To All Visitors:

A Shooting Guide for the Blind

This is a guide regarding the proper application of firearms, especially by those with any degree of visual impairment, with an emphasis on safe firearms usage when engaging in activities such as hunting, target shooting, and even self-defense at home or on the street. In these pages, the author, Mr. McWilliams, utilizes his thirty years of certified gun training to teach others with visual impairments, as well as those seeking to train them, all the various methods that have allowed him to pass countless shooting exams to obtain a number of state-issued concealed carry permits and hunting licenses. For this guide’s creation, real guns from the author’s personal firearms collection were used as props for certain technical sections, as well as old written text and recorded lectures obtained during his training through the National Rifle Association, law enforcement, and even the United States Army. Topics include how to identify, load, unload, and work with different types of firearms without the benefit of sight, how the military’s techniques in close-quarters combat governs defensive shooting by the blind, case studies and official government research debunking the myth that blind people pose a greater danger than the sighted regarding firearm usage, and how to find resources to obtain training certification. This book, however, is only intended as a prelude to official gun training by a licensed instructor, not as a stand-alone manual for perspective blind gun users. It is the author’s wish that such information included here bridges the gap between blind Americans and their constitutional right to bear arms.

Above is the link to my gun demo where I fire a piece of history in a Kansas City Typewriter also known as Thompson submachinegun.

Special 2017 Note to All Visitors

I have taken a temporary leave from the outdoor sports to pursue more states’ CCWs, completing more live fire exercises and documentation of my shooting ability to expand the number of my current active permits from two to now four with more pending. I have also chosen to revisit old disputes, filing my grievances with legal sources to try and overturn past mistakes. Discomfort is no legal reason to block or interfere with another citizen’s civil rights. There are no numbers to support the blind being more dangerous than the sited in this area, prohibiting them from their God-given right to self-defense by using their Second Amendment Rights. In fact, the news is filled with stories of sight creating fear that blurs judgement, resulting in wrongful death by people with perfect vision.

Throwing all state-proscribed live fire testing requirements aside, defensively, a blind concealed carrier is restricted to what the military calls “Close Quarters Combat”, which basically means shooting at contact ranges, or in other words, pointblank range. Such insures both target identification and establishes the need for such action to protect the health and life of the blind conceal carrier. As far as the safety of objects beyond the assailant, in the real world, there is no time amid the jostling of an actual attack to do all the checks before shooting. I’ve been attacked, I know. Such checks are more for hunting and or target shooting. And if you can check the shot, aim and fire with a steady hand, then you obviously didn’t fear for your life, which is the single, most important criteria for the use of lethal force. Besides, the fact that there is no time to put in hearing protection against a defensive shot creates a natural pause for the blind, as you know that at least some of your hearing will be sacrificed for your life. As for me, I will return to the hunt for more predators soon.

Thunderbirds

Proud to be a Red Neck

Second Apex Predator

Blind Wing Shooter Bags Texas Teal

Blind Marksman Verses Bbbbiiiigggg Gator

A shot of Wild Turkey

Tyrannobuck

Birds: Robin Hood Style

NOW THAT'S FISHING, RIGHT THERE!

Totally Blind Shark Hunter Battles Monster Tiger Shark

Dreams Really Do Come True

Sentenced to Whale Jail for Two Hours

Meeting a Hall of Famer

Not Quite Faster Than a Speeding Bullet, But Close

In memoriam

Kyle Marple, 37, Fargo, formerly Elbow Lake, Minn., died as a result of injuries suffered in a skydiving accident. Below is the complete video of our first jump. He shall be missed.

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