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The same thing has happened with the renaming of the "mozambique" to "failure drill".
Political Correctness (PC) has Raised it's Ugly Head, in firearms training.
We have taught and been taught that a convenient way to carry a
long gun while armed with a handgun is African Carry.
African Carry means that the long gun is carried with the muzzle
down on the support side shoulder. To the best of my knowledge
this technique, oddly enough, originated in Africa over 50 years ago
As an aside, American Carry means carrying the long gun on
the strong side with the muzzle up. I am sure that you can see
the problem with this method.
Over the past month I have heard, but not confirmed, that the
African Carry method is still being taught at a number of
major training schools but being call something else. It is my
understanding that the new name is being used to be more PC.
I do not know the new name, but I think it is something like
"Support Side Muzzle Down Carry"
After Obama held his health care reform rally in Portsmouth, NH,
my wife wrote a letter to the editor that described the individual at the rally that was carrying both a long gun and a hand gun. She correctly used the phrase "African Corry" to describe how the long gun was carried. While the letter was printed, the editor removed the words "African Carry" from her letter.
The reason that the editor gave for the change was that the offensive words were not PC
This is flaming stupid, when you consider that the word "African' refers to a location, or rather a continent. Ther is nothing either racial or demeaning in these two words
Jim Conway
Staff Instructor - Neshooters, LLC
www.neshooters.com
'Four Basic Truths of Violent Assault'; They will happen closer, faster, more suddenly and with more power than most people believe. - Sgt Rory Miller
"You can always tell warriors. They don't reveal themselves in their saying, rather, they reveal themselves in their being."---Geoff Thompson
Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice merely increases the likelihood of repeating what you practice ...perfect or not
The same thing has happened with the renaming of the "mozambique" to "failure drill".
Check out the USPSA Northeast Section at www.uspsa-ne.org, and the USPSA nationals site at www.uspsa.org
what about Mexican carry.
Stop complaining about MA and Join GOAL if you want to make a difference.
ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
We don't have a Mexican president. Yet...Originally Posted by Mike-Mike
'PUGNA PRO PATRIA'
Soon, they'll have to change the name of the continent...
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I like my guns black and killy.
Since "Mozambique" and "Africa" are places or locations, maybe we are witnessing a new trend toward "Locational Correctness"
Jim Conway
Staff Instructor - Neshooters, LLC
www.neshooters.com
'Four Basic Truths of Violent Assault'; They will happen closer, faster, more suddenly and with more power than most people believe. - Sgt Rory Miller
"You can always tell warriors. They don't reveal themselves in their saying, rather, they reveal themselves in their being."---Geoff Thompson
Practice doesn't make perfect. Practice merely increases the likelihood of repeating what you practice ...perfect or not
Wait'll these guys find out about my Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches.
"Oh bother", said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.
Soon, they'll have to change the name of the continent...
I'm reminded of the end of Orwell's 1984, in which the imposed language (I think it's called doublespeak, if I remember correctly) has so "streamlined" (dumbed down) thought and dialectic that a comprehensive translation of the Declaration of Independence was one word long: crimespeak.
