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READY TO FIGHTViridian’s C5L ❚ KEVIN MICHALOWSKI

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GAME OFINCHESMechanical Offsetand Why It Matters ❚ KAT AINSWORTH

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COUNTER-GUN CONCEPTSA Logical Approach to Gun Disarms ❚ MICHAEL JANICH

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PICK YOUR POSITIONHow You Carry Matters ❚ KAT AINSWORTH

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CONTACT SHOTSFighting at ‘Bad-Breath Range’ ❚ SCOTT W. WAGNER

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STAND BYHow to Stay Un-Shot ❚ ED COMBS

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DRAW SPEED

ECQ

TRAINING

SAFETY

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OWNER-OPERATORGlock’s Two-Day Operator Course ❚ JOEL T. NADLER

A FRESH LOOK ATTHE BASIC RULESOF GUN SAFETYWhich Set Do You Use? ❚ ALAN KORWIN

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PERSONALDISTANCESnub-Nosed Revolvers and ECQ ❚ SCHUYLER P. ROBERTSON

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TICK TOCKTake Advantage of the Time You Have ❚ BOB CAMPBELL

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SECOND HANDCountering Wrist Grabs ❚ MICHAEL JANICH

98 SELF-DEFENSE

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BUCKET LISTYour Training Dream Team ❚ ED COMBS

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LEGALLY ARMED CITIZEN

IT’S JUST THE LAW

ARM’S LENGTHHardware for a Close Call ❚ TAMARA KEEL

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JURY PSYCH‘Regular People’ Know Little About the Law ❚ JOHN CAILE

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06 | PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE08 | EDITOR’S SHOT

10 | ABOUT THE COVER12 | ASK THE USCCA

14 | LETTERS TO THE EDITOR16 | BATTLE BLADES18 | IN THE 10-RING20 | TRUE STORIES

24 | BENCH REPORT28 | DRILL OF THE MONTH

30 | LEGISLATIVE NEWS32 | GEAR WE LOVE

108 | INSTRUCTOR’S CORNER110 | HANDS ON

112 | LIFELINE114 | CLEAR IMPACT

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Ever heard the phrase that “the only guarantee is that there are no guar-antees?” I can think of few things more true when it comes to self-de-

fense.See, we all know that evil exists. What

we don’t know is when or where or how our lives might end up on the line.

That’s why, within the pages of Con-cealed Carry Magazine, you’ll find sto-ries of men and women attacked by peo-ple they knew well and by total strangers. You’ll find stories of people attacked in their homes and in their cars and on the street. You’ll find stories of individuals at-tacked with guns and knives and crow-bars and fists. Unfortunately, there’s no magic formula to predict any of it.

That said, there is, at least in my opin-ion, an important factor at play that helps determine which of these people who fall

under attack will survive such terrible sit-uations: preparedness.

Yep … the men and women who sur-vive — who prevail in — these incidents have something important in common: They all prepared for the worst. They didn’t just go to the range, stand on the firing line and practice shooting at tar-gets 7 yards away. They didn’t just buy guns, strap them on their hips and call it a day. They invested time in practical firearms training.

If you’ve ever seen our Proving Ground video series, you know how diverse sce-nario-based training can be. From a car-jacking to a convenience store robbery to terror at a campsite, we’ve been able to set up some crazy (yet all-too-realistic) scenarios in a variety of settings and us-ing a variety of weapons. The outcomes can be everything from chilling to ex-

citing to reassuring, and the individuals who participate in the training learn a lot about exactly where they stand on the preparedness scale.

Your training needn’t cost you much money. Even if you don’t have access to all the exotic equipment (Stress Vests, Ultimate Training Munitions, etc.) we use in our scenario training, you can still reap big rewards from imagining yourself in similar situations.

As Executive Editor Kevin Michalowski is fond of saying, “The body cannot go where the mind has never been.” I hap-pen to think that’s a pretty fitting way to approach self-defense. And since this is our “Extreme Close Quarters” issue, I suggest you start there.

Don’t let that name fool you though. Even a lethal-force encounter that starts out across a room can turn very quickly. Think of the Tueller Drill, which proves how dangerous an assailant with a knife can be from even 21 feet away. And let’s be honest: Any situation involving self-de-fense will likely be too close for comfort.

Be honest: What would you do if your encounter were to begin in a camper or a car or your workspace? Have you prac-ticed your response? Have you trained in empty-hand techniques in case you don’t have time to get to your gun? Have you thought of the possibility of needing to take a contact shot? Have you thought about potential alternate weapons in the areas you frequent?

Attackers follow no rules, but I can (al-most) guarantee that they won’t expect you to fight back. And that, my friend, is your one true advantage. Follow only one “rule” when it comes to self-defense: Fight like hell. Use whatever you have. And, most importantly, think about all of this now, before you’re caught in a dan-gerous situation without a plan.

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EDITOR’S SHOT KEVIN MICHALOWSKI

Think about a gunfight. Think about every detail. Imagine what you might do. I’ll wait. Did you imagine your stance and sight picture? Or did you

consider that you were using one hand to defend against a violent assault while reaching for your gun with the other hand? Did you think that your first two shots might be fired without anything resembling a sight picture or solid shooting stance?

My guess is that very few people have ever trained for anything that even remote-ly resembles an honest-to-goodness ex-treme-close-quarters gunfight. Even if you shoot IDPA matches, none of the stages include a sudden assault and firing from the retention position while someone is swinging a club at your head.

But that is how many gunfights really happen. The average gunfight lasts three seconds, involves three rounds of ammo

and happens within 3 feet. Remember, the root word in “gunfight” is “fight,” not “gun.” The gun is just an element of the fight, and to be effective, you must train to get your gun out and pointed on target under the extreme stress of a sudden, vio-lent assault. The best option for this type of training is the modern laser firearms train-er — either a SIRT pistol or something like Laser Ammo.

If you are not familiar with the SIRT pis-tol, the acronym stands for “Shot Indicat-ing Resetting Trigger,” and the SIRT, which comes in several models, is built to be the exact size and weight of a real pistol. It even includes a weighted magazine if you want to train for faster reloads. SIRT pistols use a laser to indicate where the “bullet” will strike, and they are great for training on sight picture, sight alignment and trigger control.

The same is true of the SureStrike car-tridges by Laser Ammo (the difference be-ing that Laser Ammo products allow you to use your own firearm for training after you insert the SureStrike cartridge into the chamber). If there is a downside, it is that single-action pistols or pistols without a resetting trigger require that you rack the slide manually between each shot. Luckily, training for ECQB means you can typically get away with “firing” one shot from reten-tion before moving to get away from your attacker.

So, how do we train for a sudden assault like this? First up, make sure there is no live ammo anywhere in the room in which you will be training. Next up, get your SIRT pistol or your Laser Ammo-equipped side-arm ready for use. Stand directly in front of your target and, on the command “FIGHT,” take a step to the right or left, pull the gun straight up out of your holster, rotate the muzzle toward the target and “fire.”

Get your off-hand up by your head to protect yourself from getting hit and to keep that arm out of the way so you don’t shoot yourself. Here is what it looks like on video:

In the video, I used a Glock equipped to fire Ultimate Training Munitions (UTM), but you can learn the skills and see where your shots would impact just as easily with a laser-training system.

Most gunfights happen at very close range and are over very quickly. Don’t train to stand still and hit a target that is 25 yards away and also standing still. Be ready to fight in close, firing very quickly as you move to defend yourself from a sudden assault.

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Any deadly force incident is terrifying, but the fact that the majority of them take place at near-contact distance makes the thought of being forced to defend yourself all the more harrowing. Time is always short, the stakes are always life or death, and the decisions are always gut-wrenching. This is

why it is so important to train not just on the range but also in your mind. How close is too close for a stranger approaching you? How will you react if you find yourself in a situation that is making the hair on the back of your neck stand up but nothing has yet presented itself as a threat? The time to make all of these descisions is now, while you can game out scenarios and augment your behavior, schedule and EDC loadout. If the first time you think about how you’d react to a close-quarters attack is when you realize you’re the victim of one, you’re setting yourself up for disaster.

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Tim, Ed or whoever ends up with this,I appreciate the focus on wheelguns in

the May/June issue of Concealed Carry Magazine. Living in the Upper Peninsu-la of Michigan, it is necessary to adapt to the weather. When wearing boots in the winter, I wear a “T-shirt holster” and carry a Glock 26 in a Galco UDC286 in the T-shirt. After the snow melts, I switch to a titanium J-frame .357 Magnum in an ankle holster.

I am writing to complain that I have never seen an article [that] mentions the problem of shooting .38 Special ammu-nition in a .357 Magnum. After firing a few rounds of .38, the carbon will build up in the chamber, and .357 Magnum cartridges can be extracted [only] with

difficulty. I have a lever-action carbine chambered in .357 that I initially sighted in with .38 and switched to .357 Mag-num for the final zero; when I extracted the first .357 Magnum cartridge, half of the case stayed in the chamber. It was necessary to have a gunsmith remove it.

Keep up the good work,Carr, Michigan

Thank you for the email, Carr.We’ve mentioned the carbon build-up

.38 Special ammunition leaves behind when run through a firearm chambered for .357 in the past, but it may be time to revisit the topic.

While I agree that firing .38 Special in

a firearm chambered for .357 Magnum is not without its complications, I will still stand by my attitude that .38s can be a .357 shooter’s best friend, at least in a re-volver-shooting context. Swapping them back and forth in a long gun (specifically a repeater), well, that’s a different story.

Your experience is unfortunately not unique when firing .38 Special from a carbine that is chambered for the Mag-num load. Since there will be no energy lost at the forcing cone, and since both .38 Special and .357 Magnum ammuni-tion are loaded taking that energy loss into account, the pressures generated in the carbine’s chamber will be great-er than those generated in a revolver’s cylinder. Moreover, a revolver’s star

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extractor has a pretty good hold on the rim of the cartridge case; in a le-ver carbine, the extractor doesn’t have nearly as solid a purchase. This and the increased internal pressures could cer-tainly strain and possibly destroy all but the most robust of brass if extracted af-ter that same carbine’s digested a few dozen rounds of .38 without a thorough scrubbing with a borderline-harsh sol-vent such as Golden Bore’s Foul Free Max Bore & Breech Cleaner.

With the exception of, while in the oc-casional pinch, running .223 Remington through a 5.56-marked AR, I never put any cartridge into any long gun that is not specifically marked for it. My advice for those who want a lever gun cham-

bered in .38 or .357 would be to decide which round you’d like to run through it and stick with it. If that means taking the bitter medicine of only purchasing .357 Magnum ammunition, then so be it. If it means understanding that you’ll glean hundreds of hours of fun from your .38 Special lever gun but that in order to fire .357s again you’ll have to do a de-tail-strip and deep clean, then that’s just what you’re going to have to do.

As for revolvers, my experience is a lot different. I’ve been shooting a Model 19-3 .357 Magnum for almost 20 years now and have fed it what I can only describe as an eclectic diet of everything marked “.38 Special” and “.357 Magnum.” You are 100 percent correct in that you do, in fact, have to clean the carbon from the cylinder of the revolver if you’re going to easily eject .357 Magnum brass, but as a 22-year-old who could barely afford ammo in the first place, I was a lot more willing to put in the sweat equity with an old brass cleaning brush and the dregs of a bottle of Hoppe’s than I am now. These days, I feed that old fellow nothing but .357, as I’ve developed something of a Smith & Wesson Model 10 problem over the last year or so and have no shortage of revolvers in which to burn .38s.

So, in summary, and for all of the read-ers who do not already know what fol-lows as well as you do, Carr, if you shoot .38 Special rounds through a revolver chambered for .357 Magnum, or if you shoot .44 Special rounds through a re-volver chambered for .44 Magnum, you’ll have to clean the chambers a lot more thoroughly than you otherwise would. If you shoot the shorter parent cartridge through a long gun, you’ve just created an even bigger chore for yourself.

Thanks for the email and stay safe,Ed CombsSenior Editor

CLEAN UP, AISLE 5“Shooting shorts” — or firing

the shorter parent cartridge in a firearm designed for the longer, more powerful next-gen round

— can cause varying degrees of complication. Here, you can see the rings of fouling left behind in a .357-chambered revolver

that’s had a box of .38 Special wadcutters run through it.

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was so glad to see an issue devot-ed primarily to the good ol’ revolver (May/June 2019). The semi-automat-ic may be the “in” thing to carry, but

the revolver has so many advantages: point-and-shoot, it can stand some dirt (which [is important] for those of us living and working outside), and low mainte-nance.

Most of us are not out on the shooting range every day or weekend and want something that will be there when [we]need it — without much fuss. The same “us” may not clean our guns as regularly as we should, [but] I find the revolver to be very reliable [even when dirty]. I have two Charter Arms Undercovers — small, light and work every time. (Watch out rat-tlesnakes!)

So thank you for focusing on the re-volver in the May/June issue; it’s a keep-er!

Mimi, New Mexico

FORGET AND FORGIVEMr. Combs, I truly enjoyed your [col-

umn] “Wheel Estate” (Legally Armed Cit-izen, Page 34, May/June 2019) because one of my EDC guns is a Smith & Wes-son 327 PC in .357. I was wondering why you did not mention moon clips in your article. That is what I am currently using, and they seem to work well.

Thanking you in advance for your con-sideration.

John, via email

Thank you for the email, John. I elected to skip over moon clips, an in-

vention as old as the First World War, be-cause most revolvers cannot run them. Those — such as your 327 PC — that

are designed to use moon clips almost invariably ship with them, and carrying a charged moon clip is not all that dissim-ilar to carrying a charged speedloader. In the interest of space, I was forced to leave moon clips for another column.

My apologies and stay safe,Ed CombsSenior Editor

REALITY CHECK?I love your True Stories section in your

magazine, and it always makes me feel good when I hear of people defending themselves against the scum that is ev-erywhere nowadays. I have to ask you though to finish the stor[ies] with what happen[ed] to the citizens [who] legal-ly defend[ed] themselves with a firearm and, in some cases, kill[ed] the per-petrator[s]. I’m sure that they just don’t go along their merry way like nothing ever happened. Gun owners should be aware that even though you are 100 per-cent in the right to defend yourself, you still have to answer to the authorities for your action[s] and may very well end up in front of a judge and behind bars for a while. There are two sides to these sto-ries, and you need to make gun owners aware that using [a] weapon does not come without consequences.

Thank you.Bill, via email

Thank you for the email, Bill.Duncan Mackie collects the informa-

tion for our True Stories department from national news stories. They are often brief accounts of circumstances that, as I’m sure you can imagine, have a lot more going on than can be explained in

a 100-word blurb.As for alerting the reader to the real-

ities of self-defense shootings, that is almost half of what we do here in CCM. In fact, your concerns are the backbone of why the USCCA exists: to help the re-sponsibly armed American who is forced to justly defend himself manage the inev-itable aftermath of a shooting-level crisis.

Thanks again and stay safe,Ed CombsSenior Editor

BOX SOCIALEd Combs discussed ways of carrying

revolver reloads (“Wheel Estate,” Legal-ly Armed Citizen, Page 34, May/June 2019). What do you think of the idea of carrying one or two .38 Special maga-zines designed for the Smith & Wesson M52 .38 Special semi-automatic target pistol or a couple of .357 Magnum mag-azines manufactured for the Coonan 1911 auto-pistol? They could be worn on the belt in conventional magazine hold-ers on the strong side, and [they] would conceal better than speedloaders. Do you think this idea could work?

Frank, Memphis

Well, Frank, I have to say that your idea is one of the many reasons I love working for the USCCA: Our readers and mem-bers are an intelligent, resourceful bunch.

I think your idea is an excellent one if the shooter in question would prefer to carry a reload in the form of a box mag-azine. I believe that five or six rounds could be stripped out of a box mag and into a revolver’s chambers quite easily, and, as you said, carrying such an ar-rangement would be more convenient for some EDC setups than a speedload-er. And who knows … with S&W M52 mags hovering right around $40 apiece and Coonan mags closer to $75, it might even be a wise investment strategy.

Thanks again and stay safe,Ed CombsSenior Editor

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An Indianapolis woman resorted to a pistol when an argument with her boyfriend turned violent. When the boyfriend pointed a pistol at her, the woman drew her own gun and fired on the man. One hit landed and ended the incident. Police are investigating the incident as a self-defense shooting.

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FLORIDA MAN DEFENDS HOME AND MOTHERA Titusville man saw two men — one masked, the other

armed — breaking into the home he shared with his mother. Quickly taking up his own gun, the resident fired on the two home invaders, killing one outright and fatally wounding the second assailant. No one living in the home suffered any in-juries in the attack.

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ARIZONA ARMED GOOD SAMARITAN FOILS KIDNAPPING ATTEMPT OF 11-YEAR-OLD GIRL

An 11-year-old Phoenix girl was walking to school about 7:30 a.m. when a strange man grabbed her, pinned her arm behind her back and put his other arm across her face. See-ing what was happening, a nearby armed citizen approached the man, knocked him down and pointed his pistol at him. The assailant then fled on foot. Phoenix police have undertaken an extensive hunt for the would-be kidnapper.

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FLORIDA FOOD TRUCK CREW DEFENDS AGAINST ARMED ROBBERS

A food truck was parked in northwest Miami one morning when an armed man approached and demanded money of a woman working inside. Hearing the commotion, the truck’s driver approached the robbery scene. While handing money over to the robber, he was able to get to his own pistol and fire, putting the robber to flight. A good Samaritan then tack-led the suspect and held him for police. Meanwhile, two per-sons in a nearby parked car fired on the food truck. The driver returned fire, hitting one of the occupants, who promptly fled the scene. Police later apprehended both suspects. No one in the food truck was injured.

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PENNSYLVANIA JITNEY DRIVER STOPS ARMED ROBBERA 73-year-old Duquesne Jitney driver had picked up two

men for a fare about 4 p.m. when one of the men produced a pistol and struck the driver, demanding money. After the driver stopped the car and both men got out, the driver drew his legally carried pistol and shot the robber, killing him, which put the other passenger to flight. Investigating police stated the driver acted lawfully.

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ARIZONA GRANDMOTHER SHOOTS HOME INVADERA Cordes Lakes grandmother was home with her husband

and three young grandchildren at 7:30 one evening when an unknown male broke into the dwelling. He demanded money, got into a fight with the husband and refused to leave. While the intruder struggled with her husband, the grandmother re-trieved a handgun, confronted the intruder with it and ordered

him to leave. When he advanced on her instead of leaving, the woman fired on him, striking him at least once and caus-ing him to flee. Police found the wounded intruder at a near-by home, where he had collapsed from non-life-threatening injuries.

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PENNSYLVANIA RESIDENT SHOOTS HOME INVADERA York resident was at home one evening when a strang-

er broke in and assaulted him. The resident retrieved a gun and fired, killing the attacker. A joint police-prosecutor inves-tigation cleared the defensive shooter of wrongdoing, calling it self-defense. The 23-year-old attacker died of a gunshot wound to the chest.

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OKLAHOMA WOMAN DEFENDS AGAINST ROADSIDE DOMESTIC ASSAULT

A Tulsa woman and her romantic acquaintance were walk-ing home from a store one afternoon when the man began an argument and attacked her. She fought him off, but he continued the argument. When he attacked her again, she drew a gun and shot him, hitting him at least once and in-flicting a mortal wound. She ran to her nearby apartment and reported the shooting to police. She was then questioned and released, as police are treating the incident as self-defense.

Fox 23 News, Tulsa, Oklahoma

NORTH CAROLINA MOTHER EXCHANGES GUNFIRE WITH HOME INVADER

A Burlington mother of a 10-year-old boy was awakened by sounds of a home break-in around 4 one morning. Taking up a pistol to investigate, the mother encountered an armed man who opened fire on her with his own pistol. The moth-er returned fire, frightening the burglar enough to leave by the same window he had entered. The woman was not hurt in the exchange, nor was the burglar believed to have been wounded.

FoxNews.com

ARIZONA MAN KILLS ONE, SERIOUSLYWOUNDS ANOTHER HOME INVADER

A Phoenix man heard noises of a possible intruder to his home about 1 a.m. When he investigated, he found two men trying to break into his residence. He fired on the duo, killing one and seriously wounding the other.

Fox News 10, Phoenix, Arizona

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