Concealed Carry For New Shooters

by henry hill

Overview

With over five million members in the National Rifle Association women make up one of the fastest-growing groups of new gun owners who are licensed for concealed carry in states around the country. They are joining clubs, training at professional firearms schools, and making themselves skilled in protecting not only themselves and their families, but also their work places and neighborhoods. This does not include the millions of other shooters who do not necessarily carry concealed in public, including various disciplines of hunting, sport shooters (including rifle from 50 yards to 1,000 yards), pistols in multiple styles, targets from amateur to pro, shotgun clay pigeon to sporting clays, and Olympic shooting with a small-bore rifle, air rifle, air pistol and target pistol--even a running boar competition, which is a moving target competition shot with various forms of firearms. The Pennsylvania Longrifle often misquoted as the Kentucky rifle, is the symbol of American Freedom, said without apology or intended offense for those who see things otherwise.
When someone decides to carry a weapon on his or her person, that person accepts a huge responsibility that cannot be taken lightly. Willingly or unwillingly, that responsibility is there. The lawful gun owner must be concerned about the public at large, as they, as well as the bad guy, are in imminent danger once a loaded gun is brought to the ready and able to be fired ... for any reason. A cop knows this well, but is trained to deal with all variables that could cost or save a life. You, as a lawfully armed citizen, need to train and qualify as often as possible in a training course or on your own (if your state does require qualification). I am not talking about bureaucratic requirements; I am talking about morality and responsibility to protect everyone in possible danger from your shots, if fired. The bad guy won't care about innocents, so you must. Not everyone is Wild Bill Hickok, but everyone can improve their shooting skills to the outer edge of all they have if they work hard enough and smart enough with highly skilled instructors and/or mentors.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149945665
Publisher:	henry hill
Publication date:	12/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	357 KB

About the Author

Henry Hill grew up in the Pittsburgh area and as a boy did a lot of listening to police stories, as policing was a family business. He had three uncles on the Pittsburgh Police Department, one uncle was shot and wounded by a murder suspect, and one was injured doing a rope rescue of a party on a bridge; both retired as commanders. He has three cousins still on active duty on the department. Police actions such as these were fodder for story telling at family gatherings. After a stint in the navy during the Vietnam War, the local electrical union, real estate, and teaching martial arts, he decided to join the family business. He became a cop, being hired by the Pittsburgh Police to specifically walk a beat in one of the housing projects that had a well-earned reputation for high crime. After a few years of police work he decided to heed his sense of adventure and moved out west to Colorado. He and his bride raised a family with the support from his job at Ampex as an electronics technician; a skill he learned in the navy. It wasn’t long before he applied and got a job with the Colorado Springs Police Department after beating out 2200 other applicants to get on top of the hire list.

Many years of experience and extensive training are his credentials in this field; Pittsburgh Police Academy, Allegheny County Police Academy, Colorado Springs Police Academy, Northwestern University traffic accident investigation training, DUI enforcement, Swat response and building search training, arrest and control, riot control, report writing, State, Federal, and local law, quarterly firearms training, and extensive first aid training which he used to save a fellow officer from choking and under duress he delivered a baby in a car, one of the most nervous moments of his career. These are but a few examples after the many years of training he has completed.

While working the streets he garnered one of his commendations for saving the life of a kidnapped woman who was raped and about to be murdered, and this was on his own merit, instincts, and awareness; this was not a police call. He taught women self-defense classes on his own time at a gym provided by the Colorado Springs School in the Broadmoor to enable the students to defend themselves. He did not want them to become another victim.