On Duty vs. Off Duty vs. Retired Carry

摘要

On any given day at any given firearms range, during any given qualifications, you can hear numerous conversations about the equipment carried by officers both on and off duty. What's interesting, when you think about it, is that the gear doesn't change that much. There's a gun, spare magazines, knives, lights, maybe medical equipment for trauma care. One well-known firearms instructor is often quoted as having said, "I carry two trauma kits: one for causing it and one for fixing it." The conversation changed a bit one day at the range when a retired officer was there for qualifications and chuckled as he thought about all the stuff he no longer carried. We thought it would be interesting to take a look at the differences.