{"id":65722,"date":"2016-11-07T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T13:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=65722"},"modified":"2016-11-07T08:57:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T10:28:26","slug":"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-65723 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"kfw_1195-kw\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/KFW_1195-KW.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a>\n<p><em><strong>Editor\u2019s Note:<\/strong> The following is a post from Sammy Reese, a former Marine Corps Artillery Officer and retired police officer from California. He is a part-time range master for the police department he retired from as well as a life-long martial artist and combatives coach.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Check out the last five episodes in this series:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-23-should-i-shoot-are-you-as-prepared-as-you-can-be\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\">Ep. 23 Should I Shoot? Are You as Prepared as You Can Be?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-24-should-i-shoot-you-have-legal-justification-to-shoot-but-do-you-have-to\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\">Ep. 24 Should I Shoot? You Have Legal Justification to Shoot, But Do You Have To?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-25-should-i-shoot-take-a-deep-breath\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\">Ep. 25 Should I Shoot? Take a Deep Breath<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-26-shoot-officer-assist\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\">Ep. 26 Should I Shoot? Do I Assist An Officer Engaged in a Gunfight?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/ep-27-should-i-shoot-if-you-fail-to-train-you-may-fail-to-fight\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"ep-28-shoot-problems-1911\" title=\"Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? Gun-Free Zones, Problems with the 1911\">Ep. 27 Should I Shoot? If You Fail to Train, You May Fail to Fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Gun-Free Zones<\/h2>\n<p>I\u2019ve always looked at gun-free zone signs like putting a sign on your front lawn saying you are on vacation for two weeks and there is no alarm on your house \u2014 \u201cPlease burglarize at your convenience.\u201d The sign, like a restraining order, has no teeth.<\/p>\n<p>When I enter an \u201cenforced gun-free zone,\u201d I never relax. I\u2019m depending on the security measures implemented by someone else to 100 percent keep someone from entering with weapons and going active. I have to say I\u2019m not a trusting type of guy anymore, but I do find myself having to go into facilities where the metal detector is in use. It\u2019s a choice I have to make and so do you. If you have to be armed, then you don\u2019t go in.<\/p>\n<p>I get asked quite often, \u201cWhat about the places where there is only a sign saying \u2018this is a gun-free zone\u2019?\u201d It means there are no guns allowed! What should they do if they are carrying concealed? Businesses have a right to refuse services (or at least they used to be able to, don\u2019t get me started on that one), but as a consumer, you can make the choice where you spend your money. If a business doesn\u2019t want its customers to be armed, then shop some place else.<\/p>\n<h2>Know Your Equipment<\/h2>\n<p>In a recent class I watched a guy have all kinds of problems running his 1911. The gun was a higher-end custom and, when he ran it properly, it was superbly accurate and reliable. What wasn\u2019t reliable was his lack of proper training coupled with a false sense of his abilities. He failed to take the safety off on more occasions than I could count, and even more dangerous than that was not putting it back on when he attempted to re-holster. The grip safety also did its job when he failed to get a proper firing grip on a few drills.<\/p>\n<p>He insisted he\u2019d been a 1911 guy for almost two decades and he\u2019d never had any problems before. (What I took that to mean was he\u2019d been a 1911 fan for almost 20 years and he\u2019d never learned how to properly run the gun.)<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t let overconfidence and stubbornness be the reasons your family all gets together to say goodbye at your funeral. Identify weakness in your personal defense skills and work a plan to fix them. Then go looking for more flaws and fix those. Don\u2019t every stop trying to get better at life-saving skills. Whether you should shoot won\u2019t matter if you can\u2019t operate the tool you carry to save your life.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more critical information on the use of deadly force and other firearms and self-defense topics, visit\u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica\" campaign=\"USCCAShouldIShoot\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">www.uscca.com\/GunsAmerica<\/a><\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether you should shoot won\u2019t matter if you can\u2019t operate the tool you carry to save your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":65723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,31,234,216,10],"tags":[132,586,291,626,642],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-65722","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-shoot-better-basic-shooting-skills","9":"category-columns","10":"category-s-h-blannelberry","11":"category-shootbetter","12":"tag-buzz","13":"tag-column","14":"tag-dgu","15":"tag-opinion","16":"tag-should-i-shoot"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ep. 28 Should I Shoot? 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