Double Naught Spy
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What was the story going around back then was a New York officer (trooper IIRC), who was in a gunfight, and was killed. According to the story, he had fired his revolver dry, and reloaded it, (firing twice more depending on who is telling the story), and was trying to stuff his empties into the tight uniform pants pocket when the bad guy got him.
The explanation given was that under the stress, the officer fell back on his training, and what he was trained to do at the police range was fire one cylinder, reload, and police his brass before firing again. According to the story, because of this incident, police training was changed to policing the brass after ALL shots had been fired.
The border patrol, Newhall, now somebody in New York? Egads, cops were being slaughtered with brass in their pockets!
The purported changes after the NY incident is interesting because the CHP made the exact same change after Newhall, based on the rumor, where the brass in the pockets didn't happen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newhall_massacre
There sure do seem to be a lot of people getting killed because of brass being stuffed in their pockets, changes in policy being made, yet actual documentary information to substantiate such claims. Heck, here is a whole thread on this. http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=133981
Maybe we would move away from repeating them?
Yes, you tend to fight like you train. That is indeed well known, well taught. Can't we use actual documented issues to stress the point point?