IF YOU PULL? YOU MUST SHOOT! OTHERWISE, NO PULL!
Every once in a while, in my years in police work ranging back to the early 1970s, we would get a new shift supervisor like[…]
“Protecting the Belt,” Gun Retention Observations
I would like to tell 5 quick, pistol/holster retention stories Retention story #1: Several years ago I taught at a major US city police academy,[…]
The Car as a Coffin
Back in the 1970s, the 80s and even the 90s, this phrase “the car as a coffin” was a warning, a cop-training-phrase, a[…]
The Drop Dead Gun
“If I die in combat zone. Box me up and ship me home.” You’ve all heard that ditty? Or, maybe you haven’t? It comes for[…]
The Parable of the Wooden Gun
The Parable of the Wooden Gun Wooden, rubber band guns. Why do I use them? Let me count the ways… At seminars, police or others,[…]