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Tyranthraxus posted...

The problem is that it's practically impossible to pull that off unless the shooter is distracted somehow. Virtually every video demonstration of trying to rip a gun out of someone's hand results in the trigger finger winning that race.

You also need to be pretty accurate with your hands while the person with the gun can afford to be sloppy.

I don't really know how the dynamic changes when the gun starts holstered and the other person is already within grappling range but generally speaking, in a real life or death situation, 100% of hand to hand combat experts recommend a gun.

It can and has worked. It's just risky as hell.

Funny but sad story. We correctional officers are poorly trained. We get taught one time and get a refresher every few years. But one CO was being robber and he managed to effectively use his training and disarm the guy of his gun. But he handed the gun back to him and promptly got shot.

And that's what we call a training scar. Back in the day in training you'd do the drill and hand the fake gun back so you could do it again. So because that's what his muscle memory was dummy handed the gun back. Now days because of that incident we do the drill and then the person who took the gun becomes the mugger. Basically we take turns now instead of the one person doing it repeatedly for awhile before switching