Armed Response: Your Support Hand and the Draw

Most street encounters happen at very close distances. This is something you need to have in mind when practicing self defense scenarios with a handgun. In close encounters, your support hand might have to be used for other things than supporting the gun and you need to practice accordingly.

This series is produced for DRTV by Ralph Mroz and David Kenik.

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Ralph Mroz and David Kenik are the people behind the Armed Response DVD series. These video programs avoid both the simplistic advice that is too often given for armed self-defense, and on the other end of the spectrum, the over-macho “high-speed” “tactical” advice that is also both unrealistic and too prevalent. Instead the focus is on what is realistically possible for most people to do in these extreme circumstances. Mroz was a police officer for almost 20 years, most recently assigned to his county’s drug task force; Kenik is the firearms instructor for the Lake Arthur, NM police department.