Mistaking ammo for blanks
Last year, a woman was killed during a training demonstration by the police. Turns out the reason for this was that the officer involved mistook wadcutter ammunition for blanks.
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March 16th, 2017 at 5:56 pm
The question, “How dumb do you have to be?” comes to mind.
Here, actually, is a case of “Deprivation of Rights Under Color of Law” and “Conspiracy to Deprive Rights” leading to a death. If people generally were raised from childhood around guns, and around gun owners, community shooting matches and all the rest, just as the second amendment intends, you wouldn’t have to teach an aspiring cop the differences between a wadcutter, a round nose, and a blank cartridge. Most everyone would already know those things by the time they reach their double digit years.
Now that it’s been edited out of “education”, and it’s considered “specialized knowledge” by some, it’s more rare in certain circles, and people die because of that willfully engineered ignorance.
Geez; what if you handed a cop a Nagant revolver with those recessed bullet cartridges?
March 16th, 2017 at 7:34 pm
So why was he pointing a firearm at her?
March 16th, 2017 at 9:52 pm
‘Zactly, Major. I can’t imagine any context (including a Hollywood movie), in which I would point a functional handgun at anyone & pull the trigger.
To think a cop would be comfortable doing so, is telling.
March 16th, 2017 at 11:29 pm
Rules? We don’t need no stinkin’ rules!
This here’s just a scenario, not real life. Or death.
March 17th, 2017 at 7:33 am
I would think the ammo comes in some sort of box with some sort of markings on it distinguishing the two.
March 17th, 2017 at 8:25 am
…and never the two shall meet.
March 17th, 2017 at 12:09 pm
What in the HELL are they using a REAL GUN for????
So they cheep out and use a real one and, duh, someone gets, you know, shot dead.
They deserve not only super sized lawsuits but the actors need to be changed with NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE. And I don’t care if they are cops or not.
March 18th, 2017 at 3:56 pm
We might remember that blanks can also kill if fired fairly close up, as any vet who remembers the dixie cup demonstration with a blank firing adapter from basic training. At least one Hollywood actor was killed with blank ammunition.
March 22nd, 2017 at 10:02 am
While not rocket science, reality based training/force on force training is serious business.
As demonstrated all too often (as the case in this story), RTB can and does kill when strict safety rituals are not followed to the letter.