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2021-08-26 -Short Attention Span Theater-

The cops who couldn't shoot straight: NYPD is giving new recruits guns that are easier to fire in a bid to improve accuracy after missing targets on half of all fired shots last year

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Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 Tell them every doughnut has to be earned by shooting through it.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-08-26 05:31|| 2021-08-26 05:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Why is she holding the gun like that? Seems like she's begging for an eye injury.

Posted by Rhinemann 2021-08-26 05:54|| 2021-08-26 05:54|| Front Page Top

#3 The Worst Scope Cuts Ever

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 06:38|| 2021-08-26 06:38|| Front Page Top

#4 Any bets on the percentage increase in negligent discharges? I'm going with 15%.

Posted by Mercutio 2021-08-26 07:09|| 2021-08-26 07:09|| Front Page Top

#5 "police believe that officers fire more accurately with a 9mm handgun that has a trigger pull — meaning the pressure required to fire a bullet — of five pounds."

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 07:24|| 2021-08-26 07:24|| Front Page Top

#6 it's actually somewhat difficult psychologically for a person to actually aim to hit another person with a firearm. most of us are just not wired to cause direct harm to another human being, regardless of the circumstances (and the beliefs of BLM)
it's why the military drills drills drills, so soldiers act without thinking. unfortunately, you don't want law enforcement acting as soldiers.

Posted by Retard Strength 2021-08-26 07:30|| 2021-08-26 07:30|| Front Page Top

#7 unfortunately, you don't want law enforcement acting as soldiers.

Until you really do need a SWAT team.

Posted by Skidmark 2021-08-26 09:18|| 2021-08-26 09:18|| Front Page Top

#8 Well, when someone is shooting back at you it is hard to get a decent sight alignment...just saying. Actually 50% hit rate is damn good in an active shooting.

If you want to improve the "hit rate" use a shotgun and not a pistol...but they likely don't issue shotguns...

Posted by Tennessee 2021-08-26 09:37|| 2021-08-26 09:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Shotgun would be more effective and not damage their already stellar percentage of 'innocents' accidentally wounded by the current NYPD shooting prowess.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-08-26 10:53|| 2021-08-26 10:53|| Front Page Top

#10 Hair triggers

Posted by crazyhorse 2021-08-26 11:32|| 2021-08-26 11:32|| Front Page Top

#11 *Shrug* Why did the US Army in WW2 issue lighter, handier carbines to support troops. And "missing 50% of the shots" seems about right for "average soldiers" that don't have mandatory daily marksmanship drills.

Posted by magpie 2021-08-26 11:48|| 2021-08-26 11:48|| Front Page Top

#12 The new weapons were tested at Rodman's Neck in the Bronx, and recruits firing the new weapons had an average score of 93.7, as opposed to those firing the traditional 12-pound [trigger-pull] weapons who achieved a score of 88.7. Not that bad for the range. Reality is much different; thus the need for 16 rounds.

Posted by JohnQC 2021-08-26 12:07|| 2021-08-26 12:07|| Front Page Top

#13 average score of 93.7 vs 88.7

94% vs 89% is only 5 percent difference. Barely significant, IMHO. Given these are scores for new recruits, I would suspect training as another variable: an untrained shooter is more likely jerk or go off aim with a heavier trigger pull.

As people who actually know stuff have mentioned, the range is not Real Life(tm). A light trigger might be the thing for calm measured target shooting, but when you are running and panting and shaking from adrenaline, a heavier trigger is going to filter out some of the jerkiness. Fight like you train, train like you fight.

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-26 12:41|| 2021-08-26 12:41|| Front Page Top

#14 An Officers handgun is only an emergency weapon to be used when the Officer can not get to a long gun.

Shotguns and rifles should be issued and used in active shooter events. Woke departments will not issue the weapons (shotguns and rifles) needed to end the fight quickly.

A lighter pull is ok I guess but more time on the range is better.

Posted by Tennessee 2021-08-26 12:51|| 2021-08-26 12:51|| Front Page Top

#15 Was several years back when the NYPD let loose a volley missing the perp target, but wounding a bystander or two. Around the same time a Texas law enforcement officer, while holding his horse's reins dropped two wannabe jihadist at a respectable distance for a handgun.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-08-26 14:37|| 2021-08-26 14:37|| Front Page Top

#16 The Ghost of Jim Cirillo shits in their coffee every morning.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-08-26 14:53|| 2021-08-26 14:53|| Front Page Top

#17 And by "respectable range for a handgun", we mean 100 yards. Austin Cop's Shot Stops Crazed Gunman

Posted by SteveS 2021-08-26 16:35|| 2021-08-26 16:35|| Front Page Top

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