Seatbelts, Vehicles and Firearms: Firearms Training Beyond the Norm
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For some of that training, Jacob and co-host Riley Bowman have created a DVD and digital video lessons on vehicle self-defense. Vehicle Firearm Tactics covers approximately two hours of discussions, investigations and demonstrations concerning firearms-related defense in, around and even into a vehicle. The eye-opening information presents both important questions and possible answers for how to carry and draw your firearm, how to guard against an attack and how to pick the best course of action depending on where you are, where the attacker is and whether or not loved ones — or others — are involved.
Don’t Limit Your Own Firearms Training
Being in or around a vehicle during an attack may be a position that is stressful and frightening. And no matter how long we spend driving, it’s likely that most of us have not had the chance to do this kind of training on the range… and may not have the opportunity. Whatever the case, Jacob and Riley have created an excellent collection of tips, strategies and techniques that could potentially save lives.
An Alternative for Accessing Your Firearm
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Vehicle Firearm Tactics delivers a solid and clear demonstration of tactics that you can never have considered before (such as”punching” out a hole in the windshield first and then shooting following shots throughout the spot to receive effective hits on the threat). Jacob and Riley also play out some MythBusters-type experiments to see how the windshield glass affects trajectory. And they experiment with whether full metal jacket bullets or hollow-points perform differently through the glass or through the vehicle body. I also appreciated that beneficial priorities are presented by the course. These priorities mirror our USCCA instructions shield, escape and to avoid. However, Riley and Jacob also transpose these three theories of being in a vehicle, to the conditions. So you are able to remember the options and methods for using the vehicle to create an escape, using the automobile as a weapon, bailing out of the automobile to get away or to defend yourself, or fighting from within the car.
I had the opportunity to spend some time speaking with Jacob Paulson, the founder and president of ConcealedCarry.com, on The Concealed Carry Podcast a few weeks ago. We were talking about proper procedures and strategies for off-body carry. From that, an interesting topic came up about effective ways for concealed carriers to get out of a seatbelt in order to have more effective use of both arms and hands in a self-defense event.
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Instead of going across the belt to release it (like most of the populace probably does nearly all the time), Jacob said that he was practicing going under the belt. In this manner, his left arm would not get caught up or up. Not only does that allow for more freedom of movement and movement, which is great, it’s also fantastic if there were ever a need to access your firearm for self-defense.
The somewhat arbitrary seatbelt topic definitely got me thinking about how much time I spend in my 4Runner — running errands, chauffeuring children, forcing to speaking events or training activities, or just sitting in traffic. According to research from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, over the course of a year, Americans collectively spend 70 billion hours behind the wheel and drive an average of 11,498 miles (the equivalent of making 2 roundtrip drives from San Francisco to Washington, D.C.). I might not be in my car quite that much, but the seatbelt conundrum remains something I need to consider, try and practice. But that’s the interesting thing about firearms training: The scope is very, very wide! And firearms training shouldn’t just be restricted to a traditional square range with plain, paper targets. It’s important that we have the correct mindset, and it’s very beneficial to prepare mentally by thinking through possible scenarios and results. But if we can physically train more realistically — with motion and even with vehicles — we might be able to better prepare ourselves for the chance encounters that might happen throughout our everyday lives.