Can The Stupid And Dangerous Training End?

By Tom Knighton

If there’s anything the firearm community needs less of, besides gun grabbing busybodies looking to take away our rights, it’s probably idiotic training. Last week, I shared some pretty awful training with you, training that’s outright dangerous in my not-so-humble opinion. It seems that that one was part of a trend. I picked this one up from Everyday No Days Off:

This real life bRaH.% @officialhardcore Gat tip:@ryanwiklund

A post shared by ENDO (@everydaynodaysoff) on Dec 3, 2017 at 1:28pm PST

Wow.

Now, Endo notes that at least this time these might be blanks, and based on how the weapon keeps failing to cycle, I’m inclined to agree, but so what?

Seriously, this is stupid, and while blanks might be safer, they’re still not particularly safe. Especially at that close of a range.

Folks, I get wanting realistic training. I’m a big believer in “train like you fight” as well, and yes, when you fight you’ll probably have plenty of gunshots going off other than when you pull the trigger.

Again, so what?

Training with a firearm is a dangerous enough activity as it is. Just one person on the range having a …Read the Rest

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