While you’re celebrating this weekend during the Memorial Day Holiday, please take the time to remember those that have fought and died for all that we have as a nation.
There may be turmoil and unrest within our country, but our veterans and service members continue to fight for our safety, protection and freedom. Thank someone this weekend for all they’ve sacrificed to allow us to spend this time with our families, and don’t forget those who can’t be with us.
Let’s all virtually visit the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier this weekend, while the Commander-in-Chief is on vacation in Chicago.
We’re thrilled to be releasing this article today, as we’ve finally found a product that we feel deserves our endorsement for Military and Law Enforcement use. We’re not trying to sound arrogant, but we’ve tested a lot of restraints and broken just as many.
We strongly believe that if Plastic Restraints have a purpose in Military and Law Enforcement use, they should be strong, durable, and able to resist a overhead brute force attack. What Milspec Plastics has done is create not one but two solid options that we’re proud to say have the toughest locking mechanisms we’ve ever tested.
Their Cobra Cuff and Tactical Zip Tie represent a reassurance in restraints that we thought we wouldn’t find for some time, and a company that’s dedicated to producing a product that will keep our officers and soldiers safe. [Read More…]
Hopefully you’re already familiar with our good friend Mil-Spec Monkey who produced our awesome ITS Tactical Patches. Today we’re going to be reviewing a few of his products called the MSM MegaPatch Book and the MSM Loop Panels.
The MegaPatch Book can serve double duty as not only a place to display your patch collection, but also a discreet case for a concealed weapon using the MSM Loop Panels. Similar in function to a gun rug, but with removable panels to truly customize the layout. [Read More…]
We’re going to start rolling out a new series on ITS Tactical soon, doing live interviews with individuals, companies and whomever you guys would be interested to talk to in the industry.
We had such great success with our last Plank Owner Roundtable via Ustream, that we’ve decided to expand its use here on ITS Tactical. We’ll be using the comment feature available on Ustream to let you guys ask live questions to whomever we’re interviewing! Click here to check out the show and bookmark its location.
What we need to know from all of our readers is what time would be the best for you to tune in to these live broadcasts? Our first interview in the series will be Monday, June 7th with A-TACS ! Of course all our broadcasts will be recorded and available for your viewing pleasure at a later time, but to get your questions in, you’ll need to tune in live. Click here to RSVP to attend!
There’s a poll below, so let us know what time works best and also leave a comment with any suggestions on who you’d like to see interviewed! We’ve got some great interviews coming up for you! [Read More…]
We’ve recently talked the importance of physically being able to save yourself, and one of the most important aspects to this is upper body strength and the pull-up.
Again, functional strength movements are movements the body makes naturally. Let’s talk realistically here for a second, is the guy that grunts and groans way to loudly while bench pressing 400 lbs. going to be able to climb a rope? Probably not unless he’s devoting some time to working on his functional strength.
Is that ogre going to be able to get his ass over a wall in a hurry? Again, probably not. Now don’t let size fool you because I’ve seen some pretty huge dudes able to do 20+ pull-ups. It all comes down to one thing, practice. Yes, practice. There’s no pill, shake or other dietary crap that will help you here, despite what infomercials say. Having good functional upper body strength is what’s going to help pull you out of harms way. The bench press is dead to me. [Read More…]
After discussing it with our Plank Owners in the last Roundtable, we’ve decided to make the Forum available to everyone. If you’ve ever registered with ITS Tactical as a Crew Member or even before that when we required registration with ITS to enter into our giveaways, you’ve got that same username and login for the Forum.
There’s still exclusivity for our Plank Owners and Crew Leaders with private boards, an personal upload folder for hosting images, ability to edit your own posts forever, no captcha required to post, and the ability to use signature images to display the Membership badge. Don’t worry Crew Leaders, one is coming for you too!
Take a second and visit our Forum and add to awesomeness going on inside!
The Bogota Entry Toolsets in Titanium and Stainless are now back in stock! They flew off the shelves in under two hours Thursday night, so be sure to get your order in!
With more than 8,000 home invasions happening every day here in the United States, we’d like to present some tips on what you can do to not only protect yourself and your family, but how to fortify your home to better resist becoming a victim.
There’s a notable difference between a burglary and a home invasion, that being you. If you’re home, it’s a home invasion. If you’re not, it’s a burglary plain and simple. Criminals don’t always know what they’re walking into during the day, but at night its a different story. Most home invasions happen between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. on weekdays and weekends.
A criminal that breaks into a residence at night is expecting a confrontation of some kind. Hopefully it will be short lived when you shoot them dead, but as we’ve mentioned before in “Dealing with Violent Confrontations” you should always avoid a confrontation if possible. This is the same in a home invasion scenario, not by using the same methods, but by using some forward thinking to deny criminals the opportunity.
Using the tips we’ll share below will help you in avoiding this kind of confrontation and better protect you and your family. [Read More…]
Just a quick heads up for those that have inquired on when we were going to start carrying the Bogota Entry Toolsets in our store.
These are now available to everyone 18 years or older. Act quickly, as there are just a few sets in both Titanium and Stainless available for the time being.
I think we’ve really tapped into something bigger than expected with our post Tuesday on Free Gear for Those Fighting the Good Fight.
Many of you had some great suggestions on doing something more like donating money into a fund to get those in need the gear they need.
I’ll be honest, it’s going to be a tough job to figure out who really needs this gear we’re giving away the most. It’s something we’ve discussed and no easy task by any means.
So what I’d like to do with this post is start a place for some dialouge in the comments where we toss some ideas around about how best to improve upon what we’re already doing (thanks to Eric). As there are many legal issues surrounding collecting funds for donations, we’re hoping to especially get some opinions from those who know about these kind of things.
We’re not sure what exactly to do yet, but we know that we want to continue to help our guys in harms way get the gear they need. We know of quite a few organizations that do similar things like American Snipers.org but none that we’re currently aware of that cover LE, MIL and Contractors. If you know of one, please leave a comment.
Let us know your thoughts and big thank you to all that protect us!
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