Broadcasting from behind the second amendment iron curtain
in the shadows of the New York City
skyline. This is gun for higher radio the
voice of 1000000 New Jersey gun owners with
your hosts,
Sandy Bo, and master firearms trainer, Anthony Ka.
I the land that created forgot
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nature. Welcome to it.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Show 6 87. We have
2 esteem guests thunder the show today. If
you hear any background noises, it's probably my
2 head instructors drive firing,
reloading,
I don't know, practice in all kinds of
tactical shit or whatever.
So just just be careful
I'm gonna tell you right now that these
guys are the best the upper echelon,
and, you know, they say they're... You're only
as good as your people
And without further ado have the director of
all training at gun for hires, Tony Arena.
Is at the show, Tony just say, hello
real quick. Good morning, everyone. Beautiful.
And,
our head of all of our tactical training
and weapon and urban series classes, etcetera, etcetera.
Vlad Viva vale. Everybody knows him as vlad.
Right? So I have vlad and Tony Vlad.
Say hello. Good morning.
Good morning. So Tony, you're the senior guy.
I'm not going by age here. You've been
with the gun for hire for about 10
years now. Just give us a little background
about yourself some bullet points what got you
to gun for hire, your previous life, etcetera,
etcetera.
Before I begin, do you have a camera
in my house because I am moving around
doing things? I do have a camera in
your house.
Yeah.
You, I'm better talk have a talk of
my wife. So, welcome, everybody. My... My name
is Tony Arena.
Little background on me.
I was 1 of those fortunate kids
that I knew what I wanted to do
real young,
and that was to become
a cop. So I kinda align my life
to to to those goals. Got got a
little sidetracked, but I managed to accomplish it.
I wind up doing 8 years
in the United States Neighbor reserve as a
Cb. Thank you.
Discharged.
Thank you. Una billy discharge in August of
1. Put in perspective. We got attack that
September.
I also did 25 years
law enforcement with the State County Prosecutor office
of
wonderful training and experience. It was a, a
great job.
During the course of that career,
I wind up also doing 14 years with
the
Pas County Swat team.
As I was coming up through the ranks
to. I wind up being the firearms instructor,
and also the training officer,
also wind up being the expert when it
came to firearms
and
use of force and testified to thousands of
cases in regards to that.
So what happened was and how we came
to this day was,
I took the training... Very seriously. I took
the responsibility of gun ownership very seriously.
John Ru,
who who's now 1 of our, who's back
being in 1 of our premier staff members.
Had asked me about 10 years ago to
to put a class together on long range
shooting since I was
sniper team leader on on a team,
you he wanted to bring somebody
to to kinda put that class together. And
and I did it. I did 2 classes,
and I and I kinda saw opportunity I
had 5 years to go at that time
to retire.
So I said to homeless listen. And if
you like my approach,
and you like my mythology,
if there's ever an opening
to teach, and, you know, I'll be Be
more than happy to and and that... That's
I came on board.
My retired 5 years ago, and an opportunity
arose
to take over training. And like, any good
husband. I asked my wife permission. And
needs sports husband.
She said get out.
You know, And and I've been here ever
since, and and, you know, I'm I'm not
afraid to say it. Like,
this best job ever had. I mean, I
have a great career, I loved it.
No better. You know, being in a second
second amendment community,
you know, working with a lot of people
and getting them involved in a second amendment
and teaching them and and educating them and
and
know, 1 of the things that I I'd
like to let the public know and and
law enforcement know is that our our are
people here, you know, they do the right
thing. They are responsible gun owners.
And they do everything right, you know? And
it's been fun.
And that's a wonderful thing to hear. Bro.
I love that.
And so you've been running
the entire training department, which he does a
phenomenal job. I have to get involved, like,
1 1 percent every couple of months, which
is a beautiful thing. So thank you for
taking us to the next level tone. Now
let's talk about the big man over there.
Vlad. Let's talk about you everywhere. You torture
all the customers. So keep it out but
let's hear it. They're like the yin and
yang. Tony's like really nice to him and
then Vlad brings them in a range and
then Vlad is on their back Yoda. Style
as they're running through forces of fire.
Okay. Just ask John A next week about
vlad when him and his son are on
the show. Go ahead Vlad hit us.
Hey,
so 25 years of service, retired about a
year and a half ago.
From 25 years of service with the New
jersey Transit police department.
First half of my career, a lot of
different capacities, anti crime, Es asu
1 of our primary goals as a state
agency was counter terrorism, so counter terrorism was
our niche.
So I was on a counter terrorism team,
statewide wide run counters the counter terrorism team
for a while.
And the second half of my career since
October, I believe of of 2009.
I was assigned to our training unit.
And so for the second half of my
career, I trained
police officers full time. Like, everywhere at anything
from
recruits in the academy level, all the way
to members of service as well as teams
guys. So that was my
responsibility. I was a ranger master from my
department. I handled everything in regards to firearms
as well as defensive tactics.
And
so come in a gun for hire though.
I needed to... You guys with such a
great help back in April of 20 17.
It's crazy. It's been 7 years already.
Crazy.
I needed
I needed to a a return to service
qualification 1 of our 1 of our officers.
1 of our officers was out on a
medical leave, and he needed to come back
So I called it's tough to get ranges.
We didn't have our own range. So it's
tough to get police ranges
on a whim, you know, quickly. So I
called gun for hire, and
I was helped out. They opened up for
me early 1 morning so I can get
this police officer back in service.
So at the time, it was a guy
named Dave Sa that was there. Yep. He
fire Mon chief
Yeah. So he kinda watched me as... Since
there was nobody else around. He was just
watched me as I ran my guy towards
of for this qualification.
And he...
Evan, he just kinda said, hey, listen, would
you want to work as an instructor?
So I said well, I don't know if
there's... I can go back to the house.
I would love, But I would go back
to the house and see if if it...
There will be any kind of conflicts or
anything.
So that's exactly what I. I went back
to my chief, and then I said, hey,
Gun hire was great and helping us out
getting that officer back on the job.
And
guess what? They offered me AAA
position if I wanted it to start teaching
and
the chief was like, yeah. Go ahead. There's
no conflict at all. As was as long
as I wasn't working an official capacity. I
wasn't there locking people up and in. Kinds
of stuff. Right? So so it was just
as an instructor. So no conflicts I started,
and, I'm the chief instructor now. I love
it. Love it. Absolutely love it. You know,
I wanna thank you right away, Anthony. I
mean, sometimes cops have a a have a
hard time
transitioning upon retirement. They're very apprehensive about retirement.
You've made it such a smooth transition ran.
Like, like, continuing to love to do what
I love, etcetera. It's just been awesome. Awesome.
If I can if I can add to
that, it's absolutely. 1 of the things we
talk about is retired law enforcement. All the
instructors is
it it's a hard transition going from
the kind of paramilitary,
Yeah. You know, environment to to a civilian
market. And then we put so much
into a in into that career from our
lives at the... There's a little bit of
anxiety when when when we retire.
You kinda need a reason to get up
in the morning. And the structure too, you
you all structure. Yes. Yeah. I mean, you
spend most of your life, you know, I'm
coming from a weird other background that's pretty
similar.
And you spend your entire
lifetime not having to worry about what you're
gonna put on that day. Right. You you
might you wear the same, you know, you
you put your uniform on and you go,
my my wife still makes fun of me
because it...
You know, it's it's kinda how it is...
I I need to, like, go to a
place that's it's like, animals for adult, you
know? Great. Now, vlad vlad
aside from being retired and being our
civilian
tactical
instructor here, you have a side this this
too that you also use our range and
you use other facilities.
So anybody listening to the show who is
law enforcement or family members, wife, children kids,
especially if your children are just getting into
a career of law enforcement, but this is
vlad offers He has his own business yield
courses for law enforcement only. Flat before we
get into the meat and potatoes of training
here at gun for hire, tell everybody about
threat reflex. Please.
Okay. So being on the inside for so
long, spending 15 years about for,
about 12 to 15 years as a full
time trainer.
I saw a lot of the
the things that police officers just had to
contend with in regards to training. So 1
of my goals upon retirement was to make
things a little easier for low force to
get to train. So whether it be, you
know, external
approvals from their departments to get
outside training, there's are so many mat. Right?
If you think about police departments, the chief
is probably thinking, hey, is this gonna cost
me an but kinda over time, how long
this police officer are gonna be off the
road for? You know, do we have it
in the budget? Does the officer really need
to do this, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. So
a lot of times, officers don't get as
much training as they need. So 1 of
my goals was to make it more
available,
affordable
and make it quick so that they wouldn't
have to do those approvals.
So
I started threat reflex
in order to get that done. So there
were... It's there... It's twofold fold what you
would get out of threat reflex. 1 is
the ability to train when you want without
an approval. So you can come in for
4 hours before your shift or come in
for for 4 hours after your shift and
train, get some reps in because we all
know repetitive practice is what's gonna make things
permanent in your mind. Yeah. So so the
more you practice, the better. So
without having to take a day off without
having to hurt the department to budget without
having to... And I also make it affordable.
So without having to, you know, dig too
deep into your pocket,
you can come in and get reps with
your firearm.
As well as this is the second fold,
as well as make it more
conducive to what needs to happen for for
law enforcement out there. It's not just about
qualifying and then calling it, you know, checking
off that checking that off the list and
then going back to work. It's more about
dynamic shooting it get
Decision making, you know, use of force. It's
it's about doing things that are more practical.
It's about movement. 306... 360 degree environments and
and getting them really comfortable with their duty
guns. So that they perform better when they're
sir the public out there. And what's the...
How do people find threat reflex?
They can always find me at the threat
reflex dot com? They can always always email
May have vlad at threat reflex, and our
social... We have social media.
Sites also,
whether it be Facebook or
Instagram a threat reflex.
It'd be
the holidays are coming great gifts for any
law enforcement officers in your family.
Maybe contact vlad and is a lovely assistant
and get some gift cards for them to
do training for... Now, this is law enforcement
only ladies and gentlemen. Okay? For civilian end,
you'd go to gun for hire. That's a
whole different division, whole different training,
protocol.
1 thing people think, oh, all the time.
And you guys notice this and I'm not
knocking cops here, but not all cops are
gun people.
The majority of cops are not gun people.
They chose the job because they wanted to
be in law enforcement. They didn't choose the
job because they were a gun person like
everybody listening the gun for higher radio.
I always say it's about 10 percent, and
I've gotten
validation from many cops, including Tony and vlad
that if you have a department of a
hundred cops. You have about 8 to 10
cops that are into firearms and advancing their
training on their own. And then the other
90 percent, it's a job and they carry
a gun on their h. Am I right
guys?
Yeah. Correct. So it's funny. It's funny Sometimes
I've asked, you know, when they've had some...
We have some police officers believe it or
not. That have issues qualifying
and have issues of meeting certain standards. So
at times, I've asked them, how much do
they train. And, you know, sometimes they're saying,
well, I I... You know, do they... Sometimes
I asked, are... Are you even a a
member at a range somewhere? And sometimes yes,
sometimes well, they say, well, but I can
only shoot it in a public port.
There's only so much I can do inside
of a port. So hence threat reflex. Right?
Get outside the Board and train some more.
But,
it's funny how sometimes you get the police
officers that say, well, know, I'm not really
a gun guy.
And I always say to myself wow, man.
You carry a gun every day on your
hip. Yeah. You know? And it's it's a
life saving tool at time times like, could...
Click... Maybe you should be a gun guy.
Yeah. It's so to to add to that
is just to put in perspective, I'm... And
I'm sure, you know, black can confirm this
with me. I I was I obviously, a
I was already a gun guy when I,
you know, the first time I ever shot
AAA rifle in in boot camp and m
16, I fell in love with it, and
that's all she wrote.
The only other time that's ever happened was
when I met my wife. But anyways,
Bravo. You know? So so
I was already a gun guy, but then
for anybody that might not remember and know
there there was a supervisor I had, a
good friend of mine... It was a... Is
an alumni of gun for hire, Bob Pro.
And Yeah. I I worked with him And
1 of the things I noticed when I
first came on a job and and the
assignments that I had.
I realized
Wow, you know, I have this firearm on
my hip. I'm very... I have to be
responsible before. I have to be responsible for
is is it's proper usage.
And it may save my life or my
cog life for us or or an innocent
life 1 day, I should take my training
seriously. Yeah.
And that's where guys like vlad,
and an eye and and the other instructors.
We kind of rose to the top of
our in our careers.
Because we took it upon ourselves to to
get the training even if we had to
pay out of pocket,
you know, and and Bobby came to me
1 day and said, you know, and that's
how he got me on a swat team,
He said Tony. He said, 1 the things
I like about you is you you take
this training seriously.
And and I did and and subsequently, that's
why we become, you know, the the the
the
top of our fields just when it came
to firearms.
You know,
for sure. Now let me ask you guys.
2 working together,
when students come to a class, especially an
advance class. Any of our urban classes are
whole or anything.
Real quick off the top of your head,
each 1 of you, what's the number 1
problem
that you see a student has? Is it
the equipment,
like it did they have the wrong thing.
What's what what what do people knew need
to do to be prepared? What type of
research. I want the 2 of you. Let's
start with you, Tony
for more on the the beginning end of
the classes? What what do you normally see?
That people need help with.
Equipment, now that we are cary state, that's
been the largest.
Mh. What's a proper h.
So forth and so on. And that's why
in our host drug class, we actually spend
an hour with them going over the pros
and cons
of of h.
That's the first 1.
So I I spent a lot of time
responding to emails talking to people, making
recommendations,
And the reason I like to do things
by Bill, not that I'm not afraid to
talk to you is I'll send multiple links
of multiple
manufacturers
you know, different types of host.
What we're at, if, if I can add
to this is now that we have a
gun store, I've been also directing a lot
of people to the gun store and coordinating
with them to carry a lot of the
popular firearm h
as well. So they can they can come
in and feel and touch and and so
forth to so on. So that... That's that's
that's the first 1 because,
I, I can remember when I first put
a gun on my hip. It was weird.
It was it was a of very odd
feeling and and it took months to get
used to it to find the comfort zone.
So that's the first 1. The second 1
is is is handgun.
Smaller is not necessarily better.
You get a lot of people. Okay. Now
that I'm gonna care concealed. I'm gonna get
the smallest gun possible.
And then when they come into the whole
drug class and and and black product can
confirm this for me because we talk all
the time, is
they have a hard time manipulating the firearm
or get good accurate shots because the gun
is so small,
they're getting a larger salt recoil,
and and having problems with the with the
follow ups shops and so forth. You gotta
find that balance. You gotta find that balance
of a good firearm
that that that is consumable, but it's also
you can manipulate it and and and better.
So those are the 2 main things that
I can think of.
And vlad, now you've vlad vlad is running
more of the higher level
classes. I mean Tony runs those classes too,
but Vlad is the guy, boots on the
ground. Him and well, we have... If I
don't plug Wayne Monaco. He's gonna be pissed
off I gotta to say Wayne Monica Wayne
Monaco, Wayne Monaco. Go go ahead. Vlad. Give
us a give us some insight, please.
Yeah. Tony hit on it pretty well with
the equipment side, but what, I'm gonna hit
on the training side a little bit. Prior
prior to
the Brewing decision prior to us carrying here
in New Jersey,
it was a lot of misconceptions that we
had to hit on, where, you know, people
were are so used to hitting AAA
target in a port,
and they would
even though you can work on Mark's ship
in a port, they would think that they're
they're shooting at a certain level because they
hit the target all the time where they're
ripping through a bull's eye. But once they
start to train with us, they realize wow.
My shots are a mess because you've added
some more movement. You've added some thinking, some
position shooting. You've added so much more realist
realistic because realism
to
to these engagements.
That they...
That's the struggle now. While,
shooting out a piece of paper really isn't
conducive to a true gun fight. So once
we get once we start to get them
to realize what what's needed,
that's their struggle, they
getting comfortable with that firearm.
And now
now it's all about getting the repetitions in
so that they can get pretty good at
it.
Yeah.
You know, a lot of times a lot
of times people think, you know, I have
a gun in my in my house. I
can protect my family.
Not so much. Right? You're probably... Somebody comes
barrel through your door, you're probably not gonna
get to the bedroom from closet on time.
Or you're not gonna get to the shotgun
under the bed. So
a lot of times, it's it's clearing up
those misconceptions that people have,
so that they realize. Once you put them
in a different playing field, they realize how
much tougher it is. You know, besides the
equipment, it's about the training.
You training.
Repetition. Right? Repetition over and over again. So
you guys were so busy for about a
year and a half when it came to
concealed Carry. You saw every
possible
scenario and
situation, walk in the door and walk into
the range from people with vision problems,
people with, you know, motor scale problems,
age problems, youth problems,
shooting too fast, 2 issues slow too slow.
You saw it all. Am I correct?
Yeah. Yeah. Pretty. We've we've learned a lot
and we've ref fine. I mean, we literally...
We... We've qualified to date, guys just so
you know, 16000
of the 42000
people that have carried permission New Jersey. 16000
have come through gun for hire. 16000.
Crazy incredible. It's incredible. Yes. Yes.
I mean, it it's it's just phenomenal the
level we have. So what do you guys
have planned up up your sleeve
vlad.
And and Tony gives some people an idea.
If they're intimidated
about taking an urban class.
A perfect example I like to give is
John A who had stroke and walks with
a cane. Right?
Did he not go through many of our
classes successfully with the stress and the pressure
on top of him?
Yes he did. I mean, he is he
is a great example that you're only limited
by your mind. Yeah.
You know, it's it's it's... He coming in
and listen, obviously,
for due to physicality or certain things he
cannot do. They're just just you can't get
old... You can't get over that. But there's
other things that you can learn to do
to overcome those deficiencies.
And and, you know, we're we're willing to...
We'll work with anybody. Like, you mentioned, we've
got to work with a lot of people
I've had to work.
I've given private lessons to people with with
all different levels of of of disability, and
I don't really like to use a term
disability. I like to look at it more
as what's your level of ability?
You know, Nice. Not everybody has the same
looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. There's nobody... Everybody
doesn't have the same abilities. Even even... Let's
say, me and vlad as an example, We're
we're, you know, healthy men. He's a lot
younger than I am by the way. But,
you know, Wow a lot. And right. And
better... You know, better looking.
Yet. Yeah. I'm gonna have to go... I'm
I'm gonna have to agree with that.
But but
as an example of 2 healthy map males.
Well, we still have different abilities.
So I I look at as levels of
of of abilities and and how to over
her overcome those. And, you know, it it
was great to see you know,
mister Pent come in, and, you know, he
blew it out of the water. He, you
know, he he kinda gives... He's a motivator.
To to me that somebody that motivates me
to be better and say, okay, you know,
not...
I can do anything no matter what the
issues may be.
But, you know, he was he was he
was he was phenomenal. It was it was
a great experience. You. You qualify a g
with 1 hand.
Yeah. 1 hand. You qualify g 1 hand.
Come on. Let's let's face it. Yeah. Yeah.
So so Vlad,
if you could pick 1 gun to carry,
what would it be? Real quick. 1 gun.
The only gun you have in your arsenal.
Sig p 03:20.
Sig 3 tweet p 03:20. I have 1
of those in in Florida with a with
a a thing on the front of it
that makes it quiet. But anyway,
Not florida that's so nice. Yeah. Now now
3 twenties a pretty big gun, not everybody
could carry that. Why would you pick that
gun?
Well, we trans... That was the last gun
that we transitioned to with the police department.
So I'm very familiar with it. I'm a
sig arm So I was able to transition
to the entire department to that 03:20.
I have 4 of them that I train
with that I teach with. They're so modular,
size, I can I can go up and
down from size, whether it be compact to
regular? It's a full size. I can go
to x 5 legion type size and I
can come back to compact Rx. They're... The...
That's the beauty of the 03:20 is that...
Yeah. I can do so much with it.
Modular modular. Yeah. That that that's a good
point. Alright, Tony, you had you had the
chance to listen to vlad. You could pick
1 gun to carry what would it be?
The 1 I carry with me every day,
block 45.
Club.
Yep. I'm I'm a gl guy. The reason
I picked the gl 45.
Very similar. My background is very similar to
vlad we, before I retired, we transitioned to
Gl 19,
very good gun.
We we transitioned from gl
20 threes, which is 40 cow. I hate
that round by the way.
So we went to gl 19 for the
15 round capacity.
Knowing now with with ballistic and the advancement
in ballistic, 9 millimeters just as as good
as any of the other caliber.
So... But we have to think about what
would be in the best interest. What would
be in the best interest for the whole
department.
So we went to to
gl 19, and we saw everybody's qualifications averages
go up.
So that was my
initial while, I... While I carried, I also
had bought
my own personal, so I can... If I
left the state or I carried out of
state and so forth, I would have my
my personal.
And then when the Gl 45 came out,
I like it because
I like the size of a 17,
as far as grip, I I got long
fingers. I got people tell me, Got piano
fingers.
So I like the 45 because it's a
Gl 17 frame
and
but it has a Go 19 slide.
So it's a little... It it kind of
fits the the in between there between compact
and and full size.
And as soon as I am, I carry
that well. I can seal it well. People
are surprised when when they realize I have
it.
So to go to kinda answer the question
that's always asked about, you know, being too
big
with the proper
clothing and h,
you can carry a full size fine. I
mean. It's just... It it might take some
comfort,
used to that comfort level.
With these polymer guns sig,
sig and in my opinion sig and gl
are a 2 type 2
premier
firearms,
manufacturers you can't go wrong with either of
them.
They're they're very great
carry firearms. After to say the other manufacturers
don't have them as well,
but this clearly goes in line what I
was saying before about finding that middle row.
Like, a 3 65. 3 65, very gary,
very great small carry.
To to to to to put in comparison,
I also carry a 43,
which is the gl version of a of
a of a sub compact.
But unless
you're very
experienced or and and trained with it. You're
gonna have a harder time manipulating a smaller
a smaller gun. So you you can carry
a good, you know, sub compact compact firearm.
So now you first, Tony.
Do you have an optic on that on?
Yes. I do. I have A50 90 t
Coincidentally today. Somebody asked my who makes that?
That that that that's a h son. The
reason I went to the 05:09
t. It's a closed emit In other words
is it's 2 windows. It's a big,
nice big windows. I've gotten older. I need
all the help I can get.
Okay
So,
I like it on a larger frame. On
my 43, I have a hollow son 05:07
k.
Fits very well on it.
If I can take a opportunity to plug
it, I, vlad put together for us and
an urban red dot,
class. I took it 3 times with him
and phenomenal. It it's it's it's it's a
tool that's invaluable.
But, like anything else you need to train
properly with it and know the nuances and
and and and the pros and cons of
of of the firearm. But those are my
favorite. Vlad. What what do you do you
have an optic on your gun?
Yeah. I... Right now, I've been teaching with
of,
the Hollow sun comp, 05:07 comp. It's probably
the largest window that they make. It's it's
1 of their newer optics.
Absolutely. Absolutely love it.
I also have the 05:09 like Tony, is
a really good optic also. It's probably what
I've run for the most amount of time
with an optic, but
but I love the H sun.
Now if you go
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John, customers are asking me how they can
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Tony is spear Eddy Eagle. Well, first 1
is August first. We're running Eddy Eagle course
for children from pre k to fourth grade.
Any kids over fourth grade if they show
up, I will be giving free head slaps.
Anybody under
fourth grade is welcome to attend 4 free.
Okay? Eddy Eagle classes.
Obviously, we're doing the pistol shoot Scott went
worth in Phoebe, and and my rest of
my crew were doing a phenomenal job, and
the plate rack matches are
blowing out the door. It's
unbelievable thing with people are are signing up
and
shooting.
Obviously, we got a lot of stuff going
on.
Was found guilty on all 12 counts, but
he ain't resigning because he's gonna appeal it.
Obviously, Trump got shot in here and Corey
laboratory with with firefighter or retired chief was
was tragically murdered that day and 2 other
people are are in
critical condition. I just wanna offer my
my heartfelt condolences to the family and everybody
we we could probably have 5 shows on
the secret service and local Pd, but we
really don't know everything yet. It's kinda too
soon to tell. So I really don't wanna
address that based on, you know, he said
she said,
John T, who,
great gun for Heir alumni who's been with
us forever,
brought his 15 year old daughter, Ella to
the range, and he wrote Dear Anthony C
and Tony U. As you both know my
daughter Ella came in and took her basic
pistol with Vic Rivera, she had an amazing
time The staff was great. Etcetera etcetera Tony.
You saw her targets. Right? Yes. I did.
Oh my. Her up.
Figure you guys think of a pie and
then think of a group the size of,
like, a 15 year old girl's fist.
That's that's the group she shot, Sandy.
Phenomenal.
Also, last week, I talked about what to
do when your doctor asks you if you
have guns or any medical profession, I got
an email, Cindy, did you get doctor Redeem
email? Did. Hey, Jonathan.
Doctor John Ad. He's gonna be here in
September. We'll probably have him on the show.
He said that, we followed everything perfect. He's
a member of and a founder of doctors
for a responsible gun owner. So
Again, go back to last week if you
missed it, and please
discuss it with your friends and family what
to do should a medical
professional
ask you if you have guns in the
house. Remember they are medical professionals, they're not
firearms
professionals. The last thing I wanna talk about
we had 2 court rulings
Fp
had a win in Minnesota that's saying 18
to 20 year olds can carry guns. Okay?
Because us if they can... If they can
defend their country and fight for their country,
I believe they should be able to carry
a gun. If they're a responsible 18 to
20 year old,
welcome to the club. And our judge in
our assault weapons mag band case in the
third search here, Sandy has re... Or already
a appeal... Appeals court has retired.
Now I wanna make lemonade out of lemons.
Maybe we'll get assigned the judge that is
more pro gun. I don't think we really
lost that much time because our case has
been on hold because the Appellate Court was
waiting to see what the the Supreme Court
was gonna do with vac all the other
2 way cases they had. So our case
has been idle for 6 or 8 months
anyway. Okay? Sandy, I think there's a raven.
Are you reading the telltale park what the
hell is going on? Are there are a
vulture a raven or something?
Actually, a frog who hangs out of here.
I'm a little scared. I'm a little scared.
So yeah. So maybe we'll get a judge
who is more pro gun. I don't know,
but let's make lemonade out of lemons right
now, lady. And gentlemen. I really don't know
you know,
how it's gonna go. So guys, I got
the 2 of you back now, we got
the... We got the rest of the show.
Oh, and don't forget threat reflex dot com.
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treat out teaching law enforcement officers reps. 4
hours. You come in, hit it hard, hit
it fast and get those repetitions in
God can save your life. Alright. So let's
talk, gentlemen.
Let's give some people some
some
advice
some tips. So I always do, like, training
tips. We try to go over stuff that's
going on.
Vlad, you go first,
and then Tony, you go second. I'll switch
you guys off. So if, like, give us
some tips on what people should be doing,
What can they you do at home, to
increase their skills or train, and then what
what they can do when they come to
a flat range if they haven't taken any
of our advanced urban classes. Let's start with
you.
Well, dry firing is huge. You know, it's
funny. We had the Max Michelle, you know,
a time World champion,
Captain of the Sig team. And he talks
about the importance of dry firing.
So if the best shooters in the world
do it, we should also do it.
Spending time at home, Ammo cost money, you
know, spending time at home, getting those those
draws,
gaining that site alignment.
Being able to do a a emergency reload
you know, quickly,
accessing your gear, especially if you're permits a
carry holder,
you wanna be able to access that other
mag. I'm hoping that you're carrying another mag.
That point.
So
all those those things are very important, as
well as getting into different positions as if
you were, you know, you if you needed
to take cover behind a car, that knee
position,
those reps are very important and it doesn't
cost any money that you don't have to
buy Ammo. It doesn't cost anything at all
besides time. You have to put a little
bit of time into it because it's gonna...
It's gonna be very worth your while.
If I could if I can add to
that,
please. There is a little... There's a little
money that I do recommend that they can
spend. Get caps. Get caps or or dummy
rounds
I had an instructor that got triggered every
time I call them dummy rounds. But anyway,
so,
you know, they... They're not expensive. They're in
expensive
tool that can assist with the dry firing
that that Vlad was talking about. And, like
he said, work in your reload and stuff
like that. When you wanna do stuff like
that, Please. Please. Please no ammo in the
same room with you.
Triple check. Yep. Triple check everything. I I
don't wanna hear that you accidentally shot your
screen because you wanted a bigger 1.
So,
you know,
you you know, practice. Like, like, I've I've
done drills. Sometimes I put a baseball game
on or football game on, and I'll just
take some dummy dummy drills and work my
reload without looking at the at the firearm.
I to do You know, stuff like that
just Yeah. Just to get ingrained memory,
keep that going. But, yeah, that that those
are huge. What what foot lot of same.
Very very good. You could also. Yeah. You
could also,
add a responsive laser bore that that responds
to your firing pin. So
I have that here at home. The in
my workshop, I have a few targets hanging
up, so I have this laser bore cider
in my bore.
Like Tony said, no live, Ammo anywhere around.
So I'll practice my draws. I'll do a
trigger press, and it'll give me some sort
of feedback on that target as to where
my hit was. Those don't cost any money.
It's it's it's a good training tool, and
you'll be able to see whether you were
accurate or not.
So those are... I love I love that
tip. What else you got for our listeners
out there. Oh, so real quick. I used
to take an old army blanket and put
it at the foot of a bed.
And I used to put my my my
knee standing against the foot of the bed,
and I would practice my workstation, right, with
snap caps.
And on the head board, I would put,
like, a little dot sticker, like a posted
dot sticker. And I would practice Mag changes,
and that would practice this racking the slide
and practice loading and a unloading the gun
and h ring and re h the gun.
Because when I used to compete everything, I
didn't wanna look like that female secret service
agent was trying to h her into her
badge.
Right? Isn't that all about muscle memory? Isn't
there something positive we can learn from this
gentleman?
Right? So so so... Yeah. So so 1
of my things that I'm... I'm huge on
is quality quality
quality over quantity.
Those same things is just take just take
1 drill or 1
you know, tech tech
a technique. And and and and, Drill, you
can always
build up on it later.
For example, if you come into a range
and and you're gonna practice a but don't
worry about shooting hundreds and hundreds of rounds
for that hour that you're in the port,
take something and work it, like,
if I'm not using my snap caps, then
I'll go into the range and that day,
I might work only my re reload drill.
So I'll just put 2 rounds in each
magazine and work my re reload drills.
And and and and practice that specific technique.
And another day I might come in and
practice something a a little different.
But those are all things that could be
done at as home
at home as well. And 1 of the
things you mentioned about a post it you
know, sometimes I tell people when when I'm
trying to teach them, eye dominance and and
so forth and so on is, you know,
you can also use a light switch. Or
anything that's about 3 or 4 feet off
the ground,
AAA certain point on a wall somewhere. But
a sticky note is good too, if you
don't have anything.
That you wanna aim at.
Correct. It's it's just... It's just... And again,
you gotta check 35 times to make sure
the gun is empty, You gotta make sure
there's no ammo
anywhere in the room, your magazines and everything.
You know, like, I used to go I
would have my all my gun stuff in
a different room, and I would grab my
gun and my gear and my rig and
everything, make triple check everything's empty and then
go into another room is where I would
crack this my work workstation. Right? And That's
really what you wanna think about because otherwise,
you could end up in a really tricky
situation here. You do not wanna have a
negligence discharge in your house or condo or
something. And please know your backstop and what's
beyond it. Make sure you're aiming when I
lived in a condo a hundred years ago
when I first got married
between the units was a double,
con double firewall.
Fire break, they call it, and that's the
wall I aimed at. Not the sheet rot
wall, but the but the concrete wall. You
know, with a ci blocks, 2 2 rows
of ci box, ga tone You mentioned you
mentioned in your bedroom. So, you also mentioned
about going into another room to practice.
But, that's that's huge right there. So if
you do wanna practice
or or pretend that maybe you hear something
and waking up in the middle of the
night, practicing in your bedroom, you know, lay
bed you know, practice able find, your firearm
have have certain things you know,
the book that you wrote is phenomenal about
certain things that you wanna you a nights
stand, you know, flashlight, cell phone, stuff like
that. Practice.
You know, we used to... When we're growing
up. Right? 1 of the things we were
taught is it's always to have AAA fire
drill point and in your home. You can
do the same thing. Now the thing that
I would caution you you is like, if
you are gonna do that, then sanitize that
room. Sanitize it completely.
You know, and and practiced in a in
a safe environment.
Tony, Tony was 1 of the... He he
contributed to my book, Sandy, you know that.
He read it. He added some stuff, and
we used his pictures in crime proof think
like a criminal and beat them at their
own game as well. So is available for
autograph.
And then photos,
anybody wanna a picture of him, let him
know. Vlad, so Vlad talked to us
visualization in mindset,
home defense, gear you carry. So Edc. Vlad,
what do you have in your pockets at
all time? I'm gonna ask Tony second Tony
carries like 40 things, but go ahead vlad
you first. Tony's left. Pop I know. Exactly.
What you got more real estate?
What do you carry on any given day?
So might p 03:20
or 3 65 depending on what I'm doing.
Sometimes things vary to depending on what I'm
headed to do for that day.
Usually a blade usually,
a flashlight,
definitely an extra mag, and my phone
That's basically it. My phone, my wallet, my
keys...
That's it. Alright. So you're clean.
Tone,
So
very similar.
But yeah. Right. Go ahead. Well, yeah. My
firearm,
dependent same thing. Most of the time is
my gl 45.
Doesn't matter winter or summer,
but it, you know, occasionally depending of if
I'm going out of state.
Maybe I'll take my 43.
Since I I can carry in all 50
states, but I still have to follow little
state laws.
So if I'm going to the city, then
I gotta make sure it's 10 rounds or
less
but, you know, self defense knives, same thing
flashlight, even though my firearms have lights attached
to them.
It's always good to have a an additional,
light as well.
And then same thing wallet it's cell phone,
the the the normal stuff every day I
forgotten
my cell phone and my wallet before I
forgotten my my firearm.
That's, that's that's good training. You know. And
so so those are the things that that
I carry.
Again, my situation is a little different,
but I also carry it... My... All my
vehicles are especially my truck has... I have
more additional mag in my truck,
with a trauma kit.
All my cars have trauma kits.
It it's very important. You know, Cpr certified.
I recommend everybody gets Cpr certified and and
take stop the bleed classes.
Yeah. It's huge. You know, 1 the things
I learned when I took the training many,
many years ago, and and I continue to
update it every so many years. Is that
it's not only for yourself, but maybe your
family, You know, how to be able to,
you know, they may get hurt, you know,
the wife is not my wife is notorious
for cutting herself.
You know, you'd be able to to to
to have that plan. But that's that's what...
That's mean when I when I carry.
So so so the 2 of you guys
a lot of people just belong to a
flat range, like we have here with ports
and they don't have the opportunity. So I'll
jump back to vlad vlad What I I
step into a port. I'm by myself. I
got a couple of magazines in a gun.
What what what what would you recommend somebody
would do to practice to elevate their skills
to the next level.
Without getting thrown out for rapid fire, without
getting thrown out from, you know, breaking a
hundred and 20 degree arc or whatever? What
would you recommend?
They so just some little drills.
So just like, in our classes, we have
2 things that are really primary. Right? The
safety being number 1, and number 2 would
be accuracy. So always always always work on
accuracy and marks shift as your primary,
so you're gonna aim small. You're gonna hit
small. So you'll start at 5 yards. This
is what I usually tell people, especially when
I've done some private with beginners.
You're going to aim small hit small, you're
gonna work at 5 yards or 4 or
3, whatever it is. Right? But you're gonna
work up close because you can't fix anything
at 25 yards away.
So
once you're able to aim small and hit
small and have your proper triggers threes and
your proper grip on your gun. So those
shots are becoming accurate.
At... Also, at 5 yards, you're able to
self analyze. While I'm shooting a little low.
I'm shooting a little left, etcetera. So you're
able to make those changes In regards, you,
you know, you're also linked to whatever you've
been taught. Right? So training is key That's
the underlying factor to all this. But accuracy
at the 5 is the first thing that
you wanna work on. Then you're... You're gonna
do that until your bored.
Then you go to 7, and then you're
gonna do it again until you're bored. You're
so good that you're getting bored at it.
Then you go to 10. You're gonna do
the same thing, then you're gonna go to
15 and do the same thing. So you
wanna work especially inside of 15 on acura
see because that's more than likely where things
are gonna happen and your gun fight, your
possible gun fight that you're training for it
that you're preparing for it.
If you're 25 yards away, you can probably
escape. Right? Get back in your cargo. So
work on the inside is the most important
thing. First thing is accuracy up close Second
thing is to start to bring in distance.
The last and third thing would be to
make it faster and bring into speed.
So Nobody's interested on how fast you miss.
Right?
Per good point.
Good. So you
accuracy needs to be first and foremost.
And then bring in distance, and then the
last and final thing would be to speed
it up.
Perfect. And tom.
Yeah. The... It exactly right. I mean, there's
not much at... III can add to that.
And And, but there's little things like, 1
little trick I've learned, and you you mentioned
safety and get yelled at maybe about a
rain safety officers or stuff like that. I
was talking about the
the,
work my reload. And 1 of the have
bad habits we see
with a lot of students is that they
wanna they don't wanna drop their magazines when
they're empty. They're afraid it's gonna break. And,
and we can understand that. You paid a
lot of money for your for these firearms.
You know, you don't wanna break them and
damage them, but you you're building what I
call training scars. Alright, Bad habits,
especially when you gotta work reload. So what
can you do in a range?
And worried about that that dropping in that
magazine and bouncing off the table and going
forward the line. And now you have to
get an artist so to sweep it or
or call a fire
is get a nice old heavy duty bath
towel
and fold it up and put it on
the counter. When you do your reload, that
magazine is not gonna bounce off the counter
Yep. And and land forward. Little things like
that,
you can do to enhance your your training
And and and you mentioned,
a comment that's... That I also prescribed to
that's very important is
visualization. You know, shooting paper, sometimes cannot be
realistic. Safety safety is also an inherent flaw
in any training. Because you can't do it
for real. Some somebody's is gonna get hurt.
So how do you overcome that is
visualization,
train realistic.
You know, even though you're shooting at a
piece of paper,
you know, work those accurate shots like vlad
said,
it's like a baseball player or a soccer
player. They never practice to miss.
You always practice
to hit.
And you just gotta keep just gotta keep
doing us. But there's are some suggestions I
that I.
So tone,
roughly narrow it down to the nearest hundred.
How many h
did you go through it before you found
that 1 sweet spot h that you to
lean on most mostly every day.
Jesus. I got 02:25 pound
rubber made containers in my attic.
Of of stuff of stuff that I've gone
through. You know, stuff that, you know, I
came on and the old guy Was like,
hey, hey, Listen. I got this gun and
and host I can sell you, and then
I realized that I just got taken.
You know,
some of them... Some of them have... I
was a victim of of
of movies too. You know? When I when
I got hired, I got thrown straight into
narcotics, I grew up in the air of
Miami device, so First host I get is,
you know, a shoulder h, you know,
the the Miami jackass h. You know,
until I got into my... Until I got
into my first fight, and I'm like, oh,
no. This is this is not gonna work.
And it's been sitting in my attic for
30 years now. And, you know, it's on
4,
we didn't have
the
resources we do now.
We didn't have Internet. We didn't have Internet
to... We didn't have research. We didn't have
Q x was huge, you know, We since
progressed from leather h at a hundred percent.
You know, you had to take, you know,
what you got from me the more experienced
people or unfortunate, you know, trying it out.
Now we got some stores that we can
we can come in and you can take
a look at stuff. You can do a
lot of re resources.
We do it too. We go over, you
know, our experiences, our pros and cons things
have we've learned
the hard way, but unfortunately, sometimes he's still
gonna deal with that. We can minimize it.
I think now than what we went through
but, you, unfortunately, I tell people yet. It's
a trial and error,
sometimes.
Same thing with firearms, you know, we didn't
have the resources to go to a arrange
to rent the fire. Either had to have
a friend that had 1 similar. Yeah. And
I've been lucky. I only had 1 firearm
that I got burned on that have just
didn't work. And and once you buy that's
used, you're not getting the money back. Right.
It and Vlad what about you what
Tony. What what host are you wearing
normally every day? Is it Q?
Yes. It's a Kayak x H inside the
waistband.
Appendix carry,
I started doing that after I retired because
we carry 03:00. When I was on a
job, I found it to be a lot
faster, a lot smoother. I lot safer.
Let's contrary to most people in popular. But
it's 10 core. 10 core right now is
my is my host
to go,
but I recommend the other ones. I I
recommend there's a lot of good companies on
there, you know, tier 1 conceal, bravo consume,
Cn and g that we're selling in our
store right now. It is is a is
a good 1.
But, yeah. It's a 10 core right now
is my is my go to. Yeah. Like,
choose that may change in a year or
2, but, you. Of course. Of course, Vlad,
you'll have more real estate as Tony said,
I absolutely do.
Yeah. So,
I I carry a tier 1 sealed. So
the idea conceal, it has
it has all the things that you need.
If you're... If you're sitting through our host
class we explain at all. Right? The nomenclature,
there is also nomenclature to add and inside
the waistband h. If it has a wing
or a claw to be. To to have
the ability to bring your belt line a
little further from your body, therefore conceal the
firearm a little bit better. Wedges on the
back that it makes it a little bit
more comfortable. Wedges are soft foam against your
body to make the h a little bit
more comfortable. And the most important thing about
H
is the clips. Right? How it's gonna be
retained on your body. So a good sturdy
belt with 2 clips, 2 quality clips is
important in order to keep that the, from
moving while it's concealed. And the ability to
adjust the ride height So a good draw
starts at your h. So you have to
have the ability to to adjust the ride
height of your firearm so that you can
have a proper grip on it from your
waistband span because there's really no time to
make any adjustments while you're drawing.
The right height of your h. See, that's
a term I've never used before. That's how
old I am. The right height of your
host. I just learned... I just learned something
new. Seriously. You know, I'd like to add
something. Please. So I have I have the
same
trunk of stuff that Tony does. Like, when
it comes to.
So... Yeah. So much somebody... What's crazy is
you can't even give it to anybody because
if you didn't like it, you don't want
them to use it. Right right. So right
So it just yeah. So it just kinda
it kinda just picks up us. Like you
almost wanna cut it up and and chop
it up or something to try to get
rid of it. Get know but? That's a
really good point, though. I think everybody really
needs to to hear as the fact and
that
this is not an uncommon thing.
So it would serve you well
to take the H draw cores
and save a ton of money in time
and
a lot of embarrassment and years to come,
looking at that crap. In a hundred percent.
A hundred percent. 1 of the things that
we do in a wholesale class and we
just did it last night. Now, Granted that
they already coming in to learn how to
draw from a h or They may already
have a h and and Vlad said it
last night very big, and he tells all
the classes this is
when you train, this is where you're gonna
find out what works. Right, equipment wise and
technique wise, what may work for you it
may not work for you.
So there's already a commitment there, but I
have no problem, and I did it 3
weeks ago
even before you come into wholesale a class.
Come see me.
I'm not gonna charge you,
I'll spend an hour with you, and I'll
go over to pros and cons and host
and
recommendations. Yeah. Huge. You know, And and, you
know, people been very happy to the last
person I did it with was, like, you
know, he's he's he's all in. He he's
all in now.
I spent time with him. It's it's not
taking time away from my day. You know,
we'll we'll schedule it. That's what I'm there
for. I'm I'm there to help.
And educated if I can. And to avoid
those pitfalls,
or to minimize it at least. Because,
Anthony, you had a a common saying,
for a long time that Karen a gun
is not comfortable, but it's comforting. Yeah. That
Colonel Jeff Cooper learns So So But we've
learned, but we've progressed from that. And none
of us that's caring for a long time,
does become comfortable.
To the point where
see you get so used to it you
forget there or you or you know enough
that it's there that if you leave home
without it, you feel naked it.
But that requires
trying different things.
As an example, tier 1 doesn't work for
me. The tier 1 Ms p
is is a very good h. I highly
recommended. I just sold mine
to somebody,
because it it locks into the light. So
no matter what handgun you have.
As long as you have 1 of the
prescribed lights that it accepts, it locks into
the the light. So if you have a
6 03:20,
it'll lock in with the light. If you
have a gl. And if I wanted to
switch that out to a gl,
it'll lock in. I can still use a
host. The problem with it it was it
was digging into my fe tomorrow artery.
The the way it was designed and made,
it it... Even with the with the wedge
or pillow they, they they call it the
wedge. It's it's the foam thing that that
you put behind a h to make it
more comfortable.
I couldn't make it comfortable. I couldn't make
it
if I sat down for long periods of
time, it was digging into into my hip
bone. So
that was 1, but that... It's brand new.
I didn't work. F long. So for a
discounted rate I sold it to 1 of
the Rs o's, Tony.
You know, Yep. Your your nickname is Bones.
You're very skinny. Yeah. Any little thing, Any
little thing that you're put on is gonna
dig in dig into some sort of bone.
Thanks thanks for asking me like that. Brad.
This
for a public update. This is what I
keep coming back for more than Or exactly.
Or abuse
more you say yeah. But, you know, we're
we're talking about training a little. We talked
a lot about what you can do at
home. But the importance of training is just
that. Right? The ability to pressure test the
equipment. A lot of people... A lot of
people, they get them, they get their permission
to carry, and they carry a gun and
their idea is... Alright. I'm going to get
something nice and small that I can conceal
real well and put it on my on
my waistband and have at it. But until
they start to come into our classes, like
host draw and pistol 1 because pistol one's
is very mechanical. We go over 1 handed
shooting, we go over a lot of reload
and and malfunction, like, you know, fail to
fire, failed to feed, stove pipe, double feeds.
Will you learn how to manipulate the firearm
through all those malfunction and mitigate those malfunction
and get the gun to work. So until
you pressure test your equipment,
you're not really knowing whether
you can do those reload. You can clear
those malfunction. You know you. You're not really
testing whether that draw is exactly going gonna
work. If you think about it, the ability
to draw your firearm in in a response
to an attack, let's say. Right? The ability
to draw your firearm and get a well
place around on a target. And under 2
seconds is what you're looking for
because you're probably gonna get hit if you're
if you're doing it slower.
So your equipment and your firearm
needs to be conducive
to that kind of response. So you have
to pressure test the equipment. You have to
see how good you are. If you're not
learning to a certain standard, you'll never really
know if you're getting any better. Right? So
So you have to pressure test. Otherwise, you'll
never know what's gonna go wrong, and we
all know about Murphy's law. What's gonna go
bad. Is gonna go bad. So
Yeah. Guys, I think that's pretty much a
rap. Tony.
Say goodbye, and thank you for everything. And
then Vlad is gonna plug his threat ref
reflex x and Sandy gonna take it over.
You guys sign up for some of these
urban classes. Tony You first.
Thank you very much everybody for, giving me
this opportunity.
Any any questions, any comments or anything like
that or anything you will... You need help
with. Don't be afraid to email me, tony
at gun gunfire dot com. Is is best
way to reach me not that I'm afraid
to to to talk to you, but I
don't want you to call on a day
that I'm off, and then I'm not getting
back to you for 2 3 days.
Send me an email I can send links
or anything like that. Or at least respond
to you that I got your your your
message. And and next time I'm in the
range I'll I'll be more than happy to
call you and and and talk to you.
Every retirement
denied. Yeah yeah. Everybody have a...
Everybody have a great summer, and I'll hope
to see you in a range.
Thank you. Vlad. Tell us about threat reflex
and give us a final word.
So always remember, right proper repetitive practice that
automatic permanent. So continue to train. But my
law enforcement officers out there. Come see me,
man. Those reps are important. Get better, get
better, get better. Those it's not getting any
nicer out there, so prepare. Right? Get better
at what you're using your tools and your
thinking process though a whole use of force
decision making, everything. We hit on everything. See
me,
find out all about it at threat flex
dot com. A Thank you so much, Anthony.
You're welcome. Thank you, guys. And. You're you're
the best trainee team ever. You make me
so proud. I love it. Alright, Sandy. Boris
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