Jeff Knox

Gun Writer & Second Amendment Activist. Ammoland, Firearms News, and others. Director, The Firearms Coalition.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@Mikem56118432M @Guntalk Many of those stations also stream the program, so you can listen via the internet. If no one in your area carries it, check what the local stations do carry in the time slot and consider asking them to carry GunTalk. Even better, ask your local gun shop to sponsor.

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@2awhiterook @FriendsofNRA And we're in the middle of a lawsuit with the Foundation. They'll make their claims and we'll make ours.

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@2awhiterook @FriendsofNRA Nick, You're full of crap. You just want to complain about everything. If you ever have something useful or productive to say, I'll be happy to listen. Now you'll complain that an NRA Director shouldn't call a member full of crap... My assessment is based on years of your BS.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@2awhiterook @FriendsofNRA My statement is accurate. The program has - from day one - been an NRA program that was done in cooperation with the NRA Foundation. Going forward, it remains an NRA program, but in cooperation with another NRA-affiliated C3.

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@HorseOneThms @evo1tactical I don't think it needs to be significant pain compliance, but it does need to be swift, clean, and have serious, long-term consequences. There are ways to do it, but it has to be planned and trained to ensure proper execution.

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@HorseOneThms @evo1tactical Handling aggressive protesters and mobs requires specialized strategies and training, which is woefully lacking right now. Trump needs to be training up a special corps of feds who focus just on such strategies and tactics. And YES, obstructionist gov officials need to pay.

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@MatrixMysteries She's apparently a good student, but just as apparently a crap employee.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@SStricklandMMA I've been hitting that safety without fail for over 40 years... In high-pressure training, competition, hunting (rabbits and coyote targets of opportunity) and daily carry. Why would I even think about making a major change now?

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@ABetterWay2A I don't agree with all of your reasoning and rationale, but I 100% agree with your conclusions. For decades I've asked Dem. friends why they would support giving a list of all gun owners - and the power to ban them - to a guy they think is a dictator.

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@News2ATeam @LouisvilleGun The problem now is that hog hunting has become too big a business. If every feral pig in the country keeled over tomorrow, there would be a whole bunch of people releasing domestic pigs into the wild next week.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@Fat_Electrician You are a Master Nic.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@HorseOneThms @evo1tactical My comments are just being lazy and using ICE as the umbrella, controlling agency. These were probably BP, could have been HSI, or even US Marshalls. Doesn't matter. They were feds who weren't trained to deal with what they're facing, and their ROE's look crappy too.

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@tomybee81 @evo1tactical @D25610 Okay. You're wrong. There's no comparison. Political reactionaries are overreacting and the feds are doing a poor job of deescalating. Most of the overreacting is based on any real overreaching by the feds, just politics and emotion - and very overheated rhetoric.

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This. And a big part of the review must be evaluation and retraining agents specifically for dealing with obstruction and protest. They're doing a terrible job so far. Trump should pull them out of MN for now, not double-down with more poorly trained officers.

[(TCAG) Командир Бред Кроуфорд (CDR Brad Crawford) @evo1tactical]

I do not usually comment on political posts, and this is not intended to be political. As we all know a tragic event happened in America. I am speaking strictly from a professional training and use of force perspective.

Before coming to train Ukrainians, I spent years training various law enforcement organizations through my company on use of force and high risk encounters. That background includes departmental policy, police training standards, threat assessment, de escalation, and the legal thresholds for justified and unjustified shootings.

Several facts matter here.

The individual involved was a licensed concealed carry holder from the state. He was legally permitted to carry a firearm, including in a public setting such as a protest. There was no violation of law simply by his possession of the weapon.

At no point did this individual draw, point, or openly brandish the firearm. The weapon was physically removed from him by law enforcement officers prior to the shooting. Once that occurred, the immediate deadly threat no longer existed.

When a weapon is secured and officers have physical control of a subject, the legal and training based justification for deadly force disappears. At that stage, the situation transitions to control, restraint, and de escalation. Deadly force is reserved for an active, imminent threat, not a past or hypothetical one.

Any use of deadly force also carries an absolute responsibility to consider public safety. Officers are trained to identify their backstop and ensure that rounds fired do not endanger civilians or fellow officers. In this case, there were multiple officers and civilians directly within the potential line of fire. The risk of catastrophic injury, friendly fire, or unintended civilian casualties was extremely high.

Equally important, this incident does not align with established de escalation principles. Rather than slowing the encounter, increasing distance, and reducing risk, the situation was escalated rapidly to lethal force after control had already been achieved. That is the opposite of what modern policing doctrine teaches.

Based on the available video footage, camera angles, and observable officer behavior, this incident reflects failures in threat assessment, use of force decision making, backstop awareness, and de escalation. From a professional standpoint, it represents a breakdown across multiple training and policy standards.

This is a tragic outcome. It deserves a serious, objective review grounded in established law enforcement practices, not emotion or politics.

This definatley deserves a full independent investigation and review.

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@jeffcharlesjr Absolutely.

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

Let's get @MrColionNoir more involved in NRA 2.0.

[NRA @NRA]

At @nssfshotshow, @MrColionNoir tells NRA EVP & CEO Doug Hamlin: the fight for the Second Amendment is happening right now.

“We need all hands on deck. It is that serious.”

Now is not the time to be complacent.

Get in the fight: https://t.co/4p5ZIRIY8G 🇺🇸

[Jeff Knox @JeffKnox]

@amuse @shiflett_tx Your "irony" feeds their narrative. Stop it. He was stupid and the ICE agents were ill-trained. plenty of blame all around.