Posted on 09/16/2007 2:35:18 PM PDT by flattorney
The girls too. They gotta rely on the weapons even more than the guys do.
I don’t either, but you have to admit when cops abuse their authority (lie the above post) its worse because the gub’mint says we’re supposed to listen to the guys with the badges.
I'm not defending this BS article but that is one of the points that the author is making. The max effective range of handguns against armed perps is about 25 yards. BTW, I work for a class 3 dealer that has way more powerful weapons than our local LE departments.
You are right of course. I based my statement on my own shooting experience with all types of small arms.
And when was the last time you heard of those front line officers responding to a citizen's 911 call in time to do anything other than fill out the paperwork and order doughnuts?
The dog population in Miami-Dade will certainly drop now, however, as they seem to be the cop's main targets.
That’s true (it was about a half mile from the State line), but you have to admit that missing a berm with 30 to 40 rounds is pretty hard for anyone who is the least bit competent to do. Missing the entire State, however, is something worth remembering.
The range was closed down by the Mayor at that time. The police came around and asked to use OUR private range to train at. At first, we were willing, but they tried to put so many restrictions on us, the owners of the range (such as we would have to leave whenever they showed up to practice), that we eventually told them to pound sand. Of course, with their accuracy, maybe it was for our protection.
“Palm Beach County has already gone this route and is using money obtained in drug busts and sale of confiscated property to fund purchasing assault rifles for their police department. - FlA”
The main reason unconstitutional money seizures by law enforcement will never end.
Simple rule: your finger doesn't enter the trigger guard until your sights are on the target.
Cops are the worst offenders of this rule, judging by the number of reports of them shooting themselves while holstering or unholstering their sidearms.
At 100 yards, I'd take a rifle over a pistol anytime.
More good news...
As I recall, the only people killed were the bank robbers, so yeah.
(Whoops, that happened once in the not-too-recent past in Philadelphia-Waco was by tank).
Whatever came of those incidents anyway?
Bullets are to cartridges as flour is to bread, as cement is to concrete.....etc. When will they ever learn?
Oh yeah, everybody knows that if you make AKs illegal all the bad guys will stop using them. I wonder if that moron Chief of Police thinks that there were no AKs available on the street during the years when Clinton's AWB was in effect?
I never cease to be amazed by people who seem to believe that if you pass a law against having a gun, then criminals for whom breaking the law is a way of life will obey that one law but not any other law that gets in their way. The only people who obey gun laws are law abiding people (maybe that's why they're called law abiding??) who aren't a threat to anyone to begin with.
I don’t know exactly what happened, since it was never completely reported. However, I doubt what you speculate since there were 30 to 40 rounds fired over the berm. I cannot conceive of 30 to 40 rounds being AD’s.
My guess (and it is entirely a guess since a report was never publicly released) is that they were playing with the new fully-automatic M-16’s they got from the Feds and placed some targets on top of the berm instead of in front of it.
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The max effective range of handguns in the hands of 95% of city cops, or anyone else who doesn't enjoy shooting and practice often, is maybe 25 feet.
The answer to ineffective handguns in the hands of the incompetent is better training, not handing those same incompetent people AR-15s so they can miss more dangerously and often.
That was a once in a generation incident. For 99.9% of departments, it isn't just a once in a generation incident it's a just plain never incident. For the traffic stops, warrants, domestic calls, drug searches, etc. that police actually do on a daily basis, AR-15s are at best useless and often a dangerous liability. Give boys toys and they will play.
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