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WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:59 pm
by Smokey
WFAA in Dallas is planning on doing pieces every day this week featuring gun topics. One of the ads I've seen a couple times involves them "testing" LTCers in a simulated mass shooting where the shooter has an AR-15 type rifle.

Might be interesting to watch.

Hopefully they also know going up against AR-15s is not the only reason to carry a gun.

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:01 am
by Jago668
And hopefully they don't do it like the one show where they had a police firearms instructor who knew who the carrier was and targeted him first. Also the carriers were not trained.

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:20 am
by cyphertext
Jago668 wrote:Also the carriers were not trained.
Like 95% (or more) of licensed carriers?

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:21 am
by SA_Steve
We will get him at mag change time...if not before
from all angles

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:23 am
by Jago668
cyphertext wrote:
Jago668 wrote:Also the carriers were not trained.
Like 95% (or more) of licensed carriers?
Yes, but when you send a trained attacker in targeting an untrained carrier how is that in any way representative?

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 12:32 am
by cyphertext
Jago668 wrote:
cyphertext wrote:
Jago668 wrote:Also the carriers were not trained.
Like 95% (or more) of licensed carriers?
Yes, but when you send a trained attacker in targeting an untrained carrier how is that in any way representative?
This is true, but the attacker may have a plan and they do have the element of surprise. I wouldn't expect the carrier to come out on top in most of these demos, even if it were untrained vs untrained.

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:03 am
by stingeragent
Is there a link to this anywhere?

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:46 am
by Bladed
stingeragent wrote:Is there a link to this anywhere?
This is all I could find:

https://www.facebook.com/wfaachannel8/v ... permPage=1

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:17 am
by Richbirdhunter
I got my CHL from DFW shooter academy and I bought a silencer there too, I was invited to be apart of this program. I couldn't make it I'm interested in watching it

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 8:19 am
by anygunanywhere
I am certain that this will be the ultimate example of journalistic objectivity and fairness.

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 9:38 am
by doncb
Wonderful. I wonder if they will have OCT participate? They seem to be the face of LTC these days. I've seen C.J. interviewed at least 3 times since 1/1.

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Mon Jan 11, 2016 2:44 pm
by Bladed
Here is the preview they aired this morning: http://www.wfaa.com/videos/news/local/2 ... /78620732/

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:24 am
by RPBrown
Here's the link to the first section. It was pretty good.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/2016/01/ ... /78655818/

Re: WFAA gun discussions this week

Posted: Tue Jan 12, 2016 8:39 am
by Smokey
RPBrown wrote:Here's the link to the first section. It was pretty good.

http://www.wfaa.com/story/news/2016/01/ ... /78655818/
Yeah it was. I was surprised at how well some of the participants fought the active shooter even with having very little training.