1 June 01

>From a friend in the publishing business. This trick may be widely known, I, for one, didn't know about it!

"I have a solution to the problem glasses fogging on the range. It really comes in handy here in the damp Pacific Northwest.

Always have on your range a pump bottle of Dial Liquid Hand Soap or a bottle of liquid dish detergent. Add a drop to the lenses of your shooting glasses, spread it around and wipe it clean with a soft cloth, NOT a paper towel. This treatment will prevent fogging for and entire day.

If too much detergent is applied, one may experience streaking. If it happens, simply breath on the lenses and then wipe them off.

It solves the fogging problem here. You students and colleagues may find it helpful in other parts of the Country."

/John

1 June 01

>From an LEO friend and trainer in South Africa:

"I'm on the carpet again for suggesting that the department convert to the manually decocking version of the old-style CZ-75 we all carry. As you know, most of us presently don't carry this pistol cocked and locked, because the garbage holsters the guys are issued routinely rubs the manual safety into the ‘off' position. Of course, this ‘empty-chamber' carry method assumes that one's weak-side hand will always be available for the next emergency AND that there will be no feeding problems. Heaven help us when we have to draw and shoot immediately, and our weak hand is not available. It's one of many critical issued that are continuously ignored by management.

On another subject, we had a fatal vehicular pursuit here yesterday. Local police were giving chase to a hijacked vehicle. They radioed ahead, and the police from the adjacent precinct were standing by to assist as the hijackers entered their area. As the suspect vehicle sped past the boundary, one of the officers called upon to assist stepped out into the road and fired a number of shots from his pistol at the vehicle after it had passed. This officer was then struck by one of the pursuing police vehicle and was fatally injured. He died at the scene.

Over here, we still have officers who think they can influence the motion of a car by shooting at it with a pistol, and, of course, we don't have ‘Stop Sticks' or any of that stuff you guys take for granted. We're doing the best we can, John"

/John