How fast is your draw? Industry standard tells us to procure the weapon system and have it online and lead delivered on target from concealment in 1.5 seconds. This time reduction drill is generally setup with an eight-inch circle plate elevated at 5 feet at a distance of 5 yards. ...
I see it time and time again and occasionally find myself wanting to holster without looking depending on what holster or setup I am currently wearing or training with. Couple of issues here: Why train in any gear besides the gear you wear daily and on duty? Why are we not looking when we...
In the scope of issues dealing with causing harm to a church's people or property there is a dividing line that defines the proper use of the words describing the threat. This article will definitively make the distinction between "Safety" and "Security". Let us look at the...
A church’s armed security team’s failure to train is a huge liability! Failure to document your training also increases your liability. In Texas, commissioned security officers are required to qualify with firearms only once every two years when renewing their security officer...
Chuck Chadwick gets “Schooled” in Public School Security A review of Texas Public School “Guardian” Program In Texas, the most popular Public school security program is the “Guardian” program. Sometimes also called the “Defender” program. This is...
Gatekeepers in Private Christian Schools Attention all Texas state licensed private Christian Day-Care/Preschools and K-12 schools: Our Gatekeeper Program™ for churches is also a tremendous program for private Christian schools. We have a client that ran into a bit of a problem when a...
Who is guarding your Private Christian School? This subject is all in the news now and we wanted to weigh in. Unlike public schools who depend on the state to hire and deploy armed School Resource Officers (SROs), private schools don’t have that option funded by our tax dollars...
Proactive Background Clearing Techniques By: William Chadwick 12/8/2017 Striking interesting topics one at a time can be fun and enlightening. So how about proactive background clearing? We operate in the mindset of the hunter, never the hunted. Operate like a predator and not the...
The Age-Old question… 9 or .45? The others follow suit of course with a small array of defensive rounds in the line-up all with the intention of completing one single task. Stopping the enemy in his tracks, dropping the enemy in his tracks, and doing so more efficiently and...
We have Gatekeepers coming to the range all the time with handguns that they want to use on duty as Gatekeepers, protecting hundred, if not thousands, of congregants. As usual, on the firing line, there are those that must use two magazines to fire 10 rounds. Those single stacked...