What if one of the most practical personal safety tools costs about $2 and can be found at almost any hardware store?
In this video, Michael Braun — private security specialist, former German USK operator, law-enforcement firearms instructor, and CEO of a private security firm serving UHNW clients — demonstrates how a simple everyday item can be incorporated into a personal safety and self-defense strategy.
Unlike many dedicated self-defense tools, this item is inexpensive, discreet, easy to carry, and designed in a way that makes it difficult to lose control of during a physical confrontation. It can be used by both men and women and is commonly available in countries around the world.
The focus of this video is practical personal safety, defensive movement, awareness, positioning, and creating an opportunity to escape a dangerous situation.
Topics covered include:
• Practical self-defense
• Personal safety tools
• Close-range self-defense
• Situational awareness
• Defensive movement
• Bodyguard training
• Executive protection
• Law-enforcement tactics
• CQC and close-quarters defense
• Self-defense for men and women
• Everyday carry and personal security
Always check local laws and regulations before carrying or using any item for self-defense.
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You punch someone in the head with it, kill them- then the police look into why you’re carrying a large screw, where you got it, when you got it, exactly where it was purchased from they want the receipt. Thry want the proof that you were doing some work that it was required for, they look into the time of the attack and look at your reasoning for having a screw in your pocket in the city on a Saturday night at 2 AM and link up your reasoning with police forensic logic… What the fuck are these stupid videos… Don’t take this idiots advice people, just be nice. Stay humble have fun. Don’t look for trouble and it won’t find you. It’s that simple. This guy sounds like a paranoid little man.
On the course of my career I entered many homes handling domestic battery complaints or serving warrants. Always made a point to keep on eye on everything that the quiet guy – the dangerous one, not the screamer or the guy or gal that couldn’t shut up – could pick up and use as a weapon, because just about anything can be a weapon if you aren’t too fussy. A lag screw like this is an awesome weapon; just remember, if you ever have to use it, you NEVER even thought of using it for self defense, because it is not a weapon in any American court of law so long as you never intended it for that purpose. The rest of my advice: exercise your Miranda Rights immediately, answer absolutely nothing beyond your name, address, etc., and talk to your attorney only. If it comes to trial, ALWAYS do a jury trial, because convincing an entire jury that you intended to do something like use an ordinary piece of hardware as a weapon is going to be worth more than the DA will even bother to try. If you live in some other nation, especially the UK, you are already screwed, and defending yourself is just one more excuse for your government to make an example of you (unless, of course, you are an “immigrant”), so practice your disarming dialog, and learn to run, fast.
So I'm supposed to travel around the world go to some hardware store find this thing and buy it and then carry it in my pocket and put it on fast enough when I'm attacked? Firstly in most countries you'd still get charged for using a weapon. An item that can be used for self-defense in many countries has to be something that you would normally have without explanation. So maybe you're hiking you have a walking stick or it's raining and you have an umbrella or are you coming back from a baseball game and you have a bat. So unless you are doing renovations and construction you won't have a reason to be carrying that thing.
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You punch someone in the head with it, kill them- then the police look into why you’re carrying a large screw, where you got it, when you got it, exactly where it was purchased from they want the receipt. Thry want the proof that you were doing some work that it was required for, they look into the time of the attack and look at your reasoning for having a screw in your pocket in the city on a Saturday night at 2 AM and link up your reasoning with police forensic logic… What the fuck are these stupid videos… Don’t take this idiots advice people, just be nice. Stay humble have fun. Don’t look for trouble and it won’t find you. It’s that simple. This guy sounds like a paranoid little man.
That's not a "hex bolt". It's called a nut. Hex nuts screw onto hex bolts.
Lawyer here: Anything you use as a weapon, is a weapon in the eyes of the law.
Mike this is genius and can be dangerous if used the way you said to. Thank you .
The heavy bag was harmed in this video
Ilegal in Australia.
If you carry ANYTHING for self defence, its classed as a weapon in OZ.
On the course of my career I entered many homes handling domestic battery complaints or serving warrants. Always made a point to keep on eye on everything that the quiet guy – the dangerous one, not the screamer or the guy or gal that couldn’t shut up – could pick up and use as a weapon, because just about anything can be a weapon if you aren’t too fussy. A lag screw like this is an awesome weapon; just remember, if you ever have to use it, you NEVER even thought of using it for self defense, because it is not a weapon in any American court of law so long as you never intended it for that purpose. The rest of my advice: exercise your Miranda Rights immediately, answer absolutely nothing beyond your name, address, etc., and talk to your attorney only. If it comes to trial, ALWAYS do a jury trial, because convincing an entire jury that you intended to do something like use an ordinary piece of hardware as a weapon is going to be worth more than the DA will even bother to try.
If you live in some other nation, especially the UK, you are already screwed, and defending yourself is just one more excuse for your government to make an example of you (unless, of course, you are an “immigrant”), so practice your disarming dialog, and learn to run, fast.
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ANY way is legal. Drop Mike.
This guy looks like he’s about to start singing an Elvis song.
That CIA guy has lots of garbage. Thanks for exposing this one.
So I'm supposed to travel around the world go to some hardware store find this thing and buy it and then carry it in my pocket and put it on fast enough when I'm attacked? Firstly in most countries you'd still get charged for using a weapon. An item that can be used for self-defense in many countries has to be something that you would normally have without explanation. So maybe you're hiking you have a walking stick or it's raining and you have an umbrella or are you coming back from a baseball game and you have a bat. So unless you are doing renovations and construction you won't have a reason to be carrying that thing.