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Instinctively we know that bad guys have an incentive to avoid holsters - being found at or near a crime scene wearing a holster (and no gun) leads to greater srutiny. This report confirms this, and indicates that bad guys avoid open carry as well - and sometimes use female companions as gun toting mules.
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From Force Science News: http://tinyurl.com/3coogp
NEW FINDINGS FROM FBI ABOUT COP ATTACKERS & THEIR WEAPONS
New findings on how offenders train with, carry and deploy the weapons
they use to attack police officers have emerged in a just-published,
5-year study by the FBI.
Among other things, the data reveal that most would-be cop killers:
. . .
CONCEALMENT.
The offenders said they most often hid guns on their person in the
front waistband, with the groin area and the small of the back nearly
tied for second place. Some occasionally gave their weapons to another
person to carry, "most often a female companion." None regularly used
a holster, and about 40% at least sometimes carried a backup weapon.
. . .
Because they eschew holsters, offenders reported frequently touching a
concealed gun with hands or arms "to assure themselves that it is
still hidden, secure and accessible" and hasn't shifted. Such gestures
are especially noticeable "whenever individuals change body positions,
such as standing, sitting or exiting a vehicle." If they run, they may
need to keep a constant grip on a hidden gun to control it.
. . .
NOTE: For new findings from the FBI researchers about highly dangerous
suicide-by-cop confrontations, read the exclusive 2-part report by
Force Science Research Center board member Chuck Remsberg at:
http://www.policeone.com//suicide-by-cop/articles/1195055/
Instinctively we know that bad guys have an incentive to avoid holsters - being found at or near a crime scene wearing a holster (and no gun) leads to greater srutiny. This report confirms this, and indicates that bad guys avoid open carry as well - and sometimes use female companions as gun toting mules.
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From Force Science News: http://tinyurl.com/3coogp
NEW FINDINGS FROM FBI ABOUT COP ATTACKERS & THEIR WEAPONS
New findings on how offenders train with, carry and deploy the weapons
they use to attack police officers have emerged in a just-published,
5-year study by the FBI.
Among other things, the data reveal that most would-be cop killers:
. . .
CONCEALMENT.
The offenders said they most often hid guns on their person in the
front waistband, with the groin area and the small of the back nearly
tied for second place. Some occasionally gave their weapons to another
person to carry, "most often a female companion." None regularly used
a holster, and about 40% at least sometimes carried a backup weapon.
. . .
Because they eschew holsters, offenders reported frequently touching a
concealed gun with hands or arms "to assure themselves that it is
still hidden, secure and accessible" and hasn't shifted. Such gestures
are especially noticeable "whenever individuals change body positions,
such as standing, sitting or exiting a vehicle." If they run, they may
need to keep a constant grip on a hidden gun to control it.
. . .
NOTE: For new findings from the FBI researchers about highly dangerous
suicide-by-cop confrontations, read the exclusive 2-part report by
Force Science Research Center board member Chuck Remsberg at:
http://www.policeone.com//suicide-by-cop/articles/1195055/