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Close Quarters Battle

Better Technique = Better Performance

Avoiding Mistakes

Accessorizing

Beyond The Stereotypes

The Latest And Best Combat Handguns

Parting Words

CHAPTER ONEThe Defensive Combat Handgun:An Overview

It is an honor to have been asked to write this edition of The Complete Book of Combat Handgunnery. Whomever steps into this authorship has several big pairs of shoes to fill.

This topic has been, literally, a life-long study for me. I grew up around guns, in part because my father was an armed citizen who survived a murder attempt because he knew how and when to use a handgun. He had learned that from his father. My grandfather, the first of our family to come to this country, hadn’t been on these shores long when he had to shoot an armed robber. I grew up with a gun the way kids today grow up with seat belts and smoke detectors. It was simply one more commonsense safety measure in a sometimes-dangerous world.

The day came when what I had learned from my forebears, in terms of having defensive weapons and learning skill at arms, saved my life, too, and the lives of others I was responsible for protecting. I passed the skill on to my daughters. My eldest got her license to carry concealed when she was 18. A year or so later, the Smith & Wesson 9mm in her waistband saved her from two would-be rapists. She represented the fourth straight generation of my family in the United States to be saved from violent criminals by a lawfully possessed firearm.