Cop in ny with backward site

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New high speed, low drag EOTECH mounting practice

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Cops in NY state lead the pack!
 
I can almost understand putting in a magazine wrong in a rush in the heat of battle.

But this is an optic we're talking about. It is put on the gun weeks, months before the firefight.

Or maybe the guy saw the movie SALT and thought it looked like a good method...

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I can understand putting a magazine in backward in the heat of battle but what I can't understand is when you don't feel that mechanical click as it locks into position, that should be a dead giveaway that something is wrong. Trying to put it in backwards maybe, leaving it in backwards, no way!
 
Surely, these are simply STAGED photos. These are an example of the kind of things that make LEOs look incompetent no matter how many highly competent LEOs there are out there. I guess there are fools in every profession though.
 
Well.....he cant be too smart anyway, he has a grip pod on his AR ;) :D

He also has his BUIS deployed. Maybe he flipped it up after he couldn't get the eotech to work? :rolleyes:
 
He's probably wondering why the manufacturer chose such an odd location for the on/off and brightness controls :D
 
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I believe the EoTech will still work just fine, even if you are looking through the wrong end. They may be wondering why the manufacturer chose such an odd location for the on/off and brightness controls though.
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The reticle can not be viewed when viewed backwards through the objective lens.
 
I'm going to go with Clydefrog's answer because I'd have trouble sleeping tonight.
Actually I have to say it makes more sense in reality anyway, I really have to say nearly all movie's/ TV shows get every firearms fact wrong that they can.
 
We know three things about the officer in this picture.

1) He has never fired that rifle with those sights before. We know this because if he had, he would have fixed the impossible-to-use setup that he has there.

2) Even though he's never used those sights with that gun before, he's trusting his life and the lives of those around him to its accuracy -- and to his ability to use that setup accurately under stress. We know this because he's using it during an actual encounter where lives are at stake.

3) Neither his immediate supervisor nor any of his squad mates know how to use that type of sight, either. We know this because if they did, they would have corrected his error.

That's not a cheap piece of gear.

We can conclude that the people who run his department's budget would apparently rather waste money on cool-looking gadgets than invest in better, more applicable, and more frequent TRAINING for people who bet their lives and the lives of innocent others on their ability to use the gear they have.

pax
 
pax said:
We can conclude that the people who run his department's budget would apparently rather waste money on cool-looking gadgets than invest in better, more applicable, and more frequent TRAINING for people who bet their lives and the lives of innocent others on their ability to use the gear they have.
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More training definitely wouldn't hurt. I think we know a fourth thing about him: either the tip of his right index finger was amputated at some point, or it's on the trigger...
 
The reticle can not be viewed when viewed backwards through the objective lens.
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Whoops, guess what I remember reading about EoTechs was wrong. I've never had an EoTech, but I've been wanting one of the newer EXPS style sights for a while now, just haven't had the courage to spend the money for one yet.
 
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