking at everything we can do to reduce violence.” He proposed no new gun reforms. </span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Less than a month later, when six people were shot and killed at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Obama again declined to make gun safety a campaign issue. Reporters asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if the president wanted new laws, and Carney essentially said no. “We need to take common-sense measures that protect Second Amendment rights and make it harder for those who should not have weapons under existing law from obtaining weapons,” he replied. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The upcoming presidential election will be dramatically different, as dueling speeches from Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton this past weekend demonstrated. Like few other elections before it, 2016 will feature gun control as a huge and explosive issue.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clinton spoke at the Trayvon Martin Foundation on Saturday after meeting with 60 mothers who lost children to gun violence. “At long last, we must do something about the gun violence that stalks communities and terrorizes families. And this is on the minds of every one of us here tonight, as we remember all of the young people who have been lost,” Clinton said. “This problem isn’t going away.” </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">For months, Hillary Clinton has made guns a central theme of her campaign. </span><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/2016/01/21/clinton-tv-ads-hammer-guns-in-new-hampshire-shy-away-in-iowa/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">One of every four</a><span style="max-width: 100%;">television ads she ran in New Hampshire were about gun control. She has regularly met with victims of gun violence, particularly mothers, and </span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2015/10/05/3708954/clinton-gun-control/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">unveiled a comprehensive gun-control plan</a><span style="max-width: 100%;">last October. This is the toughest stance of any Democratic candidate since at least Bill Clinton in 1996, who invited James and Sarah Brady to speak in prime time at the DNC, though Hillary’s proposed reforms are much more far-reaching.</span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">Beyond the policy merits, her team clearly saw this as a political winner against Senator Bernie Sanders, who has a checkered voting record on gun rights and hasn’t yet bothered to release a gun-control plan, despite </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/18/politics/bernie-sanders-gun-control/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">promising</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"> to do so. And it may continue to be a winner against Trump—wide majorities of voters favor universal background checks for gun owners. Gun control is a big issue for several critical demographic groups, including independent women voters: 51 percent want stronger gun laws, while only 6 percent want laws to be weakened, according to polling from the pro-reform Americans for Responsible Solutions. Sixty percent of women voters overall want stronger laws.</span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump’s approach to wooing these voters during his speech to the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday was comparatively ham-handed. “Whether it’s a young single mother in Florida or a grandmother in Ohio, Hillary wants them to be defenseless. Wants to take away any chance they have of survival,” he said. “In trying to overturn the Second Amendment, Hillary Clinton is telling everyone, and every woman living in a dangerous community, that she doesn’t have the right to defend herself.”</span></p><aside class="pullquote" style="max-width: calc(100% - 1em); line-height: 1.38em; font-style: italic; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em; -webkit-margin-start: 1em;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">LIKE THIS? GET MORE OF OUR BEST REPORTING AND ANALYSIS</span></p></div></aside><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump then immediately declared, “My poll numbers with women are starting to go up, I never thought of it. This should really lift them up.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don’t be fooled by the clumsiness of that attempt. During his speech to the NRA Trump also proved adept at exploiting the deep undercurrents of xenophobia, fear, and aggression that have long underpinned the modern right-wing gun movement. Several times, my hair stood up. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Trump brazenly proclaimed that Obama released hordes of violent criminals onto the streets. “President Obama pushed for changes to sentencing law that released thousands of drug-trafficking felons and gang members who prey on civilians,” he said. “This is Hillary Clinton’s agenda too, to release the violent criminals from jail. She wants them all released. She wants people released that you wouldn’t want to walk on the street with, you wouldn’t want to look at.”</span></p><aside style="max-width: 100%;"><div style="max-width: 100%;"><h3 style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">GET A DIGITAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR JUST $9.50!</span></h3><a href="https://ssl.palmcoastd.com/06601/apps/ORDOPTION1LANDING?ikey=I**ARL" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">Subscribe</font></a></div></aside><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The only protection, Trump declared, is more guns. And Trump quickly went from the light coding of “gang members” to more explicit racial agitating, asserting that the country was under siege by violent undocumented immigrants. “Many of these are also—I’m sure you’re not going to be surprised to hear this—illegal immigrants,” he said. “This was tragic. A 65-year-old veteran, a woman who was a great woman, raped, sodomized and killed by an illegal immigrant. Wasn’t supposed to be here. We’re going to straighten it out.”</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This sort of fear-mongering and rank exploitation of racial anxieties isn’t new for Trump, but it’s terrifying to see him fuse it with the NRA movement to loosen gun laws and put weapons in the hands of every American who wants one. Wayne LaPierre hasn’t been afraid to do the exact same thing, but, like no presidential candidate in recent memory, Trump is ready to take the show mainstream. (The toughest line of Mitt Romney’s speech to the same NRA conference in 2012 was probably, “It is time to elect a president who will defend the rights President Obama ignores or minimizes.”) </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And Trump is clearly unconcerned with the ramifications of his rhetoric. In a riff that somehow didn’t receive widespread condemnation, he mused about disarming Clinton’s Secret Service protection. “We’ll also call [for] them [to] let their bodyguards immediately disarm. They should immediately disarm,” Trump said. “ And let’s see how good they do.” </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When these two candidates meet in the general-election arena, the NRA and the burgeoning gun-reform movement will have the two strongest respective champions imaginable. It’s hard to say at this early vantage point how the debate will play out, and to whose benefit, though based on polling around the issue, I’d bet Clinton. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But the gun control debate is also vulnerable to rapid (and unpredictable) shifts in public opinion because of high-profile shootings. If something like Aurora were to happen again, you can be assured neither Trump nor Clinton would ignore its relation to gun control. Current events might make the gun issue even more volatile than it already is. </span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">And if we needed a reminder, as Trump was speaking about disarming the Secret Service in Louisville, a man with a gun charged the White House gate and was </span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/white-house-shooting-man-remains-in-critical-condition" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">shot several times</a><span style="max-width: 100%;"> by agents.</span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><br></span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/this-will-be-a-historic-and-terrifying-election-for-gun-control/">https://www.thenation.com/article/this-will-be-a-historic-and-terrifying-election-for-gun-control/</a></p></section>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-72843071304689982312016-10-16T08:36:00.001-07:002016-10-16T08:36:27.683-07:00Practical Tips for 4 Unusual Handgun Concerns<header><h1 class="title entry-title" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.1em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Practical Tips for 4 Unusual Handgun Concerns</span></h1></header><div class="post-meta" style="margin: 0px 0px 1.8em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><abbr class="date time published updated" title="2016-03-22T08:18:59+0000" style="border: 0px; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 22, 2016</abbr> | <span class="small" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fn" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usacarry.com/author/benfindle/" title="Posts by Ben Findley" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Ben Findley</a></span></span></span></div><section class="entry" style="line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10226 lazyloaded" src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns.jpg" alt="Practical Tips for 4 Unusual Handgun Concerns" width="1200" height="900" srcset="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns-300x225.jpg 300x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns-768x576.jpg 768x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns-1024x768.jpg 1024x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns.jpg 1200x" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; height: auto;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some handgun and concealed carry students and readers have asked for my ideas about some practical solutions and tips for some different and uncommon concerns they have while carrying concealed and using handguns in general. Unusual concerns like what to do in the bathroom when carrying, how to store many holsters for easy access, a quick, low-cost concealment technique, and how to protect a gun’s firing pin when dry firing. I certainly don’t have all the answers and there are several factors and opinions involved here. Of these questions about unusual and somewhat unique handgun-related concerns, here are 4 different and special concerns and some possible solutions that might work for you. They may or may not solve it, be acceptable or even legal in your area, but here are a few ideas to get you thinking about how best to resolve these issues for yourself.<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">1. Bathroom Protocol while Carrying Your Gun</strong></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What do you do when you have to use a public restroom and you are carrying your licensed concealed handgun? Well, for one thing don’t drop your gun or mag into the toilet bowl when deciding on your solution and maneuver.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">While this is a delicate and somewhat embarrassing topic to even bring up, it is a practical carry problem we must address. Since we all have to do it and frequently, if not a few times each day… visit the Throne Room. Now if we are out and about in public places when carrying our gun, this could be quite a balancing act with safety issues and potential legal problem. I guess avoiding the visit is best if we can when in public, but sometimes we cannot do that. One of the most legally-dangerous places to handle a handgun is in a public Throne Room because we are probably rushed to answer the call by Mom Nature, under some stress with our juggling act, and in an unfamiliar environment where it is easy to make a dangerous mistake with legal implications. Maybe you read about the lady carrying concealed with a license in Tampa recently. While in the bathroom stall her gun slipped out of her IWB holster and hit the floor, discharging a ricochet round which hit the lady in the next stall. She has a minor injury and charges are pending with the State Attorney’s Office as a negligent discharge, etc. Also, a Missouri House Speaker’s aide left his loaded gun in its IWB holster on top of the toilet-seat-protector dispenser in the Capitol’s public bathroom, but it was found quickly without any problems.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Realistically these things occur so practically what do we do when carrying our gun and we must go to the bathroom? Not forget it and handle it safely for certain. Maybe you have not thought of this or experienced it… yet. It is difficult for quite a few folks to multitask and balance several tasks successfully at the same time. Situational awareness and focusing are very key. How we carry is also a consideration, like In-the-Waistband (IWB) or Outside-the-Waistband (OWB) on a belt. Some carry methods are more accommodating than others when trying to accomplish this chore. Some carry methods might immediately resolve it, like shoulder-holster, ankle, or pocket carry. I cannot go into all the possible methods and hardware involved and their pros and cons here, so I will assume you are carrying on your belt either IWB or OWB. Remember, it is important to always have a secure holster with proper retention so your gun does not fall out of it. We need to secure and protect our gun where ever we are, even when seated in the public bathroom. Also, use the bathroom before you leave to delay the inevitable in public, if possible. Here are just a few possible alternatives and suggestions each with pros and cons for you to weigh for your Throne Room visit. SAFETY FIRST ALWAYS. Your call on the best method!</span></p><ol style="margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; overflow: hidden;"><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">keep your pants down with holster and gun attached to the belt <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">no lower than your knees and calf area</strong>; do not let them touch the (dirty public) floor. If your pants are around your ankles, folks looking for an empty stall could bend over to check availability and see your gun.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">put your pants <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">around your ankles, take off your gun and holster, and lay/cradle them inside your pants</strong>; your gun will be protected from sight by others, easily available, and more comfortable; some bacteria risk from any low-level touching of the floor since your gun will weigh down your pants.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">put your pants with holster and gun attached to the belt <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">at knee level and tighten your belt</strong> so it will be snug around your knees to hold your gun and holster in place.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">place your gun in the holster on the <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">back of the toilet tank lid</strong>; do this only if the lid is flat and your rig will not slid off; some public bathrooms do not have tank lids; be careful since you may forget and leave your rig behind. Focus and situational awareness.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">fold your holster and gun still on the belt over</strong> to the inside of your pants; this can hold it in place if you have the proper retention holster; it also hides it from view of those looking under the stall door for an empty throne; not for full-size and some other guns.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hang your holster with gun inside on the hook on the back of the stall door</strong> (NOT by the trigger guard and NOT only the gun); might be possible with a strong cord you carry with you in your pocket for this very problem.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">use a store shopping tote (canvas) bag and place your gun inside</strong> and lay it near you on the floor, with your foot holding it securely down and/or you holding on to the strap handles; could hang the tote bag on the stall door hook if secure; NOT the best option, buy an option if you carefully do it; could use double or triple-bagged plastic store bags, but be careful.</span></li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; list-style-type: decimal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">use a strong <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lanyard clip</strong> and clip it to your skeleton hammer and <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">hang it around your neck</strong>; this is NOT the best option but suggested to me by a reader; certainly do NOT clip the lanyard to your trigger guard; might use a variation of this and drill/punch small hole in holster and thread lanyard there and hang around your neck; USE CAUTION with this method… or ANY of these methods. SAFETY FIRST ALWAYS! Do you use another safer and better method?</span></li></ol><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">2. Easy Access & Storage of Many Holsters & Mags</strong></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">How can you quickly recognize and easily access the variety of holsters in your inventory for the several guns you use?</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Women love shoes and I very perceptively noticed that my wife has more than one pair. She has shoes on racks, on the floor in containers, and hanging from closet doors in see-through plastic and canvas storage containers. Then it hit me (she didn’t) maybe I could use one of her storage methods for my several holsters and magazines. I had my many holsters thrown together in a large trunk and my many, many mags in labeled plastic zip-lock bags. It is always a hassle when I change guns and look for a different holster for them. I get mixed up as which holster goes with which gun. Mags are not a problem because they are labeled for each gun in individual plastic bags, but the bags are all thrown together and storing the many bags is a pain. Well, I found a less than $10. sturdy, see-through over-the-door Shoe Storage Organizer for storing my holsters and even my mags. (Go to my website (bottom first page) to see the Honey-Can-Do Organizer.) I labeled each pocket with the name of the 1, 2, or 3 guns that fit in any particular holster. You do not need an individual pocket for each holster, since some fit multiple guns. I did the same thing for my many mags; matched the mags to the specific gun. Within each pocket for a gun’s mags, I numbered the bottom of each mag so I would know the newest from the oldest condition. The storage container and system work great. Hope it helps you.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10227 lazyloaded" src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Holster-Organizer-2248x4000.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Holster-Organizer-2248x4000.jpg" alt="Holster Organizer" width="1200" height="2135" srcset="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Holster-Organizer-2248x4000-768x1366.jpg 768x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Holster-Organizer-2248x4000-576x1024.jpg 576x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2-Holster-Organizer-2248x4000.jpg 1200x" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; height: auto;"></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">3. Easy & Quick Concealed Carry of Gun for Travel & Short Trips That Occur Spur-of-the-Moment</strong></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This is a possible need, especially for travel out of the country to third-world countries with high threat levels. I believe that this carry method is definitely not for everyday carry. I hesitate to even mention it, but thought there could be a remote special use of this method. I saw a short video of it and thought it was an optional method, a very different and long-shot carry method, to consider for certain unique situations ONLY. I see some advantages, but more disadvantages, but still want to present it as an option. In essence, you put your gun inside a store’s dark (not white or clear) plastic bag to conceal it. Your hand is gripping the gun and your trigger finger is on the frame of the gun (not the trigger) and you carry it down by your side, like a package filled with something you just bought…. or after picking up after your pooch. These sights are common, do not usually draw attention to your gun, are usually accepted by most lay people, and if required you could shoot through the plastic bag. It could work for up-close combat, tactical encounters at less than 3 yards or so. Sadly, criminals might use this method, if not for a gun for a knife. Also, its use might subject you to suspicion, investigation, and subject to a search by observant law enforcement officers or those looking for something in particular at the moment. This method may not be practical and there are some disadvantages to think about. There may not even be instances where this method is needed, because use of a proper holster or pocket carry may suffice and be more safe. Inside the bag, your finger could easily slide off the frame onto the trigger; the controls and sights are obstructed; reloading and malfunction drills could be difficult; your range of motion is hampered; plastic bags rip easily and you may expose your gun’s muzzle; it may contribute to malfunctions and stoppages; and may make you look suspicious to some. Your call for a situation that might quickly arise. Be careful.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10228 lazyloaded" src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3-Bag-768x857.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3-Bag-768x857.jpg" alt="Concealed Bag" width="768" height="857" srcset="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3-Bag-768x857-269x300.jpg 269x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3-Bag-768x857.jpg 768x" sizes="(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; height: auto;"></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">4. Wall Anchors to Protect .22 Rimfire Gun’s Firing Pin & Chamber </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Snaps caps are the preferred way to protect your gun’s firing pin and chamber-wall edge, but if you have many guns you can go through them quickly like water. They wear easily and the rims crack and deteriorate quickly. They are caliber specific and can be for centerfire or rimfire guns. For example, you can buy a package of 5 in 9mm centerfire for about $15. Dummy rounds cost a little less and are about $9 for a 6-pack of .22LR rimfire. But there is a definite difference between snap caps and dummy rounds. Dummy rounds are used to practice safe handgun handling and are the exact size of regular rounds. They can be loaded into a magazine like regular ammo, used for loading, unloading of rounds and to test if the magazine is feeding properly, used in the chamber for safe storage of the gun, and can be used to test the extractor and cycling. But, they have no striking surface for the firing pin to impact. So, <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">dummy rounds should NOT be used for dry firing</strong> your gun and for trigger control practice. In fact, most manufacturers state this on the back of the package and say to throw them away after 4-5 strikes because the head will be deformed. This can get expensive. Also, most are aluminum and are too hard for use other than mostly for test cycling. So, they have a use, but not for dry firing.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most manufacturers and experts say centerfire guns do not even need to be used with snap caps. After many uses of the centerfire snap caps over much time, some even say they may lead to harm in some key parts of your gun. I have not experienced this myself. Most if not all “experts” say it is very important <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">for RIMFIRE guns (e.g. .22s) to definitely use snap caps when dry-firing them</strong>. I agree with them. The Smith-Wesson website says that dry firing a .22 rimfire pistol or revolver is not recommended because it will damage your firing pin. I know that I would never dry fire a .22 gun nor even regularly a revolver that has a hammer-mounted firing pin. Snap caps are low-cost insurance for rimfire revolvers and pistols.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Here’s another option. Although relatively inexpensive, since you must use so many, consider using common, readily-available <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">wall anchors</strong> in a size that fits your gun. For example, for .22LR rimfire pistols, I use #4- #6 7/8 inch wall anchors from Home Depot. About $4.99 for a bulk package of 100 yellow anchors (see above image.) They fit perfectly in the chamber of any of my .22LR pistols. I do find that I must change the anchors out more frequently (due to rim cracks and breaks) than my more-expensive snap caps, but no cost concern. The repeated absorption of all the firing pin energy takes its toll, but this is true with the plastic and spring snap caps as well. Will not using snap caps or anchors immediately destroy your gun? Probably not, but why take a chance for only $5. for 100 anchors or low-cost snap caps. Some use spent casings, but they do not seem to hold up as well and, again, a small price to pay for anchors.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10229 lazyloaded" src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors.jpg" alt="Gun Wall Anchors" width="1147" height="729" srcset="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors-300x191.jpg 300x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors-768x488.jpg 768x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors-1024x651.jpg 1024x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/4-Guns-Wall-Anchors.jpg 1147x" sizes="(max-width: 1147px) 100vw, 1147px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; height: auto;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Conclusion</strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope my practical ideas for these 4 special handgun concerns have helped you at least consider some possible solutions that are best for you. These tips are not for everyone and for every gun, but will serve to get you thinking about some options that just might work. Maybe you have some other ideas to share and help folks. As always, be safe when trying any of these options and ideas. Safety First Always! Continued Success!</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Photos by author.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This personal opinion article is meant for general information & educational purposes only and the author strongly recommends that you seek counsel from an attorney in your state or jurisdiction for legal advice and your own personal certified weapons trainer for proper guidance about shooting & using YOUR firearms, self-defense, stand your ground law, and concealed carry. This is not legal advice and not legal opinions. It should not be relied upon as accurate for all shooters & the author assumes no responsibility for anyone’s use of the information and shall not be liable for any improper or incorrect use of the information or any damages or injuries incurred whatsoever. Safety First!<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </strong></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.usacarry.com/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="8">http://www.usacarry.com/practical-tips-4-unusual-handgun-concerns/</a></p></section>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-63407793988533937772016-10-10T06:53:00.001-07:002016-10-10T06:53:59.941-07:00What Do You Do After You Have Your Concealed Carry Permit?<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What Do You Do After You Have Your Concealed Carry Permit?</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Rob Morse<a href="http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ConcealedCarry.jpg?b8c84a" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ConcealedCarry.jpg?b8c84a" alt="ConcealedCarry" width="410" height="227" srcset="http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ConcealedCarry-225x125.jpg 225x, http://www.ammoland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/ConcealedCarry.jpg 410x" sizes="(max-width: 410px) 100vw, 410px" class="clear extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; clear: both; width: 320px;"></a></em></p><figure class="auxiliary float left" style="margin: 0px 20px 0.25em 0px; max-width: 100%; clear: both; line-height: 1.4em; float: left; width: 225px;"><img src="cid:15357CD8-E296-4CAA-BC2A-40E3BAE95EC0@mobilenotes.apple.com"><figcaption style="max-width: 100%; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top: 1em; width: 225px; -webkit-margin-start: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Slow Facts</span></figcaption></figure><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Louisiana-</strong> (<a title="AmmoLand Reports" href="http://www.ammoland.com/" target="_self" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Ammoland.com</a>)- You already know that we have the human right to defend ourselves. Let’s say you have met the all the legal requirements to carry a firearm in public. You’ve finally joined the ranks of 13 million other US citizens who carry. What comes next? What is morally required of you to be a responsible gun owner now that you have your permit? Since concealed carry is a right, I’m not advocating stricter legal requirements. I’m asking you to think about the practical responsibility we assume as we carry a gun.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What comes next after you have the government permission slip?</strong></em></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many states require a simple course in basic firearms safety to receive your license. That means you were told how to safely handle a gun.. at least once. I hope you remember those rules. I want you practice them because firearms handling is a perishable skill rather than an abstract idea. Being safe with a firearm is a matter of developing and maintaining safe habits.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are additional skills you should develop that go beyond safe handling of a firearm. That doesn’t mean that you ignore or “outgrow” the safety rules. It means there are skills you need to effectively defend yourself and those you love. I’m not saying this as some high speed ninja-competitor, but rather as an old, slow, self-defense dinosaur. Here are a few of the skills you need, now that you carry concealed.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Presentation-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">You need to be able to quickly and safely present your firearm from a concealed holster. You don’t have to be up to competition standards, but you have to develop your skills so you can smoothly present a firearm without thinking. You need to present from concealment even if you often carry off-body in a purse or bag. Presenting from concealment is a very different activity than methodically shooting a gun from a bench at a shooting range.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You need professional training.</em></strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="cid:B0AE99D9-ECAE-4235-96A9-CBA0A89F42E0@mobilenotes.apple.com"></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A professional instructor explains and demonstrates presenting a loaded firearm from concealment. The instructor watches as you demonstrate the skill. The instructor gives you feedback before you practice on your own. Learning is easy IF you are willing to be corrected and learn from your mistakes. “Presentation” is neither required for most carry licenses, nor should it be. Then again, that license in your pocket isn’t much good if you can’t safely and quickly present a loaded gun.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Speed or Accuracy, or a Little of Both-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">Experience shows that physical attacks happen quickly. Most of us can shoot quickly or accurately, but not both at the same time. There are shooting exercises that push us to shoot accurately. Others, train us to shoot fast. Developing your skills is only part of the purpose of these exercises. These exercises help you recognize when accuracy is paramount or when speed is most important. It is your experience that counts.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><em style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What is an easy shot for you may require time and concentration for me.</strong></em></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Shooting in Close-Contact and on the Move-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">Most self-defense incidents occur at a distance of under three yards and take less than three seconds. That is far different from the target shooting we’re used to. We should be moving as we draw. If the distance is close enough, we should not need to align the sights of our handgun for the first close-in shots. We didn’t learn about close-contact shooting in our concealed carry classes. But this is the typical situation we’re likely to see in a self-defense situation.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Shoot Under Pressure-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">Using lethal force for self-defense will be stressful. Stress also makes fools of us all. We can learn to handle measured amounts of stress as we train. Forget the Hollywood or military idea of training with an instructor yelling at you. At first the stress may be as simple as shooting while an instructor corrects your performance. Later, it will involve shooting while you are timed.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Move, Shoot, and Look Around-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">Criminals don’t want a fair fight. They don’t fight one on one. The average number of attackers is 2.3 That means we have to look for the other guys after we present a firearm. If you have not done it yet, let me tell you that is hard to take our eyes off a threat.. even if the “threat” is a cardboard target. That is why we practice moving to a safer position and looking around. You have to look behind you without waving a gun around. That is another thing you’ll learn and demonstrate in a class.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Make Simple Compromises and Shoot-</strong><br style="max-width: 100%;">We don’t always get the fight we want, but we have to meet the challenges we’re given. We have to learn to shoot the gun one handed because we might be holding onto a loved one with our other hand. We might not have time to put a child into a safe place before we defend them. Are you effectively disarmed because you picked up a baby?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Normally, we practice shooting while we stand upright, but we’d really rather be crouched behind a concrete column or kneeling behind a planter. We are likely to be attacked at night so it is important to learn how to hold and use a flashlight while we have a gun in our hand. The advantage of these defensive positions might be enough to end a fight before it begins, so it is important to learn and practice them.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">These are a few of the skills you want to have now that you have a license to carry concealed. These skills don’t require great athletic strength or speed. All of them require practice. Skills like these are easy to learn from a good course.. now that you know they are out there. One of the best things about a training courses is meeting responsible firearms owners who take training and practice.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><em style="max-width: 100%; font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Be one of them!</em></h3><div><em style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.ammoland.com/2015/11/what-do-you-do-after-you-have-your-concealed-carry-permit/#axzz41EAIxsey" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://www.ammoland.com/2015/11/what-do-you-do-after-you-have-your-concealed-carry-permit/#axzz41EAIxsey</a></em></div>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-66007445594524070872016-10-04T11:50:00.001-07:002016-10-04T11:50:55.209-07:00Danger Now: The First 48 Hours After a Self-Defense Shooting<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Danger Now: The First 48 Hours After a Self-Defense Shooting</span></h1><div class="leading-image" style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><img src="cid:4136BBD7-8380-4887-8D3C-55FF10287877@mobilenotes.apple.com"></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><fb:like send="false" layout="button_count" width="75" show_faces="false" colorscheme="light" action="like" style="max-width: 100%;"></fb:like><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">in</span><span class="auxiliary float left" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; max-width: 100%; display: block; clear: both; line-height: 1.4em; float: left; margin-right: 20px; width: 59.578125px;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-margin-start: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 0px;"></span><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-margin-start: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Share</span></span></span></span></span></span> <a href="mailto:?subject=Check%20this%20out&body=Check%20out%20this%20site:%20https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/danger-now-first-48-hours-self-defense-shooting/." title="Share by Email" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="safari-reader://www.usconcealedcarry.com/images/mail.png" width="auto" height="20px" valign="top" class="reader-image-tiny" style="margin: 0px; display: inline; height: auto;"></a><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span></span><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span data-pin-log="button_pinit_bookmarklet" data-pin-href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/" style="max-width: 100%;"></span></span></span><div class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The two days after you’ve been involved in a lethal force encounter will be as trying as any you’ve likely endured. Like all things self-defense, it’s better to consider your options now than to wait until it might be too late.</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">» YOU’VE TRAINED FOR THIS DAY.</strong> The crossroads of danger and preparation have intersected, and you’ve ended the life of someone who threatened yourself, your family or your home. After the shooting stops and the smoke clears, there is a lifeless or injured body lying in front of you. In a split second, you saved a life — your own, your family’s or someone in grave danger. Guess what? You’re not out of danger yet. This is where the most uncomfortable limbo starts. Will you be charged with involuntary manslaughter, second-degree murder, reckless endangerment or a host of other criminal charges by some crusading district attorney? Or will the matter be closed as a justifiable homicide as a result of self-defense? The first 48 hours after any self-defense shooting will very likely determine whether your home is where your family is or if the state will provide you shelter in the ol’ Graybar Hotel. You’ve mentally scripted and rehearsed every angle of attack for the self-defense action you’ve taken, but have you prepared for the legal battle that could ensue?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The actions described in this article are simply non-negotiable. Stick to the script or be prepared to spend enough money to put your attorney’s children through college. There is no guarantee that the advice given in this article will keep you out of jail, but it should greatly improve your odds and force any hot-shot district attorney to consider whether it’s worth the time, money and judicial resources to attempt to get a conviction when your actions can be reasonably justified. The following steps are designed to avoid arrest, an indictment by a grand jury or, the most humiliating of all, a ruinous civil suit by the family of the lowlife perpetrator who’ll claim that you used unnecessary and deadly force to stop their kin from making you a crime statistic. Let’s work through this chronologically.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Shots Fired, Man Down</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your immediate actions here are some of the most important elements of any judicial action law enforcement might decide to take. According to any number of statistical sampling, the average response time for the police to appear is between 8 and 11 minutes. During this time, you need to clear your head and take some critical mental notes. First, holster your weapon when police arrive. The last thing you need is a police officer walking onto the scene, seeing you with a drawn weapon and shooting you before you have time to proclaim your innocence. Make sure you can also tell police where the perpetrator’s weapon is. The last thing you want is someone picking it up and leaving, thereby making you appear to have shot an unarmed person.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speak Carefully</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hopefully there will be witnesses there, so someone will have called 911. You do not necessarily want a voice record of you calmly calling the police after you’ve shot someone. Emergency dispatch operators are trained to keep you on the phone and to try to extract as much information as possible. This tape will be played nationally, so don’t give a prosecutor the opportunity to tell a jury that you were cold-blooded and clear-headed after the shooting.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Make mental notes of the witnesses and their positions to the shooting and the aftermath. Create a mental grid of where people are standing. My suggestion is to look around you and pretend you’re standing on a piece of paper. Mentally divide the paper into four squares, count how many people there are in each square and try to guess how far away from you they are.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The crime scene will be scoured, and the homicide detectives will be taking statements from each witness. You want to make sure someone who was 30 feet away doesn’t swear that they heard every syllable of conversation between you and the perpetrator. You want to be able to recall if witnesses were close enough to see the shooting and, if necessary, attempt to impeach their testimony.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don’t Touch the Crime Scene</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This will only aggravate the police and make you look like a suspect, or worst of all, create grounds for arresting you for hiding evidence or tampering with the scene.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Don’t Reach for that Card in Your Wallet You Picked Up at the Gun Store that Tells You What to do if You Shoot Someone</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some people think that handing responding officers a pre-printed card with a statement is the best substitute for memorizing your rights. Wrong, wrong, wrong. Some hotshot district attorney might try to prove that this was premeditated and that you were looking for a victim. Invoke your right to have an attorney present during questioning and wait for his arrival.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ask Someone to Call for an Ambulance</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If your attacker is still alive, you want to demonstrate that you’re not a stone-cold murderer. Stay still, observe and if anyone asks you if you’re OK, tell them you think you might be in shock. Don’t have any sort of discussion with bystanders or witnesses. Don’t ask if they saw the whole thing, if they will tell the police what happened or anything else. Everything that happens after the bullet left the gun is now evidence.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When the Police Arrive, Don’t Answer Questions Without Your Attorney Present</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They will start asking you a battery of questions including how many times you fired, what the other person was doing to provoke your reaction and if you are licensed to carry a concealed weapon. Don’t consent to a search (they’re going to do it anyway), and if you’re with family members, tell them not to answer any questions until they too have spoken with an attorney. Cooperate with the police to the barest minimum — but respectfully. Tell them you need to speak to your lawyer before you make any statements. (Never, ever say, “I think I need to talk to my lawyer.” This will allow them to continue questioning you.) If an ambulance hasn’t arrived, ask for one for yourself as well as the perpetrator.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the police inform you that you’re under arrest, politely but unequivocally decline to answer any questions without your lawyer present. You need to give your attorney and yourself time to react to the situation. Going to the hospital and being checked for shock, injury and any other possible reaction will help you clear your head and prepare for the days to come. If the police decide to lock you up, which is a probability, be mentally prepared to stay there until you’ve had a bail hearing. Don’t talk to any inmates if you can possibly avoid it; they would sell you into slavery to reduce their sentence.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Contact Your Lawyer When You’re Alone</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You don’t need anyone overhearing you tell your lawyer you killed a lowlife and need representation. This is a conversation that should take place face to face without any observers. Before your meeting and at your earliest convenience, write down everything you remember.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prepare a Statement of What Occurred as Soon as Possible</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Write down every detail you can remember on paper. What words were spoken? What actions caused you to draw and shoot? How long was the confrontation? How many witnesses were there? Where were you coming from and where were you going? What were you wearing? When did you and the perpetrator draw your weapons?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">All of this information is going to be pulled from other witnesses, so you need to have your story straight and logically formatted. If there is a trial, you might need to testify, so your attorney will rehearse with you multiple times to avoid an ambush.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Morning After</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Killing someone in self-defense makes a great news piece. As they say in the press, “If it bleeds, it leads.” If you’re allowed to go home, you might wake up to find camera crews on your lawn, photographers looking through your windows and other gawkers wondering what happened. This is when rumors begin and the full-bore investigation gets started. Have someone in your family call the police and tell them that there are news crews trespassing on your property. If they’re on the sidewalk or the street, leave them alone.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Never speak to the media or have any family members speak to them. Even if they are in your face when you leave your house, do not answer anything no matter how much they provoke you. George Zimmerman gave an interview with Sean Hannity, and the special prosecutor used it as evidence against him.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Meet With Your Lawyer the Day After</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Prepare to tell your story in painful detail. Leave out nothing. Your lawyer is sworn to secrecy, and she can’t protect you without knowing absolutely everything that happened. Your lawyer will call the police and ask for any information related to the incident, including witness statements, ballistics testing and whether there is an assistant district attorney now assigned to the investigation. Additionally, your lawyer will contact the police and ask if charges are going to be issued against you, whether a grand jury will be convened and if a list of witnesses is available. Realistically, none of this will be given out until actual charges are initiated, but proactive legal work might help avoid a trial.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Work with your attorney to find out anything and everything about the perpetrator. She will ask for discovery if you’re charged, and it will all come out, but a running start might help reinforce the reality that you were assaulted by a repeat offender.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay Out of Sight</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This might sound difficult, but it is not impossible, and time is your friend here. I would recommend avoiding anyone for two weeks if possible. You want this to become old news replaced by the latest incident in order to prevent continued front-page coverage. Don’t talk to the media, police or anyone other than your lawyer about what happened.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Check All of Your Weapons for Proper Storage</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the police decide to obtain a search warrant and look through your home for evidence, the last thing they need to see is a gun sitting on the kitchen table without a trigger lock on it. Get on the Internet and double check what the legal requirements are for proper storage of a firearm in your state. You don’t want a prosecutor who is unable to prove a case to use your carelessness as evidence of reckless endangerment.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Two Days After</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Within 48 hours of the shooting, the police will have finished with the crime scene, and evidence will be collected. Toxicology reports will be started on the corpse of your attacker. If you were arrested, bail will likely be arranged by this time. If you haven’t been charged, you’ll be at home staring at the walls wondering what to do next. The police are investigating, your lawyer is probably speaking to contacts to see if you’re going to be charged or indicted and you feel as if your life is in the hands of people who don’t understand that only one person was going to walk away from the worst night of your life. Thank God it was you.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your next move is to begin your own investigation. Any questions, requests for information, freedom of information requests, etc., cannot be seen emanating from you. Have a trusted friend, spouse or relative begin to build a case against the perpetrator. Go online and do a criminal check on him. The Internet has a host of sites where you can find criminal records. Start to put together a matrix based on your search of Facebook or any other social media site of this person’s friends and contacts. Did they post a picture of themselves on Facebook pointing a gun? Are people they associate with on the web as well?</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Remember, if the district attorney is going to prosecute you, they will be doing the same to you. This effort will save you the money you would have to pay your attorney or a private investigator to research. Even if you’re charged and found innocent at trial, legal bills will grow very quickly. You can never tell what your attorney might miss, so protect your own interests. Send out freedom of information requests for lab results, the 911 message, police tapes, etc. You might not be a lawyer, but this is all information that will be critical to your defense should you need one. Share the information with your lawyer as soon as you receive it. Your goal is to get this done as soon as possible in order to begin a strong argument against indictment. Once again, don’t tell your story to anyone but your lawyer or your spouse. Neither can be forced to testify against you, but anyone else is fair game.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Stay calm, stay focused and gradually ease back into your daily routine. 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outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><abbr class="date time published updated" title="2016-03-24T11:26:29+0000" style="border: 0px; cursor: help; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">March 24, 2016</abbr> | <span class="small" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">by</span> <span class="author vcard" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="fn" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.usacarry.com/author/michael-jenkins/" title="Posts by Michael Jenkins" rel="author" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold;">Michael Jenkins</a></span></span></span></div><section class="entry" style="line-height: 1.5em;"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-10243 lazyloaded" src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts.jpg" data-lazy-src="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts.jpg" alt="Terrorism and Concealed Carry: Some Thoughts" width="1200" height="900" srcset="http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts-300x225.jpg 300x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts-768x576.jpg 768x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts-1024x768.jpg 1024x, http://a.usacarry.co/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts.jpg 1200x" sizes="(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px" style="margin: 0px; padding: 3px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); outline: 0px; vertical-align: bottom; height: auto;"></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I woke up yesterday morning to the news: Terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium have left dozens dead and scores more injured. I’ve watched the story evolve since it happened; it seems that the Islamic State/Daesh has taken credit. These are the latest in a string of suicide bombings, mass shootings, and other forms of ideologically motivated violence across Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. At home in the US, <a href="http://www.usacarry.com/mass-shooting-san-bernardino-multiple-causalities-reported/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;">the San Bernardino attackers</a> were inspired by IS, with a similar attack thwarted in Milwaukee by other sympathizers.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The goal of terrorism, in part, is to create a feeling of helplessness and vulnerability. If an attack can happen anywhere, anytime–the Metro station bombed in Brussels was blocks away from the European Commission’s headquarters–then none of us are truly safe. That’s the theory, anyway.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And it’s nonsense. Don’t get me wrong: the danger is there, and it’s real. These jerks strike without warning, often using methods that are difficult to counter–one cannot reason with a suicide bomber. However, there are steps we can take to keep ourselves safe and be proactive in dealing with these lunatics.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By the numbers:</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><font color="#454545"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.usacarry.com/situational-awareness/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Practice situational awareness</strong></a>, everywhere, all the time.</span></font></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Educate yourself on what to look for: the signs of a concealed weapon, a hidden explosive device, or other indicators that something might be about to go down.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Keep your CCW on you and ready to go.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Hone your shooting skills every chance you get, and drill the tactics you’ll need to survive and armed encounter. I hold that the CCW community can be an effective deterrent to many attacks, especially mass shootings. Let’s make sure we’ve got what it takes.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the wake of an attack, immediate care for the wounded is vital.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learn first aid, and go a step beyond by learning the basics of trauma care. After the bombings in Boston, a lot of lives were saved by the quick intervention of folks with the right training and gear. Be ready to be that kind of hero.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Learn when to shelter in place, when to bug out, and make sure you’re prepared for both contingencies.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In Belgium as I write this, an entire nation has been told to stay home. Most public institutions are closed, and I have to imagine that transportation is a nightmare. A resident of Brussels who I interviewed online described the situation as “chaotic” nationwide . At times like this, help might take a long time to get to you. It might not show up at all. You’ll need to be able to care for you and yours.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your mind is your greatest weapon, so use it.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The causes of this conflict are complex, with roots in the First World War. There are a lot of players involved, and their motivations are complicated. It’s a bit of work, but it gives you an edge.</span></p><h2 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We the people are powerful, and we have what it takes to stand up to this nonsense.</span></h2><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We can’t give in to fear or paranoia. We can’t turn on each other when we need to be united against our foes. And we can’t give up.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">As a final thought, I encourage you to remember that while these events are sickening to us, they’re a fact of day to day life in many places around the world. Spare a thought for all afflicted, and please stay safe out there.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.usacarry.com/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">http://www.usacarry.com/terrorism-concealed-carry-thoughts/</a></p></section>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-29961064170277950922016-09-22T10:02:00.001-07:002016-09-22T10:02:25.641-07:00Handling police and armed citizen encounters<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Handling Police and Armed Citizen Encounters</span></h1><div class="leading-image" style="max-width: 100%; margin-bottom: 0.25em;"><img src="cid:A5F9FA76-7D5C-4391-984B-CEAE0DCAA741@mobilenotes.apple.com"></div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><fb:like send="false" layout="button_count" width="75" show_faces="false" colorscheme="light" action="like" style="max-width: 100%;"></fb:like><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span class="converted-anchor" style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="max-width: 100%;">in</span><span class="auxiliary float left" style="margin-bottom: 0.25em; max-width: 100%; display: block; clear: both; line-height: 1.4em; float: left; margin-right: 20px; width: 59.578125px;"><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-margin-start: 0px; margin: 0px; width: 0px;"></span><span style="max-width: 100%; -webkit-margin-start: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; margin-bottom: 0.5em;">Share</span></span></span></span></span></span> <a href="mailto:?subject=Check%20this%20out&body=Check%20out%20this%20site:%20https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/handling-police-and-armed-citizen-encounters/." title="Share by Email" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;"><img src="safari-reader://www.usconcealedcarry.com/images/mail.png" width="auto" height="20px" valign="top" class="reader-image-tiny" style="margin: 0px; display: inline; height: auto;"></a><span style="max-width: 100%;"></span></span><span style="max-width: 100%;"><span data-pin-log="button_pinit_bookmarklet" data-pin-href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/create/button/" style="max-width: 100%;"></span></span></span><div class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some states require CCW holders to notify police they are armed on contact with them. Many more states do not have such a requirement, but is it a good idea anyway?</span></p></div><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It’s great to live in a country free enough to allow law-abiding citizens to carry concealed pistols for personal protection.</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I’ve lived in places, both here and abroad, that don’t do that, and I can tell you from personal experience that what we have for concealed carry is better! However, there are times when being legally armed can raise some interesting questions, such as when we interact with police.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many people go a lifetime in the United States and never do more than encounter police, literally, in passing. For many more, their only encounter with police is a traffic stop or accident, with or without a ticket. While we all worry about being victims of crime, it is still relatively rare, statistically speaking, for the average law-abiding citizen to be a crime victim and encounter police in an investigatory capacity. Since CCW holders are among the most law-abiding of citizens, the most likely police interaction for them is the traffic stop.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Some states require CCW holders to notify police they are armed on contact with them. Many more states do not have such a requirement, but is it a good idea anyway? The answer may vary depending on whom you ask, but regardless of what state I’m in I err on the side of caution and tell law enforcement officers (LEOs) that I am carrying. My reason is simple: I have yet to meet the cop who likes surprises. I prefer to tell them I’m carrying, rather than have them find out on their own.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thinking back to my own time in blue, I encountered people who had CCWs and I appreciated their telling me they were armed. I did not appreciate the few times I had to find out about it on my own! Besides, most cops don’t know who we are when they encounter us in their official capacity as guardians of public order and safety. Anything I can do to demonstrate good faith is good for both me and the officer.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%; font-style: italic;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cops are like us; they want to go home after work with their moving parts intact and no extra holes in them.</span></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Consider the respective roles in interactions between police and armed civilians. That of the police is to enforce<strong style="max-width: 100%;"> </strong>the law and maintain order among a citizenry that has a range of legal rights and privileges that police are obliged to respect and protect in the course of their duties. At the same time, police must protect their own safety and that of the public. For their part, legally-armed citizens are entitled to exercise their Second Amendment rights, and are also obliged to exercise those rights responsibly. The cop knows himself to be a good guy, but he does not necessarily know that those he encounters in the course of his duties are good guys.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Add a gun to the equation, and the cop’s danger radar goes to instant high alert. Police are bound by their duty to the public, and their duty to their own survival, to take precautions when encountering people with guns. All this taken together makes sensible courtesy and sober caution the order of the day when we find ourselves armed in the presence of police. It also means we should give some leeway to police when we encounter them while we are armed.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Depending on their agency’s policies, police may have less operational discretion in encounters with armed people than I did when I enforced the law. They also often operate in an environment that is more forgiving when officers use deadly force against what they reasonably perceive to be threats from armed citizens, even when those perceptions later turn out to be wrong (such as the Amadou Diallo incident in New York City, where Diallo was shot 41 times by NYC Police after they mistook his wallet for a weapon).</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This means if police know you have a gun, and think you are a threat to them or others, you are more likely to be shot. We can argue all day about whether this is good or bad, but I submit it is a fact of life, and that both sides of the badge will be better off if the armed citizen errs on the side of caution and behaves prudently, politely, and respectfully when encountering police while armed.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cops are like us; they want to go home after work with their moving parts intact and no extra holes in them. Cops also deal with the full spectrum of humanity for a living, often in adversarial and hazardous circumstances. While most of that humanity is honest and law-abiding, and the vast majority of police-citizen interactions benign, a small minority is sufficiently dangerous to have feloniously killed an average of 62 police officers nation-wide annually in the 14 years between 1996 and 2009, and to have injured on average 56,405 police officers in those same years (according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports). There’s a reason most cops, especially the good ones, are suspicious. They must bring that suspicion to bear in every interaction they have, and they must be especially careful when guns other than their own are present.</span></p><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Handling police and armed citizen encounters</span></h3><div class="large-element" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; width: 330px;"><img src="cid:73AECE37-D64F-4369-A416-459857D940D8@mobilenotes.apple.com"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Just because YOU know you’re the good guy doesn’t mean the cops do.</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Every situation is different, but here’s what I do: First, I lower my tinted windows, and if it’s a night-time traffic stop, I turn on my interior lights. I tell any passengers to let me do the talking, to keep quiet, and to keep their hands in plain sight. My hands stay in full view on the steering wheel, and I make no sudden moves. I present my driver license and CCW to the officer when he approaches me. With my hands in plain sight, I tell the officer, calmly and politely, that I have a CCW, that I am carrying and where the pistol is, and I ask what they want me to do.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The last time I did this, the Nevada State Trooper returned my CCW saying he didn’t need it, and then went back to his car to write me a speeding ticket. He brought the ticket back to me, asked me to sign it, returned my driver license, and we both went on our way. He said not a word about my gun. Alternatively, you can take Massad Ayoobs’s advice of handing over your CCW with your driver license and let the officer take it from there, and answer any subsequent questions politely and honestly.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If it’s a non-traffic interaction, I politely and calmly tell the officer at the first opportunity that I have a CCW, that I have it on me and where on my body I have the pistol, and ask what he wants me to do. If the situation permits, I provide my driver license and CCW, as in a traffic stop. In any event, I answer questions politely and honestly; I do what the officer says, slowly and carefully; and I keep my hands in plain sight, without making any sudden moves.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Your experience may vary by jurisdiction and their policies (both written and unwritten) about citizens with guns, and by the attitudes of individual officers. Some LEOs may take possession of the gun until the contact is over, returning it at the end of the encounter. Some officers may prone you out, handcuffed, until the end of the contact or until they are satisfied you are not a threat. Some may react like the Nevada State Trooper I encountered, while still others may want to talk about guns and carry gear. The one constant is that both parties are armed, and like it or not, police will likely view you with suspicion and caution until they are satisfied that you are not a threat or that the threat is neutralized.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%; font-style: italic;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you have used a gun in a defensive situation and police are arriving, make sure the gun is not in your hands.</span></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I recall a traffic stop I made one summer night. I approached the vehicle cautiously, flashlight in my weak hand and my strong hand on the butt of my pistol, checking the car’s interior as I approached, and keeping my light on the driver’s hands while asking for his license and registration. My light followed his hands as he opened his glove box to retrieve his registration, and the light caught the butt of a pistol.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I shouted for him to “Freeze!!” while my service revolver came out of its holster and went up against his ear. I ordered him to slowly grasp the butt with thumb and forefinger and to very slowly bring it out of the glove box and give it to me ever so carefully! It was a tear-gas pistol. We had an interesting discussion about cops getting jumpy when they see guns, especially at night during a traffic stop. I also suggested he might consider alerting officers to its presence to keep from having revolvers stuck in his ear–or worse!</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Police-citizen interactions are not a good time to debate the legal merits of concealed carry and police attitudes thereto. We armed citizens know we are good guys, but the cops don’t know that. Granted, some cops can be heavy-handed, even badge-heavy, but in my experience, many, if not most, are pro-gun and pro-concealed carry, and will be as nice to you as you and the situation will let them be. Still, some cops don’t like armed citizens, and some can misunderstand and misinterpret (or even ignore) laws regarding concealed carry.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Having been on both sides of the badge, my advice is to be polite, be cooperative, obey the officer’s order, and don’t argue with them. Even if you are in the right and the officer is in the wrong, arguing can be interpreted as being hostile and uncooperative at best, and as resisting police at worst. If you think the situation was handled wrongly, get the officer’s name and take it up with police management after the fact.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you have used a gun in a defensive situation and police are arriving, make sure the gun is not in your hands. If you must stay pointed-in to maintain control of the bad guy(s), be still and obey police commands to drop the weapon. Don’t argue, just drop it immediately.</span></p><div class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><img src="cid:E68C4037-22CA-4479-8372-5AA05328D78D@mobilenotes.apple.com"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Five Stay-Alive Tips</span></p></div><h3 class="clear" style="max-width: 100%; clear: both;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The good guy syndrome</span></h3><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cops see themselves as the good guys. They are sworn to protect, serve and arrest; they are trained and experienced; they have uniforms, badges, and guns. A legal presumption of good intent and proper action cloaks much of what they officially do. As legally-armed citizens, we know we are certified good guys, too, because we went through training and at least two criminal background checks to get our guns and carry permits. We can unconsciously bring that “good-guy” attitude into our interactions with police. I think we need to be careful with that. The following story will illustrate why.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In the summer of 2010, Eric Scott went shopping with his fiancée at the Costco in the Summerlin area of Las Vegas. He had a CCW and was armed while shopping in the store. Costco has a corporate no-guns policy, although this Costco was not posted to that effect. During the course of his shopping, an employee noticed he had a weapon.</span></p><blockquote style="margin-left: 2px; margin-right: 6px; padding-left: 16px; border-left-width: 3px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0980392); max-width: 100%; font-style: italic;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Interacting with police while armed doesn’t need to cost you your life.</span></p></blockquote><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The employee alerted store management, who called police to report a man with a gun. Three officers responded and ordered the store evacuated so they could wait outside the store entrance for the man with the gun to come out. A store employee waited with them to point out the man in question. When Scott and his fiancée left the store, police ordered him to freeze.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Details about what happened next are murky, even after a lengthy and thorough police investigation. It does not help that the several store surveillance cameras were not working that day. Witnesses reported seeing and hearing different things. At least one witness reported hearing Scott say, “I am disarming.” Seeing him move his hands and thinking he was reaching for a gun, the three officers shot him dead. A coroner’s inquest found the shooting justified.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I live in the Summerlin area, and regularly shop at that Costco (it is still not posted for guns). I wasn’t there, but based on the press reports, I surmise Eric Scott fell tragic prey to the good-guy syndrome, in that he knew he was a good guy, and unconsciously assumed police would understand that he was acting safely and responsibly to defuse the situation by peacefully disarming. Instead, it cost him his life.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Interacting with police while armed doesn’t need to cost you your life. Keep your hands off your gun, be polite, keep your wits about you, use common sense, give police some leeway, and it should be a non-event for you and them.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/handling-police-and-armed-citizen-encounters/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">https://www.usconcealedcarry.com/handling-police-and-armed-citizen-encounters/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-84720082752070838042016-09-21T05:02:00.001-07:002016-09-21T05:02:46.907-07:00Illinois Concealed Carry Weapons (CCW) License Class<div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">$250 - Illinois Concealed Carry Weapon (CCW/CCL) License Training Class</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">VETERANS / MILITARY QUALIFY FOR THE (8 HOUR) CLASS - $100</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Get your Illinois Conceal Carry License... 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However, it should not be a surprise to anyone that violent crime occurs more often in urban environments than in suburban or rural communities. A person venturing into a well-populated city for business or recreation would be well advised to conduct some pre-trip planning to ensure a safe stay. Accordingly, persons who are concerned about big city crime may wish to legally carry their firearms for personal protection during their visit. Appropriate arrangements should be made to ensure a hassle-free and safe experience.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Statutorily Defined Firearm Concerns</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first consideration for carrying a firearm in the city is to ensure you are aware of any local ordinances regarding firearms. In some states, such as Michigan, firearm laws are "pre-empted" at the state level. As such, firearm laws are uniform and the same all across the state. However, in other states, such as North Carolina, gun laws may vary depending on what county you are visiting. Furthermore, different cities within a county may have varying laws at the city level. Failing to know the laws of the city you are visiting is not a legally valid excuse of running afoul of them.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You should be aware of the statutorily defined "gun-free zones" in the city you are visiting. In addition, you should also research all of the businesses on your itinerary to see if they have any company-specified bans on carrying firearms for visitors. If your plans involve traveling to and entering these areas, you must decide upfront what you are going to do with your gun. You may elect to leave your firearm in your vehicle, if local law allows you to do so, but please be mindful that criminals frequently prowl parking lots of "gun-free zones" looking to steal firearms from unattended vehicles. Thus, if you must leave your gun in your car, it would be wise to secure it in a car safe.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the risk of having your firearm stolen from your vehicle is too great for comfort, you may want to have it secured in a safe in your hotel room or in a safe at the hotel's front desk. Do not just leave your firearm unattended in a hotel room, despite how well you think you can hide it. If there are no safes available at the hotel or you can't securely store your gun in your vehicle, you're best bet may be to leave it at home.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soft Personal Protection Tips</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A great way for visitors to stay safe in urban environments is to always be aware of their surroundings. Large cities offer many visual distractions that can prevent visitors from identifying potential threats. As such, activities performed in public—such as talking on a cell phone, taking tourist photos and reading maps—can signal that a person is "safe" to victimize. A defensive firearm has no practical benefit if the carrier is not paying attention to his environment.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A predator prefers an unaware target because the victim won't see the attack coming, which ensures the bad guy's safety. As such, visitors should always be aware of the people around them and what activities they are performing. The tasks strangers are conducting should be congruent to that specific environment. Strangers should not be allowed to violate a visitor's personal space. Crime is a personal affair—it requires the assailant to be physically close to the target. Any variety of ruses can be employed to close that gap, such as requests for assistance, submission of personal questions or attempts to return something you allegedly dropped. Never allow a stranger to encroach and violate your personal space.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Furthermore, a visitor can also enhance his personal safety by confidently and briskly traveling to his destination with a full head of steam. The visitor knows exactly where he is headed, because he did his research online and mapped out his route ahead of time. Accordingly, he can't be easily taken off course by any ruses and doesn't have to depend upon the kindness of strangers to help him make it to his destination. More importantly, he does not appear to be a hapless tourist by any attending predators. The best form of protection is avoidance facilitated by prior preparation.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bottom Line: Knowing The Law and Having A Plan</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carrying a defensive firearm for personal protection in an urban environment requires more preparation and active attentiveness than doing so in suburban and rural communities because the risks of being a crime victim are higher. There are more criminals present in the city who are enabled by an even higher number of visual distractions. As a consequence, the defensive-gun carrier should engage in pre-trip planning to ensure a smooth and safe visit to the city. Requisite tasks include conducting firearm-law research and planning an itinerary with travel directions. Moreover, once the visitor has arrived in the city, it is imperative for him to be actively aware of his surroundings and to jealously guard his personal space.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2014/8/18/carrying-a-defensive-handgun-in-urban-environments/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">http://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2014/8/18/carrying-a-defensive-handgun-in-urban-environments/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-3801082463959200472016-09-17T21:15:00.001-07:002016-09-17T21:15:06.699-07:00Everyday Carry Essentials...<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Everyday Carry Essentials</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">People choose to carry concealed weapons for various reasons, but one common thread is that these people want to be prepared to handle an emergency situation, and protect themselves and others. A firearm is a great tool for this in certain circumstances, but it is not the only tool a person may need. We can’t fix every problem with a handgun, but by choosing our everyday carry items carefully, we can become better prepared to handle a multitude of problems that life may throw at us.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It should come as no surprise that I am going to suggest a reliable handgun be part of your everyday carry gear. Find a quality holster that is made for your handgun of choice that retains the handgun securely and keeps the trigger covered. A spare source of ammunition should be carried as well. A quality magazine or speed loader holder will keep your ammunition in a consistent location for ease when reloading. If you are required to have a permit to carry a concealed firearm, get one and carry that also.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carrying The Load</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt.jpg" alt="Ares Gear Enhanced Aegis Belt." width="661" height="496" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt-300x225.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt-200x150.jpg 200x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt-311x233.jpg 311x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt-136x102.jpg 136x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/Ares-Gear-Aegis-Belt.jpg 661x" sizes="(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ares Gear Enhanced Aegis Belt.</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let’s discuss some other items that will help us be self-sufficient when things go wrong. I have found that a component of a concealed carry firearm system that is sometimes not given enough consideration is the belt. The width of the belt should match the width of any mounting slots on your holster, and the belt should be firm enough to prevent the weight of the firearm from pulling the grip away from the body. This will keep the firearm from moving on the belt and rubbing against the user. An uncomfortable holster will lead to the user reaching down and adjusting it regularly. This indicator can communicate to others that you have a concealed firearm. My current belt is the <a href="http://www.aresgear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=455" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Ares Gear Enhanced Aegis Belt</a>. The belt consists of same 1½-inch proprietary scuba webbing, but it doesn’t look out of place with jeans, tactical pants or a suit. This solid platform will help carry some of the other gear we will be discussing.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">First Aid Fixes</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit.jpg" alt="Dark Angel Medical Pocket Kit" width="661" height="496" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit-300x225.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit-200x150.jpg 200x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit-311x233.jpg 311x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit-136x102.jpg 136x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/dark-angel-medical-pocket-kit.jpg 661x" sizes="(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dark Angel Medical Pocket Kit</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The importance of having some type of emergency medical kit on your person cannot be under estimated. As a firearms trainer for law enforcement and responsible citizens, I have run across a few people who have had to use a firearm to protect themselves or others. However, I have run across far more people who have encountered some type of traumatic event traveling on the road, at a child’s sporting event or even around their own home. My current daily carry kit is the <a href="http://www.shop.darkangelmedical.com/Pocket-Kit-Civ-LE-Black-Sleeve-01-0017.htm" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Dark Angel Medical Pocket Kit</a>. It mounts directly on your belt or can be carried in a pocket. It is purpose built to have the supplies you need to survive a traumatic injury without the extra stuff that you don’t need. “Simplicity under stress” is the Dark Angel Medical motto.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Communication Is Key</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6.jpg" alt="iPhone 6" width="661" height="496" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6-300x225.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6-200x150.jpg 200x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6-311x233.jpg 311x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6-136x102.jpg 136x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/iphone-6.jpg 661x" sizes="(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">iPhone 6</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Most everyone carries a cellular phone these days. Keep yours on your person, and as highly charged as possible. If you have to draw your firearm to protect yourself, whether you have to fire or not, one of the first things you should do is report that you are the victim of a crime. If you draw your firearm and the bad guy flees the scene, he may decide to call and report to the police that you are the criminal. Additionally, the phone can be used to summon medical aid and can help law enforcement with navigation in some circumstances if needed.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Maintain Your Edge</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350.jpg" alt="Zero Tolerance 0350 folding knife." width="661" height="496" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350-300x225.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350-200x150.jpg 200x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350-311x233.jpg 311x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350-136x102.jpg 136x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/ZT-0350.jpg 661x" sizes="(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zero Tolerance 0350 folding knife.</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A knife is the most basic of tools and one that we should have on our person any time it is legal to do so. Besides the obvious application of being a weapon capable of inflicting deadly force that never runs out of ammunition, a good blade can handle a multitude of mundane tasks like opening boxes, cutting para cord or even removing a splinter. For my preferences, <a href="http://zt.kaiusaltd.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Zero Tolerance</a> is the right brand for me. This company makes quality knives that are not the cheapest on the market, but they also do not come with a price tag that encourages you to keep it in a collector’s case. My daily carry is a <a href="http://zt.kaiusaltd.com/knives/knife/zt0350" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Zero Tolerance 0350</a> with a partiallyw serrated blade. The knife comes with a clip that can be configured to be carried tip up or tip down on either side of the blade. This is a great feature if you want to carry the knife to be accessed with your support hand for weapon retention purposes.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Lighting The Way</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/surefire-eb1-backup.jpg" alt="SureFire EB1 Backup, SureFire" width="700" height="500" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/surefire-eb1-backup-300x214.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/surefire-eb1-backup-661x472.jpg 661x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/surefire-eb1-backup.jpg 700x" sizes="(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SureFire EB1 Backup</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you are interested in self-protection, a quality flashlight should be part of your daily carry gear. You may need it to identify a threat or evacuate a building. A flashlight can also make a great improvised weapon in areas where firearms are not allowed, such as when you are flying commercial airlines. My daily carry flashlight is a <a href="http://www.surefire.com/eb1-backup.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">SureFire EB1 Backup</a>. At under 4.5 inches in length, this LED light can produce 200 lumens if I need a lot of light to reach out and light-up someone, or 5 lumens of light if I just need to navigate through my living room during a power outage. To further increase this light’s utility, I added a <a href="http://thyrm.com/product/switchback-backup/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Thyrm SwitchBack Backup</a> to my light. The SwitchBack is a ring that mounts on the rear of some models of flashlights that allows the user to hold a firearm in a standard two-hand grip while being able to control the function of the flashlight. For those users who prefer crenellated bezels on their lights, check out the new <a href="http://www.surefire.com/e1d-led-defender.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">SureFire E1D LED</a> Defender flashlight.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tactical Travel</strong></p><div style="max-width: 100%;"><img src="http://files.harrispublications.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs.jpg" alt="First Spear Comm Packs." width="661" height="496" srcset="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs-300x225.jpg 300x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs-200x150.jpg 200x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs-311x233.jpg 311x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs-136x102.jpg 136x, http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2014/10/First-Spear-Comm-Packs.jpg 661x" sizes="(max-width: 661px) 100vw, 661px" scale="0" class="extendsBeyondTextColumn" style="max-width: none; margin: 0.5em auto 0.5em -16px; height: auto; width: 320px;"><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FirstSpear Comm Packs.</span></p></div><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sometimes I am forced to dress in a manner that makes it difficult to conceal all the gear I want to have available to me. For those times I have set up an “everyday carry pack” in order to have the additional gear I desire close by. The company <a href="http://www.511tactical.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">5.11 Tactical</a> makes a couple of packs ideally suited to this purpose. The <a href="http://www.511tactical.com/rush-12-backpack.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">Rush 12 Backpack</a> is large enough to carry what you need to get to work and back, but not so large that you end up carrying more than you need. If you want a pack that looks less tactical, try the <a href="http://www.511tactical.com/covrt-18-backpack.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">5.11 Tactical Covrt 18</a>. This pack is slightly larger but made to not appear to be tactical at all, with a total lack of visible MOLLE straps or Velcro fields.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Another example of a pack that is designed to blend into an urban environment is the <a href="http://www.first-spear.com/product.php?productid=17529" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">FirstSpear Comm Pack</a>. This pack’s urban appearance helps to prevent others from guessing that you are a concealed carry holder. Anytime I can’t carry the above listed items on my person, I make sure I have them in my “everyday carry pack.” Other items I include in my pack are the cables I need to charge my phone, as well as a portable charger to recharge my phone when power is not available. I always have a water bottle on board and a pouch with more medical gear, including routine things like prescription and non-prescription medications, spare contact lenses, a multi-tool and other small gear.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Concealed carry holders like to be prepared. With a little planning your everyday carry gear can help you be prepared for all of what life can throw at you.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For More Information</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">5.11 Tactical<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:866-451-1726" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">866-451-1726</a>; <a href="http://www.511tactical.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.511tactical.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Ares Gear<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:518-966-2737" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">518-966-2737</a>; <a href="http://www.aresgear.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.aresgear.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dark Angel Medical<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:720-836-7150" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">720-836-7150</a>; <a href="http://www.darkangelmedical.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.darkangelmedical.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">DeSantis Holsters<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:631-841-6300" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">631-841-6300</a>; <a href="http://www.desantisholster.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.desantisholster.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">FirstSpear<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:636-349-4820" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">636-349-4820</a>; <a href="http://www.first-spear.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.first-spear.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SureFire<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:800-828-8809" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">800-828-8809</a>; <a href="http://www.surefire.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.surefire.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Thyrm<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:408-444-5734" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">408-444-5734</a>; <a href="http://www.thyrm.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://www.thyrm.com</a></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Zero Tolerance<br style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="tel:800-325-2891" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">800-325-2891</a>; <a href="http://zt.kaiusaltd.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; max-width: 100%;">http://zt.kaiusaltd.com</a></span></p><div><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2014/10/everyday-carry-essentials-emergency-situations/#everyday-carry-1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="16">http://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2014/10/everyday-carry-essentials-emergency-situations/#everyday-carry-1</a></div>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-30010989266033654892016-09-13T06:39:00.001-07:002016-09-13T06:39:54.939-07:00Carrying A Defensive Handgun In Urban Environments...<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1.4em; -webkit-hyphens: manual; margin-bottom: 1em; max-width: 100%;"><span style="font-size: 17px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carrying A Defensive Handgun In Urban Environments</span></h1><p style="max-width: 100%; font-style: italic;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="max-width: 100%;">by Rick Ector - </span><span style="max-width: 100%;">Monday, August 18, 2014</span></span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A violent crime can occur anywhere at any given moment. However, it should not be a surprise to anyone that violent crime occurs more often in urban environments than in suburban or rural communities. A person venturing into a well-populated city for business or recreation would be well advised to conduct some pre-trip planning to ensure a safe stay. Accordingly, persons who are concerned about big city crime may wish to legally carry their firearms for personal protection during their visit. Appropriate arrangements should be made to ensure a hassle-free and safe experience.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Statutorily Defined Firearm Concerns</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The first consideration for carrying a firearm in the city is to ensure you are aware of any local ordinances regarding firearms. In some states, such as Michigan, firearm laws are "pre-empted" at the state level. As such, firearm laws are uniform and the same all across the state. However, in other states, such as North Carolina, gun laws may vary depending on what county you are visiting. Furthermore, different cities within a county may have varying laws at the city level. Failing to know the laws of the city you are visiting is not a legally valid excuse of running afoul of them.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">You should be aware of the statutorily defined "gun-free zones" in the city you are visiting. In addition, you should also research all of the businesses on your itinerary to see if they have any company-specified bans on carrying firearms for visitors. If your plans involve traveling to and entering these areas, you must decide upfront what you are going to do with your gun. You may elect to leave your firearm in your vehicle, if local law allows you to do so, but please be mindful that criminals frequently prowl parking lots of "gun-free zones" looking to steal firearms from unattended vehicles. Thus, if you must leave your gun in your car, it would be wise to secure it in a car safe.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If the risk of having your firearm stolen from your vehicle is too great for comfort, you may want to have it secured in a safe in your hotel room or in a safe at the hotel's front desk. Do not just leave your firearm unattended in a hotel room, despite how well you think you can hide it. If there are no safes available at the hotel or you can't securely store your gun in your vehicle, you're best bet may be to leave it at home.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Soft Personal Protection Tips</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A great way for visitors to stay safe in urban environments is to always be aware of their surroundings. Large cities offer many visual distractions that can prevent visitors from identifying potential threats. As such, activities performed in public—such as talking on a cell phone, taking tourist photos and reading maps—can signal that a person is "safe" to victimize. A defensive firearm has no practical benefit if the carrier is not paying attention to his environment.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A predator prefers an unaware target because the victim won't see the attack coming, which ensures the bad guy's safety. As such, visitors should always be aware of the people around them and what activities they are performing. The tasks strangers are conducting should be congruent to that specific environment. Strangers should not be allowed to violate a visitor's personal space. Crime is a personal affair—it requires the assailant to be physically close to the target. Any variety of ruses can be employed to close that gap, such as requests for assistance, submission of personal questions or attempts to return something you allegedly dropped. Never allow a stranger to encroach and violate your personal space.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Furthermore, a visitor can also enhance his personal safety by confidently and briskly traveling to his destination with a full head of steam. The visitor knows exactly where he is headed, because he did his research online and mapped out his route ahead of time. Accordingly, he can't be easily taken off course by any ruses and doesn't have to depend upon the kindness of strangers to help him make it to his destination. More importantly, he does not appear to be a hapless tourist by any attending predators. The best form of protection is avoidance facilitated by prior preparation.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Bottom Line: Knowing The Law and Having A Plan</strong></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carrying a defensive firearm for personal protection in an urban environment requires more preparation and active attentiveness than doing so in suburban and rural communities because the risks of being a crime victim are higher. There are more criminals present in the city who are enabled by an even higher number of visual distractions. As a consequence, the defensive-gun carrier should engage in pre-trip planning to ensure a smooth and safe visit to the city. Requisite tasks include conducting firearm-law research and planning an itinerary with travel directions. Moreover, once the visitor has arrived in the city, it is imperative for him to be actively aware of his surroundings and to jealously guard his personal space.</span></p><p style="max-width: 100%;"><a dir="ltr" href="http://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2014/8/18/carrying-a-defensive-handgun-in-urban-environments/" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="link" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">http://www.shootingillustrated.com/articles/2014/8/18/carrying-a-defensive-handgun-in-urban-environments/</a></p>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7731313497288064238.post-65658561818010990612016-09-11T18:58:00.001-07:002016-09-11T18:58:42.796-07:00$125 - Utah, Arizona & Florida CCW Class - for Illinois residents<h2 style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; position: relative; line-height: normal; padding: 0px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 17px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">$125 - Utah, Florida & Arizona CCW License Class - for Illinois residents</span></h2><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5426563195839092210" itemprop="articleBody" style="width: 298px; position: relative; line-height: 1.3; border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-5426563195839092210" itemprop="articleBody" style="width: 298px; position: relative; line-height: 1.3;"><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-2454793846614073865" itemprop="articleBody" style="width: 298px; position: relative; line-height: 1.3;"><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-6335436966998354312" itemprop="articleBody" style="width: 298px; position: relative; line-height: 1.3;"><div style="border-top-style: none; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Get three (3) non-resident Utah, Florida & Arizona CCW permits / licenses - together legally and safely conceal carry handgun(s) in over 34 States. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Location: Knights of Columbus - Elmhurst, Illinois </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Date: October 22nd (8-Noon)</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Cost: $125.00</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><font color="#000000"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a dir="ltr" href="tel:331-642-8110" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="telephone" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0">331-642-8110</a> / www.IllinoisCC.com<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7uCS0Yl8yydy5-Ls6L06lxTcGoHG-9QsTvPGciR5XW809xcrkg7rQXTsLXQhkw_FrzxqGj_gZGYr-lon6oWsKGVSYXH5bE9DaQkmsBRLD2RJv724bfn-HjWM6mB4HIQlB7O-pEL38d0/s640/blogger-image-227428648.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh7uCS0Yl8yydy5-Ls6L06lxTcGoHG-9QsTvPGciR5XW809xcrkg7rQXTsLXQhkw_FrzxqGj_gZGYr-lon6oWsKGVSYXH5bE9DaQkmsBRLD2RJv724bfn-HjWM6mB4HIQlB7O-pEL38d0/s640/blogger-image-227428648.jpg" style="max-width: 100%; border: 1px solid transparent; position: relative; padding: 8px; -webkit-box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.2) 0px 0px 0px; border-top-left-radius: 0px; border-top-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-right-radius: 0px; border-bottom-left-radius: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;"></a></span></font></div></div></div></div></div>Illinois Concealed Carryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03924618000630361899noreply@blogger.com0