FMG Publications is pleased to announce Steve Tarani has joined the editorial team of American COP where he will write the new Life Skills column as well as develop videos for FMG’s various online channels.

Life Skills is where current events meet relevant training. Tarani will explore how to bridge the gap between defensive tactics and firearms; such everyday soft skills and hard skills will help prepare readers to survive a threat from bad-breath distance out to 300 yards. Ranging from protective intelligence to stopping a threat with a pen, Life Skills will give a raw, unfiltered look behind the curtain of professional executive protection.

GUNS Magazine Editor Brent T. Wheat shares, “Steve and I have been talking about this for over a year and I’m excited we could bring him aboard American COP and the whole FMG family. Steve is one of the most knowledgeable yet approachable trainers, and he also brings an incredible set of skills to the writing and video side of things. We’re lucky to have him: He brings even more world-class subject matter expertise and personality to our all-star team.”

Tarani had dedicated more than three decades of his professional career to the hard skills community. He is a former full-time Central Intelligence Agency protective programs employee and defensive tactics subject matter expert who served on the POTUS 45 pre-election executive protection detail. He is the lead instructor for NRA’s non-ballistic weapons training program offered nationally. Tarani is also a DoD and FLETC-certified federal firearms instructor who has been on staff at Gunsite Academy for over 20 years; an adjunct instructor at the SIG Arms Academy for over 16 years; and remains a service provider for DoD and other government agencies.

Tarani notes, “Having been in the professional hard skills community for more than three decades, I have known both Brent and Denny [American COP editor] for most of that time working on many overlapping assignments. Over the many years of our mutual industry support, and to this very day, we share a common passion to empower our growing readership with relevant and useful information.”

CONTACT: BRENT T. WHEAT, ED@GUNSMAGAZINE.COM