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Life takes us down unexpected paths. If, during my somewhat rebellious teen years, you had asked me what I was least likely to become, I would probably have answered, “Cop or teacher.” Before long, I had become both. Pausing for a 25-month breather in the early 1980s, I’ve been a police officer since 1972, and have been teaching about guns during that entire time. My first article in a gun magazine was published in 1971.

There have been a lot of books and thousands of articles under the dam since then, and enough training to fill seven single-spaced résumé pages. Competitive shooting has been good to me; I’ve earned several state championships, a couple of regional wins, two national champion titles, and three national records. Only a couple of state championships still stand today. I’ve spent 15 years as chair of the firearms committee for the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers, a few of those also as a member of their ethics committee, and a couple of years as co-vice chair of the forensic evidence committee for the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.