Tag: Firearms

• October 7, 2023

  #25: Black Gun

  This is a follow-up to Blog #23: Red Gun, Blue Gun In the back half of the first millennium of the Common Era, Chinese alchemists seeking immortality created a dark powdery substance which they named huǒyào.  Literally translated by character interpretation as “fire medicine”, huǒyào is the modern Chinese word for gunpowder.  In the first…
• August 26, 2023

  #23: Red Gun, Blue Gun

  “To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.” -Alonzo Harris, played by Denzel Washington in the 2001 film Training Day. “We don’t need any accidents here” is a familiar sentiment woven into virtually all professional weapons training programs.  It’s easy to avert hazards when shooters…