Upon delivery to your agency, the gunShot Box is ready to go.
All you have to do is plug it in and turn it on. The gunShot Box comes in a rugged plastic box with two units ready to go. The realistic gunfire sounds can help prepare students to recognize “gunshots” and call out should they ever hear them in their school. School active shooter exercises like ALICE Training can be enhanced (without presenting firearms) using the gunShot Box.
Montcalm County now owns two gunShot Box systems that can also be used for active shooter drills in their community by schools and the safety teams at houses of worship. When a bad day occurs and a sheriff or chief is asked what they did to minimize or prevent an incident, he or she can pull out the training logs and scenario training plans and show the community that their agency put forth that extra training effort.
The agency uses the technology to help its deputies rehearse reactions to gunfire in a way that will save lives. The training sergeant of the Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office is using the gunShot Box to take his agency’s training to a new level of realism, recently taking their teams through multiple scenarios in two days. The two units come protected in a rugged plastic padded case. For convenience we provided 14-foot power cords. Product durability in training environments is critical, so we shock-mounted all of the electronic components (no mechanical/moving parts or relays) inside a heavy-duty sealed ammo can. The 125-decibel blast wave can be felt by placing your hand even several feet above the unit, but it is safe enough that hearing protection isn’t needed for the trainees. Everyone assumes that it is a speaker and amplifier system making the noise until they see it operate and watch the “muzzle flash” and hear the crack. One of the first things we did after creating the system was to make a demo system with cutaway sides that allowed potential users to see the inside as the unit fires. In the gunShot Box the “thunder” is happening in six little heat-resistant chambers in a controlled and repeatable environment. The same phenomena creates the thunder of a lightning storm.
#WHAT MAKES THE SOUND OF A GUNSHOT SERIES#
It achieves this effect by charging up a series of capacitors and creating a small arc between electrodes that ionizes the air just before the system releases a larger electrostatic discharge. The gunShot Box produces explosive noise without powder or combustibles. And finally reset time between scenarios was taking significantly longer due to reloading revolvers for firing the blanks.
Role players in charge of firing starter pistols were often untimely with their “shots.” Blank rounds have become expensive and hard to find and their use requires ear protection during training scenarios. The clapping of boards together to simulate gunshots and the firing of the sub-sonic Simunition marking rounds was not realistic enough to make students hypervigilant. During the training, the Montcalm County Sheriff’s Office learned that coupling the realistic gunfire sounds of the gunShot Box with the agency’s force-on-force Simunition-style scenarios elevated the training to a new level.įor the Montcalm County SO, the gunShot Box solved four big issues. That example comes from an active shooter training day at a Stanton, MI, elementary school.
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