Oct 4, 2011

Mika’s Pocket Holsters

My days of working the streets are over, but my passion for teaching cops to stay alive on the job hasn’t waned a bit. During a recent handgun qualification shoot, I had two officers with catastrophic malfunctions. One was due to lack of maintaining the gun properly; the other was during malfunction drills with plastic dummy rounds.

In both cases when the officers were standing on the X looking at a broken gun, I was telling them — actually, I increased the volume of my voice and used some creative adjectives — to transition to their backup weapon. How’s that for PC?

Well, here’s the rub; neither had a backup. I asked what they were going to do since they were still in the middle of the gunfight. One handed me her pistol and ran off the range, the other replied, “I’ll just use my knife.” Lets just say, I had another Marine Corps moment. The first officer that hadn’t maintained his gun is a traffic guy, making huge OT in court and working DUI sweeps. The second is a sergeant who, by virtue of the three stripes, also makes a pretty damn good living. So, when the whining about how expensive backup guns are and how there’s nowhere to put one ended, I took my S&W 340 PD from my front pocket along with my Mika’s Pocket Holster, and handed it to them. I asked how much their lives were worth to their families. As they stared at their feet, I stated: “I don’t want to go to your funeral!”

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