Okay... That's not really Kathy and Keith. Kathy has brunette hair, and no pointed ears. Keith and the home office however, are pretty much dead on.

Thank you Goldenwolf for the use of the image. It captures the spirit of S4 L.L.C.

Our Family -

Kathy is a full-time Customer Services Representative at a credit union, with over 20 years experience in finance. Naturally, she handles the finances for S4 L.L.C., and acts as Keith's development assistant with self defense products and martial arts techniques for women.

Keith is a full-time Protection Sciences Specialist, with going on three decades of experience in facility and executive protection, during which time, he worked some of the highest profile protection assignments in the US. Keith holds the certification of Emergency First Responder, including WMD, is a certified Edged Weapons Instructor recognized by The American Combat Fighting Arts Association, and specializes in multi-blade martial arts. He is also a former Law Enforcement Firearms instructor certified by the NRA, and a Member of the Order of the Black Shamrock.

Tony, Kathy's son, is a fulltime Shipping/Receiving Manager for a large factory in NJ. He travels up North to the home office monthly, to assist with R&D projects, and accompanies Keith while going to Expo's and tradeshows.

We specialize in the non-firearms enabled.

Why?

To begin, those looking to increase their firearms skill sets have a plethora of choices regarding expert, experienced instruction, as do conventional martial artists. Martial Blade Practitioners, not so much.

Our blade systems were developed with the expectation that the users would be non-firearms enabled for a number of reasons.

1st Responders are almost always not armed, but in the event of wide scale infrastructure collapse, are often called upon to go into harm’s way.

Survivors of disasters are often disarmed by local authorities. Since only the law abiding are apt to comply with this, they are immediately disadvantaged by the civil disobedient (scumbags).

We personally know of a number of cases where a person’s actions, sometimes known, sometimes unknowingly, have had cause to have their 2nd Amendment Rights revoked. If you commit a crime that disqualifies you from firearm ownership, then that is part of the burden of conviction for that crime. It should not mean however, that you have no right to self defense. We also know of cases where people were purposely targeted due to their ownership of firearms, for the express purpose of depriving them of that ownership.

In the end, S4 is highly firearms enabled, but we don’t discuss or depict the nature of the collection due to security concerns. We do maintain a set of more readily accessible handguns, which are secured to the same standards as the rest of the collection, but are closer to hand. We term these ‘RAF’s’ or Readily Accessible Firearms.

While we don’t normally train others in firearms applications, Keith as a former Firearms Instructor, prefers to do safe handling and storage standards training with acquaintances, who are new to firearms ownership, as opposed to them relying solely on the TV/Movie skill set, which isn't one ;-)

S4 L.L.C. is a proud member of The National Rifle Association, the American Knife and Tool Institute, kniferights.org, The American Civil Defense Association, and The Order of the Black Shamrock