{"id":1022,"date":"2016-03-27T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T16:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?page_id=1022"},"modified":"2017-01-30T20:47:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T04:47:24","slug":"everything-turns-gray-sigarms-velocity-winter-2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/?page_id=1022","title":{"rendered":"Everything Turns Gray: The Bruce Gray Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sigarms used to publish a magazine called <em>Velocity<\/em>. This interview with pistolsmith and USPSA\/IPSC Grand Master Bruce Gray was in the Winter 2003 issue. This was toward the tail end of the Assault Weapons Ban, and we had just had the first-ever Factory Gun Nationals, you&#8217;ll note some comments on those, so in that sense this article is a bit dated. Still, good to get insight into the early years of &#8220;combat&#8221; pistol shooting, and its evolution over the decades, from a man who&#8217;s been shooting IPSC since well before IPSC even existed. That stuff is timeless, and needs to be recorded.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Turns Gray-1\" width=\"960\" height=\"1303\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1.jpg 960w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1-754x1024.jpg 754w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-1-624x847.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Turns Gray-2\" width=\"960\" height=\"1325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1025\" srcset=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2-217x300.jpg 217w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2-742x1024.jpg 742w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-2-624x861.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Turns Gray-3\" width=\"960\" height=\"1314\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1026\" srcset=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3.jpg 960w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3-748x1024.jpg 748w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-3-624x854.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Turns Gray-4\" width=\"960\" height=\"1307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1027\" srcset=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4.jpg 960w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4-220x300.jpg 220w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4-752x1024.jpg 752w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-4-624x850.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5.jpg\" alt=\"Everything Turns Gray-5\" width=\"960\" height=\"2329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1028\" srcset=\"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5.jpg 960w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5-124x300.jpg 124w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5-422x1024.jpg 422w, https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Everything-Turns-Gray-5-624x1514.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sigarms used to publish a magazine called Velocity. This interview with pistolsmith and USPSA\/IPSC Grand Master Bruce Gray was in the Winter 2003 issue. This was toward the tail end of the Assault Weapons Ban, and we had just had the first-ever Factory Gun Nationals, you&#8217;ll note some comments on those, so in that sense [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":221,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/articles.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1022","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1022"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1856,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1022\/revisions\/1856"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/self-defense-handguns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}