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When we hear fastest gun draw in the sports and trick shooting world we all think of Bob Munden. If you seen him shoot from the hip with his .45 revolver, its just simply beyond comprehension of how fast he shoots. Matter of fact a while back when the History channel did a special on him. They clocked him on the draw at 1/10 of a second. For the math whiz you understand that’s fast, but for the layman. It means within a blink of an eye and the shot is over. That’s what I mean by beyond comprehension of...

DES MOINES, Iowa,- A Des Moines, Iowa, police officer accidentally fired his gun while practicing his quick draw skills in an airport office, a police report says. Officer Brady Pratt, 23, was in a Des Moines International Airport office Wednesday afternoon and drew his weapon to practice "his quick draw skills" and "unknowingly had his finger on the trigger and discharged a round into the ceiling tile," the report states. The bullet struck the ceiling, traveled through a wall and into a ceiling tile in an unoccupied adjacent hallway. No one was injured, but another police officer was present to...

10.24.14: Elections, Emergency Preparedness - This Week on Gun Talk Radio Mandeville, LA - It's mid-term election time, emergency and survival preparedness kits, and more, this week on Tom Gresham's Gun Talk® Radio, the original nationally-syndicated radio talk show about guns and the shooting sports. Jake McGuigan, Director of State Affairs for National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), stops by Gun Talk on Sunday with the latest election and voting information, and why it's imperative that every registered voter gets out and votes, either in early election or absentee, or on Election Day this November 4th. Find out more at http://www.gunvote.org....

Witness now the man who does something incredibly stupid doing "quick draw" practice. I admit...I just about peed myself laughing.

CHAPARRAL, N.M. -- Two southern New Mexico men are recovering after accidentally shooting themselves while trying to trace a loaded .357-caliber Magnum as a pattern for a tattoo. The Otero County Sheriff's Department identified the men as Robert Glasser and Joey Acosta. Both are 22. The sheriff's department said deputies responded to the shooting in Chaparral on Thursday evening, but Glasser and Acosta were already on their way to a hospital in nearby El Paso, Texas. Authorities say Glasser was struck in the hand when the gun accidentally went off. Acosta was hit in the left arm. The injuries were...

Jef Raskin, the human-computer interface expert largely credited with beginning the Macintosh project for Apple Computer, died Saturday at age 61. Raskin, the author of The Humane Interface, died of cancer, according to a man who answered the telephone Sunday at Raskin's Pacifica, Calif., home. Raskin joined Apple in January 1978 as employee No. 31, but left the company in 1982 amid a well-documented dispute with Steve Jobs. The Macintosh was launched in 1984. Reskin was an assistant professor at the University of California, San Diego, and a visiting scholar at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory in the 1970s when...