Shooting to Live With the One-Hand Gun 0873640276, 9780873640275

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SHOOTING TO LIVE CAPT. W.E. FAIRBAIRN AND CAPT. E.A. SYKES

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LIVE GUN

BY CAPTAIN WILLIAM EWART FAIRBAIRN LATE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER, SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL POLIOE AND

CAPTAIN LATE

OFFICER

ERIC

ANTHONY

IN CHARGE SNIPERS UNIT, MUNICIPAL POLICE

SYKES SHANGHAI

ILLUSTRATED BY RANDOLPH SCHWABE, SLADE PROFESSOR OF FINE ART IN THB UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, MAINLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY Mason F. A. R. LEITAO, SHANGHAI

PALADIN PRESS BOULDER, COLORADO

Shooting to Live by Captain William Ewart Fairbairn and Captain Eric Anthony Sykes Copyright © 1987 by Paladin Press ISBN 0-87364-027-6 Printed in the United States of America

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PREFACE Ir may be said that there is already a sufficiency of books on the one-hand gun and its uses. Some justification for an addition to the list might be considered to exist if the subject could be presented from a different angle, and that is what is now attempted. Shooting to Live describes methods developed and practised during an eventful quarter of a century and adopted, in spite of their unorthodoxy, by one police organisation after another in the Far East and elsewhere. It is the authors’ hope that their relation of these methods may contribute to the efficiency, and therefore safety, of those whose lot it is to use the one-hand gun in the course of duty.

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