Some Weekend Reading: A New Weekend Knowledge Dump...

 ... from Active Response Training. Greg's offerings this weekend include:

• A nice video exposé of a man robbed by three assailants who thought it was cute to just throw his valuables into the air. They were not impressed and gave him an educational beatdown and threatened to shoot him (or maybe the gun just didn't work).
• A look at whether you should use ball ammo if you can't get proper defensive ammo--and the answer is yes, of course. People forget that reliable expanding defensive ammunition is fairly recent--mostly since the 1986 Miami Shootout. 
• Kevin Creighton's take on a couple reduced round drills to replace the dot-torture. And be sure to check out Creighton's blog generally. I think I have a new one to visit.
• How to perform left-handed revolver reloads for all you south-paws.
• A look at the two basic styles of small of the back carry, and why the one favored by Hollywood is wrong, wrong, wrong! As I've indicated before, there are only limited circumstances were small of the back carry is worthwhile. But if you are in the market for a small of the back holster, check out my review of the Craft Holster's Grizzly Holster. 
• An article with a series of video reviews of the top 5 tourniquets approved by CoTCCC for use in combat: the Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) by North American Rescue; the SOF-T Wide by Tac Med Supply; the Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet (TMT) by Combat Medical Systems; the TX2 By RevMedX; and the SWAT-T by H&H Medical. Ellifritz says he likes the first four, but is not a fan of the SWAT-T. Unfortunately, if you look at pre-packed IFAK kits, especially the more compact models, they tend to mostly use the SWAT-T. I think it partly an issue of size and cost, but also that the SWAT-T can additionally be used as a compression bandage. I picked up the TX2 based on the recommendation of a regular reader of this blog. But it is a large tourniquet, so it may not fit in your IFAK bag. I wound up purchasing a separate pouch to fit the tourniquet and which also holds the shears.
• An article from this month’s edition of the Armed Citizen's Legal Defense Network (ACLDN) newsletter on the importance of using case law to understand how statutes will be interpreted and applied by a court. As you all know, what is the law and what the Constitution or a statute says are sometimes different, or there may be nuances to how a statute is applied. This is why if you ever crack open a copy of the federal code or your state code at your law library, it will have annotations to cases that have cited the case. That is just the beginning, because that may only be a small sample of the cases out there. That's why attorneys use LEXIS or WestLaw or some similar electronic legal research tool. 
• A look at zeroing your weapon's iron sights.

And a lot more....