Suarez International Group Of Companies
13 APRIL 2012

Rules For The Gunman 

 

 

1).  Don't carry the gun to make you a man. Carry because you are in fact a man. 

 

2).  Always carry your gun regardless of social pressures

 

3).  If you can't physically carry a gun, always have a knife.

 

4).  Whenever you carry a gun, also carry a knife...and some spare ammunition.

 

5).  Carry the gun you can use best regardless of social fashion

 

6).  Make sure you are good with that gun through continual and obsessive practice

 

7).  Don't bluff or threaten with the gun. If you pull it, be certain you are justified and willing to use it.

 

8).  Using it means shooting the other man or men in the chest and/or the face. Yes, it means killing.

 

9).  If you can avoid having to shoot, it is a good thing, but do not second guess yourself once it has begun.

 

11).  To facilitate the former, do not go to stupid places with stupid people to do stupid things at stupid times.

 

12).  If you are involved in such activities, take a team with you....and rifles.

 

13).  The default should be to mind your own business.

 

14).  The only time minding your own business is superceded by getting involved is if what you see shocks the conscience of humanity and needs to be stopped.

 

15).  The amount of violence you can justify and the number of rules you can break is directly proportionate to the level of evil displayed by your adversary.

 

16).  Never apologize for using violence. Not only is it indicative of weakness but also of a lack of moral standing.

 

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TSD COMBAT SYSTEMS VEPR  

 

TSD COMBAT SYSTEMS - VEPR 7.62x39 CQB - TIER 2 

 

The VEPR CQB is a basic rifle.  We begin with a 7.62x39 VEPR rifle.  The weapon has all the necessary 922(r) issues taken care of, and modified to accept military 7.62x39 AK-47 magazines. The barrel is shortened to 14.5 and a Smith Enterprises Flash Eliminator is premanently affixed to the muzzle. 

 

We install a set of our VEPR CQB Handguards.  These consist of standard VEPR handguards textured with an epoxy coating like what is used in custom sniper grade rifle stocks. The standard 1000 meter windage adjustable rear sight remains as does the standard AK-style front sight. The rifle has a tuned G2 trigger kit as well as a US Palm pistol grip. 

 

The stock is our proprietary VEPR folding stock hinge.  TYhis is the strongest hinge available and light years ahead of anything that has come out of the ComBloc production lines.  Mirroring the Galil hinge, it is both strong and easy to fold and open without the need for special trunions or latches.  To that hinge/folding unit, we add a Magpul CTR buttstock.

 

This is an exceedingly light and handy rifle.  It comes with one new and unissued AK-47 steel magazine. 
 
THE GRAB N STABS ARE BACK IN STOCK
The SMG vs. The Shotgun
All weapons are "special weapons". Even the in-progress Universal Rifle is a special weapon in that its specialty if to everything adequately enough. So with our renewed interest in the SMG, the question will become one of comparisons.

Between the SMG and EDC Pistol there is no comparison. I am sitting in the safe house in Scottsdale at present and have a TSD Glock 17 in my belt. If a threat came to contaqct, I would not have to go and get anything...it is right here. When the XO and I go to dinner, it will be concealed under the Tommy Bahama shirt, ready in an eyeblink. The pistol is always there...just in case. A special tool in its own right, but it gives up quite a bit to be small and compact. It cannot compete with other weapons if the issue of a surprise reactive situation is not present. Nobody goes and fights with a pistol if something bigger is available.

But in the niche of the SMG is also the shotgun.

What does the shotgun have that the SMG does not? The shotgun has a great deal of power, but the cost of that is recoil. The shotgun has the capability to deliver a telling blow, but at the cost of target discretion.

Cooper used to hate the SMG as much as Taylor loved it. But he liked the shotgun because it most resembled his beloved rifle. And ignoring the combat history of how the shotgun was used, sought to turn it into a rifle vis-a-vis the use of slugs and choking the pattern to where it would deliver a single blow. In doing so, the most obvious advantage of the shotgun was lost.

The shotgun is also long. Even in an SBS configuration with some folding stock, it is considerably longer than even a modest third generation SMG.

The notion of versatility is false if we limit our discussion to anti-personnel use. There is buckshot and there is slugs. That is all that matters.

And it is indiscriminate. The guys that drone on about chokes and patterns are all very optimistic. But when I suggest they place their teenaged daughter inches from the intended target, the conversation gets quiet. They must put their money where their mouth is otherwise it is as Schwatzkopf so aptly stated, "Bovine Scatology".

The SMG is small, but can carry 32 or more rounds. And while those rounds do not impact en masse, they can be placed on a pin point with surgical accuracy and rapid succession.

The SMG can be fired by the most frail soccer mom to a strapping powerlifter, its recoil is so minimal. Add a sound suppressor and it becomes almost silly as a training tool. Add a red dot sight and a sound suppressor and it becomes something unfair in a fight.

The shotgun is difficult to use in a house clearing problem, but the SMG is a natural at such things. Trust me, I have done it for real with both many many times.

If you plan on hunkering down and setting up an ambush for the bad guys, the shotgun has an advantage over the SMG. If your fight will have all the bad guys to the front and no concern over innocents in their midst, the shotgun has an advantage over the SMG.

But.......

If you anticipate having to conduct a clearing or tactical maneuver, the SMG wins over the shotgun. If you need surgical accuracy and see a possibility of taking shots on bad guys in a mixed environment (good guys among bad guys), the SMG wins. If you are expecting to have a need to carry the weapon with you in a discreet manner, the SMG wins.

So it depends doesn't it. To see the advantages of each...as well as its liabilities, set up a pistol exercise...maybe the last IDPA match you did...or your agency's qual course. It doesn't matter as long as it is a pistol problem and not a rifle problem.

Then shoot it with a shotgun. Note your score and your time. Then do it again with an SMG, noting the same things. Then tell me what you found.

Our goal is not to slam the shotgun while promoting the SMG, but rather to identify the best role for each weapon.

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