A-TACS unveiled their new LE restricted camouflage pattern. It is designed to blend in with standard black LE gear and will only be available to LE officers and agencies.
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SHOT Show – A-TACS
Thursday, January 17th, 2013SHOT Show – Smith & Wesson Apparel
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013Smith & Wesson Apparel had a couple of cool garments that are great for LE and gun enthusiasts.
The first is from the M&P line. The softshell Nevada jacket features dual center opening chest pockets along with slash handwarmer pockets. Available in OD Green and Black.
The second is the Range jacket. It’s a barn coat inspired jacket with internal holster compartments on either side. Add to that zippered chest pockets and patch hand warmer pockets,
Distributors and dealers contact Grady Burrell ph 828 421 4349 to view the full line at SHOT Show. Booth #8202.
My Impression of the New GLOCK 30S
Tuesday, January 15th, 2013
I had an opportunity to shoot the new GLOCK 30S today. The subcompact .45 was designed as a backup gun for LEOs carrying G21 and G21SF sidearms. The idea is that it chambers the same round and can use the longer spare magazines if needed. The G30S uses a 10 round dual stack magazine so you can also run one in the chamber for a total of 11 rounds. Once again, the plus side is that it will accept the G21’s 13 round magazines. It incorporates the SF body of the G30 along with a slim slide of the G36. As you know, the G36 uses a special single stack magazine so it isn’t compatible with its bigger brothers.
However, the G30S remains a stubby, fat dual stack pistol. Even the SF variants of GLOCK pistols aren’t exactly thin. It’s great for what use as a backup but I don’t look at it as a primary weapon due to its size. For example, in spite of its subcompact size, GLOCK has adopted a familiar work around. In order to accommodate all three fingers on the pistol grip G30S magazines feature an extension. Then, you’ve got the shorter barrel and associated sight radius. It’s a niche weapon for a niche application and I’m glad they made it for those needing a primary sidearm compatible backup piece. It’s really designed to be paired with a G21(SF). It’s just not something I would expect everyone to go out and purchase for EDC.
LAPD SIS Pioneers Mobile Apprehension and Develops New Armor System with SOTech
Friday, January 11th, 2013LAPD’s SIS (Special Investigation Section) is legendary for apprehending the most dangerous felons on their city’s streets. Now, their new equipment package developed with SOTech is available for other agencies. Below is what SOTech has to say about this new armor and pouch system.
SOTech’s design staff are honored to develop an armor carrier for a progressive approach to law enforcement suspect apprehension being pioneered and perfected by LAPD’s renowned Special Investigation Section- SIS. The soft and hard armor carrier and specified pouch and go bags are part of a system designed to allow a plain clothes officer in mobile surveillance mode to rapidly don his/her tactical gear, dismount the vehicle and chase down and apprehend the suspected criminal. The game changer here is that the entire ensemble is designed around mobility. The system is not only designed for rapid donning in the tight confines of a surveillance vehicle, but the vest is designed for mobility and dexterity during confrontations. The days of the raid jacket are over as the modern urban environment requires up to ceramic plate rifle round protection. Conventional law enforcement procedures saw a detective in a jacket approach a suspect, now replaced by a bulky protective vest. The only other option was a heavily armored and encumbered SWAT team that could apprehend an armed suspect after that suspect was cornered in a static location where SWAT could set up a perimeter. SIS developed and perfected tactics to break out of that box, tracking the suspect and apprehending him or her on the move. SOTech designers spent months working with members of the elite LAPD unit, customizing the rigs around their deployment of weapons, auto glass breachers, distraction devices, bandoleers and other tools in well-choreographed foot and vehicle take downs. For the past 15 years we at SOTech have been lucky to be in Los Angeles working with LAPD SIS. They have a well-deserved world-wide reputation for surveillance and tactics. And it’s been an amazing experience working with them as they identified such a significant tactical gap, developed radical-thinking tactics, and then perfected them to the standard of a major metropolitan department such as LAPD. Numerous Los Angeles area departments are already looking at adapting these TTPs, and we expect to see detective bureaus and narcotics divisions world-wide adapt to the program. As professionals, SOTech won’t discuss the intricacies of the tactics, but we will assist law enforcement professionals who have equipment/tactical inquires coordinate with the POC at LAPD SIS.
The SIS developers will be on hand at SHOT Show and will be periodically available at the SOTECH booth #20113 to discuss their system and tactics with interested law enforcement professionals. Please email Jim@SpecOpsTech.com to coordinate a meeting time during SHOT.
Coming Soon
Friday, January 4th, 2013
Forces Focus – SOBR (Police Special Squad of Russia) Full Length Video
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013This full length video from www.CombatShop.ru features the SOBR UMVD of the Kurgan region, expanding on the short we posted in December. The SOBR or Spetsial’nyi otryad bystrogo reagirovaniya is by definition the Special Rapid Response Detachment, a police armed response and internal security unit.
Forces Focus – FBI HRT circa 1985
Sunday, December 30th, 2012This video, shot in 1985, shows the state of the art, at the time, for the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team. Equipment wise, this same gear was used by the point tip of the SOF spear as well.
Oh the Irony…
Sunday, December 23rd, 2012
I’m a big fan of irony so I thought that this would be something worth sharing with our readers. In their haste to make a point about “high capacity magazines” NBC violated the District of Columbia’s ban on such magazines. Hopefully, someone in LE who supports the rule of law will enforce this ban and arrest “Meet The Press” host David Gregory for his wanton disregard for DC’s rules. Maybe then, the press will bother to learn what the laws actually are before commenting on them.
