Category: Security

As gunfire rained down on thousands of people from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino on Sunday, killing nearly 60 and injuring more than 500 more, law enforcement was faced with a significant challenge: how do you find the shooter in a building that reportedly houses 3,309 rooms.  As Stephen Paddock […]

100+ years of service can’t be wrong. John Moses Browning designed the masterpiece 1911 and we are grateful. This video is courtesy of The Loadout Room.

A 29-year-old veteran used a stolen truck to drive critically injured victims to safety during what quickly became the deadliest shooting in U.S. history. Taylor Winston, a Marine veteran from San Diego, was among friends at the Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas Sunday night when a gunman from a nearby hotel room opened fire on the […]

If you have ever served in a military branch that dominantly conducts ground warfare, or have served in the smaller elements of the other two branches that don’t, then you already know the difference between cover and concealment.  (LEOs, you get a pass on this one, as well.)  A lotta people out there do not […]

This article previously published on SOFREP 08.18.2016 As our own Brandon Webb deplaned Sunday night and set foot on American soil following a presumably enjoyable Euro-trip, all hell broke loose. Word spread that there was an active shooter, and for all passengers to take cover. According to multiple reports, including Webb’s own account, and a NY Post article that had […]

Clint Emerson, former Navy SEAL, has written a second book titled “100 Deadly Skills: Survival Edition.” Here is an excerpt that focuses on surviving an ambush or an active-shooter situation. The state of survival isn’t what it used to be. Scroll back several hundred years, and the living was harder, but the environment was a […]

If you love your family and friends then you need to share this with them, it could save their lives. My kids are visiting me in New York for the summer, they spend most their time with their mom on the west coast. On our first day in the city I briefed them on what to […]

Rat and frog carcasses were discovered by water safety inspectors visiting Camp Pendleton, the San Diego Union-Tribune reports. Rats rotting on a reservoir gate, a dead frog clinging to a ladder and a rodent carcass floating in treated water were found by inspectors during a June visit to the Marine Corps base. Despite the nauseating discovery, Camp […]

With burglaries, fire, and floods destroying billions of dollars in losses each year, protecting your valuables is crucial in modern times.  Items from jewelry, important documents and of course firearms should be protected if at all possible.  Add to that the responsibility we all have as firearms owners to keep our firearms in a manner […]

If you are an American who is cautious, fortunate, or celibate enough to have avoided contracting yourself a sexually transmitted disease, do me a favor and play this little game.  Go round-up two of your friends.  Now stand between them, three abreast.  Look to your left and look to your right.  Chances are one of […]

What can shoot down a drone in less than a second? Nammo programmable ammunition! Nammo is an international aerospace and defense company headquartered in Norway that employs over 2200 people. They have more than 30 site locations and offices in 14 countries. They also have a mission…to keep soldiers safe from drones.   Nammo says the […]

In the tactical world, the word instructor is widely overused and has become an over-saturated description for many people. The meaning has become null in the sense that instructing and teaching are two very different approaches to the problem and the solution. For real world applications (high threat) instructing the solution isn’t enough as to […]