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At 18 inches in total length, the CTAX is convenient to carry on your belt while still providing powerful leverage. Free yourself or someone else by lifting heavy items or prying open doors, windows, trunks, and more.

Having a lightweight hammer on your belt is never a bad thing. Remove padlocks or residential door handles to quickly gain access. Perform field-expedient repairs with nails, brads, and other fasteners.

Officers of the law experience various scenarios where they are faced with challenges: in classrooms with students in emergency situations like an active shooter, in natural events that cause trapped victims, responding to 911 calls at residential locations, vehicle accidents, etc. This kind of work can be physically demanding, stressful, and dangerous.

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In collaboration with the Academe Grove, a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit, we have established a funding program that allows police departments to equip their cop cars with the CTAX rescue multi-tool as Flagship Program.

That’s why Stone Gryphon Tactical developed a rescue multi-tool to enable first responders to save more lives: the CTAX – Carrington’s Tactical Access Axe.

Tanto blades were originally designed to pierce armor with high, exceptionally strong points. We used that inspiration to create an axe blade that is optimized for piercing power. Pierce/chop/cut aluminum, metals, plastic, safety glass, wood, trees, car hoods, and sheet metal to rescue yourself or others.

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Brian Carrington joined the US Army as an Infantryman in 1998. After completing Airborne School he was assigned the 4th Ranger Training Battalion at Fort Benning Georgia. He transitioned from active duty to the National Guard in 2002, joining the 111th Air Defense Brigade in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After a stateside deployment in 2003, he volunteered to deploy to Iraq in 2005. Brian separated from the military in 2007 and became a police officer in southern California in 2009. He has been a police officer for the last 10 years serving the diverse communities of a major metropolitan city.

Simplified testing procedures which fulfill the loading requirements of SAE Roll Over Protective Structure (ROPS) Code J1040a have been developed. Also, a tubular fixture was devised which accurately directs the drop object toward the overhead guard as required by Falling Object Protective Structure (FOPS) Code J231.

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Performance Criteria for Rollover Protective Structures (ROPS) for Construction, Earthmoving, Forestry, and Mining Machines

Solving the problem of needing serious tools that are also seriously convenient. The CTAX is built to be lightweight, portable, and easy to use so you always have the right tool for the job.

Academe Grove is a 501(C)(3) Educational Non-Profit dedicated to supporting law enforcement agencies to identify and fund rescue/safety equipment for frontline officers. Our Adopt a Cop Car program allows citizens, small businesses, & corporate partners to provide life saving equipment to local law enforcement officers by sponsoring a police vehicle.