Recent content by MBOK47

In ten years as a crime reporter I was on-scene soon after about 50 officer involved shootings and also covered perhaps 500 civilian homicides. The 3-3-3 rule is accurate, or at least was in the 1970s when most folks, including law enforcement, carried revolvers. It was very very rare to...

I am quite comfortable with my .357 LCR or Model 69 2 3/4 inch .44, each with five extra rounds in a belt pouch. Having been a party to in some form as a crime reporter perhaps 50 shootings of suspects by police officers, I know that the 2-4 shots average is correct. In fact, you can almost...

When I went to work as a rookie crime reporter in 1969, police weaponry was still all revolvers, and many (I would say at least half) of the detectives wore S&W Chiefs or comparable 2 inch revolvers in cross draw holsters worn around 9 o'clock. The first carry rig I had was the same, and was...

Throughout the 1970s I was a newspaper reporter assigned to the police beat so was present on many occasions when officers drew their weapons, as well as on 11 occasions where they fired, in two cases killing suspects. So I was and remain pretty comfortable with the rules governing self defense...