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Call-Out Survival

Written by Abner Miranda. Author Archive »

It’s all about the right type of specialty gear and mindset!

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“911, what is the nature of your emergen…” The operator is brutally cut off by the painful sound of gunfire in her earpiece. A female voice frantically screams, “They’re shooting at the kids in the cafeteria, they…” the line goes dead.

street2.gifOver the next several minutes, the 911 call center receives further scattered reports that the local high school is under attack. Two masked gunmen have been seen making their way into separate classroom areas of the school with hostages.

What do you do? Where do you go to make the most tactically sound entrance? More importantly, what weapons and gear do you take into such an engagement? Shotguns have no business being deployed in such a densely occupied environment. The collateral damage from one misplaced shot would be catastrophic. If you’re lucky, your agency will have issued you an AR-15 or at least given you the option to purchase one for duty. Let’s just move forward from this point and trust that we’re all on the same page and have an AR in the trunk. If you don’t have one, you’d better start pushing for one.

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