Sheriff Tom Ridnour of the Kit Carson Country, Colorado Sheriff’s office has been hard at work attempting to equip his officers with Viridian FACT Duty weapon-mounted cameras making them the first Colorado Agency to do so. The Viridian weapon-mounted cameras made [Read More…]
SIG Sauer and 5.11 have teamed up to produce an original documentary series that aims to present the reality and demands placed on our modern law enforcement individuals. The Behind the Blue Line Documentary series will focus on the Manchester, New Hampshire Police [Read More…]
On Friday, February 28th, 1997 the Los Angeles Police Department would face one of the most dangerous criminal acts in its history – The North Hollywood Bank Shootout. On that Friday morning, after months of planning two armed bank robbers entered and robbed the [Read More…]
According to the Fresno Bee, the Fresno Police Department is allegedly switching from its current standard Beretta PX4’s chambered in .40 S&W for new Glock 45s chambered in 9mm. This would change the roughly 800 officer police force’s entire duty weapon [Read More…]
SIG Sauer have announced that Vermont State Police will be adopting their new M400 Pro rifles as their official patrol rifle. With over 300 troopers the new rifles will become standard equipment for Vermont State Police cruisers. The rifles have 16” nitride barrels [Read More…]
FN America have updated the law enforcement carbine offerings with the new FN 15 SRP G2 carbines, available with both 11.5 and 16-inch barrels and updated, extended M-LOK hanguards. The new carbines join the FN 15 Patrol SBR with a 14.5″ barrel and the older FN 15 [Read More…]
Accuracy International is working on bringing their AT-LE rifle to Law Enforcement this year. It is based on the AX design and has a shorter 16-inch barrel, designed to fit into small spaces where police officers can fit their precision rifles into their patrol cars. It also has a threaded barrel [Read More…]
Sons of Liberty Gun Works, a boutique AR-15 manufacturer, has introduced the Broadsword at SHOT 2020. The Broadsword is a Precision Rifle Shooting focused AR-15. It is specifically designed as a law enforcement marksman rifle, that excels at short range high-pressure [Read More…]
New Hampshire’s Newington Police Department have transitioned to the SIG Sauer P320. With just 10 full time and three more part time officers, this small department may be dwarfed by some of SIG’s other recent law enforcement contracts but Newington PD are [Read More…]
B&T, Inc. (Brügger & Thomet) are the creators of the B&T GHM9 that TFBTV covered at Triggercon earlier this year. B&T has just announced its new partnership with Interstate Arms in a bid to bring B&T firearms and select accessories to [Read More…]
World news outlets are reporting that GLOCK has won a Brazilian contract to supply the São Paulo Military Police (SP MP) with thousands of new pistols. The article below mentions 40,000 guns, but there is conflicting information between various news sources making the [Read More…]
Daniel Defense have announced that their DDM4V7 has been selected by the law enforcement division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The law enforcement division of the TPWD will purchase 700 rifles which will become the division’s new service carbine. [Read More…]
British Border Police discovered what might be the largest cache of smuggled firearms ever to be found at a UK port. 60 pistols were found during a search at the Port of Dover on 2 August. The pistols are believed to be blank firing pistols converted to live fire. The [Read More…]
The Secret Service has reportedly selected the Glock 19 MOS Gen5 and the Glock 47 MOS Gen5, both in 9x19mm, to replace their current service pistol, the SIG Sauer P229, chambered in .357 SIG. Unconfirmed: Secret Service Goes Glock In 9mm? The P229, in .357 SIG, has [Read More…]
American Defense Manufacturing have announced that Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office, in Louisiana, have selected American Defense Mfg.’s .308 UIC10 rifle. What role the new rifles will have has not been announced but the rifle’s calibre suggests it may be [Read More…]
SIG Sauer have announced that Milwaukee Police Department will transition to using the P320 in 9x19mm as their official duty pistol. The P320 will replace the Smith & Wesson M&P .40 S&W which has been in use since 2009. Here’s SIG’s announcement [Read More…]
Steyr Arms is extending a tremendously generous offer to LE Marksmen by opening up their Steyr Training Academy for FREE long distance marksmanship training for any qualified law enforcement marksmen. The following Press Release was issued by Steyr Arms a little over a [Read More…]
Glock have announced that Allentown Police Department, in Pennsylvania, have selected the Glock 19 Gen5. Just under 300 officers, in Pennsylvania’s 3rd biggest city, will be switching from SIG Sauers to Glocks. Here’s what Glock had to say about the new [Read More…]
Spain’s oldest law enforcement agency, the Guardia Civil, have agreed a pair of contracts to procure new HK G36s and MP5s. Spain have ordered 425 5.56x45mm G36K carbines at a cost of 699,380 Euros or $790,372, giving a unit price of just under $1,540 per carbine. [Read More…]
New York state’s Lloyd Harbor Police Department has selected the SIG Sauer P320 as its new duty pistol replacing the .40 calibre Glock 23. The chambering of the new SIG duty pistols has not been confirmed. The small Long Island Town of Lloyd Harbor has a police [Read More…]
Back in April 2018, we reported that Germany’s Hesse state police were in search for a new 5.56x45mm rifle. German defence blog Strategie-Technik reports that Hessian state police have selected a variant of the Heckler & Koch HK416. Hessian Police were in search [Read More…]
The Indiana State Police have selected SIG Sauer’s P365 as their back up duty pistol for their entire force. They join Sumter PD who also recently chose the P365 as their back up pistol of choice. Indiana State Police have over 1,200 troopers who are already armed [Read More…]
The Guardia Civil, Spain’s oldest law enforcement agency, has issued some of its officers with old, obsolete rifles. The Union de Guardia Civiles, a police union, has raised concerns that its officer are being equipped with out of date firearms after some units [Read More…]
The Sheriff’s Department of Lake County, Indiana has selected the compact MP9 submachine gun form B&T, presumably for issuing to their Tactical Unit (S.W.A.T). The Lake County Sheriff’s Department has an 18 strong tactical unit who are “available [Read More…]
Glock’s Asia Pacific arm are set supply 6,000 new duty pistols to the Singapore Police Force to replace the revolvers currently issued to officers. Glock have confirmed that the 9x19mm Glock 19 Gen 5 has been selected. The Singapore Police Force, which has over [Read More…]
The County sheriff’s department in Hancock, Maine are making the switch from SIG Sauer to Glock with the department-wide adoption of the Glock 45 in 9x19mm. It follows the recent news that New Hampshire’s Grafton County Sheriff’s Department also selected [Read More…]
Arkansas’ Springdale PD will purchase around 150 new 9x19mm Glock G43s to equip the department’s officers with backup guns. Springdale’s City Council unanimously approved the purchase and the guns will be purchased using department funds and a federal [Read More…]
The Civil Nuclear Constabulary at one of the UK’s nuclear powerplants in Sellafield, Cumbria recently shared a cool ‘then and now’ photo on Twitter. The CNC are a special police force responsible for protecting Britain’s civil nuclear power [Read More…]
Belgian Police are to acquire 1500 new FN SCAR SC carbines chambered in .300BLK. The Belgian interior minister has described the move as equipping the police with weapons equal to those used by criminals. Currently, Belgian police are armed with a mixture of 9x19mm [Read More…]
When it comes to stun guns and similar less-lethal products, they all are very similar in their design that direct contact has to be made. Whether that is through wired projectiles that need to hit their mark or you openly walk up to an individual and touch them with [Read More…]