Polite Society Tactical Conference, 2017, Little Rock, AR

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By John Farnam

Little Rock, AR –-(Ammoland.com)- Tom Givens’ now-famous annual “Polite Society” Tactical Conference just concluded. This year, it was in Little Rock, AR at a little-known, but expansive, military training facility I didn’t even know was there!

Over 350 attendees this year, nearly all experienced Operators looking to expand, advance, and refine our tactical skill and knowledge repertoire.

Many live-fire and lecture Classes. I do my best to attend all of them! Also a standard live-fire handgun shooting-skills test in which we all participated.

Vicki took first place in the Women’s Division!

On the premises was the largest shoot-house I’ve ever seen! My colleagues, John Holschen and Gary Greco, conducted a popular hostage-rescue exercise there (Airsoft), and many tested their tactical skills therein, including me!

Watching from above, I for one, was amazed and discouraged by the way so many aspiring Operators sloppily blundered their way through the exercise, consistently making poor use of cover and getting ambushed time after time! Tactical movement inside buildings, combined with skillful use of cover, is something upon which we all need to brush-up!

My friends, Manny Kapelsohn, Andy Branca (author of the …Read the Rest

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