The Vermont State Police has adopted the SIG Sauer M400 Pro Rifle as the official patrol rifle of the Vermont State Troopers. [More]As opposed to "assault weapons of war" designed only to kill as many people as quickly as possible when you or I have them.
Oh, but all police are trained!
Really? Here's something dolts who kneejerk say that are never prepared to answer:
How many rounds per year do they need to fire to qualify? With what weapons?At how many distances? At what accuracy percentage? How many retries do they get should they fail to meet minimum scores?
And how many of us does that sound like a weekend to?
[Via Michael G]
I've been an IDPA shooter for many years and when LEO folks show up to shoot they rarely do very well at all. There are a few exceptions however. I remember a US Marshal from N. Dakota many years back who cleaned many clocks that day. One of our locally based State Troopers also is usually near the top.
ReplyDeleteThe others generally don't return to the next match.
Three local PDs in my old hellhole state used to use our club range to qualify. Doing range cleanup duty on weekends, we used to watch a surprising number of them flail away at IPSC tombstone targets at 15’ and fail to even hole them more than once or twice. These were the officers we would have the pleasure of “retraining” at our next NRA Basic Pistol class (civilian, we weren’t LEO certified instructors). These were the people we were expected to entrust with our lives and our safety in towns where the chiefs wouldn’t issue permits.
ReplyDeleteYears ago, the city police department of a major city used to use a downtown indoor range for qualifications. I walked in one evening and was amazed. Officers were bringing in full sized FBI silhouette targets with one or two holes in the paper; not even in the silhouette. The range owner's kid brought his target in with a large hole where the X used to be and asked, "How'd I do dad?"
ReplyDeleteThe city rectified their embarrassment by building a city gun range where mere civilians were not allowed.