We were talking about police officers and their firearms training the other day. Now this happens; an officer was shot in the stomach during training on a range.
“It’s quite rare. I’m not aware in my 23 years of any sort of incident like this occurring so that’s why we need to get to the bottom of it, and maybe there’s something we can learn from it,” said Sgt. Tom Hawley of the Coon Rapids Police Department.
Here’s my advice; Learn to keep your weapons up and down range. Amadou Diallo had 41 shots fired at him by police officers in NYC and 22 rounds missed him, but this officer gets hit accidentally on the one stray round fired? Sounds fishy.
I fire on a range which is sometimes packed with Marylander civilians and no range master in sight. I’ve never seen an unsafe act on the range, certainly we’re not shooting at each other.
Certainly many police officers aren’t like the three who are suspected of shooting their fellow officer, nor are they poor shots like the NYPD officers who killed Mr. Diallo, but that range master should be investigated.
Thanks to Old Trooper for the link.
You’d be shocked if you knew how many law enforcement officers, including feds, shoot themselves with accidental discharges. Example, hangs gun on hook in bathroom stall.
Or holstering pistol AND hang trigger on holtser…
Nah the officer that got shot was IAD.
In high school, the rifle team I was part of used the same range as the local police force for a while. Net result was that I (and some others) decided that if one of them pointed a gun at me, I was relatively safe. If they pointed at anyone standing next to me, I planned to hit the deck and hope for the best. While I have seen some LE practice very good range safety and marksmanship, I’ve also seen far too many do things that should have earned a buttstroke or three.