Galco’s High Ready Chest Rig
I reached out to Galco a while back after seeing their new High Ready chest rig advertised on their website. Galco's Media and PR Manager, Mike Barham, responded swiftly and was good enough to send me samples to try out for two pistols: one to fit a Sig P227 and another to fit an optic-equipped S&W M&P. The chest rigs arrived in short order and made a good first impression. They were solidly built with [...]
Off-Duty Carry
Pockets And Purses. When I started my career, the fanny pack was all the rage. Though the man-purse was convenient, it wasn’t exactly fashionable. More importantly, unless you were on vacation at an amusement park, it simply screamed COP! Then firearms companies got smarter and started making quality handguns smaller [...]
COP’s Holiday Gift Guide
Get ‘Yerself A Goodie To Go. Yeah, I know, what’s gun oil and a red dot sight doing in the Carry Options column? Well, Her Editorship Suzi told me to write about “some good stuff” for the holiday season, and she said it was okay to color outside the lines [...]
Carry Options For Girls
— And Yeah... Guys Too. Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock, you know it’s more important than ever to carry on- and off-duty. Why you carry is easy — how you carry is another story. You can’t protect your loved ones with a gun you left at home or [...]
Survival Go Bag
Echo-Sigma. I’m not sure when it officially started, but the concept of the “go bag” has been around for a while. I remember having one and using the term in the 1990s when I was a patrol officer and a sniper on SWAT. It was a shoulder bag, and I [...]
Simple Elegance
The right to carry a concealed firearm is a great honor and privilege, but it can also be a bit uncomfortable. This is especially true if you are wearing your gun inside your pants. The inside the waistband (IWB) holster has come a long way in recent years with great [...]
Lasers, Lights And Holster Fit
Designs for weapon lights seem to change monthly, with industry leaders like Streamlight, SureFire, Viridian and a host of others constantly upgrading the performance of their products. This can be a real headache for cops if their new light doesn’t fit their old duty holster. Streamlight has addressed this problem [...]
Range Bags
Firearms Luggage Without a doubt, one of the best ways to get the most out of your range time is to spend your time shooting — not searching for gear. Just as you’d invest in a quality holster, you should also invest in a quality range bag. A good one [...]
Quick Access Gun Safe
Phoenix Gun Locker As cops, we’re constantly reminded to protect our sidearm, and are given hours of defensive-tactics training, learning how to maintain possession of our guns in a fight. We continually upgrade to new higher-retention holsters to help ensure our gun stays where it belongs, but what happens when [...]
Carry Options
American COP's Compendium Of Gun Toting Tips. While we have a regular column called Carry Options every other month, we expanded on the concept this issue to bring a broad cross-section of goodies we’ve laid our hands on and checked out. We’ve worked with each of these pieces of gear, [...]
Canvassing The Neighborhood
Kakadu Traders. Carrying concealed presents a host of challenges. Whether you consider it a right, a privilege or a burden, it’s not something to take lightly. When you first start carrying concealed it can feel exciting and you may not mind the challenges. But after a while the newness wears [...]