Firearms Mutilation
| May 2019 | Real Hero Report
We are not dying because we don’t draw fast enough, reload
fast enough, or pull the trigger quickly enough. We are dying
because we fail to recognize active threats soon enough. Solid
Malfunctions, slow performance, peculiar and unnatural
but only increases the risk associated with such changes. I have
personally not found it necessary to “race-up” a duty pistol in
order to develop speed or handling skills. Speed and effective
handling are developed through persistent study and practice to
only matters if we recognize potential deadly threats. If we can’t
determine if another person is a critical threat, then the fanciest
pistol ever created isn’t going to help us.
us can with a tricked-out whiz-bang. Don’t believe it? History is
as intended from the factory. Examples? You bet! Search Youtube
for Jerry Miculek, and read about legends Ed McGivern, Rex
Applegate, Dick Fairburn and Border Patrol Agent Bill Jordan.
paved with good intentions, but victory rests on honest training.
As a law enforcement deadly force instructor, others are
feathers? Maybe. Will they thank you? Probably not. But you’ll
sleep better at night knowing that you’ve promoted solid training
depend on themselves to win, instead of side-stepping the sweat it
takes to be good.
place among us, but being in a duty holster is not one of them.
We’ve all seen it. We’ve all done it. The excuse is
usually some dribbling about “pistol craft,” “winning
already guess, it’s the last one that is probably the most honest
excuse. We all want to be faster than the guy standing next to
our standing among others so strong that equipment alteration is
required? For decades, armorer’s have seen lightened triggers,
new-fangled sights, peculiar mag releases, oversized magazine
holster safeguards, and other assumed short-cuts to victory. Does
you okay with allowing a Franken-gun among the ranks? These
surgical experiments are often the tell-tale difference between
winning a life or death gun battle is determination, practice and
a shade-tree equipment mechanic.
Some instructors are willing to accept the kind of changes made
Turning a blind-eye to the guy who hangs a Pocket Fisherman
from his handgun may make you the biggest target in the
shootings.
in his personal safe zone, giving him a false sense of security
misses a trigger reset point, the magazine well adapter falls off,
the retention holster is actually snapped closed, or the non-factory
Letting them continue results in a false sense of the ability to
gun. Not being prepared may result in his murder, or that of other
issued equipment and/or alterations to deadly force tools without
the written permission of the Chief or Sheriff? Really? Even the
agency attorneys will let you drift into the murky waters. In other
words, you’ll be on your own.