New AR-15 assault rifles for the department $1,500.00 each.
Training time $100.00 per officer.
Picture on front page of the local paper with the officer standing in full view not using any cover.....with the magazine in backwards......PRICELESS!
And, remember - this is who the gun-grabbers think should be the *only* people to let run around armed. Because they're, well, trained, you see. Well, actually, it's because the gun grabbers feel like they have control over these folks, vice the unwashed masses.
Though I'm guessing this is really a staged picture. One hopes it wasn't taken during a live engagement.
Still funny though. H/t, JW.
Kat - um, she's not that well trained? Or, possibly, she's um, endowed. And with body armor on, it can be tricky.
That said - if she's actually comfortable holding the rifle that way, and can hit the target, I'm not going to get picky about that. But, she's not hitting anything with that weapon as-is, unless she clubs someone with it.
I hazard to guess that her elbow looks like it's out of whack because of the angle the photograph is cropped... maybe.
Looking at it over and over makes me think something else is out of whack too. Her right wrist seems unnaturally bent as well. But that might be because she's squared off on the target (like you're supposed to be when shooting and H&K MP5) instead of "blading" her body to the target. It also doesn't look like the AR-15 stock is tucked right. In fact, it might be to long for her body and she's trying to compensate somehow.
Either way, I doubt she's had any serious training with the weapon.
Her stock wield is not in place to allow for any sort of sight picture.
Grimmy - all of which is irrelevant considering the state of her magazine.
Well, of course and for sure. For all we can tell, the mag itself may even be loaded with 9mm pistol rounds.
I was only commenting on her posture... or apparent lack thereof.
Best interpretation I've heard is that she's not trained - she's just been given a rifle to be part of a 'show of force' and under strict orders not to let her finger touch the trigger. The magazine may even have been put in like that on purpose as a safety precaution.
More common interpretations are that she has been trained to department standards with suggestions that, just to be safe, she alternates the direction of the 'pointy end' of the bullet when loading to magazine to be sure that at least half of them are pointed the right way.
at least we know it WASN'T a gunshot wound (from her at least!)
There is also the possibility that the woman in the pic is actually using a new weapon system concept.
Post Crisis Amelioration System. Aka the Perfect State Device.
The weapon has been, so far, only a rumor. This may be the first known deployment of the system.
It is designed to use temporal shift munitions which self guide to a point in time immediately prior to an armed crisis situation. This could also be why she's not aiming in on a specific target. The munitions are designed to appear within the body(s) of the programed target(s) within a few dozen meter area at the appropriate place and time to interdict the situation.
She had a 50/50 chance of first round success.
She had an Epic Fail, instead.
[Insert MI jokes here.]
She has two mags, clipped together hollywood style. One (the one covered and not visible) is oriented the correct direction, possibly a 20 round "shorty' mag. The other, rambo-clipped because it looks badass, is rambo-clipped facing the wrong direction and is inverted. Notice that the magazine we see seems to be somewhat longer than a 30 round m-16/AR-15 mag SHOULD be in proportion to the weapon? that's part of my hypothesis.
Her hold, such as it is, appears to be an "action" shot-she's not 'holding', she's bringing the rifle up. Otherwise, she's gonna need a visit to the chiropractor if she's holding in that position for very long.
Then again, it could just be a sign of the state of firearms training in her department. ONce, on a visit to a firing range in Whatcom County, I was next to a deputy who was practicing on the outdoor range. The Range-Master had to come out and explain the rules to said deputy twice, and his high-cap 9mm seemd to have more difficulty finding the man-size silhouette target at fifteen yards than My clunker revolver had finding the "X" spot on a similar target at fifty.
I'm not good at teaching people, and it wasn't, at that time, my job, so I stayed out of it, but the incident was memorable for me.
We wants Hi-Rez!
As a new post. There's no nit we can't pick!
It's definitely inserted backwards. And the officer pictured is also a "field officer" -- specializing in firearms training.
Things that make you say Argghhh! because saying WTFO wouldn't be polite.
Simply put, that picture says a thousand words about the officer and her department. Poor Tactics, Poor Training, Poor Judgement.