Cops do not practice on a weekly basis. Cops are hardly shooting professionals.
Cops do not practice on a weekly basis. Cops are hardly shooting professionals.
Which only serves to further nail the original premise.
The older gentleman that taught my concealed carry class trains local city and county police. He said most of them are not proficient with firearms at all.
Affirmative Darius. The author has it wrong on the facts. What’s worse, is spray and pray is policy in many departments, which is why so many rounds go down range in these events (see the recent situation in Los Angeles where two women were shot in their pickup truck by Torrance PD officers). This practice (spray and pray) violates rule four of the standard gun safety rules - “Know your target and what is beyond.” We were very lucky that the Boston PD didn’t kill or wound innocent civilians. Ricochets can carry rounds quite far and away from their initial trajectory - and they are quite dangerous even at distance. This is very basic stuff for anyone who has even modest experience with firearms.
That is correct. I can personally attest to that for where I live. The local cops have free use of my shooting club and they hold their qualifications there. It is pretty amusing watching them qualify. (I saw that once last summer.) I wouldn't call them bumbling idiots, but they definitely are not shooting professionals.
And How Many Bullets Do You Need?
I think someone already answered this question, “AS MANY AS IT TAKES.”
Most cops I know are poor shots.They embassass themselves at the range.
So true. Cops are notoriously poor shots. They only qualify quarterly.
When the cops are at the range, I usually pack up and step back.
Had a few AD from the local cops that convinced me I needed to be elsewhere. The local police trainer is a good guy,and encourages them to join the range and practice on their own time. Some do, many will not.
What is amazing is that there were “two” (2) suspects against all those police and amidst all that, the police fired hundrends of rounds to eventually get one and the second a little later. What would they have done if one of those terrorists were genuinely skilled operators? What would they have done if there had been six more to make a team? At the way things went two were a handful for the police. Police are not skilled with their equipment but they were trained and most had initial training many years ago. Most of them qualify twice a year, fire maybe close to 100 rounds per shoot, and if they get about 3/4 on target in timed sequences that are so long it’s silly they pass.