ARTICLES OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                        SAFARILAND GOVERNMENT SALES, INC.

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                                    ARTICLE I

     The name of this corporation is Safariland Government Sales, Inc.

                                   ARTICLE II

     The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or activity
for which a corporation may be organized under the General Corporation Law of
California other than the banking business, the trust company business, or the
practice of a profession permitted to be incorporated by the California
Corporations Code.

                                   ARTICLE III

     The name and complete business address in the State of California of this
corporation's initial agent for service of process is:

                              David M. Holmes, Esq.
                      LAW OFFICES OF DAVID M. HOLMES, INC.
                          27281 Las Ramblas, Suite 155
                             Mission Viejo, CA 92691

                                   ARTICLE IV

     This corporation is authorized to issue only one class of shares, which
shall be designated "common" shares. The total number of such shares authorized
to be issued is 1,000,000 shares.

     I declare that I am the person who executed the above Articles of
Incorporation, and that this instrument is my act and deed.


Dated: February 27, 1998                   /s/ David M. Holmes
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                                           David M. Holmes, Incorporator