By Duncan Horner, CEO — Arctos Industries For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, applicable ARs, DA Pams, and unit SOPs should guide your specific machine gun storage procedures and regulatory compliance requirements. This article focuses on storage specifications and configuration considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. Machine guns occupy a specific regulatory […]
Civil unrest is unpredictable. It can escalate quickly from peaceful demonstrations to situations where law enforcement, businesses, and private citizens find themselves needing to protect lives and property. Whether you’re a law enforcement agency updating your preparedness plan, a business owner concerned about protecting your employees and assets, or a responsible citizen thinking about personal […]
Ammunition storage doesn’t get the same attention as firearms storage. It probably should. Most departments have reasonably clear procedures around duty weapons — who signs them out, where they’re stored, how they’re tracked. Ammunition often lives in a different category in people’s minds. It’s a consumable. It gets ordered, distributed, used, and reordered. The accountability […]
For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, applicable regulations, and unit SOPs should guide your specific armory configuration and weapons storage procedures. This article focuses on storage specifications and rack configuration considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. Rifle and carbine rack configuration is one of those armory decisions that gets made once and […]
You just got issued a plate carrier. Or maybe you’re setting up your first personal rig. Either way, you’re staring at a pile of straps, pouches, and plates wondering where to start. For starters if your are in Law Enforcement your Agency is likely going to have a required list of equipment and experienced training […]
A chain-of-custody system is only as strong as its weakest handoff point. Most evidence rooms have several. This guide is written for evidence technicians and the supervisors who support them. Not for administrators looking for a policy document to file away, but for the people who actually manage intake, track items through storage, prepare evidence […]
For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, applicable regulations, and unit SOPs should guide your specific TA-50 management procedures. This article focuses on storage configuration and layout considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. Every unit has a deployment cycle. Most units also have a TA-50 room that wasn’t designed to survive one. The […]
There’s a misconception that quietly circulates among new officers, security professionals, and civilians who’ve invested in body armor, and it goes something like this: if my vest stops a bullet, it’ll handle a knife. It’s a logical assumption on the surface. The armor is tough, the material is engineered, and the marketing tends to use […]
Nobody joins law enforcement planning to lose their career over a storage room. But it happens. More often than the profession likes to talk about, evidence room failures have ended the careers of officers, evidence custodians, and in some cases department leadership who had no direct involvement in what went wrong. The problem wasn’t always […]
