Are cops saying silly things?

Continuing to fire a weapon that's burning...

Is it just me, or do others think the guys in DLiller's linked youtube video above are missing some screws firing a weapon that's intentionally on fire?
 
500 rpm's on semi auto. 8.3333 trigger presses per second, repeated 120 times without pause.

Might not be good for the bad guy's trigger finger. One heck of a case of carpal-tunnel, probably requiring a trip to the gub'mint assisted health care waiting room. Bad guy will probably expire waiting for treatment.

Math rooles. Perhaps the LEO was mixing up his stats, and confused semi-auto rate of fire with the rate the Fed is printing funny money.

lol
 
Mac's!
Cops can't shoot from cr@p! ????? I spent three tours on our SWAT teams. Scores of 90 or better on standard BLET courses for pistol, rifle and shotgun or you were placed "on notice". Thirty days of remedial training and a retest. If scores of 90 and better were not achieved the officer was sent back to the line. I don't remember anyone ever going back to uniform because of firearms issues. Our personal goals were 95 or better. At least two thirds of the team members wore Distinguished Marksmen pins indicating they had shot a score of 100 at least 5 consecutive times. We could all shoot! I shot well until I had to start wearing those #@%$$ progressive bifocals. Prone and kneeling from the 25 yard line were a bear. I dropped back into the low 90's. Got kicked upstairs so I didn't have to keep redeeming myself.:D
 
Sure some law enforcement may exaggerate from time to time, but at the end of the day they do perform a very dangerous and needed job. Saying most but not all cops aren't proficient with their firearms is as bad as the original exaggeration that a person can fire a thousand rounds in two miniutes.
 
I think a point is being missed. A thousand rounds of rifle ammunition, (besides .22) along with a rifle and the boxes or magazines that hold them all is going to be quite a bit of weight.
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Yeah, I hinted at that in the original post. I don't have a case of .223 to weigh, but it has to be at least half the weight of the case of 7.62x39 I just bought (a lot), plus, where do you put 33 magazines?

Is it just me, or do others think the guys in DLiller's linked youtube video above are missing some screws firing a weapon that's intentionally on fire?
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I have to believe they had done this before, at least to the point of setting the handguard on fire, and that is why they had the hand guard with the forward grip. They also switched to gloves when it started getting too hot to handle.
 
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@ Mac ...
Good stories.
It'll be a shame when the "good ones" such as yourself are gone & all that's left is the young pups that just see local law enforcement as a stepping stone to "the big show".(Federal)
 
Saying most but not all cops aren't proficient with their firearms is as bad as the original exaggeration that a person can fire a thousand rounds in two miniutes.
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I never said that most cops weren't proficient with their firearms. I said they were ignorant about firearms. There is quite a large difference between those two statements. They may be expert shots with their own duty weapons and be totally ignorant about firearms in general.

If scores of 90 and better were not achieved the officer was sent back to the line.
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Hmmmm! Most Departments don't use any type of scoring system and haven't for quite a few years. It's either pass or fail. It's a liabilty issue... you score 100 on the range but then miss the bad guy and hit Grandma, etc.

I dropped back into the low 90's. Got kicked upstairs so I didn't have to keep redeeming myself.
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Uhmmm...ahhh.... pssst! You just vaildated my statement that supervisors can't shoot.

I stand by my statement that most but not all law enforcement officers are ignorant about firearms. Keep yer powder dry, Mac.

Tuff-Gun Finsihes. The Name Says It All.
Mac's Shootin' Irons
http://www.shootiniron.com
 
I work with computers all day long and I'm quite proficient and fast on them...for what I have to do with it on a daily basis. I have no freakin' clue about what's going on inside the box, the network or how the programs were designed. I'm an excellent driver....but I couldn't tell you what's really going on under the hood of my car if I had to. Most police officers are the same about their cruisers. They also probably couldn't explain, from a medical standpoint, how pepper spray and stun guns effect the body and do what they do.
I'm friends with a few police officers, and when it comes to shooting their weapons and the tactics used...they're great and know what exactly what to do.
 
The only one at a police station that needs to be proficient (in terms of cleaning, disassembling, re-assembly, knowledge of firearm history, trajectory and so forth) is the person who either issues the firearms or works in the armory. I don't care if my butcher knows how to forge a knife, as long as he cuts a nice steak with it.
 
Mac's! I retired thirteen years ago so I have no idea what qualification requirements are now for PD's.

P.S. I didn't get kicked upstairs because I couldn't shoot. I got kicked upstairs because they needed a tactical commander for our three full time SWAT teams. I could shoot then and I still can.:)
 
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