I’m thankful that we seldom witness the loss of an American Rifleman field editor, but, unfortunately for the entire shooting community, that occurred recently with the passing of combat handgun authority Wiley Clapp. And it’s all capped off with a stateside shoot that proves old guns can still do the jobs for which they were designed—even for the armed citizen who simply wishes to add meat to the pot. You may have noticed that, in each of the examples cited above, more seasoned shooters serve to educate those who come after them. Such passing down of knowledge is essential to the cultivation of an active and widespread shooting community. You may have also noticed the repetitive use of “the armed citizen,” which is by no means intended as a trite turn of phrase—after all, it is the name of one of this magazine’s longest-standing and most popular columns.