Written by: Greg Ellifritz Things aren’t getting any better. Ammunition is still almost impossible to find unless you shoot shotguns or use an oddball caliber with no demand. A couple weeks ago, I told you all about GunBot. It’s a real-time search engine of major online ammunition retailers. Many of my readers […]
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The Top 10 CCW Guns?
Written by Greg Ellifritz When the start of an article reads “What are the best guns for concealed carry?”, I usually cringe and run away. Most articles of this type are horrible. Many are written by people who have likely never fired the guns they are recommending. Others are written by professional “firearms journalists” […]
Where Has All the Ammo Gone?
Written by Greg Ellifritz If you have tried to purchase ammunition in the last couple months, you are aware of the problem…there isn’t any available. None…at least in the common calibers. No one can ever remember this happening. Things were bad in 2008, but they didn’t come close to being as bad as […]
The Rangemaster Polite Society Tactical Conference
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Last weekend I attended my first Rangemaster Tactical Conference. I was very impressed. It was a three-day conference and pistol match located at the excellent Rangemaster training facility in Memphis, Tennessee. Host Tom Givens sent out his summary of the event: Annual Tactical Conference Report The […]
Bombs Used by the “Batman” Active Shooter
Written by Greg Ellifritz In yesterday’s article I wrote about terrorist plans to combine bombing with active shooter teams in order to more effectively target Western tourists in Indonesia. More specifically, I wrote about terrorist plans to detonate a bomb at the local police station to serve as a distraction before they shot up […]
The Taft Union School Shooting- Lessons for School Staff and Parents
Written by Greg Ellifritz Last Thursday morning (January 10), a 16-year old student entered Taft Union High School in Taft, California and opened fire with a shotgun. You may not have even heard the story since only three people were injured before the student gave up his gun. If you aren’t familiar with the […]
2012 Training Year in Review
By Greg Ellifritz Ever since I started training people in the fighting arts for a living, I have kept very meticulous records. Not only is it important for potential future legal action, it’s a great marker for tracking progress and improvement. Each year at this time, I do a review of what I […]
Tasers For Teachers?
Written by Greg Ellifritz The recent Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting has provoked a national discussion about the best ways to keep our children safe. Everyone has their own ideas about what needs to be done. The approaches range from an outright firearms ban to better mental health screening in schools. Others […]
Step By Step Survival- Installment One
Written by Greg Ellifritz I’ve been talking to a lot of people lately who have expressed the desire to be more prepared. They all talk about being “ready” or “prepared for an emergency”. Some even use the term “survival”…although all are quick to distance themselves from those lunatic “survivalists”. The people I talk to […]
A Parent’s Guide to School Shootings
I walked into the high school wearing two guns and a bullet resistant vest. I had a rifle, six spare magazines, and a ballistic helmet stashed close by in my car. It was Wednesday, April 21st 1999, the day after what had been the worst school shooting in United States history. Two high school […]
New “Rapid Mass Murder” Research from Ron Borsch
Written by Greg Ellifritz Cleveland-area police trainer Ron Borsch has been a friend of mine for many years. Ron has studied the “active killer” phenomena in greater depth than anyone I know. He recently published his latest statistical analysis of such events. Ron prefers the more descriptive term of “Rapid Mass Murder” over the […]
The 2011 LEOKA Report- Studying the Cop Killers
Written by: Greg Ellifritz The FBI recently released its annual Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted report. According to the FBI webpage: “The FBI publishes Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted each year to provide information about officers who were killed, feloniously or accidentally, and those officers who were assaulted while performing […]
Active Shooters and Media Bias
In the past couple weeks there have been numerous media reports about “active shooter” events all around the country. Almost any time multiple victims are shot, it seems that the media is quick to report that it was an “active shooter”. We’ve certainly had a couple of legitimate active shooters in the last month, […]
Active Killer Response- The Sikh Temple Incident
I’ve been reading all the information available about the mass shooting at the Sikh Temple in Wisconsin last week. It’s another tragedy that shares some of the same characteristics as other active killer events that seem to be happening on a more regular basis of late. Most of the advice I have already written […]
Active Shooter in a Movie Theater
Written by: Greg Ellifritz Because I was out of the country when this event occurred, I am a little late in providing my advice and analysis. I’ve written quite a number of articles describing how active shooters think and what potential victims should be doing. I won’t rehash all of that information here. I’ll […]
Paul Gomez 1971-2012
Written by Greg Ellifritz Last night I learned that my friend and fellow firearms instructor, Paul Gomez, had passed away suddenly at the young age of 40. I first met Paul in June of 2003. He and Andy Stanford traveled to Ohio to take TDI’s Level 4-5 Handgun Class. I just happened to […]
The FNS-9 Striker Fired Pistol-Initial Impressions and Problems Discovered
Last weekend I was teaching a class at TDI and I noticed that John Benner (TDI’s Owner) was packing a new gun. It was FN’s new S-Model Striker Fired pistol. John has carried a gun professionally longer than I’ve been alive, so when he gives something his endorsement, I pay attention. John purchased several […]
The New Kel Tec KSG Shotgun- STAY AWAY!
Last month I got a chance to put some rounds through the new Kel Tec KSG pump shotgun. It’s been all the rage on the firearms websites ever since Kel Tec notified folks of their intention to put it on the market more than a year ago. The buzz is well deserved. The gun […]
NOTES FROM THE 2012 ILEETA INTERNATIONAL TRAINING SEMINAR
ILEETA is the largest worldwide organization of police instructors. The acronym stands for International Law Enforcement Educators and Trainers Association. Every year this organization hosts the premier conference for in-service education for police instructors. Sometimes it’s tough for instructors to take classes because they are always teaching. This conference provides LE instructors […]
9 Lessons Learned from the Oikos College Shooting
On April 2nd, 2012, a 43 year old man named One L. Goh opened fire in a classroom at Oikos University. Mr. Goh was a former student of the college in California. His rampage resulted in seven people killed and three more wounded. Six of the seven victims killed were women. Most had been shot […]