Understand the Pivot Point When Drawing a Gun

Video Transcript

"Again, reiteration is the name of the game here on these segments. These are very very important key points and I'm trying to drive them home. Marksmanship is fun, you know it's a sport and for some people it's a means of existences whether you in the military or you in law enforcement. It may be used to save your life or the life of someone else. These key points, we have to drive them home. When I spoke earlier about lasing, there's a term used with firing instructors that said we were lasing. If you had a laser, and we all heard the stories about how these lasers are like rays of light and they are razor sharp and if they go across your arm, it will cut your arm clean off. Well, we look at firearms in the same way. Anything that crosses in the front of that barrel is considered cut off by a laser. It's not good, anything you're not willing to shoot or destroy or kill, you should never point a weapon at. There are certain instances where you just sometimes are as careful as you can, that's why we have things like finger off the trigger, come to low ready, all these other different contingence plans, but the main plan is not to lase people and not to have your finger on the trigger. So, when you draw, again, here, here, out. I'm not drawing going, like this, I'm not coming from the holster going like this, I'm not coming out the holster going like this because when I just did that I just lased both of you and then I got on my target. Now, think if I had my finger on the trigger and somebody shot at the same time, then somebody could have got injured or possibly killed. That's why we keep our finger here, and we keep it simple stupid, KISS, K I S S, keep it simple stupid. You grab the weapon, out, punch it out, you fire, you come back, same thing, I'm not lasing myself and I'm not lasing myself and I'm not lasing anyone around me. I can do that all day and nobody is in danger. Nobody, except the ground behind me. That's okay, I can't kill anything, can't kill anything if I hit the ground. That's the type of training we trying to get into and we trying to drive those points home. Don not lase people, finger discipline, and muzzle discipline is a must."