TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Give it your best shot
Ammo Inc. puts up a SHIELD for PBA members
offering optimum shooting experiences
n BY MITCHELL KRUGEL
At the NJ State PBA Mini Convention in
Atlantic City this past March, buzz about a
job performance-changing product on ex-
hibit spread through the membership. At-
tendees flocked to the Ammo Inc. display
to grab boxes of its match-grade-quality,
patented STREAK™ ammunition priced
at an offer too good to refuse.
The STREAK® rounds from Ammo,
Inc., an ammunition provider based in Ar-
izona, earned a 4.6 rating out of 5.0 from
the National Tactical Officers Association
(NTOA). As the first of its kind, the patent-
ed STREAK® ammo is a non-incendiary
visual round that can be shot in any in-
door range as well as outdoors from dusk
till dawn. And the OPS® brand NIGHT
OPS™ led-free hollow point frangible
round has the STREAK® visibility and is so
intuitive that it can bust through 12 sheets
of drywall yet stop as soon at hits soft tis-
sue. When you are looking to buy ammo
in bulk, the Ammo, Inc. 200 count bags
of target practice rounds perform as well
in qualification as they do in training and
come in 9mm 115gr/40 S&W 180gr/45 ACP
230gr and 223 55gr.
Ammo Inc. manufactures its STELTH™
brand for suppressed firearms and all
brands use a clean powder blend that
keeps firearms almost inexplicably clean.
As of August 2018 Ammo, Inc. also sports
the Jeff Rann American Hunter™ Line, a
set of boutique ammunition such as 30.6
Springfield, 300 WIN MAG, 308 Winchester,
3 38 Laupua and 6.5 Creedmor from the re-
nowned hunter that aficionados can use
for hunting season.
Now, Ammo Inc. has another offer that
members and agencies throughout New
Jersey will have a hard time refusing. Pow-
ered by endorsements from the NJ State
PBA, the National Association of Police
Organizations (NAPO) and the NJ State
Troopers NCO – among others – Ammo
Inc. has upgraded its SHIELD program
(www.shieldammo.com) with more exclu-
sive opportunities and purchase rewards
for members through the website at www.
NJSammo.com (password: NJSPBA).
Check this out: The SHIELD program
offers those who accumulate purchase
points a chance to acquire additional
products such as firearms, ammo bundles,
fishing gear, tactical equipment and cloth-
ing and entry into a quarterly raffle, with
prizes such as guided hunts and packages
that include attending the Rusty Wallace
Driving School.
“The revamp or upgrade and launch of
SHIELD Program 2.0 has been created to
support law enforcement including state
troopers, retired officers, and retired mil-
itary across the country and especially
through NAPO and the New Jersey State
PBA and New Jersey State NCOA ,” ex-
plains Toby Sanchez, Program Director
for the Ammo Inc. Global Tactical Defense
Division and the SHIELD Program. “Offi-
cers are shooting more and spending more
money to shoot more, so we want them to
get match-grade quality ammo for UNDER
wholesale prices and want to make certain
every dollar goes toward supporting their
membership or giving back to their orga-
nization or agency.”
Yet all of the above might not even be
the best of what Ammo Inc. is offering
to support law enforcement officers and
their agencies. From dusk to dawn, the
STREAK® ammo will show up on body
camera footage and help officers and
agencies account for every round fired,
which can be of utmost significance in the
world of massive scrutiny on all use-of-
force decisions. And the STREAK® feature
can be invaluable for tactical units to know
where each team member is firing from
and toward in any active-shooter training
or tactical response.
“You can count every single round go-
ing out and know exactly where it went,”
Sanchez adds. “Talk about accountability
and credibility when it comes to the le-
gality that follows use-of-force decisions:
When an officer is called on the carpet,
imagine being able to hit rewind and track
every shot, from situations in low-light to
no-light. It will help officers recall all the
details, which is difficult when officers are
under extreme duress in a shooting situa-
tion.”
For any officer in any shooting situa-
tion – training, response or recreation –
the SHIELD program provides these offers
that will be hard to refuse:
• Ammo Inc. subscription agreement:
Members will receive points for reg-
istering and will continue to accumu-
late points when purchases are made
in a digital wallet that can be used to
acquire products from the Members
Only Store.
• Ammo Inc. Members Only store: All
association members have access to
use their accumulated points to pur-
chase additional products with in-
cluding firearms, hats, shirts, tactical
equipment and ammo products and
ammunition bundles.
• Raffle drawings and giveaways: All
members of the SHIELD program who
purchase more than $100 of ammu-
nition will be entered into an open
raffle. Points will accumulate at one
point per dollar spent, and at the end
of each quarter, Ammo Inc. will an-
nounce the winners.
• National member competition: Based
on the accumulated points, members
with the most rounds purchased will
win sponsored quarterly giveaways.
• Local association member compe-
tition: Association members in the
SHIELD program whose officers pur-
chase the highest total number of
rounds accumulated each quarter will
win sponsored quarterly giveaways.
The “under wholesale” price points
alone seem too good to refuse. A 50-round
9mm 115gr box is under $10. The STREAK®
non-incendiary, tracer ammunition that
has been passed military-grade testing is
also of great value: 20 rounds of STREAK®
147gr for $6.14 saves you as much as a $10
on the MSRP, and is much less than the $6
per tracer round some companies might
charge.
Additionally, Ammo Inc. will be donat-
ing money back to the association for its
causes. So if NJ State PBA members spent
$30,000 in a quarter – or less than $1 per
member – Ammo Inc. would donate $3,000
to the Survivor & Welfare Fund.
“Our givebacks to New Jersey and any
organization that is a part of NAPO are to
enhance the shooting experiences at the
ranges, the training academies and in-
structional facilities,” Sanchez confirms.
“We want to give the heroes of the NJSPBA
the best price under wholesale for Amer-
ican-made, match-grade quality ammo
crafted with the best materials to keep
firearms clean and help everybody be a
quality shot, whether you’re on the job,
having fun hunting or just shooting your
firearms.” d
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