We wanted to share an interesting product we stumbled upon the other day, it’s called the BedBunker, and it’s a fire-resistant concealed gun safe that replaces the box spring under your mattresses.
The BedBunker comes in twin, queen and king sizes, and fits up to 32 rifles and 70 hand guns depending on the size. Continue reading
It only took a few short weeks to completly sell out of our first batch of ITS Patches! We’ve had such a great response that we’ve decided to order up some patches in a Multicam color scheme.
Our friend MilSpecMonkey came up with three variants for the color scheme as shown in the image to the right, and we’d like YOU to decide which you like the best! Vote below!!
Place your vote below by Sunday, August 9th at 11:59 p.m. CT, and the winning color scheme will be ordered and available soon!
We’re also curious if there’s enough interest in getting more Tan/Grey and Black/White/Grey made up as well.
Let us know in the comments or with an email if you’re interested.
Stay tuned for an update!
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We can’t begin to thank everyone enough for their continued support of ITS Tactical, this has been a success beyond our expectations!
In just a few short months so many of our readers have told us how much they appreciate our content and love the site. Our initial run of patches sold out in a matter of weeks!
This is more than we’d ever hoped to achieve, and we want to continue to bring you different methods, ideas and knowledge that could one day save your life. Continue reading
We continue our look into decorative knots this week with a popular pattern called the Solomon Bar.
You’ve probably seen the Solomon Bar in paracord bracelets, keychains and other interesting projects, and today we’re going to show you how to tie it, and why it’s a great way to carry paracord.
The Solomon Bar pattern resembles repeating square knots and is sometimes referred to as square knotting or a cobra stitch.
Using paracord to make a keychain, bracelet or something else you carry daily, will ensure that you always have some readily available in an emergency.
If you remember back to our article on the Mini Survival Kit, we recommended that in addition to the kit, you also carry some paracord with you. Continue reading
We’d like to take this opportunity to remember our friend, Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class (SEAL) Marc A. Lee, who fell 3 years ago today in Ramadi.
Lee was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for his brave and unselfish actions on a Ramadi rooftop.
As stated in his award citation, Lee was conducting clearance operations in south-central Ramadi with members of a Naval Special Warfare Combat Advisory element. Continue reading
We wanted to take this opportunity to bring you an update to our previous article on the fight for your knife rights.
U.S. Customs has proposed revoking earlier rulings that assisted opening knives are not switchblades. The proposal would not only outlaw assisted opening knives, its overly broad new definition of a switchblade would also include all one-handed opening knives and most other pocket knives! Continue reading
We’re not sure how many people this affected, but we had an issue with our mailing list this morning, and you might have received more than one issue of our latest newsletter.
We appologize for any inconvience this may have caused, and it appears we’ve fixed the issue.
Throw up a comment if you were hit with multiple emails, we’d like to know how many of you guys (and girls) had this happen.
The 2009 TREXPO East will feature Keynote Speaker Lt. Col. Dave Grossman who is an internationally recognized scholar, author, soldier and speaker.
He is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of human aggression and the roots of violence and violent crime.
For those of you who are unfamiliar with Col. Grossman, he has written two books that are at the top of our recommended reading list here at ITS Tactical, On Killing and On Combat.
TREXPO East is the original and the leading first response training conference and expo for law enforcement, military, security, corrections and federal agencies.
The conference features educational sessions led by some of the most highly respected instructors in the U.S., TREXPO East is the place where first response professionals find everything they need to respond more effectively to emergency situations.
TREXPO East will be held at the Dulles Expo & Conference Center in Chantilly, VA. The conference runs August 18-20, 2009 with a free expo August 19-20 and a free range day August 21st.
Please visit Col. Grossman’s Web site for additional information.
This is an update to our previous article concerning the Custom Armor Technologies / Diamondback Tactical RVA3A Level 111a Soft Body Armor.
The armor is now available as a special order through Diamondback Tactical for $625.95, and has a 30-45 day turnaround.
CAT/DBT RVA3A is a custom cut, requiring each individual to send in their measurements to be custom fit. According to DBT this custom cut armor also requires a custom carrier which they offer for $350.95.
Now that we’ve covered getting down a rock face in our “How to Rappel” series, we’ll look at how to use ascenders to get back up the rope.
Situations that would involve having to ascend back up a rope you’ve just rappelled down, would most likely be in caving, or spelunking, depending on your training level.
Ascenders function much like friction knots, or prusiks, by providing a grip on the rope. With a mechanical ascender, the grip is set with a cam, allowing it to only move in the intended direction of travel (up). Continue reading
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