I'll put up one more of our "atypical" gun disarms to show how a "held at gunpoint" situation can be dissected, the goal being to form a plan that follows the THREE RULES of gun disarms:
1. Get off the muzzle line.
2. Gain control of the weapon or the weapon-bearing limb.
3. Begin the beatdown.
In this scenario, we have a smarter criminal who may have actually had a bit of training! He holds me away from him (and the gun) by grasping my shirt and keeps the firearm in the "retention" position. The retention position was developed as a means of close-quarter use of the gun without exposing it to be grabbed by the opponent. Note how I am unable to reach the gun from my position, and he is able to control me if I attempt to reach across to grab the gun:
Since I cannot reach toward the gun (I will certainly be shot, we've tried thousands of times), I'll have to adopt a different strategy. One of the classic methods of achieving positional dominance is to "take the back' of the opponent. Almost all of an opponent's possible offense can only be directed into his forward hemisphere, with his flanks and back relatively undefended. Here, I'll smack his arm at the elbow joint (like spanking him sharply), so that the stinging impulse allows me to get off the muzzle line and begin to move BEHIND him. The side view shows that the muzzle is no longer on me.
Of course, since I don't yet have much control over him, I need to get going and get a hold of him in such a manner that he can't simply turn and point the gun at me again. I'll continue to "slide" along his back, assisted by pulling his non-gun arm across my chest. Note how his hand grabbing my shirt cannot stop me from rotating around his grip and continuing my movement across his back. If he tries to maintain his grip, it will actually force his arm to contort and assist my motion.
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1. Get off the muzzle line.
2. Gain control of the weapon or the weapon-bearing limb.
3. Begin the beatdown.
In this scenario, we have a smarter criminal who may have actually had a bit of training! He holds me away from him (and the gun) by grasping my shirt and keeps the firearm in the "retention" position. The retention position was developed as a means of close-quarter use of the gun without exposing it to be grabbed by the opponent. Note how I am unable to reach the gun from my position, and he is able to control me if I attempt to reach across to grab the gun:
Since I cannot reach toward the gun (I will certainly be shot, we've tried thousands of times), I'll have to adopt a different strategy. One of the classic methods of achieving positional dominance is to "take the back' of the opponent. Almost all of an opponent's possible offense can only be directed into his forward hemisphere, with his flanks and back relatively undefended. Here, I'll smack his arm at the elbow joint (like spanking him sharply), so that the stinging impulse allows me to get off the muzzle line and begin to move BEHIND him. The side view shows that the muzzle is no longer on me.
Of course, since I don't yet have much control over him, I need to get going and get a hold of him in such a manner that he can't simply turn and point the gun at me again. I'll continue to "slide" along his back, assisted by pulling his non-gun arm across my chest. Note how his hand grabbing my shirt cannot stop me from rotating around his grip and continuing my movement across his back. If he tries to maintain his grip, it will actually force his arm to contort and assist my motion.
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