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- From: ems@michael.apple.com (E. Michael Smith)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: Defense/Combat Questions
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.023122.7776@michael.apple.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:15:15 GMT
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- In article <199211160438.AA22652@cherokee.advtech.uswest.com> kdlin@advtech.uswest.com (David Lin) writes:
- #I noticed that I'd posted quite a few questions these days. Guess I'm
- #still in a curious mood. So two more questions come:
- #
- #(1) I've read quite a few defense/combat articles wherein the good guys
- # mount flash lights on their weapons and go searching for the bad guys.
- ...
- # However, using a flash light just reveals your position, IMO.
- ...
- # So what am I missing here?
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- While I'm not a cop, I was a Law Enforcement Eagle Scout ;-)
- (no, honest, we did a fair amount of the usual new recuit training
- and marching drills and mace sniffing ;-)
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- What we were shown was rather simple. Hold the flashlight at
- arms length. Most bad guys will shoot at the light, and be off
- by one arms length from your vitals... You shoot at their muzzle flash...
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- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM
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