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SHIELD AND GUNS
A Bunker Mentality.
POOR POLICY CAN KILL
It Is Just Stupidity Or Cost Savings?
PURCHASING POWER
Where Do You Get That Cool Stuff Anyway?
THE IMMORTAL ONE
The Remington 870 Keeps Finding New Lives.
MANSTOPPER OR ANNOYANCE
Is The .38 Special Dead?
A SPECIAL .41 MAGNUM
A True Touch Of Class.
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Clint Smith
A Bunker Mentality
Mans use of the shield dates back centuries to the Bronze Age and probably beyond. The shield served to protect the soldier as he closed ground to a point where the offensive weapon — sword, spear, axe or club — could be brought to bear by the strong hand. There’s also no question this was hand-to-hand combat in its truest context. Today’s trend to use the terminology of combatives for this and that system as applied to small arms may in fact be correct, yet in my head and eyes I still see battlefields with men locked in combat at a true arms length or at least the length of the longest spear.
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Ralph Mroz
The Remington 870 Keeps Finding New Lives
Every time someone predicts the patrol rifle will make the police shotgun obsolete, I just smile. I mean, I like rifles, but I haven’t seen any shotguns tossed in the trash dumpster yet. One reason for their staying power is they can do some jobs rifles just can’t; another is some cops simply prefer them. You know, some guys like blonds, some like brunettes. No one’s wrong.
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Roy Huntington
Where Do You Get That Cool Stuff Anyway?
One of the sublime delights of becoming a new cop is the buying frenzy you go into. It starts well before the academy when you convince yourself you need that new SIG, in spite of the fact you’re mandated by your new agency to carry a Springfield XD. Ditto for folding knives, flashlights, digital cameras and all the rest. And of course, once in the academy, the feeding frenzy continues, only now it’s enhanced by your equally transfixed peers.
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At this writing, almost a month after DeKalb County, Georgia police officers Ricky Bryant, Jr. and Eric Barker were shot to death, details are still lacking. Given the gravity of the case and an understandable need to control information leaks and speculation with three suspects in custody, it may be a while before we have enough information for a complete analysis and training assessment. In the interim, we must do what we can to remind our own troops of some grim realities of policing.
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John Morrison served in combat as a Marine sergeant, and retired as a senior lieutenant from the San Diego Police Department, having served there as Director of Training, Commanding Officer of SWAT and division executive officer. He has taught, written and lectured widely on training, tactics and leadership. Contact him at StreetLevelOne@yahoo.com. |
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Where he got the idea, we don’t know, but it almost worked. Robert C. Lavery, 56, slathered his head and face with a heavy coating of drywall compound before robbing the New Cumberland Federal Credit Union in Fairview Township, Pennsylvania, where he netted $7,910. His own momma wouldn’t have recognized him, but a witness remembered the distinctive Rusty Wallace NASCAR license plate on his getaway car. That quickly led police to both Lavery and his driver, Robert Miller. Officers found the cash-stash and lots of mix for more disguises.
In Swansea, England, officers never figured out exactly what misbehavior Martin Woodley was up to, but they gave him high marks for his artistic creativity. They found him sneakin’ around in the late-night darkness covered from head to foot in a boldly contrasting costume consisting entirely of baking flour paste and tomato ketchup. Since he was neither a member of the royal family or Parliament, this behavior was considered suspicious…
From a news clipping with other location info torn off, we have a report that another guy robbed a “North Beach” (San Francisco, maybe?) drive-thru restaurant with his head encased in a ball of fresh chocolate-chip cookie dough, with holes scooped out for his eyes, nose and mouth. Investigators were able to positively identify the substance as cookie dough, because at one point the suspect leaned out of his car window and a gob of his “face” fell off onto the pavement.
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LING ARMS! A simple drill command; striking fear in the hearts of military veterans everywhere. It engenders flashbacks of screaming DI’s — veins popping out — as they scream encouragement to new recruits. This command also strikes fear in the hearts of cops with complicated multipoint slings, fearing strangulation or looking like a spider’s dinner as they attempt to quickly don their long gun in an emergency. I’ll be first to admit I’ve a couple of complicated slings which initially captured my imagination as a tool to handle all rifle toting situations. In fairness, some are good for certain applications, including carrying long guns for extended periods and while doing a wide range of duties from movement to combat.
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Research shows about 10 percent of the population is left-handed. Historically, left handed people were treated as odd unique or even evil to the point of being outcast or in past times killed. One current group of researchers says left handed people are really smart and another says lefties are inclined to be nut jobs.
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It’s the “Key to the Kingdom” except a lot more fun to use. This Mossberg Special Purpose Shotgun is designed with the Breacher in mind. Load up six breaching rounds and there’s hardly a door lock system that will give you any trouble at all.
The Rolling Thunder is chambered for 2.75" and 3" 12 gauge ammunition. It has a 23" barrel with a heat shield and barrel stabilizer to give you just the right-stand off distance. The stabilizer is topped of with a bead sight. A MIL-STD 1913 rail is affixed to the underside of stabilizer allowing the addition of just about any high-end tactical illumination devise.
A pistol grip brings up the rear making the gun much more agile in an enclosed hallway and at close combat distance. A strap has been added to the fore grip giving you a better feel for the gun and it keeps your hand from slipping in front of the muzzle. It’s also outfitted for a sling and the whole package is finished in matte black.
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