CLOSE-QUARTERS FIREARMS INTEGRATION TACTICS

Take Your Opponent’s Weapons Out of the Fight, and Keep Your Weapons in the Fight

BY JARED WIHONGI

Can the tactics of Kali, a Filipino martial art, lend value to extreme close-quarters firearms tactics? This was a question I have pondered and experimented with much over the past 20 years. The Close Quarters Firearms Integration Tactics or CQ-FIT program began its evolution in 2004 when I was assigned full-time to the Salt Lake City Police Department Training Unit as chief use-of-force instructor. Given the need for extreme-close-quarters firearms training, I began experimenting integrating Filipino blade fighting tactics with firearms tactics I had been learning as a street cop, as a SWAT operator, and a firearms instructor. Fifty percent of officer-involved shootings occur from clinch range to about 1.5 meters. Seventy percent occur inside of 3 meters. Many of these included some kind of physical hand-to-hand struggle before, during, and/or…

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