Making Sense Of Duty Holsters And Retention Levels — Part 2
Editor's note: Part 1 is here Safariland retained the retention levels when they purchased the Rogers Holster Company and its designs in 1985. Actually, Safariland didn't just keep the protocol; they expanded it, adding new [...]
Making Sense Of Duty Holsters And Retention Levels — Part 1
I was comparing notes on new products with American Cop Editor Erick Gelhaus at the 2023 SHOT Show, and the conversation turned towards law enforcement duty holsters. Each of us had seen some promising leads, [...]
Concealed Carry Holsters
Recently, a reader - Robert H - emailed requesting an article on concealed carry holsters for retired cops. Well, that fits nicely into my wheelhouse. Appropriate concealed carry holsters are not just a subject for [...]
CIRCLING BACK | Adjusting Holster Cant
Holsters are to handguns as slings are to rifles and shotguns. That is where you securely store the handgun when it's not in your hands. In my old department, 1911 pistols were common when I [...]
BEYOND EVERYDAY CARRY | Tools for WROL
Things are often just fine, until they’re not. For this, and many other reasons, some folks never leave home without some basic survival items – think folding knife, pocket flashlight, self-defense tool(s), small first aid [...]
Nighthawk Mammoth Knife Collection
The Wooly Mammoth roamed the earth between 30,000 and 10,000 years ago in what is present day Alaska and Siberia Russia. These grips and knife handles are a cross section of Wooly Mammoth tusk found [...]
MAGPUL RIGGER EDC
The Magpul Frame Lock – Rigger EDC includes the same design and craftsmanship we built into our Limited Edition versions of the Rigger. It has the same functionality, features, and exceptional ergonomics of our previous [...]
ON THE CUTTING EDGE | Three Must-Have Survival Blades
For many of us a knife is the ultimate survival tool. The notion of leaving home without one is well, unthinkable. If you’re like me, you probably have a favorite “go to” knife that you [...]
Umarex GLOCK 17 Gen5 Paintball Marker
This all-new marker is an authentic counterpart of the GLOCK 17 Gen5 and is compatible with the full range of GLOCK-typical accessories. Made in Germany from top-grade materials, the Co2-operated Umarex GLOCK 17 Gen5 is [...]
Less Lethal: Talking Advantage Of New Technology
Tools For A Variety Of Situations And Distances. The oldest-known weapon used by man was an impact weapon, be it a bone, rock or tree branch. In this most-simple form, they were used, literally, to [...]
Phazzer Enforcer
By Ben Douglas Phiscally-Phriendly Conductive Electrical Weapons. Aagh!” was all I could get out as I seized up and fell to the mat. I had “enthusiastically” volunteered to experience a full 5-second TASER cycle back [...]
Pass The Pepper
The US military began using chemical agents as weapons in 1918. Law enforcement personnel followed suit, but not until the late 1960s when they began using chemicals to quell group civil disturbances — think riots. Everyone who works in the business knows once it happens on the outside, it’s only a matter of time before it moves inside. Most prisons recognize chemical agents are an effective option when group resistance elevates or when individual detainees act out.
Top Choice For Everyday Carry — SureFire’s EDC1-DFT Flashlight
Surefire’s original Turbo Series lights were game changers when they were introduced in the 1990s, pushing the boundaries of the then-existing technology to achieve astonishingly far-reaching lights. Today, the all-new Turbo Series has once again [...]
Lighting the Way: The Importance of Color Temperature and CRI in Tactical Flashlights
Tactical flashlights are essential tools, providing illumination in low-light environments or during night-time operations. The ANSI/PLATO FL 1 2016 Standard focuses on light output (lumens), beam distance, peak beam intensity (candela), run time, impact resistance, [...]
What You Need To Know About Lumens And Candela
Lumens and candela are two terms often used to describe the brightness of a light source, but they have different meanings and applications. Both measure brightness, but just different aspects. Lumens measure the total amount [...]
Concealed Carry Pistol Light
Streamlight’s TLR7A As humans, we are stuck being daytime creatures because we do not see (and do) well in the dark. At night, our ancestors crawled back into a cave or hut before securing the [...]
Dry Practicing Safely
It's good to see that there is a solid consensus on the importance of dry practice. Trainers of all backgrounds are recommending it to their students. There is a lot of discussion about what to [...]
Those Are My Bags, Baby
You can’t always carry everything you need in your cargo shorts or pants pockets. I know I would run out of capacity in those pretty quickly. Between a laptop and tablet, power cords, a headset, [...]
Product Reviews & GoSafe’s Security Solutions
How does an item – whatever kind of item – end up as an article here? Is there a process? What are we looking at or for? What is being reviewed? For starters, what [...]
Infinity Targets
Golden age. I hear that phrase a bunch – especially relating to firearms, to training, to ammunition. Probably targets as well. Generally, the target you choose to use doesn't matter. Paper, cardboard, or steel. Each [...]
Set It & Forget It
Where do I set the dot? Is it like lights? Can it be too bright? Can you, or should you, tailor the dot's setting to the current lighting conditions? What about the situation? That [...]
Zeroing Your Dot
We recently received an email from a reader who has also listened to the GUNS Magazine podcast and the episodes over there about pistol-mounted optics. He pointed out that while we have covered several dot-specific [...]
In The Heat Of The Night
Night vision is cool. No doubt about it. It is just a few weeks past the 40th anniversary of my first use of night vision. That was in basic training, and the night vision scope [...]
Big Window, Nice Reticles – Holosun’s 507 Comp Pistol Optic
Announced this year at SHOT, Holosun’s 507 Comp – for competition – optic made its way into mailboxes and retail stores back in May. With some time behind it, here are my thoughts so far. [...]