William Fairbairn

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>>33814040
He's overrated as fuck. He came up with some cool shit but by-and-large it boiled down to fighting dirty like the criminals he was fighting and using weapons like theirs, you could say the same of the guy who started the pikal craze and sold backwards knives to rubes who have trouble mastering the secret art of holding a knife backwards. Come to think of it, the Russian NR40 came about in pretty much the same way, they literally just copied what criminals were using. What's more, nobody ever remembers the dumb shit Fairbairn advocated like hanging your knife off your shoulder like Chris Redfield.

All that said, being a giant meme might actually make him the most /k/ guy ever. Westaboos will get their dicks hard over the F-S for the rest of time.

>>33814251
>it boiled down to fighting dirty like the criminals he was fighting and using weapons like theirs

And he won every single time. So what does that tell you?

>>33814734
That he was fighting people who were more concerned with escaping the cops and avoiding prison than taking his life.

>>33814040
Sykes was objectively more /k/

And J.H. Fitzgerald was probably the most /k/ guy of all time.

"Shooting to Live" is how I actually shoot. Yes, really.

>>33814734
No he didn't. He didn't even claim too. In Shanghai, back when he was still green, he got the ever loving shit beat out of him by gangsters while trying to arrest one of their buddies. It's basically what inspired his obsession with effective self-defense. He would freely admit that no system makes you an impervious killing machine, but he could better your odds.

>>33814834
Fairbairn was a badass, but this is the truth.

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Just bought a 1942 edition of get tough on eBay, Fairbane is mah nigga. There's so much more to him than "Lol just fight dirty" he put the martial in martial artist

>>33814893
>back when he was still green
Yup. And that's why he became such a badass.

>>33814822

This

> be low-level Chinese gangster in Shanghai
> smuggling cigarettes or some bullshit
> some white guy kicks in your door and shouts "POLICE"
> your friend tries to surrender, but the white man stabs him in the throat
> he shoots you in the back as you're attempting to flee
> years later, he will write a book about his revolutionary combat technique that /k/iddos will worship

By the way, most "super cops" with high body counts from supposed shootouts straight-up executed their victims

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/confessions-of-a-killer-policeman-india-manipur

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>>33814040
>looks almost just like an employee I work with
>mfw he's actually threatened a coworker with adding his ears to his necklace

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>>33814822
Opium sellers, please go.

>>33814834
>J.H. Fitzgerald
>Weaver-stanced decades before Weaver
>Range buddied all the cops
>Range buddied his wife
>Apparently drew on 2 secret service agents to prove they were too slow
>Shitposts about fudds, criminal scum, and shitty officers in a published book
>Published a book titled "Shooting"
>Which includes sections on shooting from a car, bike or motorbike, and how to properly beat a man with your pistol
>Best known for bubbaing some revolvers
Ayup.

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>>33815267
Oh, and forgot:
>Invented Colt's silhouette target

>>33814040
What did his cops use in Shanghai? I remember that 1903 Ian did a video on

>>33815361
When he was in charge, he had his men carry 1911s with the safety switch permanently welded into the fire position. They were to carry them with charged magazines, no round in the chamber. He hated manual safeties, believing they too often held up the first shot at the critical moment, and racking the slide was a much more positive and sure way of deploying the pistol. He thought that with assiduous practice, drawing and racking could be done very nearly as quickly as just drawing. The obvious question becomes "Why not a revolver?" He believed that automatics could be fired more quickly, reloaded more easily, and were less susceptible to damage during long hard use in police work.

Now all of that said, given his emphasis on speed, I think he would've fallen in love with the Glock had he lived long enough to see it. The 1911 was the best tech he had in the 1920s, but a gun with no safety switch, high capacity, and can be fired very rapidly with relative ease fits easily into his methods and philosophy.

>"The more our fire sounds like a machine gun, the better." -W. E. Fairbairn

>>33815617
Even a DA/SA would have been a huge boon

Are there any books about him and/or Sykes?

Also, tell me about Eric Sykes.

>>33814040
>>fought in thousands of encounters in the Shanghai underworld and killed several hundred men with pistols, knives and bare hands


Gonna need a source for that. The guy saw some shit, I'll grand that, but thousands of fights and hundreds of corpses sounds like bullshit without a reliable source.

>>33815741
Celestials mate, no point keeping track, too many in any case, just another one on the body pyre.

>>33815741
I don't think he ever made such a claim. I think the only thing he did in the thousands is what we would today call "High Risk Warrant Service." I imagine most of these ended the way you would expect.
>Open the door
>"GET ON THE FLOOR!"
>Everybody walk to the paddy wagon, because you're arrested.
I recall a stat from "Shooting to live" comparing large numbers of suspects shot and killed compared to his men, but that was for everyone under his command, not just himself.

As for the number of altercations survived by the man himself, I don't think you'll find a figure more exact than "A lot."

>>33814996
The killingest lawman I know of was a prohibition era deputy and fed who worked at a time when bushwhacking armed suspects was common practice. Most of his kills probably didn't even know they were in a gun fight.

>>33815763
So bullshit?

>>33815741
During the Interwar period, Shanghai was the most dangerous city on Earth.

To the point that Fist of the North Star has a spin-off there.