Gun Company Launches Project To Equip First Responders With Tourniquets

By Bob Owens

After the Townville Elementary School shooting in South Carolina last month, I wrote an article on how my training classes, research, and everyday observation of current events has led my to incorporate medical gear as a key component of my everyday carry gear.

Firearms are good at solving problems posed by the threat of violent people, but once the threat is neutralized, there is still the likelihood that someone may need medical care. There’s also the possibility of household accidents, occupational accidents, and the kind of event I seem to have a particular talent for finding, single vehicle incidents and vehicle collisions.

The single most important piece of medical gear I carry on a daily basis is a SOFTT-Wide tourniquet in a PHLster FlatPack tourniquet carrier.

Unfortunately, our first responders don’t always have the luxury of being issued great gear. They are issued what is cheapest, or what they’re willing to spend their (often meager) salaries upon.

As a result, many don’t have tourniquets on them at all, much less carried in a way that is both comfortable and easily accessible.

That isn’t sitting well with our friends at Snakehound Machine, so they’ve decided to launch <a class="colorbox" …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms