MAG-TAC Podcast

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast series, Bill Murphy, Tactics specialist with a decade’s long police career and owner of Firearms Training Associates discusses using a Maglite as an effective tool for self-defense and which Maglite he prefers under what circumstances. He goes on in this episode to detail the Vehicle Counter Assault class and how to stop a moving vehicle with a firearm.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast series, Bill Murphy, Tactics specialist with a decade’s long police career and owner of Firearms Training Associates discusses selecting the best home defense weapon. Specifically he covers how to train for using the home defense shotgun, why it is sometimes not the best choice unless you have a safe and finally, why a pistol is a better choice and how to use it to get to your shotgun.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast series, Bill Murphy, Tactics specialist with a decade’s long police career and owner of Firearms Training Associates discusses the Concealed Carry Class which covers what kind of firearm that is best for them, how to properly carry concealed safely and how to deploy and use the weapon in realistic situational training.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast series Bill Murphy, Tactics specialist with a decades long police career and owner of Firearms Training Associates discusses the General Handgun class offered at Firearms Training Associates in Corona and why taking and re-taking basic firearm rules such as firearm transportation, firearm cleaning, basic shooting rules and how to interact properly at a gun range.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast, Professor Thomas McWeeney, who teaches leadership and strategic planning at Cal State San Bernardino, laments that lack of action that is taken to prevent mass shootings even when the clear evidence is there that something is likely to happen and that the person in question is a threat.  More often than not, it comes down to a failure of courage and leadership.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast, Professor Thomas McWeeney, who teaches leadership and strategic planning at Cal State San Bernardino, takes son the challenge of answering how we stop mass shootings in the United States specifically.  Because it is highly improbable that a mass shooting in one particular place organizations are loathe to put in the effort to stop it, in other words because it is not a likely occurrence people simply refuse to focus on it and plan for it.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast, Professor Thomas McWeeney, who teaches leadership and strategic planning at Cal State San Bernardino, discusses the struggles he has had getting organizations to focus on and plan for events that have not happened yet and preventing them.  His solution was to force these organizations to confront these possible catastrophes as if they were imminent dangers and plan for them in real time.

In this episode of the MAG-TAC Podcast, Professor Thomas McWeeney, who teaches leadership and strategic planning at Cal State San Bernardino, describes his work with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the days after 9/11 in changing the mindset of the organization to one of prevention of terrorist attacks and other violent incidents and not just apprehension of the perpetrators after the fact.  The theories presented in his teaching and his upcoming book applies directly to stopping mass shootings which are increasingly being recognized as terrorism.

Bryan McKenrick, the leader and owner of American Tactical Defense, LLC., an Active Shooter Training Company, has spent a career in law enforcement doing drug interdiction operations with the Coast Guard and other law enforcement agencies. Bryan now trains law enforcement personnel on active shooter events and joins the MAG-TAC Podcast for Four (4) episodes. In this episode, Bryan talks about improvised weapons and the reality of facing someone with a gun. There is a difference throwing a stapler at someone and introducing serious pain with a Maglite flashlight.

Bryan McKenrick, the leader and owner of American Tactical Defense, LLC., an Active Shooter Training Company, has spent a career in law enforcement doing drug interdiction operations with the Coast Guard and other law enforcement agencies. Bryan now trains law enforcement personnel on active shooter events and joins the MAG-TAC Podcast for Four (4) episodes. In this episode, Bryan discusses the tactics and practice of upping the Hide part of Run, Hide, & Fight, into barricading. How do you barricade? When do you barricade in a tactical situation, when you don’t and why?