S.W.A.T. December 2007 - McKeesport Police Department

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above: Three circles: Inner Circle is red,
Middle Circle is blue, Outer Circle is
green.
left: Scrambling to survive in the Middle
Circle.
left below: Shooting from the retention
position will be necessary at bad breath
distance.
plastic gun, put the gun in its concealed
position, and have an unarmed buddy
initiate an attack on you with a rubber
knife at this distance. I’ll bet he can get in
five “cuts” across your vital areas before
you get the gun on target.
• Problem with employing your knife
at this range: Ah, yes, the knife option.
You’ve probably read that at this distance,
a knife can do more damage than
a gun. That may or may not be true, but
it assumes many things. First, it assumes
you’ve managed to get your folding
knife deployed. That’s a big if. Secondly,
it assumes that it is better to have only
one hand free to defend against a bad
guy. However, every instructor I’ve seen
teaches two-handed methods for disarming/defending
against an attacking gun
or attacking knife. Planning on attempting
a disarm against your armed attacker?
You need two empty hands. You can’t
do it with just one hand while the other is
holding your knife. To top it off, nobody
I’m aware of says that knife-on-knife is a
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