Weekend Reading--New Weekend Knowledge Dump from Active Response Training

 Greg Ellifritz has another Weekend Knowledge Dump. Some of the articles that caught my attention in particular:

• An article from Shooting Illustrated on the topic of Trained vs. Untrained. Interestingly, to the author, "trained" did not necessarily mean that all of your training has to come from live instructors. He includes in the "trained" category those that are "self-trained" and also mentions the wide access to training materials available to someone in their own home. 
• An article on the trigger pull weights of popular combat or defensive rifles. It was surprising to me that the majority were over 6 lbs., and there were a fair number at 9 lbs. or more.
• A link to a video from Active Self Protection of a couple men that intervene and overpower a man that had snatched a purse from a woman in a parking lot. Greg noted that since the woman was not being threatened with physical harm, if he was there he would probably not have intervened. Watching the video, there were definite risks to anyone intervening: the man had a crowbar while the responders did not appear to be armed; and in the tussle the man was thrown or fell onto the ground, which was hard pavement. I don't know how it would have turned out for the responders if the man had cracked his skull and been seriously injured or died.
• An article on ammunition for pistol-caliber carbines (PCCs) with the good reminder that defensive rounds for pistols may not have the best terminal ballistics when fired from PCCs because the handgun bullets are not designed for the higher velocity that they will have when shooting from a PCC. He recommends getting defensive ammo specifically engineered for use out of PCCs. (The same problem popped up with the .357 SIG where most manufacturers used standard 9mm bullets, which didn't perform as well when shot at the higher velocities found with .357 Sig).
• And, finally, an article on the "underwear" gun--something you can carry when wearing just gym shorts, sweat pants or, I suppose, yoga pants. The author describes various clip systems that allowed the handgun to be clipped over the waistband.