1time
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Did you read my link?
"After finishing academy instruction and practice, new officers “were a mere 13%” more accurate than novices in shooting at distances where a high proportion of officer-involved shootings occur."
The article defines novices as follows:
• “Novices,” who may have fired a weapon once or twice but for the most part had never held or shot a gun “in their life.”
Do you understand how terrifying that is?
Your link is great, I’ll go by my experience. I am a MPTC certified firearms instructor for handguns shotguns and patrol rifles. I am a NRA RSO, have helped with Women on Target and youth shoots and have worked matches from bowling pin matches to major 3 gun matches. I have ran the shot timer for the best shooters in the country (the 2 at the top are 1 Harford co deputy and the other shoots for the AMU) and am currently in a gunshop where an Average Shooter brought in his 1911 that he said was his baby for the last 30 years and lasered me and the owner before he set it down without opening the slide. That was before another guy with his HQL lasered his friend while checking out a rifle.
I don’t believe that article for a second. Even the worst cops that fail to qualify hit the target more often than not. I have met few shooters that can hit better than 50% without some training.