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Warren Wilson

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Warren Wilson is a veteran law enforcement professional with nearly three decades of full-time service. He is a former captain, training commander and rangemaster with an Oklahoma metropolitan police department and a former SWAT team leader. He now works as a firearms and self-defense instructor and writer. Certified by the Force Science Institute as a De-Escalation Instructor and Force Science Analyst, he has logged more than 3,000 hours of documented training, including multiple instructor certifications in firearms, active-shooter response, and OC. He has served as a full-time law enforcement officer since 1996.

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