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SureFire manufactures high-performance flashlights and tactical gear that helped revolutionize lighting tools and techniques in law enforcement. Following their traditions of innovation, SureFire has introduced the E1B Backup flashlight for officers in plainclothes assignments and off-duty carry.
The E1B is very compact: only 4″ long and weighing a mere 2.8 ounces. The flashlight […]

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An Atlanta Police Department recruit officer was sitting in his personal car when he was approached by a teenager armed with a shotgun. The off-duty recruit officer had been sitting in his car in the parking lot of his apartment complex using the free community wireless Internet on his laptop when the criminal approached […]

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As a police officer, you regularly arrest people. Very few want to go to jail. Some will fight, some will run their mouth about “seeing you off-duty.”
Anyone you have arrested can want revenge. Rarely will anyone act on those desires, but there is no way to know who will show up on […]

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Some of you may be sick of hearing this, but I don’t know if I can stress this enough: carry your gun off-duty. Heck, carry two or three.
Saturday, an off-duty SWAT member with the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville, Florida, shot an armed robber, ending a robbery attempt at a Winn Dixie supermarket. […]

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I have talked about this before: every police officer should carry at least one firearm off-duty. The reasons are plentiful, and on Wednesday, we saw another example of why I continue to push this point: mass murder.
In Omaha, Nebraska some nut-job decided to start killing innocent Christmas shoppers in the Westroads Mall. […]

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Disney World appears to have a strict no gun policy. No law-abiding citizen, including an off-duty police officer, is allowed to carry a firearm, concealed or otherwise, to protect their family from violent predators while at Disney World.
I searched Disney’s web site looking for clarification on this policy, but was unable to locate anything. […]

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