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EVIL LURKS
Rejuvenate Your AR.
GUNSMITHS, ARMORERS AND PARTS CHANGERS
Who’s Working On Your Guns?
GUNSITE
Who Trained Your Trainer?
THE TACTICS OF LIGHT
Real World Use Of Flash Lights.
THE ART OF SUBTLE BREACHING
Get In Quietly.
PROTECTION FOR LE SPOUSES
What They Need To Know.
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Dave Douglas
Rejuvenate Your AR
The bucolic little Central California town of Lake Shoals was, as usual, very quiet Sunday morning. That area of California is much like what’s referred to as fly-over country by the pseudo-intellectual and quasi-erudite creatures infesting the highly urbanized areas of the East and West Coasts. The “Urbanites,” especially those from inside the beltway of DC, rejoice in looking down their noses at the “little people” of what you and I both know is real America.
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John Russo
Who’s Working On Your Guns?
Hey Sarge, the slide on my Glock keeps locking back. What am I doing wrong?” As the supervisor of the Firearms Training Unit for a 170-officer police department, I agreed — must be something he was doing. We issue G35s and only shoot duty ammo, so after reviewing the usual culprits such as limp wrist, grip, high-thumb stuff, I took the slide off the weapon.
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Clint Smith
Real World Use Of Flash Lights.
Standard personal equipment for today’s cops varies from agency to agency — often depending on funding. Internal department experts argue handgun procurement, often with the admin guys who chip in their fiscal responsibility mantra. But, LEOs should have the option to provide their personal white light source for duty use. White light technology has made quantum leaps during the last decade. We shouldn’t shoot at what we can’t identify and much of what cops do is often done in altered light environments. So like it or not some understanding of application and a level of skill in deployment is required.
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It was the tail end of a three-day supervisory seminar, which the “facilitator” insisted on calling a “colloquy,” and he came up one hour short on material. Unwilling to cut everybody loose early, the Head Cheese assembled the guest speakers on stage. Then he asked us to name three characteristics of a successful supervisor.
I heard responses sounding like “the ability to effectually interface with political blah-blah” and “compassionately community-oriented yadda-yadda;” “skillfully techno-info-data combobulate” and crap like that. I just wanted some real coffee and no flight delays in Cleveland. My mind was elsewhere when the facilitator got to me.
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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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?We think the shooter shoulda told deputies he accidentally shot his neighbor’s cow, and then decided the meat shouldn’t go to waste. That story at least has a shred of believability, and probably wouldn’t have resulted in any more than payment of damages on an installment plan. Instead, he tried to be “smart” — an alien concept, we think.
This saga began when a 1,400-pound, pregnant cow named Hannah wandered away from a family farm. A small search party found Hannah, now deceased and known as “Burger,” being sledge-dragged across an open field by an unnamed 42-year old carnivore with a smokin’ gun. The authorities of rural Benzie County, Michigan were summoned.
By the time they arrived the burger-dragger had some time to dream up a story — a lame one. He told Undersheriff Rory Heckman he’d been out shootin’ coyotes, and mistook Hannah for Wile E. Coyote — well, some coyote, anyway. Being a trained observer and an analytical investigator, Undersheriff Heckman concluded mistaking a half-ton-plus pregnant cow for a 20 to 45 lbs song-dog was a little less than credible, especially after he started dragging same deceased bovine away. Heckman suspected falsehood, but the suspect stuck to his story.
Fine, says Heckman, stick to it if you want. It’s illegal to shoot or attempt to shoot coyotes during deer season and that’s a far more serious matter than unintentionally poppin’ a cow wandering across your property while, let’s say, you’re engaged in casual target practice. Now you’re talkin’ criminal offense… And, the shooter can still be dinged for damages.
Hannah’s owners must really want to believe in the man’s essential truthfulness. DeAnn Mosher told reporters, “My husband thought he (the shooter) should go through some therapy looking at repeated pictures of cows and coyotes. They look nothing alike. It didn’t make any sense to me.”
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I’m still a real believer in the shotgun as a police tool. The combination of versatility and firepower insures its place in squad cars for years to come. One of the challenging issues with the shotgun has always been where and how to carry extra rounds. Most patrol shotguns loaded in the “Patrol Ready” configuration (no rounds chambered, the magazine tube full, safety in the “fire” position, and the hammer dropped for immediate racking) hold only four rounds. That’s not enough! For those of you tired of leaving 12-gauge tactical breadcrumbs I have a couple of suggestions; the “Quick Stripper,” and the “12-Gauge Tactical Stripper.”
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Being cops, we often hear “you should know” or “you oughta know” and it includes a whole myriad of things: every law ever made in your state’s penal code, emergency surgery, psychoanalysis and counseling, mid-wifery, how to achieve peace through transcendental meditation and of course, guns. Often we actually don’t really need to know some of this junk. Sometimes there’s really some stuff we should know. Knowledge is power and having the power to not injure yourself or others is a good thing.
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One problem with back up or off duty guns is size. Often we tend to buy a nice big powerful blaster. After a few weeks of carrying around a USS New Jersey 16” Naval Gun the tendency is to leave it at home or in the glove box of the car. But, if you have a rig that’s light and powerful enough to aid in the natural selection theme when it comes to bad guys, you just might carry it all the time.
Smith & Wesson has been making J-Frame revolvers longer than most of us have drawn breath. They are very good at it as evidenced with the M&P340. They use scandium alloy to build a strong yet lightweight .357 Magnum revolver resulting in maximum power in a small, lightweight, easy to carry package. The frame is scandium alloy and the cylinder is strong stainless steel. At a scant 13.3 oz, you’ll hardly realize it’s on your belt, in your waistband, in your pocket or on your ankle.
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