Rangemaster’s Feb. 2011 newsletter is up for your enjoyment.

There are a lot of good articles in this one, especially the in-depth article about gun fit and ensuring you pick a gun that fits your hand best. The notion of “finger bicep” is a good one… read the article to know what that refers to.

I wanted to reprint one article from the newsletter:

 

On Christmas Eve in Memphis, a man whose initials were CB (name withheld for family’s sake) brought a semiautomatic pistol to the kitchen table. Apparently intending to clean it, he ejected the cartridge from the chamber, then removed the magazine, and put the gun on the

table. His wife, who was also in the kitchen, told him to put the gun away. In the process of picking it up, he swept his wife with the muzzle, which prompted a sharp response from her.

He protested that he had just unloaded the gun and it was therefore harmless. He said to his wife, “If it was dangerous, would I do this?” He then put the gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. Of course, since he unloaded it incorrectly, it discharged, killing him on the spot. His funeral was Monday, Dec 27 in Halls, Tn.

I would be willing to bet a week’s pay that CB had never had any formal training with handguns, but “grew up around guns”. Here at the school we hear that constantly from ignorant people who don’t know how much they don’t know. If you have friends and relatives who own handguns and have “been around guns all their lives” urge, cajole, and berate them into getting some formal handgun training. This type of incident is entirely preventable.