Recent content by mbok

Lots of wind here, less substance. This happened about two miles from my house. The guy was still an active shooter posing an immediate threat, loaded firearm in hand after having shot three people. The two interveners were both well trained (one military, the other security) and both gave...

Both citizens were outside and retrieved their weapons from their vehicles. They confronted the shooter independently at about the same time and at least one of them repeatedly ordered him to disarm and surrender, which was refused. The shooter was very clearly still a serious threat and the...

Do not mess with us Okies . . .

An excellent account. It is significant that the author was apparently not a staff writer for the newspaper but a freelancer. As a longtime daily newspaper reporter who specialized in crime coverage, I have known for some time that news organizations no longer cover law enforcement by embedding...

In my career I saw many gunshot victims and was present twice when police officers shot and killed suspects. Some basic truths I absorbed: -- In almost all shooting situations you will be confronted with e threat RIGHT NOW and will react instinctively, which likely means non-aimed point...

How different would this story be if one of those CCW holders had been able to intervene and shoot the shooter, preventing those fatalities or maybe more?

One of my very favorite stories from my career covering crime as a young newspaper reporter was from a motorcycle police officer who stopped a guy one day and had the guy take off on foot. The chase went through several yards with the officer shouting "stop" and "get on the ground" which...

If you integrate thumbing off the safety with your draw/presentation there is zero delay attributable to that action since the safety will be off before the gun reaches aim point. You simply switch it into fire position as the barrel rises from pointing down at the floor (when drawn from an IWB...

In my crime reporting years I occasionally saw cases where armed robbers blew off various appendages from jamming their handguns down into their waistbands during the crime or in getaway stage. (Always occasion for a good law enforcement laugh I might add.) It was pretty much always an appendix...

During the years I worked around law enforcement revolvers were the rule. A few officers had semis for off duty or backup carry, but the standard duty weapon was still a Model 15 or maybe a 66 for .357. I recall once when a team of Texas Rangers came to OKC working on a murder case and how odd...

Boom The things many people complain about when firing a .357 load in a snubbie -- noise, muzzle flash -- are precisely the things I want to disorient an attacker in a self defense situation. I have never considered any snubbie a range gun. It's a concealable, light close-in defense weapon...

I learned long ago from working around law enforcement that your eyes are probably only second to your firearm as a defensive asset. A hard direct gaze that says "I know who you are and what you are thinking" often sends the only required message to a potential mugger or assailant. Most times...

Most interesting to find a Bryce thread on here. I was a police reporter in OKC throughout the 1970s and knew an older detective sergeant who had joined the department about 1950 and who had a lot or Bryce stories and legends. I'm also friends to this day with Ron Owens who wrote the book ok...

Throughout the 1970s I worked as a newspaper reporter covering crime and spent just about every night on the street, often in less savory areas. This was well before the legal CCW era but police commonly issued what was sometimes called a "wink and nod" permit. I was advised to carry, in one...