What You Think About Tourniquets Is Probably Wrong

By Bob Owens

More and more frequently I’m seeing better-informed and better-trained law enforcement officers and gun-owning citizens opting to carry a tourniquet or even a full “officer down” kit with a tourniquet and pressure dressing, such as those from TacMed Solutions, North American Rescue, and others.

It makes perfect, logical sense as a concealed carrier to make basic medical gear part of your everyday carry gear, just like you carry your gun. After all, those circumstances that justify the legal use of your firearm in a self-defense context are those situations where you are under lethal force attack, and you (or someone you love) may very well end up shot or stabbed before you’re able to end the threat.

It simply makes sense to carry one of the two most-proven tourniquets on the market (either the SOFTT-W or the CAT), and either a OLAES or Israeli Bandage, especially when a tourniquet and one of these two bandages costs less than two boxes of premium defensive ammunition and can save the most precious thing you own… your life.

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Source:: Bearing Arms