Handgun Disarm Reality

Why are crazy handgun disarms so popular on social media!? It’s 2024 and with all the Bullshido exposures over the last few years how is it that people are still buying into this nonsense. If you’re a member of the handgun disarm cult then let me break the following to you:

1. You aren’t as fast as you believe you are!
2. Guns don’t work like you think they do!
3. People don’t move like you want them to!

You can waste a lot of time, as did I, working on handgun disarms but the odds are that:

1. You will probably never experience a situation in your lifetime where you will need to attempt one.
2. If you did somehow find yourself in a situation where one could possibly be useful you would probably not have the confidence to even attempt it because the stakes are just too high.
3. If you did decide to attempt it you would most likely fail because it would be nothing at all like the way you were taught or trained to do one.

If you want to realistically pressure test your handgun disarms then have your training partner stand outside of contact range (roughly 3 feet) with a training gun (@nltsirt, Simunition or Airsoft) and then see what you can do. And if you really want to take it to the next level then I’d recommend using a @takknife training gun like the one I use (TAK G17). Grab a hold of that thing and take the ride so that you can safely see for yourself how different a handgun disarm feels when your training partner doesn’t stem his arm in place while you do your best Jason Bourne impersonation.

I hear the same old argument all the time that martial art gun disarms ARE realistic and that I just don’t get it. Isn’t it interesting that actual legitimate gun guys aren’t teaching gun disarms!? The only reason that gun disarms are even a thing is because of Hollywood and because a lot of people think that they are “Tacticool”! There are so many useful things out there to be training and if handgun disarms were on my list they would be at the very bottom right below flying side kicks! Be safe out there my friends.

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