Weapon Retention – Defensive Tactics

The number of police officers shot with their own firearms is alarmingly high. The Gracie Survival Tactics (GST) course teaches a series of simple, yet highly-effective, weapon retention principles that will defeat an assailant’s attempt to disarm the officer from any position in the fight, standing or on the ground.

• Standing weapon retention
  • Weapon holstered
  • Weapon exposed
  • Close quarters

• Ground weapon retention
  • Mount double under hook
  • Cross draw weapon retention
    • Mount variation
    • Guard variation
      • Peel and push wrist control. Stand in base
      • Under hook-one or both sides

Instructors: Captain Ted Malone and Corporal Richie Basford, Charleston Police Department