Coming up on March 20 is our popular Beyond the Basics course. This course covers material not included in Defensive Pistol Skills 1 or 2. The focus of this course is on improving speed and accuracy on targets in the 5-15 yard zone, and increasing speed on multiple targets. These skills are relevant for personal defense and are of major importance to those shooting IPSC, IDPA and Steel Challenge competition.
Advanced Training 4 (renamed from "Extreme Pistol" to "Pistol Skills Development" but the lesson plan is still the same).
Advanced Training 7 has been scaled back from 5 hours to 3, with a price drop from $100 to $50.
Howard Nemerov and Grace Garne will run a Women on Target event at Tom Schaefer's facility April 24.
Competition Pistol 1 has been added to the May schedule. This course is for people that are interested in getting started in IPSC, IDPA and/or Steel Challenge competition.
Leslie Buck will be offering several courses at his Tactical Arts facility, including Defensive Knife 1 and Weapon Retention, Disarming and Improvised Weapons. The Central Texas Training Group is sponsoring an Immediate Action Medical course taught by Tactical Response in May.
from DPS: TXDPS has been notified by the FBI that all Fingerprint based background checks will be temporarily suspended beginning April 28, 2010 - May 3, 2010. The FBI Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) will be working with the U.S. Census Bureau to process more than 484,000 Fingerprints for Census Bureau workers. Beginning May 4, 2010, TXDPS and the FBI will resume processing applicant fingerprints. It is important to note that the backlog of processing the fingerprint based background checks could take an additional two weeks. All applications will processed as quickly as possible once the FBI service returns to normal.
Several students that attended the snubnose revolver classes with Claude Werner posted after-action reports online:
http://hsoiblog.wordpress.com/2010/03/01/aar-snub-training-with-claude-werner
http://www.texaschlforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32285
We plan to bring Claude back to visit us in early 2011 to offer this training again.
Violent carjacking in South Austin, near I-35 (March 9th, 2010)
Austin police are on the scene of violent car-jacking that now has one person under going life-saving surgery at Brackenridge Hospital. Police say it happened in South Austin near State High 45. Police says that is when another person approached the car and pulled out a gun demanding they give up the car, when the driver refused he was shot several times. Investigators are now at that location piecing together the evidence. Investigators say are looking for two suspects, who ditched the Red Wing delivery van at the scene.
During the snub class Claude told us about an incident in his state (Georgia) in which open carry was credited with stopping a robbery. The details about that incident can be found here
http://texaschl.us/article_kennesaw_2.htm
Open carry in public is not currently legal in Texas.
Howard Nemerov
The Examiner
February 22, 2010
http://tinyurl.com/yf9md6j
Howard Nemerov offers his useful perspective and insights on the Federal law now allowing legal concealed carry, subject to state law, in the National Parks.
Howard Nemerov
Pajamas Media
February 20, 2010
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/national-parks-are-safer-with-right-to-carry-law/
"Thanks to a new federal law beginning February 22, people who can legally carry concealed handguns according to state law can also carry within national parks and forests in that state, too. While this may help protect visitors from the parks' burgeoning crime problem, the story of this law's journey through Congress provides a lesson in campaign contributions and anti-liberty special interests."
David Kopel
The Volokh Conspiracy
January 8, 2010
http://volokh.com/2010/01/08/best-unknown-gun-right-writer-howard-nemerov/
"The Examiner on-line newspapers have provided forum for a bevy of authors who write on Second Amendment and firearms policy issues. There are plenty of good writers among them, but my favorite is Howard Nemerov, who writes for the Austin Examiner. Howard´s columns are often data-rich (such as his latest piece, on the failures of police protection in Chicago). He is no mere commentator, but instead works hard to research the facts and advance the story." Mr. Nemerov's work can be found here: http://www.examiner.com/x-2879-Austin-Gun-Rights-Examiner
An obscure graduate school paper by an Army major that took the service to task over poorly training and equipping Soldiers for the fight in Afghanistan is causing quite a stir amid key service officials.
http://www.military.com/news/article/army-paper-prompts-look-at-combat-gear.html?ESRC=eb.nl&ESRC=army.nl
The original paper can be found here:
http://www.scribd.com/full/27765477?access_key=key-25o3hl0i8xdi4f5zo2tb
regards,
Karl, Penny and the KR Training crew