What It’s Like to Shoot Someone: Part II | GMP #121
Presented by Luth-AR: GUNS Magazine Podcast #121 — February 25, 2022 In this final installment of "What It's Like to Shoot Someone," Capt. Tyson Warmoth talks about bringing down a cop killer, his thoughts on PTSD and why the Warrior Ethos is so important. In this final installment of "What It's Like to Shoot Someone," Capt. Tyson Warmoth talks about bringing down [...]
Who Speaks For Us?
Editors note: This story was originally published in 2013. We have brought it back to show some things never change! - BW I must be more of an old-school Neanderthal than most people say, because the voices which once spoke for police leaders in this country no longer speak for [...]
Me? Rules?
Are you tired of seeing the SUVs with “Britney is #1!” painted in bright yellow letters on the windows? I’m sick of it. Britney is likely not “#1” and I’ve about had it with the entitled generation (Gen Y/Millennials). And we mostly did it. I’m not necessarily saying all of [...]
Basics Are Best
We’ve talked about the loss of what we call institutional knowledge — that deep-rooted, core cop sense, and skills the “old timers” often have. When they retire, that knowledge is gone forever unless they’ve taught it to the younger cops. And what I’m finding out is many of the younger [...]
Gearing-Up Your Agency
I’m pretty sure most of us got into law enforcement for some variation of the idea: I want to help the innocent from the evils of the world. Well, sometimes the evil lurks right in your own backyard. While I’m not talking criminal evil — I’ll save that for another [...]
Orange Umbrellas & Grease Pencils
We’ve covered it plenty of times in our pages, and we’ll cover it again, and maybe even point fingers if needed — equipment is often overly complicated. Sometimes things that don’t need flashing LEDs, high-tech materials and words like “tactical” associated with them get ‘em all anyway. About 100 years ago [...]
Very Person
We’ve posed the question in the past, (From The Publisher, “Will You Do It?” July 2012) and now there’s a new wrinkle — what if it’s your gun that’s to be confiscated? I’m writing this in April and am struggling to contain my anger at state and federal governments, including [...]
Loss Of Public Favor?
This story was published in 2013; we brought it back to show some things never change! - BW A reader recently forwarded me a brief article from an online law enforcement-related blog dealing with the question of whether law enforcement is losing the public’s favor. The reader asked me to [...]
Strength In Friends
In my experience, many police agencies slowly accumulate, and then adopt at some point, an “us or them” attitude regarding the community they serve. And serve is a key word here. Some cops talk about how they “police” their city, or “handle the citizens,” and often make it clear their [...]
Things I Learned From My Dogs
Husband Roy just returned from presenting a couple of seminars at the annual Brownells Gunsmith and Career Fair. Each year Brownells offers a venue for vendors, dealers, working gunsmiths and, more importantly, young students attending gunsmithing schools to meet and network. One of the key points of the fair is [...]
An Intentional, Subtle And Damaging Change?
The Law Enforcement Officers Code of Ethics has existed for decades. I’m old as dirt and when I became a Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff in the 60s we took the oath early on in the academy. It was impressed upon us just how important adherence to the oath would [...]