“Bad Breath Distance Draw” Is A Damn Good Way To Get Killed

By Bob Owens

VSO Gun Channel has some theories about drawing a handgun against an opponent at belly-to-belly distance.

Here are my concerns, based upon training that is very fresh in my mind.

1. Attempting to draw a handgun at this distance and angle is giving the bad guy a more than sporting chance at impeding the draw, stripping the weapon, or establishing control the weapon from the outset.
2. As practiced, he’s dropping both hands to his side to draw the gun. He’s not protecting his head, at all. Any semi-competent bad guy is going to take that opportunity to wind up and take the head off of our hero with a punch when he tries this two-handed draw. An even worse-case scenario is that our hero is going to have these training scars so deeply ingrained that he will still try this two-handed draw, even as the bad guy already has a weapon in hand. You may laugh, but I assure you similar befuddling range-learned behavior in real gunfights is heavily documented. You will fight as you train, warts and all. If that is the case, and the criminal has a handgun, an impact weapon, or a …Read the Rest

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