{"id":65609,"date":"2023-05-13T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-13T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=65609"},"modified":"2023-05-13T13:00:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-13T18:00:22","slug":"tradecraft-how-to-spot-a-concealed-weapon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/05\/13\/tradecraft-how-to-spot-a-concealed-weapon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tradecraft: How to Spot a Concealed Weapon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65611\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/05\/weapon-cc.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"entry-title\" style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.survivalsullivan.com\/detecting-a-concealed-weapon\/\">How to Spot a Concealed Weapon \u2013 Fast<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 class=\"has-drop-cap\"><em>Around the U.S. and the world, people carry guns. If they are not working in an overt context, whether legal or not, they will endeavor to conceal the gun, usually a handgun.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>They could be another armed citizen going about their day, possibly like you, an off-duty or undercover police officer, or a criminal scumbag or gang member keeping his tools of the trade in a ready condition.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>Whoever you might be, consider learning the sometimes subtle tells that indicate the presence of a concealed weapon as part and parcel of enhancing your situational awareness.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>You will not always be able to discern the presence of a weapon, especially a knife, but you often can with enough practice. Discerning the presence of a weapon is one thing, discerning someone\u2019s intent is another.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>However, in conjunction with certain behavioral and social cues, the fact alone that a certain character is unarmed may be enough of a reason to vacate the area or at least give them a wide berth.<\/em><\/h2>\n<h2><em>In this introductory article I will explain the different types of signals or cues that may indicate the presence of a weapon, as well as additional considerations you may wish to incorporate into your own carry practices to reduce your profile.<\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Spot a Concealed Weapon \u2013 Fast &nbsp; Around the U.S. and the world, people carry guns. If they are not working in an overt context, whether legal or not, they will endeavor to conceal the gun, usually a handgun. They could be another armed citizen going about their day, possibly like you, an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3786,5445,13890,389,390,391,6200,981,5754,402,17,10,404,405,1897,3321,7357,24,1309],"tags":[231,4551],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}