It’s 0545. An officer is starting a 0600 shift and spending the first ten minutes of it looking for a piece of kit that should be right where it always is and isn’t. The vest carrier is there. The plate carrier is there. The helmet is somewhere in the back of a shared cabinet that […]
For Military professionals: your unit’s chain of command, applicable ARs, DA Pams, and unit SOPs should guide your specific heavy weapon storage procedures and regulatory compliance requirements. This article focuses on storage specifications and configuration considerations to inform equipment and infrastructure decisions. Launchers, tubes, and mortars present a set of storage challenges that most armory […]
Budget conversations in law enforcement procurement almost always come down to the same logic: get the most coverage for the least spend. That logic works for a lot of purchases. Ammunition storage is one where it tends to backfire, sometimes quietly over years, sometimes loudly all at once. The upfront cost difference between a basic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
