The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) announced in January, 2018 the approval of the first active shooter/mass casualty standard for Fire and EMS services. The NFPA 3000 is currently a "provisional standard" (PS), and will still require a significant amount of review before final approval as a full NFPA standard. However, this move by NFPA is monumental! Previous … [Read more...]
Analysis of the Orlando “Lone Wolf” Terrorist Attack
In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 12th, 2016 an American-born, alleged radicalized Muslim terrorist walked into Pulse, an LGBT bar in Orlando, Florida and committed the worst mass murder in the U.S. since the 9/11 attacks. An Orlando Police officer working at Pulse in a uniformed, off-duty security capacity, engaged the suspect with his sidearm shortly after the first … [Read more...]
Covered 6 Savior Multi-Threat Shield
One of the most innovative items I saw at SHOT Show this year was the Covered 6 Savior Multi-Threat Shield (MTS). At the time the Savior MTS ballistic shield was a prototype with some final manufacturing details yet to be completed. Now the Covered 6 Savior MTS is finished and ready for purchase. The Covered 6 Savior MTS is a highly compact ballistic shield consisting of … [Read more...]
Umpqua Active Shooter – The Lessons!
On October 2, 2015 a deranged gunman entered Umpqua Community College in the southwestern Oregon city of Roseburg, went into at least two classrooms, and began systematically shooting a professor, and students who identified themselves as Christians or failed to identify their religion at all. The murders on the Umpqua Community College campus are another tragedy … [Read more...]
New Ruger Gunsite Scout Rifles
Ruger introduce their Gunsite Scout Rifle several years ago. Based upon Jeff Cooper's Scout Rifle concept, the Ruger Gunsite produced a compact, bolt-action rifle, that met many of Cooper's goals. The one area that was outside of Cooper's specifications was weight. Cooper called for a rifle no more than 6.6 lbs. but the Ruger Gunsite came in between 7.1 to 7.3 lbs. depending on … [Read more...]
LE Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) Let me start this article off by saying if you are not carrying at least a tourniquet (ON YOUR PERSON), while you are on duty, then you have failed! You have failed yourself, your partners, your family, your department, and your community. I fully confess my faults by admitting that I have only started to carry a tourniquet (SOF-T) while … [Read more...]
Norway Terrorism
Norway suffered a great tragedy on Friday when dozens of people, many of them teens, were gunned down by at least one subject dressed as a police officer. At this time, it appears this attack was coordinated with a bomb that was set off outside the prime minister's office earlier in the day. If you have paid attention to world events, you know this is not an original … [Read more...]
Police Officers Should Carry Guns Off-Duty
I have talked about this before: every police officer should carry at least one firearm off-duty. There are many specific reasons for carrying a handgun when you are not on the job, but they all boil down to one reason: you may need it. There have been plenty of instances where armed, off-duty officers were able to take action to stop a violent crime and defend themselves … [Read more...]
No Guns for Police Officers at Disney World
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. On non-Disney websites, I … [Read more...]
Locked Doors and Lockdowns: Police Officer’s Response to Active Shooters
Spree killers - more often, but less accurately, called active shooters - are a real threat that police officers train to confront. Active shooter incidents have occurred at shopping malls, office buildings, and other locations, but one of the scariest locations is at a school. Many police departments have trained in, or at least familiarized their officers with, … [Read more...]