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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, relevant ARs, and applicable regulations should guide your specific armory procedures and operational requirements. This article focuses on storage specifications and armory management considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. The best armory NCOs I’ve encountered share one characteristic that has nothing to do with rank or […]
The term “cardiac box” comes from emergency medicine and anatomical training, but it has a direct and practical meaning for anyone making body armor decisions. It describes the rectangular zone at the center of the chest that houses the heart, the aorta, and the major vessels connected to both. A trauma to this zone, from […]
Most people asking this question assume the answer is complicated. It’s actually straightforward for domestic travel in the United States, and considerably more involved the moment an international border is involved. Understanding that distinction upfront saves a lot of unnecessary anxiety at the check-in counter. Domestic U.S. Travel: The Baseline Rules The TSA does not […]
Here’s a question most armor content skips entirely: in a home defense scenario, how much time do you have to put your armor on? The answer to that question should drive most of your purchasing decision, and it rules out a significant portion of what gets marketed as “home defense armor” based on appearance alone. […]
The backpack insert market is one of the most crowded and least regulated corners of the personal protection space. The demand is real, the emotional stakes are high, and that combination has produced a category full of products making protection claims that don’t hold up to basic scrutiny. Before any money changes hands, there are […]
A go bag is built around one premise: if you need to leave quickly and move under uncertainty, everything in that bag needs to earn its place. Weight matters. Accessibility matters. Every item is evaluated against the question of whether it contributes to getting you out of a bad situation safely. Ballistic protection belongs in […]
The problem with buying armor for a SHTF scenario is that “SHTF” describes everything from three days of civil unrest to a prolonged grid-down situation, and those scenarios have genuinely different protection requirements. Buying for the most extreme version of the worst case produces gear that’s impressive on paper and impractical under the actual conditions […]
