By Richard Nance
Photos by Alfredo Rico
Purpose-designed glass-breaching tools from ShieldSpike enhance operator safety.
Sure, a baseball bat, baton or halogen tool might work, but not nearly as efficiently as the purpose-designed HammerSpike.
A few months ago, I helped organize a joint training session with a nearby agency’s SWAT team. A good portion of the day was devoted to vehicle assaults, which, like most things in the SWAT realm, are relatively simple in theory but can be quite complex in application.