Any day we get a chance to check in with Robert Keller is a good day. After all, he’s not only a Special Operations legend, he’s also a renowned instructor and the founder and CEO of the Florida-based Gamut Resolutions training company. Suffice it to say his word carries a lot of weight with us over here at PersonalDefenseWorld.com. In the clip above, Keller demonstrates a simple immediate action pistol drill that could save your life.

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Immediate action refers to the action you take immediately after your pistol suffers a malfunction during a self defense situation, or, as Keller puts it in his inimitable style:

“If you only have a pistol on you and you’re actually engaging a threat, and your weapon goes ‘click’ and you don’t do anything…you’re dead.”

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Diligently practicing an immediate action pistol drill like the one Keller shows in this video will help to ensure that you’re never on the losing end of a lethal encounter.