at the big stick,as for waving around blindly not quite but get your jist ,to the rest of your post,we know that ,
i want to help with a cure for him not state the obvious to him again and again i tried that it didnt work,the only way to describe it properly is almost like he scared of it,does that make sense,seen it in the army years ago,yes long before we got the sa80 when a good old slr was the tool for the job at the time,frightened many a recruit seems he has the same symptoms