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MODIFICATIONS & CCW GUNS

There may be a time where a prosecutor will try to make an issue out of the newfangled optical sight on a pistol someone used in self-defense. In fact, it’s likely already happened, and there’s a long history of attacking the gun in court, as opposed to the individual. The logic is that “if the gun is evil, the owner must be, too.”

I’ve been involved in the firearms training industry long enough to have seen progression, starting with officers putting custom grips on their Smith & Wesson Model 19 revolvers and then laser grips on those same revolvers, to using semi-auto pistols and night

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