funny gun conversations

[marksiwel]

An expert martial artist knows techniques for taking a handgun away from a perpetrator.

Yes, but the best one involves picking it up off the ground after you've been incapacitated. Guns aren't particularly good hand-to-hand weapons once you get past the element of surprise.

What could go wrong while trying to grab a gun thats pointed at you
1. You get shot.
2. You get someone else shot (Not you or the attacker but someone else in the area

You could also try, running, really fast, in a zig zag manner.
Chances of him firing on you are about lets say Half, chances of him hitting you half of that, chances of him hitting you and KILLING you, a quarter of that.

You staying there trying to fight with a gun involved arent good, also once you get the gun out of the way you still got a POed attacker to deal with who may have a knife/another gun/mace/ Krab Margov training

I choose run

[Baba Brad]

An expert martial artist knows techniques for taking a handgun away from a perpetrator. I'm not an expert, but in the past I've dabbled in some American Kenpo karate as well as some ju-jitsu, and I have a good friend who teaches Aikido and Judo in Oklahoma City. I've seen the techniques demonstrated, and they work if they can get close enough to you to grab the gun, and if you're too slow or hesitant pulling the trigger. Basically it involves grabbing the handgun and pushing it back and sideways forcing the handgrip past your thumb, and typically breaking the trigger finger in the process. It's nasty.

Which is why you should train gun retention techniques. Buy a cheap, airsoft or airsoft type gun and use it to train. The sting of the pellet lets you know when you fail.

OR

However, most thugs on the street aren't trained in martial arts, and if you're wise you try to avoid letting an attacker get within arm's reach of you before pulling the trigger.

MojoTexas

Best advice right there. Why is the bad guy that close to you? If you perceived the threat enough to draw (or make known you have ) your weapon, why did you wait until he was close enough to touch? Put some distance between yourself and the BG.

But in the even it is unavoidable, it is a good idea to learn techniques for retaining your weapon. And to practice said techniques. Not once or twice, but often.

But please, never with a real gun. Use a plastic/rubber trainer or a cap gun (do they even still make those?) or an airsoft type. Don't try the Jet Li/John Travolta remove the slide from the gun, just work on retaining control of your weapon so that the BG doesn't shoot you with your own gun.


That would suck.