I’ve lived through two riots as an adult and I have lived in many bad neighborhoods.   I also lived in my car for 4 months in a bad part of Los Angeles.  In every case, I was armed.  It’s kind of odd… I was semi homeless, living in my car.  I didn’t have a place to live, but I had a little .22 rifle my dad had given me as a kid.  It served me well during that time.  When my dad found out that I was living in my car he gave me a short barreled “coach gun.”  It was a 12 gauge shotgun like the ones that security people carried on the stage coaches during the 1800s to protect the “Strong box” full of money.  Two barrels and only two shots, but I used it to great effect on several occasions.  Once I got on my feet financially, I purchased my first pistol, a Colt Combat Commander .45 caliber automatic.  I bought it brand new for $186.86.  That was about two week’s pay at the time.

In my experience, when things go bad, people no longer act like people.  They loot, rape, destroy and murder.  God has always protected me from such things by giving me the means to defend myself. Civil unrest is a genuine possibility as the economy continues to decline.  Being armed is sometimes all that is required to keep your skin, often times without ever firing a shot.  By way of example, I once stuffed the barrels of that double-barreled 12 gauge shotgun my dad gave me forcefully in a guy’s face.  He had a knife and was determined to kill me.  The shotgun brought about an immediate change in attitude. I did not have to shoot him as a result.  I used that same shotgun to run a biker with a gigantic knife out of my house.  He was angry with my roommate at the time and was threatening to kill him.  I said nothing.  I just pointed the shotgun at him and cocked both barrels.  Somehow, the shotgun got compliance where talking did not.  I never worried about the fact that my shotgun only held two shots because I also had the .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol that held eight.  I had it in my waistband during both of the incidents described above, as well as several others.  If I hadn’t had the pistol, I would have wanted a pump action or semi-automatic shotgun with more shots.

Many people say that you don’t need a semi-automatic anything to hunt.  Well, that might be true.  But the people who say that have never faced violence, and many of them are rich people who have security protection provided by armed men with semi-automatic firearms.  So, from a man who has faced violence many times and knows the dangers of doing so, here are some simple facts.

1) Thugs, criminals and rioters have no desire to be shot.

2) The simple presence of a gun will sometimes keep bad people at bay.

3) Even though fact number 2 is correct, you must be prepared to use the gun or the bad guy will know and kill you.  Make no mistake, I’ve pointed guns at many people and each time I fully intended to kill them.

4) Being unarmed is placing yourself at the mercy of animals who have none.

As Christians we don’t like to talk of such things, but these are the realities of the world.  It can be and often is a violent and dangerous place.  While we should not seek violence, in my view we should not simply give in to it either.  My wife and children are all shooters, and now you know why.

Note: The images in this article are from the 1992 Los Angeles Riots.

Learn to shoot with a private lesson

You can have one on one lessons with our Chief Firearms Instructor, Joel Persinger. Learn to shoot pistols, rifles or shotguns. Whether you’re interested in shooting for fun, self-defense or hunting, you’ll improve your skills and have a terrific time taking private lessons at the fabulous P2K Range and shooting center. Lessons are a great gift for birthdays or holidays. They’re also a wonderful way to introduce someone you love to the shooting sports. Great for new shooters… or experienced shooters who want to sharpen their skills. Shotgun lessons are held on an outdoor range (weather permitting), so please dress appropriately. Pistol & rifle lessons include approximately 45 minutes of shooting.

Lesson fees cover the instructor’s time only and do not include the costs of: range time; ammunition; targets; or firearms rentals, which must be paid for by the student. If you are new to the P2K Range, you may have to take a short range safety test. We advise you to arrive 30 minutes before your lesson time.

Note: Firearms and ammunition are not provided by the instructor. Private lesson fees do not include the costs of rental firearms; range time; or ammunition.

Course Information

Costs:

Private lesson $50 per hour

Semi-Private lesson $35 per hour, per person.

Urgent!!! There is a nationwide ammunition shortage. Please purchase your ammunition in advance of attending class.

Security guards who already have a BSIS Firearms Permit are required to re-qualify by firing 50 rounds on the shooting range with a BSIS licensed training instructor twice per year. Sign up for this session if you need to re-qualify for your BSIS exposed firearms permit.

You must provide your own ammunition (50 rounds) and pay for your range time (about $10). Ammunition is available for purchase at the range. The first caliber is included. Additional calibers are $15 each. You will need 50 rounds of ammunition for each caliber on your permit.

We will provide you with one firearm to use for your re-qualification at no additional fee. If you need more than one firearm, you may rent them from the range for a small fee (generally $10). If you use our pistols, you must purchase the ammunition from the range.

All re-qualification shooting is done at the P2K Range at 2082 Willow Glen Drive, El Cajon 92019. Shooting is sometimes done on an outdoor range, so please dress appropriately.

NOTE: You must bring proof of U.S. citizenship or legal residency in the United States. The ONLY documents that are accepted by BSIS are: Birth Certificate; U.S. Passport; DD-214; Valid Military ID; Green Card; or INS paperwork.

Course Information

Cost: $25 for one caliber, $15 for each additional caliber

(No walk-ins!  Advance registration is required)

Myth 1) “The police don’t arrest good guys.”  That is absolutely false!  You may be the good guy, but the police have no way of knowing that for certain.  If you are involved in a self-defense incident, the police may not be able to determine who attacked whom.  So, you will very likely be taken into custody by police.  They may handcuff you and transport you to the police station for questioning.  They may even book you in the local jail.

Myth 2) “If I cooperate with police it will go better for me.”  FALSE!  You CANNOT talk your way out of going to jail, but you most certainly can talk your way into going.  You CANNOT talk your way out of being convicted of a crime, but you most certainly can talk your way into being convicted, even if you are innocent.

Myth 3) “The police are my friends and are there to help me.”  True and FALSE.  At the moment that you are being attacked the best person to have at your side is a police officer.  However, when police arrive at the scene after an attack, they have no idea what happened or who the bad guy is.  At that point they switch from protector to hunter.  They are looking for someone to arrest for a crime.  Talking to them and answering their questions only helps them build a case against you.  Even if you are innocent, answering a police officer’s questions the wrong way could land you in prison for a very long time.

Myth 4) “Anything I say to a cop before he reads me the Miranda warning can’t be used against me.”  WRONG…. FALSE…. DON’T YOU BELIEVE IT!  If you make spontaneous utterances, they can and will be used against you!

Myth 5) “Cops don’t really remember everything I say.”  FALSE.  In today’s world everything is being recorded.  It’s either audio only or  audio and video, but it’s being recorded everywhere.   Many police officers have recording devices on their duty belts and record every encounter.  In the old days, we just wrote everything down.  One way or the other, every single word you say is being recorded.

Now, if you’re still with me and reading this article, then I strongly suggest you watch the video by clicking on the link below and then take the steps I’ve outlined  in the rest of this article.

Watch the video

My universal advice to my students is this, “Whatever you do, don’t talk to the police!”  In order to prepare for the day when an incident occurs (which hopefully never comes), you should have the following:

1) A Legal Shield Account . Legal Shield (formerly Pre-Paid Legal) provides a service which gives you access to an attorney 7 days a week and 24 hours per day.  If you use this emergency legal service, Legal Shield states that you will be on the phone with an attorney in three rings or less.  Defensive encounters often happen in the middle of the night when most attorneys are at  home in bed.  This gives you access to an attorney all the time.

2) A qualified defense attorney whom you know and with whom you have already met.  You should use your Pre-Paid Legal account to get an attorney between you and the police officers on the scene of the incident.  However, you’ll need a highly qualified local attorney to handle your case as you go forward.

3) A local bail bondsman whom you know.  If you don’t know a bail bondman, just look on the web and go see one.  A very good friend of mine is a bail bondsman in San Diego. If you live in the San Diego area, feel free to call him (Eric Sonnenberg 619-508-2921).

4) A loved-one or close friend whose phone number you remember by heart.  Give this person the contact information for your bail bondsman and attorney.  Also give this person your credit card number with instructions to use the credit card only for bailing your butt out of jail.  If you are arrested, the jailer will take all of your personal belongings and store them.  Any phone numbers you have in your cell phone or wallet will no longer be in your possession by the time you are allowed to use a phone.  If your friend or loved-one has all the information ahead of time, all you have to do is remember one telephone number.   Don’t forget, you cannot receive calls in jail.  That’s why your friend or loved-one will have to do the work for you.  Even if you call your bondsman from the jail, he or she can’t call you back in the event that you were forced to leave a voicemail.

You should assume the worst and prepare for it. Assume that you will be arrested and assume that you will have to defend yourself in both criminal and civil court. Talking to the police cannot help you.  It can only hurt you.  So, respectfully tell the officer that you are not willing to answer questions and that you wish to contact your attorney at once.  Immediately call your Legal Shield attorney and hand the phone to the police officer, then shut up. If you end up going to jail, you already have your get out of jail plan in place.  Have your friend get you out and then go to your local  attorney friend and tell your story ONLY to him or her.  Don’t tell anybody else anything.  Police will interview your friends and family.  You don’t want something you said to a friend to get back to the police.

Two last points to remember: 1) Police officers are not required to tell the truth. They can lie to your face while interviewing you. 2) Police officers are professional interviewers and interrogators.  You cannot outwit them or out-maneuver them.  Don’t try.  Just get behind your lawyer and be quiet.

I am about to take you back to a time when we actually called things what they were.  A time when we didn’t sugarcoat things by giving them names that were easier to digest.  A time before gun-fighting was called self-defensive shooting and before weapons training was referred to as a firearms class.  A time when book titles read “Shooting to Live” instead of “Tactical Pistol Marksmanship.”  Way.. way.. way back even before the garbage man was called a sanitation engineer.  Back to a simpler time when people said what they meant and meant what they said.  Back when my father was young and I was the apple of his eye.

As a sheriff’s deputy in the 1950′s and 60′s, my dad was a student of what he called gun fighting.  In those days, a cop was pretty much on his own.  Back-up, if there was any, was too long in arriving.  It was you and your partner, and that was about it.

Being keenly aware of the aforementioned facts, Dad was diligent in practicing his shooting.  He studied such books as “Shooting to Live” by W.E. Fairbairn & E.A. Sykes, “Kill or Get Killed” by Col. Rex Applegate and “No Second Place Winner” by Bill Jordon, among others.  Dad knew that these men were the real deal.  If he could learn from anybody, he could learn from them, and learn he did.

Unlike many self-defense schools and authors of today, authors and instructors in my dad’s time made no attempts to hide blatantly obvious facts.  They knew and taught that fighting includes acts of great violence.  They didn’t hide the fact that criminals are often brutal, extremely violent and without mercy.  Likewise, their students (like my dad) had to swallow the bitter pill of reality.  They had to come to grips with the fact that successfully fighting off a violent criminal often requires the law enforcement officer or civilian to commit acts, which may be distasteful or even grotesque, and which will most certainly be extremely violent.

Training in those days was straight forward, simple and based upon lessons learned in the real life laboratory of the streets, where good men fought with bad men and some men lost their lives.  There were no fancy names or euphemisms.  The title of Col. Applegate’s book pretty much summed it up, “Kill or Get Killed.”  In today’s world we are forced by political correctness to discard unwanted words and phrases in favor of those which make preparing for violent encounters more palatable to the general public.  Unfortunately, this has also resulted in the degradation of the training itself.

It is no exaggeration to state that over ninety percent of my pistol students claim to possess handguns for the purpose of home or self-defense.  Yet, the overwhelming majority of those students are appalled at any suggestion that they might have to actually deal with an extremely violent criminal in an extremely violent way.  Similarly, each day hundreds of people come to the range where I teach, bringing with them a mind-numbing assortment of “tactical” home defense guns with every sort of bell and whistle they can afford.  And what do they do?  They practice target shooting for an hour or so and leave fully satisfied and feeling ready-for-anything, in spite of the fact that target shooting is useless in close quarters fighting.  As Fairbairn and Sykes put it, “The two things are as different from each other as chalk and cheese…”

So what’s my point?  In this world of dumbed down training, sugarcoated names, endless gadgets and marketing glitz, the truth about dealing with violence remains.  Successfully dealing with a violent encounter requires a willingness and ability to be violent, and sometimes extremely so.  The tool, whether it is a gun, knife, stick, skillet or pencil matters very little.  What matters is your willingness to fight for your life with every fiber of your being, and with every ounce of strength and spirit that you can muster.  If you don’t, you will probably die.  That is what makes a violent encounter something to be avoided.  All the same, bad things happen even to those who make it their mission to avoid them.  It is for this reason that we should seek real training.  The type of training that will prepare us for dealing with violent people.  You can start by reading the books my dad read.  Here they are again so you don’t have to go back to beginning of the article:  “Shooting To Live” by W.E. Fairbairn & E. A. Sykes;  “Kill or Get Killed” by Col. Rex Applegate; and “No Second Place Winner” by Bill Jordon.  After you’ve read these, give us a call at Practical Defense Systems or sign up for a course.  We’ll teach you how to put what you’ve learned into practice.

Unless you’ve spent the last several years in a cave, you know that many businesses are cutting back as a result of the sagging economy.  Jobs that were once high paying positions are being eliminated and once productive and busy workers are finding themselves without work.  This is also happening in the public sector.  Our governments (Federal, State and local) are broke and can’t figure a way out of their financial messes. Government jobs which were once considered “safe” are not “safe” any longer.  Social workers, teachers, government office staff and first responders are all feeling the pinch.  The first responders are what concern us in the security industry.  As budgets for police departments shrink, there are fewer police officers available on the street.  People get nervous when police budgets cause cut backs, so something has to fill that gap.  That “something” is private security.

Make no mistake, there is a reason why private security officers patrol and protect the San Diego Trolley system, transport prisoners for the U.S. Border Patrol, protect Department of Defense sites and stand ready to repel terrorists at our nation’s nuclear power plants.  Likewise, there is a reason why the number of security personnel at large events such as San Diego’s Del Mar Fair increases when the number of police officers at such events grows smaller. It is a simple fact that when the government cannot provide protection, private companies step in to fill the void.

But… you ask, “What does that mean for me and how do I make more money?”  The answer is simple and has three parts: experience, training and focus.  Let’s take them one at a time.

Experience: As the old saying goes, “experience is the greatest of all teachers.” Unfortunately, experience is the most difficult of the three components to acquire.  Still, it is a simple fact that the more experience you have the better your chances of getting a higher paying position. Experience that relates to security comes in many forms.  If you have military or law enforcement experience you are ahead of most folks.  Experience working with people and good public relations skills are also a plus.  Security officers work with the public every day.  The better your public relations skills, the better your chances of landing a higher paying job.

Training:  Security officer training is the first item on a smart security guard’s agenda.  It is the easiest to gather and will yield the quickest benefit.  More advanced security guard training leads to better jobs and better jobs lead to the experience that you need to get even better ones.  So, if you don’t have much experience, then get more training. Even people with experience need training in order to be attractive to employers.  That is where companies like Practical Defense Systems come in.  The more security officer training you have, the higher pay you can expect.  My advice to security officers is to gather every certificate and license they can get.  If the only security license you have is a guard card, you can expect to be stuck at the bottom of the totem pole for a very long time.

Focus: This is the most difficult of the three parts for most people to muster.  You must focus on your goal and work at it.  There are two paths to take in order to make more money as a security officer.  One is to remain a line officer and move up to better and better paying security officer positions.  You might start out as an unarmed guard working late nights making $10.00 an hour and slowly work your way to a position as an armed security guard transporting prisoners for a government agency where you might make $20.00 or even $30.00 an hour. This track will require you to have all of your security guard licenses (guard card, firearms permit, pepper spray, baton, CPR and perhaps TASER).

The other path toward more money is management.  You may start off at $10.00 per hour working in the middle of the night.  But, you can work your way up to shift supervisor, site supervisor or higher.  Setting your sights on management opens an entirely different land of opportunities and sometimes it opens a path to a pay scale that you will never find as a line guard.  I have known management folks at security companies who made $60,000 to $80,000 per year.  This path will also require you to have all the same security guard licenses. But it also requires that you have additional management training.  Some community colleges offer degrees in security management.  That might be a great place to start.

At the end of the day, what my grandmother used to say is still true.  You only get out of something what you are willing to put into it.  Experience only comes with time.  Training you can get as fast  as you can afford it.  Go after both!  Then focus on your goal, work hard, look sharp and keep a good attitude.  If you do all that, you’ll build a great career.  Before you know it you’ll have found the answer to the “How do I make more money” question and your paycheck will show it.

To get started, read the following articles:

“How to get a guard card”

“Which security guard courses should I take?”

While I was waiting for the manager to appear, I noticed the old Russian girl standing in the gun rack next to so many sleek new rifles.  When my eyes drifted over the price tag I just had to see it.  Once I held it and fiddled with it a bit, I thought… “What the heck!”  So, I bought it for $143.00 out the door (including taxes and the California government fees).

After I bought the Mosin I made the mistake of looking on the web to find out about it.  What I found was endless opinions about the Mosin Nagant as an “end of days/SHTF” rifle, a hunting rifle or a home defense rifle.  The discussions go on adnauseam.  After having purchased one, cleaned it up and shot it, I think I’ve figured out what it can and cannot do.  So here comes yet another opinion… mine.

How did it shoot?

After a couple of hours spent cleaning the cosmoline out of the 69-year old rifle, it actually looked like I might have gotten my hands on something interesting.  From what I could tell, the rifle appeared to have been refurbished or perhaps simply never issued to a soldier.  So, I took it completely apart, checked the function of the gun and the firing pin adjustment to make sure it was safe to fire and went to the range.  I had purchased some surplus 7.62x54R ammunition, so I thought I’d start with that.

It was a good day to try the rifle, since my partner and I had just finished teaching a pistol skill builder and the range was not being used.  I set up a paper target and launched some rounds at it from 50 yards to see if I was on the paper.  Right away I noticed two things.  1) The gun was LOUD!  2) It did not have the punishing recoil I had read about.  Sure, it pushed back at me when I pressed the trigger.  But the recoil was manageable and actually quite soft for a rifle firing a powerful cartridge.  My business partner, Mike Ritz, felt the same way after he fired it.

Accuracy:

The sites were a little off, causing my rounds to strike about six inches to the right.  I didn’t have a mallet or brass punch with which to adjust them, so I had to deal with it the old-fashioned way.  After applying a little Kentucky windage, I was able to put three rounds in the center of the target in a group that measured slightly less than 1 1/2 inches.  Once I had the sites figured out, the rifle consistently grouped under two inches.  In fact, I had two groups which measured under one inch.  That’s pretty good for a $140 rifle that’s almost 70 years old, particularly when firing surplus military ammunition.  Suffice it to say that accuracy was good.

Functioning:

Although the gun functioned almost flawlessly, the bolt was quite rough and the trigger was pretty bad.  The bolt tended to stick after firing a round.  This was probably due to some cosmoline I missed when I first cleaned the rifle.  As a result, cycling the bolt was challenging, although the problem seemed to go away after I fired three or four rounds. The trigger was of the  standard military variety.  I didn’t measure the trigger pull, but it was pretty heavy and the trigger had quite a bit of creep.  All that having been said, for what it is, the Mosin Nagant is a great rifle.  I’m very glad I bought it.

Dependability and usefulness:

The Mosin Nagant is an ugly, simple, rugged and utterly reliable rifle that was designed to be issued to illiterate peasants and conscripts who had little if any rifle training.  The rifle is dirt simple and can be used and cared for by anyone given a modicum of instruction (like ten minutes).  By design, the rifle is meant to take abuse and still keep shooting.  Basically, the Mosin Nagant is an old bolt action battle rifle that was perfect for what it was designed to be.  But how does it fit for a home defense, end of days (SHTF, WOROL) or hunting rifle?

As a home defense gun it leaves a lot to be desired.  It is too long, too heavy and too powerful to be an ideal home defense gun.  You’re better off with a short shotgun or a good handgun.  The same problems present themselves when you contemplate using the Mosin to hold off a determined group of  thugs in an “end of days, SHTF” scenario.  With the Mosin’s slow rate of fire and limited magazine capacity, you would be much better off with an AK-47 variant, a Mini-14 or a good AR15.  Again, similar issues pop up when you think of the Mosin being an ideal hunting rifle.  As a hunting rifle, it’s HEAVY, long and cannot be easily fitted with a scope. A much better choice would be a light and quick handling modern rifle with a good scope.

All that having been said, not everyone can afford a home defense shotgun, handgun, AR15 or a nice hunting rifle with a scope.  When we consider the reality of the pocket book, the problem with the Mosin Nagant is not with the rifle.  The problem is people’s expectation that the Mosin Nagant should somehow manage to be ideal for any task other than the one for which it was designed.  As a result, it is not “ideal” for most things.  For example: It’s not ideal for home defense.  However, I would not want to be on the business end of one!  Being hit squarely with a 7.62x54R round will put just about anybody’s face in the dirt.  It’s not ideal for an “end of days, SHTF” gun.  Still, it isn’t all that bad a choice either.  It’s rugged, utterly reliable, cheap and supremely capable of killing anything that walks in North America.  It’s not fast.  But when combined with a good quality fighting handgun it doesn’t need to be.  If the bad guys are up close, transition to your short gun.  If they’re far away, bust out that Mosin.  Lord knows that if you hit ‘em, they’re not going to fight with you anymore.  Besides, if the dude you shoot has a nice AR15, you can take his.  After all, he won’t be needing it.  It’s not ideal for hunting.  Still, the 7.62x54R round is perfectly suitable for taking both medium and large game anywhere in North America.  Actually, I plan on taking my Mosin Nagant 91/30 deer and pig hunting this year.  But, keep in mind that if you buy a Mosin for hunting, you probably won’t have a scope.  I wouldn’t let that bother you.  Folks were hunting successfully without scopes long before any of us were born.  Many people still do.  So, there’s no reason why you can’t.

The bottom line is that the Mosin Nagant isn’t the ideal rifle for anything.  But, if you’re on a budget, it’s a darn good rifle for just about everything.  You can buy one for around $150 or less and you can buy a “spam can” containing 440 rounds of surplus ammunition for less than $90.  What a deal!  So, let’s recap: the Mosin Nagant is cheap, accurate, strong, reliable, powerful and always goes bang.  Works for me!

The security officer’s actions were determined to have been appropriate, given the circumstances surround the incident.  One of the three burglary suspects died as a result of his wounds.  Thankfully, the Security Officer was unhurt.

We are very grateful for Senator Anderson’s commitment to the citizens of San Diego’s East County and for the honor he has bestowed upon Practical Defense Systems in recognizing the excellent work we do.

But, before I get too far into my impressions of TASERs as security guard self-defense tools, I should probably take a moment to explain exactly what a TASER is and what it does.  A TASER is an Electronic Control Devise (ECD) that delivers a shock to a subject by means of two probes that are launched from the front of the unit by compressed air.  The probes are connected to the unit by ultra-thin wires, which unravel as the probes fly toward their target.  Once the probes have attached themselves to a subject’s skin or clothing, the unit delivers a debilitating shock that causes severe pain and muscle lockup (also called Neuro-Muscular Incapacitation, or NMI).  NMI is the process by which a TASER stimulates the subject’s motor nerves, which causes the subject’s muscles to contract outside of the subject’s direct control.  This is why you cannot resist the effects of a TASER ECD, unlike a “stun gun”, which only applies pain without NMI.

At the present time, TASER International’s primary business is providing TASER ECDs to police agencies.  However, TASER has developed TASER ECD packages designed specifically to address the needs of professional security guards.  Among them are the “X26″, which is carried by police officers around the world, and the “C2″, which is the smaller, sleeker, simpler and less expensive brother to the X26.  Both the X26 and the C2 use similar technology and both are serious self-defense tools.

In my view, TASER ECDs, particularly the C2, are a wonderful “less lethal” option for security officers.  Unlike police officers, security guards, as a general rule, are not required to subdue subjects or make arrests.  Still, security guards are sometimes placed in harm’s way, by the very nature of their duties. 

While law enforcement agencies have worked tirelessly in their efforts to employ “less lethal” technologies, the security industry has not.  Most security guards don’t carry any self-defense tools.  Those who do, carry firearms and batons, both of which are deadly weapons.  The only commonly carried “less lethal” option among security guards is pepper spray (sometimes called O.C., for oleoresin capsaicin).

Pepper spray is a wonderful tool in many instances, but it is not always the best tool.  Take security aboard the San Diego Trolley for example.  What would happen if a security guard sprayed pepper spray at a subject inside a trolley car? The answer is simple.  The entire car and everyone in it would be exposed to the effects of the pepper spray.   The same is true of the security officer who works in a downtown office building, a shopping mall or any other enclosed space.  A firearms is a poor choice for such locations for similar reasons, as well as the fact that a missed shot could injure or kill a bystander.   A TASER ECD, on the other hand, could be deployed against a specific subject, without significant risk of harm to onlookers.

A TASER ECD is also less obtrusive than a firearm.  Security guards in a professional environment, such as an office complex or hospital, might prefer a self-defense tool that is low profile and can be carried in such a way as to be almost unnoticeable.  The C2 has been designed with discretion in mind.  It is a powerful  self-defense tool that does not alarm clients, employees or guests.  It is also moderately priced when compared to the X26 or X3.  TASER offers a special package, called the “TASER C2 Standard Issue Kit” for security guards, which includes the C2, a holster and three cartridges.

The security industry will always need a variety of force options for officers to use in defense of themselves and others.  In some cases, a firearms, baton or pepper spray will be the appropriate tool.  But in many instances, a TASER ECD in the hands of a well trained security guard could be the perfect tool to resolve potentially dangerous encounters, while reducing the risks of injury to everyone concerned, and the costly litigation that often follows such incidents.

If you would like to know more about TASER ECD training for security guards, please contact us directly or check our schedule for the next available TASER ECD course.