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Safe Direction

    
   

I carry a gun virtually whenever I leave the house. That translates to lots of handling — putting it on, taking it off, transporting it, practice, maintenance and more practice and maintenance. I also dry-fire my weapons from time to time for training or to assess the trigger. It always makes my butt pucker up when I do it, even though it’s pointed in a safe direction.

Safe Direction, LLC has designed products to assure you’ll always have a truly safe direction to point your weapon when you need to pull the trigger — short of actually firing it. Glock comes to mind. Before you can take one apart you need to drop the striker. OK, so I’m inside a room full of other cops cleaning guns, or demonstrating to a class full of students how to disassemble the gun. Is it safe to point it at the cement floor? The sheetrock wall or your foot? Insert a resounding “No” here — of course not. We’re professionals and we always need a safe direction to point before we squeeze the trigger, even when we’re sure it’s unloaded.

  
   

Bullet Catchers

Safe Direction makes several ballistic containment systems designed to enhance safe gun handling and training. Each of these products is designed to be handy and easy to carry so they’re where you need them when you need them. They’re designed to contain projectiles fired from standard factory ammo through .45 ACP, including .40 S&W and .357 Sig. Several have a dual role of easing the transport and temporary storage needs of shooting professionals, in addition to providing the protection of ballistic containment wherever you are likely to be handling your guns. My favorites are the Pistol Transport Case and the Pro-Shooter Bag. The Pistol Transport Case is a well-constructed pistol case with an integral Safe Direction ballistic containment pad sewn into one panel. These cases come in medium and large to accommodate most handgun sizes. The Pro-Shooter Bag is a well thought out range bag incorporating padded pistol carrying pockets, magazine pockets, a substantial side pouch and an open center section with a rigid floor insert for boxed ammo. And, of course, a Safe Direction ballistic containment pad attached to the side, which easily swings down to provide a convenient safe direction no matter where you are.

 

  
   

There’s More

In addition to these gun-carrying options, Safe Direction makes a waist pack with an integral holster. It’s a 6"x9" “fanny pack,” with a 5"x7.5"x1.5" accessory pocket weighing 1.25 pounds. Safe Direction also makes an Academy Pad. It’s a 7"x10"x.5" pad and it conveniently snaps into a three-ring binder allowing you to carry a ballistic containment system with your instructional materials. Lastly, Safe Direction offers a 12"x12" Composite Armor Board which easy hangs in offices, locker rooms, or other facilities where dry firing, maintenance, loading/unloading or other gun handling is performed. The bottom line here is, any place where guns are handled, you need to point them in a Safe Direction.

For More Info: www.safedirection.com.

 

  

 

First published in the Sept/Oct 2007 issue of American COP.

    
   
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