After the lessons of the stop-kick, and the choke defense, the seminar went on to protecting someone from a gun threat.
Believe it or not, this is not a difficult maneuver. It's not very stressful, or exhausting, though the most difficult part comes when the threat is already disarmed.
Premise: You see a bystander being threatened with a gun. You step in, and by this we mean you nearly step past the attacker. If the attacker is on your left, step with your right, and vice versa. Like with the choke defense, this allows you to twist towards the attacker with ease.
At the same time you're stepping into the attacker's arm, you grab the gun by the barrel and the gun wrist with all five fingers, and you are pushing it off-line ... off-line merely means you're redirecting the muzzle of the gun away from the person you're trying to protect. IE: you're getting someone else out of the way of the gun.
Make sure the palm is face-down during the grab, otherwise, you lose some of the flexibility you'll need to pull this off.
The next step is easy -- while pushing the gun away from you, one pulls the wrist towards you. The effect will be to twist the gun out of the person's hand. If you are coming at the attacker from the same side as the gun arm, you can move onto the next step ....
However, if someone is coming in from the other side of the gun (eg: gunman is holding it in his right hand, you are coming from the left), there's a slight problem: the finger will most likely get caught in the trigger guard. While that helps you by breaking the trigger finger, it will require that you pull the gun off of the finger.
After this, all one needs to do then is to bring the gun up, and then strike the person with it ... in this case, make certain that the muzzle faces the attacker AT ALL TIMES. This basically means you're striking the person WITH the point of the gun.
Now, the defender has a gun, the attacker has a headache. What do you do with the protectee? You basically turn the gun on the attacker, and step back into your protectee. You grab the protectee's arm so he doesn't flail about, and you back him up, keeping him behind you at all times.
Next: protecting a hostage.
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