For most people, their EDC is carried in an inside-the-waistband holster. The problem with that is that you have to wear your shirts untucked. For some, this really isn’t an option for various reasons, and they need their shirt tucked in.  Why Carry Tucked Various reasons for wearing a tuc...
Between travel for TFBTV filming trips, Daily Life, and trying to keep my iPad charged before flying the helicopter, I’m always hunting for chargers that actually pull their weight. Most either take up too much space in my bag, don’t deliver enough power when I need it, or overheat and thrott...
The calculus driving modern air defense has inverted in the last three years. Adversaries discovered that cheap drones can force defenders to spend six-figure interceptor missiles, and the math stopped working. The Marine Corps' answer is layered: keep electronic warfare as the first filter,...
Free live webinar with Dan Brady on August 13. Why outdated gear and old doctrine set concealed carriers up to fail in low light shooting situations.
A sunny summer evening at Seattle’s iconic Bite of Seattle festival turned into a horrific mass casualty scene on Sunday, July 26, 2026, when a gunfight erupted in the middle of a dense crowd near the International Fountain. The Seattle Police Department (SPD) confirmed that three people have d...
Police say a man rammed two women's car outside a Cleveland police station before he was shot during a custody exchange gone wrong. Read the original story: He Rammed Their Car Twice Outside a Police Station. Minutes Later, He Was Shot in the Parking Lot.
A 74-year-old Gastonia homeowner shot a man prying at his window. Police say the suspect then lied about a drive-by shooting. Read the original story: North Carolina Homeowner, 74, Won’t Face Charges After Shooting Man Police Say Was Prying at His Window at 7 A.M.
Steven Spielberg’s 1998 film Saving Private Ryan is pure Hollywood fiction, but it was inspired by the true – and all too tragic – story of the five Sullivan brothers. The siblings enlisted/re-enlisted in the U.S. Navy following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941 and i...
Welcome back to Front Line Friday. This week is an editorial, and the topic is the gap between how law enforcement dies and how the profession talks about dying: more officers end their own lives every year than are killed by suspects, and almost nobody trains for that number. Front Line Friday i...
The Special Operations Combatives Program (SOCP) is a realistic combatives system created for special operations forces in the military. It concentrates on close-quarters fighting skills that are useful, particularly when wearing all of your gear. Greg Thompson, who founded and developed the SOCP...