Building Shooters, Author at Building Shooters

Police Skills Matter

Article 062 – Police Skills Matter: Inadequate skills result in tragic outcomes. Officers need tools and techniques that work, training that produces competence, and effective accountability structures that work before things go wrong on the street.

Why There’s No Off Ramp: Police Firearms Training Prevents De-escalation

Article 061 – Traditional training methods produce skills that are physically separated from the brain’s ability to process information and change behavior. This is no longer acceptable for armed professionals.

It’s Time for a Hollywood Reckoning

Article 060 – Leading members of Hollywood are known for virtue signaling—often with absurd hypocrisy. When it comes to gun safety, they should be held accountable for it.

Podcast – The Squad Room with Garrett TeSlaa

Thank you to Garrett TeSlaa for giving Dustin the opportunity to come on the podcast and discuss training design, brain science, the fundamental failures of training, and more. Great discussion, thanks Garrett! Podcast link here: https://www.thesquadroom.net/episode151/

A New Reality for Cops

Article 059 – A New Reality for Cops: The public now expects officers to be competent in use of force.

Gun Safety Failure

Article 058 – Gun Safety Failure: The “Rust” movie set tragedy highlights fatal flaws in traditional gun safety rules.

Second Order Effects

Article 057: Second Order Effects: The Unintended Impacts of Qualification Structure. When looking at the establishment of standards and criteria for large organizations (and, particularly, for training academies) it is also important to look at the unintended effects of these requirements.