Hi Jason,

Thanks for your patience. I hear your frustration, we see it ourselves. However, I am pretty damn happy to see how some folks are considering it more and more these days. Especially at the institutional level. I am going to be presenting at this year’s TTPOA conference in Dallas and they have asked me to run a Concealed Carry Tactics class. The process is a slow, but steady one. Keep up the good fight.

Great blog entry on a widespread problem. I have found that getting officers to carry off is less of an equipment issue and more of a mind set issue. In my locale, other than caliber requirements, there is almost no restriction on the pistol carried. The officer only needs to qualify with which ever they choose. The overwhelming issue is attitude. Many officers chose not to carry for a variety of issues. Some real, some imagined. I could not convince some active duty officers with more than a few years on the job that LEOSA applied to them too. Most often, I’m saddened to say, it comes down to laziness and lack of responsibility. One actually said, “I have my kids with me! I’m not going to carry a gun”! OK, That guy will most likely never get it but what of the others? How can those officers be persuaded? I’m about out of fresh approaches. Have you found any epiphany provoking strategies than have worked on the resistant ones?

Jason

Thanks Mike, mastery should be one hand, proficiency should be two hand. Check for a class near you for more details.

What are your thought re: training to clear the cover garment (t-shirt, sweater, hoodie) with two hands? To clarify: step 1) using both hands to clear the garment, step 2) the draw.

Is it better to make a two-handed grab as the standard so that you have redundancy built in (ie. you miss-grab with the right, but the left pulls the garment up far enough to access the weapon; or your left is tied up with a kid or with the fight and the right clears the garment)?

Thanks for any thoughts,

Mike