Lately my email box has been relatively devoid of death threats, so perhaps it's time to jump back into the deep end of the controversy pool and shout a major heresy: I think it might be time to ban the term "Weaver Stance." Now, before anyone starts concocting plans to roast my gizzard on a spit and serve it with fava beans, let me explain. If you've lived under a rock for the last half-century, the Weaver stance is the basic body position used as the foundational basis of the "Modern Pistol Technique" developed by Col. Jeff Cooper. He coined the phrase after watching Jack Weaver, a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff, figuratively kick everyone's fanny during Cooper's famed "Leatherslap" pistol competitions in the late 1950s.
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