A foldable rifle is being donated to the Fordland School District’s Resource Officer.
The donation was made as part of a partnership between Mountainside Outfitters in Fordland and FoldAR, a company that makes and sells folding conceal carry rifles.
“This law enforcement tool fits into a backpack, making sure that the officer responsible for keeping our local kids safe, will always have quick access to the firepower needed to immediately level the playing field, should something terrible ever happen,” said Dave Metzger in a post on Mountainside Outfitters’ social media pages.
The post explains a FoldAR makes it possible to discretely carry in a backpack what is needed to respond to an assailant in seconds without making students unnecessarily uncomfortable by carrying a standard AR on the officer’s front…