Georgiy Uchaykin slipped the knife from his pocket and slashed the freezing air of the shooting range in downtown Kyiv. One cutting arc, then another stab.
“Look,” said the 56-year-old chairman of the Ukrainian Gun Owners Association (UGOA). “When men come at you with a knife you don’t have much time. They move quickly.” He pointed the knife towards me. “That’s why gun owners train themselves to draw and shoot within one and a half seconds.”
Uchaykin, a bald, heavy-set man wearing jeans and T-shirt, grinned. “You can’t overstate the importance of guns.” He said he had started teaching his grandson to shoot when the boy turned seven.
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