Armstrong Armed Security
Friday, January 10, 2014
AR500 BODY ARMOR
Capt. Bostwick is now an official sales rep for
AR500 body armor which in my opinion sells the best ballistic panels out there
in both hard armor and soft armor. Because I am a local sales rep I am able to
pass on the law enforcement discount that is only currently given to law enforcement
officers through AR500 body armor to security officers in Mississippi
which makes the armor more affordable for them to buy. The law enforcement and
security discount is 12% on the hard body armor and 5% on the soft body armor I
also offer an extra discount for large department purchases of body armor. If
you would like to see all of what AR500 has to offer and would like to watch a video
that demonstrations the armor in action just click on AR500 link http://www.ar500armor.com/
Saturday, August 10, 2013
Security training or lack of it in
the state of Mississippi a serious problem!
I touched on this subject about six
months ago which was the lack of regulations regarding security companies in
the state of Mississippi and required training for security
officers. I feel after things I have seen in the last few months I need to
touch base on this subject again with a little bit more detail because I feel
that the only way the politicians will act is if the public demands them it.
First of all of the statements I am about to make I know personally to be fact
I'm just not going to name names of either the companies nor the individual
security office but I will say that these companies are established security
companies that have been in business for years. I have to say since the Clinton
gun range has went out of business I have been doing quite a bit more gun range
certifications for security officers and I hope in the future I do even more
that's why I added a second range. In the process of certifying security
officers I noticed a disturbing trend that a lot of these officers not only do
not know the basic gun stands but do not know how to clean their own gun. I
think it's a shame when security companies have officers working for them and
some of these officers have been with them for years without ever qualifying
with their gun that they carry with them on the job. To make matters worse I
would have to say 75% of officers that come through my gun range their gun
after the first firing locks up on them to where they have to manually chamber
each bullet after firing. Some of these guns have locked up completely and what
makes it worst is they were not just semiautomatics but revolvers too. Of
course I have yet to have any security officers know what to do if someone goes
for their service gun while it is in their holster and recently I had a
security officer who is currently working for a security company come to me for
a job and when I asked him to see his security gun permit he gave me his blue
temporary card that he received in 2008. To those of you that do not know
anything about security gun permits, when you go to the Mississippi Highway
Patrol they issue you a temporary six-month permit so you can go to work while
they check out your background. After six months if you pass the background
check they will send you your regular security gun permit with your picture on
it in the mail to you if you pass. What I think is unbelievable that this
officer is working from year 2008 till now for that security company illegally
and neither the Mississippi Highway Patrol nor his company has put a stop to
him working on a temporary permit that had been expired for 5 years.
I thought after a year ago when a
security officer working at the Pine Grove Apartments in Jackson Mississippi
shot an unarmed young man in the back who had his hands up in the air something
would have be done in the legislation about the proper training of security
officers but nothing never happened. That was probably because the young man
was just an average person if he would have been a politicians relative I
guarantee you they would have done something about this problem. The other
issue I would like to touch on is the ease in which a person can start up a
security company, all he has to do is go pay $20 to get his business license he
does not have to have a background check nor show any proof of insurance. I
personally knew a man a few years ago who started up a security company to
which he was doing unarmed security, so he did not have to get a security gun
permit which if he did he would not have passed because he was a sex offender
and his partner had not just long-ago got out of Whitfield. How would you like
this man's company working for you and you know he doesn't do any background
checks on his employees probably, in fact I'm willing to bet most of the
security companies in Mississippi don't do any background checks on all. I
remember one time I worked for Security Company that sent a security officer to
work an armed post and issued him a hand gun and he was only 20 years old. Just
in case any of you out there do not know you have to be 21 in the state of Mississippi to have a security gun permit. I
will have to say that this is another category that the state of Mississippi falls behind the rest of the
country in any and needs to catch up before more bad things happen. I do not
know of any state out there that has more relaxed security regulations and
enforcement of what few requirements they do have then the state of Mississippi . The only requirement that the
state has is if you do armed security you must have a security gun permit to
which I've never heard of the Highway Patrol going into any of the security
companies and checking to see if their security officers have their gun permits
nor seeing if they've had any gun training. That is the last thing I'm going to
touch on when you go to the Highway Patrol and asked them what type minimum gun
training do you require their answer is whatever your company requires. If you
ask me that is a very stupid answer because if you do not have minimum
standards for companies to go by they will do what they want which is a little
of nothing. Of course there's always the legal system if the security officer
does something wrong you can always hire a lawyer to sue the company, but if it
happens to be like a company that I know of that works just down the street
from one of my posts you would not get any thing because he has no insurance
and does not own anything. Well I believe at this time of giving plenty of
information to digest but believe it or not I could go on and write many more
pages on the subject but at this time I will not. I do hope that the
information I have given will be enough to stir up the general public into
putting pressure on the politicians to come up with some regulations not only
to protect security officers by giving much-needed training that they do not have but also make
it safer for the general public. Which at this time crime rate growing at such
an alarming rate in the city of Jackson and spilling into the outlying
cities like it is the last thing we need is poorly trained and poorly equipped
security office.
Thursday, March 28, 2013
welfare recipients
No
reason to stand on your feet waiting to get your check. Just put your
flip-flops next in line and go back and sit on your ass and play games on
your free iPhone. Now,
don't tell me that welfare recipients aren't innovative! What
a great country!
Manta is number one
So far put out over a dozen sales ads and all have to say this company here is by far the most in depth company I have come across yet. What I mean by that is none of these other companies that place sales ads with has even come close in asking as many in death questions as this company did about my business and my products. If this is any sign of the type of service I'm going to receive from them in the future I will probably be very happy. One more thing I like to add earlier when I first started filling out the forms on the computer I had to call into them to register my company. I figured I would be on hold for a while or it would be a computer-generated personal picking up, but I was surprised I was not placed on hold and a live person pick up immediately and answered all my question that I had.
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