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Street Smarts: Active Shooter Takedowns & Tactics
If you’re a plainclothes officer, keep an AR-15 in your vehicle’s trunk to effectively stop an active shooter and their reign of terror. Eliminating an active shooter begins outside the scene. Here...
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Gun Test: Mossberg’s MVP Patrol 7.62mm
Mossberg’s MVP Patrol offers bolt-action precision, 7.62mm power and box-mag-fed versatility. The MVP Patrol comes with a 10-round magazine, and the rifle can use M1A and LR-308/SR-25-style magazines...
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Everyday Heroes: Officer Traci Shaw
Aside from training recruits, Officer Shaw still works uniformed details and patrol armed with her issued Smith & Wesson M&P40 pistol. Aside from training recruits, Officer Shaw still works...
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Gun Review: Walther’s PPX SD 9mm Handgun
"… the trigger seemed to be ideal for a pistol that could be utilized for hostage-rescue or dynamic-entry SWAT missions." The Walther PPX SD comes with a threaded barrel for adding a sound suppressor,...
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The Walther CCP (Concealed Carry Pistol) features an ergonomic molded and textured polymer grip that melts into your hand; a rounded, trapezoidal slide with front and rear grasping grooves;...
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12 Gun-Grab Busting Holsters For Law Enforcement
5.11 Tactical has gone way beyond its standard-setting clothing line to produce other law-enforcement-related equipment, including security holsters. The new polymer Level II ThumbDrive holster was...
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7 Must-Have Accessories For Sniper Rifles
BlackHawk’s Stalker Drag Mat functions both as a carry bag and a shooting mat. Constructed of durable 1,000-denier nylon and closed-cell foam for interior protection, the BlackHawk Stalker bag...
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Door Busters: 2 Emergency Breaching Kits
LEOs tackle a tough door by using a pry bar and a lightweight ram for quick, one-shot breaching. A narcotics officer prepares to gain entry using Kodiak’s pry bar and sledgehammer. BlackHawk Dynamic...
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Gun Review: Walther PPQ M2 9mm
My first duty pistol as a full-time law enforcement officer—specifically as an undercover Ohio Liquor Control investigator—was a blued Walther PPK/S in .380 ACP. At the time, the Walther PPK was not...
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Gun Review: Rock River Arms LAR-15 Delta CAR 5.56mm
When it comes down to it, officers need a simple, sturdy and reliable carbine for patrol duty—one that will be there for them when they need it and can be counted upon for every shot. As I opened the...
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Street Smarts: Active Shooter Takedowns & Tactics
We spend a lot of time discussing, writing about and training for active-shooter events in our jurisdictions. These activities are tremendously important and have led to a positive evolution of the...
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Gun Test: Mossberg’s MVP Patrol 7.62mm
There is no doubt that in the world of patrol rifles, the 5.56mm AR-15 of some sort or another is the norm, not the exception, in the 21st century. Compact, reliable, accurate and effective for most...
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Everyday Heroes: Officer Traci Shaw
Likely the only one of the 185 Columbus, Ohio, police officers to have been raised on a dairy farm, Officer Traci Shaw, a recruit training officer at the academy, is one of several officers assigned...
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Gun Review: Walther’s PPX SD 9mm Handgun
Walther recently introduced several new handguns aimed at the law enforcement market. One of these new pistols is the PPX. Available in 9mm or .40 S&W, the PPX is also available in a...
View ArticleGun Review: Walther’s Single-Stack CCP 9mm Handgun
The Walther CCP (Concealed Carry Pistol) features an ergonomic molded and textured polymer grip that melts into your hand; a rounded, trapezoidal slide with front and rear grasping grooves;...
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12 Gun-Grab Busting Holsters For Law Enforcement
Recent and unfortunate events have shown how police contacts can suddenly change from a normal conversational contact to a life-and-death struggle. These events have also served as a reminder of how...
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7 Must-Have Accessories For Sniper Rifles
It is understandable and natural that in a publication such as this, the primary focus of articles would be on the sniper rifle, optics and various accessories that could be mounted on the rifle. The...
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Door Busters: 2 Emergency Breaching Kits
We all know the paradigm shift that was caused by the Columbine mass murder on April 20, 1999. When one of these tragedies begins, street cops don’t wait for SWAT—they go in with small rapid response...
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