By Police1 Staff
The Police1 SHOT Show team — Todd Fletcher, Ron LaPedis and Lindsey Bertomen — are planning vendor visits, preparing to dive deep into firearms and scopes at Industry Day at the Range, attend Police1’s LEEP Forward event, and gear up to scour the booths and halls to bring you top-notch, law enforcement-specific content from SHOT Show, the annual extravaganza of firearms, knives, outdoor equipment and tactical gear, in Las Vegas.
Follow our full coverage for product launches announced at SHOT Show on our SHOT Show coverage page, as well as Police1 Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.
Meanwhile, we asked Todd, Ron and Lindsey for their favorite SHOT Show products you can buy today. Check out their recommendations of a range bag, weapon lights, dry fire training gear and more.
First Tactical
First Tactical engineers and tests apparel, bags and gear for the demands of public safety personnel.
Recoil Range Bag
This highly rated range bag has a volume of 40.5 liters and six external pockets, 13 internal pockets, and two padded dividers. Two features that stand out are the pull-out carrier with dividers and the cleaning pocket with tool storage.
Todd calls this “by far the best-designed and most useful range duffel bag I’ve ever seen or used.”
Another reviewer, Bryanwrote, “Seldom does a product exceed expectations these days, but this range bag did that and then some. Love it.”
Buy now: FirstTactical.com or Amazon.com
Nightstick
Nightstick is a professional lighting brand of flashlights, headlamps and lights for handguns, rifles and shotguns.
Fletcher enjoys Nightstick’s exceptional lights at good prices, describing the new pistol light as a “900-lumen retina burner” and the Nightstick long gun light as “great, rechargeable and lightweight.
TWM-30-T Turbo Tactical Weapon-Mounted Light
The 66,000 candela and a 514-meter beam distance is optimized for extended ranges and can overcome photonic barriers such as tinted windows and oncoming headlights. The TWM-30-T fits in all existing TWM-Series compatible holsters including duty, OWB, IWB, and AIWB models.
Other features include:
- Single-motion ambidextrous switches
- User-selectable strobe and battery-safe modes
- 1.75 hours of runtime from two included CR123 batteries
Buy now: Nightstick.com
(as of this writing the TWM-30-T-Turbo is not on Amazon, but you can purchase the TWM-30 from Amazon.com)
LGL-170A Long Gun Light
This rechargeable full-size long gun light kit is a complete weapon lighting system for your rifle, carbine, or shotgun. It features:
- 1500 lumens LED light
- 1.5-hour runtime
- Tightly focused beam reaches out to 304 meters
- One 18650 lithium-ion battery with charger (will run on a pair of CR123 batteries)
Buy now: Nightstick.com and Amazon.com
Streamlight
LaPedis, who regularly writes about lights and sites, also recommended a firearm light. There are several Streamlight TLR-7 lights, each designed for a specific firearm. LaPedis cautions, “Read the descriptions carefully for compatibility with your firearm. The 69407 TLR-7 X Sub is designed exclusively and solely for 1913 short rails and fits the SIG P365 X-Macro, but not the P365XL. The 69504 is designed for that firearm.”
Streamlight 69407 TLR-7 X
Designed to securely attach to select 1913 short-railed subcompact handguns.
- 500 lumens
- 5000 candela intensity
- 140-meter beam distance
- Run time of 1.5 hours
Buy now: Streamlight and Amazon
Streamlight 69504 TLR-7 HL-X
Designed exclusively for Sig Sauer P365/XL closed rail systems.
- 1,000 lumens
- 10,000 candela intensity
- 200-meter beam distance
- Default run time of 30 minutes
Buy now: Streamlight and Amazon
Alien Gear
Alien Gear, makers of made in the USA inside- and outside- waistband holsters, are popular with Police1 readers.
ShapeShift IWB Appendix Carry Holster
LaPedis shares that, “appendix carry seems to be getting more popular and many IWB concealed carry users are carrying full-size autos like the Staccato P and SIG P320 IWB.”
If you are looking for an IWB holster, the Alien Gear ShapeShift appendix carry holster might be just what you’re looking for.
Buy now: Alien Gear and Amazon
Dry fire gear for at-home training
LaPedis advocates for and regularly writes about the importance of off-duty firearms training and the usefulness of dry fire gear for training at home. Here are three products he recommends:
Laser Ammo i-MTTS
Create unlimited training scenarios with the Laser Ammo interactive training system. The i-MTTS:
- Works with Surestrike laser cartridges
- Gives multiple hit indicators
- Features six operational modes
- Customizable personal training scenarios
Buy now: Laser Ammo and Amazon
Mantis X10 Elite Shooting Performance System
Dry fire training system that works with any firearm.
- Data-driven training
- Multiple training courses and drills
- Score every shot
- Track your progress through training
Mantis Blackbeard X
Dry fire laser training system.
- Auto-resetting system
- Data-driven training
- Train anytime, anywhere
- Real-time shooting analysis
Fisher Space Pen
Bertomen has owned his Fisher Space Pen for 40 years and it “has survived 20 years of part-time soldiering, recording the evidence of hundreds of drug arrests, and helped me take notes for several training schools and even a couple of degrees.”
Clutch Space Pen
The Clutch is a “tough pen made for tough jobs.” It is made to work in all temperatures, at any angle and even underwater. The hexagonal grip gives you a solid hold while wearing gloves and it still feels lightweight.
Buy now: Fisher Space Pen and Amazon
Sabre
Sabre pepper spray is widely used by police as a less lethal tool and by consumers for personal safety.
Crossfire Pepper Gel
A portable gel spray canister with a flip top has range up to 20 feet. The gel formulation helps resist the wind and prevents blowback.
Real Avid
Read Avid tools are for gunsmiths and DIY enthusiasts. Use these tools to disassemble, customize, repair and build your firearms.
Real Avid Armorers Tool Kit
Tuck this 83-piece tool kit into your First Tactical Recoil Range Bag. The Armorers Tool Kit features:
- LED screwdriver bit
- Easy-to-read scale window
- Accurate torque screwdriver
