Modern Self Protection Podcast

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Some are talking about starting a shooting war to preserve our rights.  It’s really not a good idea.  If there is anything else we can do, we should.

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“The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try and take it.” – Thomas Jefferson (maybe)

The fight for gun rights

Ballet box seem stupid

Presidential Race: One side was anti-gun, the other side is anti-gun

Parties: One really anti-gun, other doesn’t seem to care because they won’t take action

Picking up a rifle right now is a death sentence

Don’t want a war and here’s why

War is horrible

Starvation

Infrastructure totally destroyed

Economy Gone

American’s Know Violence

People coming back from over a decade of war

Only 3% fought the first revolution

No Glory in War

More death then most people can image

The Civil War people wanted to watch

Every war can be more bloody then the last

How many people will die

It could get really bad in all out war when families are brought in and the gloves are off

Small unit wars with no oversight will get bloodier

Could very well turn into Genocide on a Biblical level

What you can do

Go vote

Talk to each other not past each other

Buy stuff

Relationships

Go Shoot

 

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Ben

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Defending yourself during Halloween.  It’s a great holiday, but takes some special consideration to.  Listen to some ideas about going to parties, having a party, and going trick or treating.

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Parties

Designated Driver

Safety Supervisor

Plan to get there and get back

Plan A DD and safety person

Paln B Uber or other ride share program

Drinks

Hold your own/pour your own

Hand over the top

If you leave it someplace, get another one

Drinking

Plan how much to drink

If you choose to drink, leave your gun

If you have your gun, don’t drink

If you have kids have a plan for it

Costumes

Girls: Something a little less risqué maybe

Guys, no real weapons

Something you can be comfortable in

Something you can walk in

Map Study

Drive by

Know your exits

Do a walk through

Stay on outside of large crowds

Cops get there

Probably time to go

You are not the spokesman unless it’s at your house

Party at your house

Inspect prop weapons

Zip tie them in holsters or clear. No live ammo

If you have drinking, have them leave real weapons in the car

California police killed someone with a prop gun in 2000

Have an ending time

Lockup thing that shouldn’t be seen

Pickup stuff you don’t want to disappear or get broken

Remember people always bring a plus 1 that you don’t know

Trick or Treating

Most probable problem; getting hit by a car

Lights everywhere

You carry a light, right?

You have glow sticks/chem lights on your kids

Lights on you and everyone

Brief your kids before you leave on expectations

Know the area (map study)

Phone Charged

Pick a neighborhood

Don’t go in houses

Don’t let people in your house

Self Defense weapons

Gun – Bigger gun, longer distances, bigger clothes

Bags

Knives

Pepper Spray

Use of Force

Bag Snatchers

Kidnapping

Drive by shootings

Real

Paintball

Pellet Guns

Personal Attacks

Awareness

Keep personal space

Hands up in large crowds

Watch people and ask why are they there?

Don’t be afraid to leave

Make space is okay

Stay away from large crowds of teenagers especially males

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Beth from Pretty Loaded.org is on today with me.  She is a wife and mother that has had a couple bad things happen to her in life and wants to make sure those same things don’t happen to others.  She is dedicated to learning and teaching the awareness part of self defense and I have her on to talk all about it.

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PrettyLoaded.org

Average Police response time across the country 15-20 min: you are on your own until then

Jeff Cooper’s Color Codes

Book: Left of Bang by Jason Riley and Shawn Coyne

Attracting Assault: Victim’s Nonverbal Cues by Betty Grayson and Morris I. Stein (The Grayson and Stein Study)

On Picking a Target

Slow walkers where part of the selection process: Walk Faster!

Ted Bundy was afraid of Strong Eye Contact

Body Language

Long Stares

Gavin de Becker book, The Gift of Fear

Universal Stop Sigh

What point does the attack begin

Can they get close enough to you

Quick Tips

Questions: Don’t answer them

Use your intuition

When people get scared, they are still more afraid to hurt someone’s feeling: If you are afraid of someone, now is not the time to be nice

Look at the contrasting Options: The good vs bad guy and what they can or might do to you

Take up hand-to-hand self defense

Krav Maga

Target Focus Training

Why some people don’t fight back

Teach your children

MRI on violent criminals and what’s missing

Solution to crime and violence: Get everyone to learn to protect themselves

How to Practice Awareness

Notice Everyone

What they are looking at

Look for exits

What they are wearing

Look for things and people that don’t belong

Real World Survival Book by Wault Rauch

How to get women involved

66% of women will be assaulted in the life

Basic Tips

What to do

What not to do

No one will help you or can

Basic skill to protect

Owes it to their family to keep themselves safe

Beth’s Video Training

Go get it, I did

 

 

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Today:  Three Terrorist attacks rocked America this last weekend.  Two different bombings and a knife attack but no one died.  This podcast I go through what we know about the three attacks and how you can avoid it, or keep yourself safe if you are stuck at the location during a similar attack.

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Bombings

Time line of events (from USA Today)

Pipe Bomb in New Jersey Saturday Morning

Trashcan bomb in New York City Saturday Night

Pressure cooker bomb found blocks from trashcan bomb and disarmed

Sunday AM Pipe bombs found in a backpack near train station in NJ. Robot accidentally detonated one

Sunday Night 5 people detained in a car stop linked to bombings

Monday 11am Guy FBI wanted was captured after a gun battle

What Can You Do to Stay Safe?

Avoid large crowded areas

New York City seems to be a focus

Know your neighbors

Ask Questions

Call Authorities

Look for weird stuff

Leaving bags

Throwing away bags

Wires hanging out

Wrong Clothing

Males aged 20-35 alone

Someone following a military aged male

Carrying heavy bags when they shouldn’t be

Bomb Makers

Static free shoes

Special locked area

Don’t want to be seen by police

Won’t talk to you

Looks like a lot of electrical equipment with no reason

Missing Fingers

Weird chemicals with electrical stuff

Short term rentals/leases of places

Working in a storage unit

Multiple cell phones hanging around

Testing Bomb Materials

Fuses

Electrical Impulses

Blasting Caps

And Actual Explosives

Discover a Device

Put as much stuff between you and the bomb as possible

Evacuate the area

Don’t cause alarm until you and loved ones are a safe distance from the device

Someone could be watching and waiting blow the device

Don’t use cell phones or electronic devices around the device

Shoot the trigger man, but there might be another even with a suicide bomber

Call for help once safe

Write down details, as much as you remember that you saw

Or give every detail you can to the 911 operator, they are recording

Knife Attack

The Act

Minnesota Mall (on com)

Asked people if they where muslim

Wearing a security uniform

What you can do

Watch out for anyone that looks out of place

Stay away from large crowds

Go armed

Create space

Knife attackers need to touch you

Put something between you and them to create time and space

Anyone that is asking your religion and Islam/Muslim is the answer you don’t want to be around

Which Attack is Easier to Defend?

Gun and knife attacks are easier for civilians to defend

Fight them like any other self defense situation

Bomb attacks are easier for authorities

Material tracking

Multiple people come in contact pre-incident

Time to construct

Moving device

Planting Device

Escaping after leaving the device

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Detained by a Security Guard, you didn’t do anything wrong, but what should you do? What can you do? What if you are carrying a weapon? Done right, it’s an inconvenience, done really badly and it could get you killed.  Most of us don’t think about it because we don’t break the law.  With a little thought and planning your experience will just be mildly annoying.

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Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealed Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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Avoidance if possible

What to Do

Stay Calm (always)

Work on de-escalating the situation

Showing some Respect goes a long way

What could go wrong

You could be killed!

Vegas Story

Who’s the Victim

The Store? The Security Guard, You?

Who Looks like the victim?

Who looks like the good guy?

What if you are armed?

Don’t tell them if at all possible (unless local law requires it)

Probably don’t want to give them your weapon if they find out

What if someone tries to hurt you

Hands on is okay, as long as they don’t try to hurt your

Control Techniques

Example:

Don’t Stop/Look back, just keep going

Don’t make them touch you to stop

Obey Commands if you can’t just leave

If they touch you, let them guide you… Not hurt you

Once they touch you, call 911

Ask for help from people around you: Yell for help

Then Don’t be an Ass

Talk in the open, get a police officer there

When you have to, let the police officer know you are armed by showing you ID and CHL

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Gun Reviews: The Smith & Wesson Shield, Remington’s Latest R51, and Lone Wolf Distributors’ Timberwolf Compact Frame.  I talk for about 15 minutes about each’s good parts, fit feel, and what they would be best used for.  Not technically data, but actually information you could use to see if one of these guns is right for you to use in your self defense.

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Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealed Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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Review of the Smith & Wesson Shield 9mm

Safety Solutions Academy Plan B, the reason I can actually use one of these guns now

Clinger Holster to carry the gun in

Blade Tech Magazine Pouch

Difference in thinking when carrying a single stack gun vs a double stack gun

Review of the Remington R51

Was going to buy and then didn’t

Weird Grip Safety

Crappy Trigger

Unusual slide operation that let the gun lock half way open a bunch

Crappier reset on the trigger (even worst then firing the gun)

I’m not sure they really fixed the thing

Holsters Mentioned

Concealment Solutions

On Your 6 Designs

Review of the Lone Wolf Distributors Timberwolf Compact Frame

Doesn’t switch straight over from a Glock Gen 3 like I’d believed. You have to read the fine print on their sight

Love the grip angle

Love the beaver tail on the gun 1911 style

Like the fit and finish

Don’t like the finger grooves (wish they had gotten rid of those all together)

Don’t like the undercut on the trigger guard. I still get Glock knuckle with the thing

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: I talk with Rob Morse of the Self Defensive Gun Stories Podcast about rifles and tactics. Rob has had more firearms training then most and has an interesting view of a lot of the gun world since he isn’t from law enforcement or military, but an engineer.

Announcements

Aug 14-15, 2016 Beyond Concealed Carry and Critical Trauma Care in Centerton, AR

Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealad Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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The Appleseed Project

Rifles Rob is getting

AK

Folding Stock

Dot Sights

Military Sling

Using a Loop Sling

Rifles Vs Handguns for Self Defense

Training Courses

The Terrorist Threats we are now facing

Importance of Medical Care

AR

Standard Battle Rifle

Hard Sights

Simple Military Sling

Ranges and Politics

Texas Firearms Festival (Oct 14-16)

Full Auto and Suppressed Guns just for fun

EMTs and Critical Trauma Care

Likelihood of using your medical skills vs lethal skills

Just keep going, Self Defense Mind Set

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Today I talk with Paul Carlson with the Safety Solutions Academy about the gear he carries and why.  We also talk about self defense tactics just because we like talking about self defense tactics.

Announcements

Aug 14-15, 2016 Beyond Concealed Carry and Critical Trauma Care in Centerton, AR

Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealad Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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Interview with Paul Carlson

He explains the gear he carries and why

We go off on other self defense topics

 

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: The Army Modular Pistol Program comes and goes.  Seems like it’s coming again. Hopefully they will find a new firearm.  The M9 has been in service close to 30 years.  Maybe it’s time. Will they choose another pistol? If they do, which one will it be? Here are my thoughts on the subject.

Announcements

June 25-26 Beyond Concealed Carry Enhanced in Anchorage, AK

Aug 14-15, 2016 Beyond Concealed Carry and Critical Trauma Care in Centerton, AR

Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealad Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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Podcast Outline:

Firearms Industry Update

Does the military need a new handgun?

Will they replace it?

Modular Pistol Program

What’s modular about it?

Army could use a new gun

Military Modularity sucks

Most end users won’t see the extra gear (SL3)

Hand size, just make it the small one

Caliber Change seems dumb, forget it for the military

Caliber Thoughts

9mm

Nope and/or Maybe

Stopping Power

Weight for Shipping

If hollow points it changes the equation

.40 S&W

Nope

Recoil

Ammo Capacity

FMJ unproven or used anywhere

Shipping weight

.45 ACP

Probably/Maybe

Availability

Ammo Capacity

Shipping Weight

7 FN

Body Armor

Shipping Weight

Capacity

Lethality

Guns

Smith & Wesson M&P 45

Thumb Safety

Reliability

Capacity

Take Down

Glock

Not for Military

Takedown

No Manual Safety

Sig 320

Not proven

Not many people have a warm and fuzzy

Modularity

Sig Double-Actions

No one excited about them anymore

Why the Legion Series came out

Tac Ops are cool

No Manual Safety

Already in the military pipeline

CZ P-09

Weird that it’s in there

Nice Gun

Not quite what the 75 is

Weird safety/de-cock option

Maybe the Phantom but…

Beretta APX

Other Beretta Guns

What the heck is that

No Record or anything

Never survive military without iteration and military doesn’t like the Beretta anymore

XD

Croatia?

Not going to do it

Too many different types

Too complicated a system inside

Ruger

New American Pistol

SR series has a safety and slim

Like modularity with nothing to lose

Ruger never seems to want military or law enforcement contracts

Walther

Not bad but expensive compared to others

HK

Enough problems with German contracts right now

Nice choice in 45 hammer fired with decocker

Expensive

Canik TP9

Cheap

Glock like take down problem

See if it survives

1911s Again

Not enough training to know how to use or correctly use

Maintenance issues

Parts interchangeability

FN 5.7

Good choice if survives

Round

Capacity

Simple safety system

Big Grip

Light weight

FNX or S

X is a much better gun

The .45 is huge but cool

Capacity

Safety

Take Down

Little Pricey

Side Note:

Go Vote

Tell your Senate idiot what you want them to vote

If they vote a different way then you want, vote them out!

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Click Here Get Notes by EmailToday: Just a quick update on the Firearms Industry after working a weekend at the gun show.

Announcements

June 25-26 Beyond Concealed Carry Enhanced in Anchorage, AK

Aug 14-15, 2016 Beyond Concealed Carry and Critical Trauma Care in Centerton, AR

Sep 17, 2017 Beyond Concealad Carry Advanced in San Antonio, TX

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Podcast Outline:

This Weekend’s Gun Show

Sold more AR Rifles then normal

Sold the cheaper ones not the expensive ones

Two at a time more than usual

Sold a couple AR Stripped lowers at a time

Other Vendors pushed prices up on AR Stuff

We held steady and didn’t do any deals on rifles

Slow Show; not a lot of people and not a big line

Normal foot traffic

Online

Rifle Ammo Steel up a little, brass ammo the same

Pistol Ammo Steel the same, brass ammo up some

AR Lowers hard to find

Cheap AR Rifles hard to find

Politics

Seems gun control measures won’t pass

Everyone trying to use this

Chris Cox from NRA-ILA had a good interview

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