Constitutional Law

NYC police gunfights

A summary of studies.

Two figures -- only 13$ of shots fired him, and only 34% of the time was the person being fired on hit at all -- aren't too astonishing. One of the revolutions in training came years back, when they realized that people trained on shooting from a good position at a well-lit target in a fixed location, when in fact gunfights usually occurred under conditions too dark to see the sights, while you were trying to take cover, the other guy was doing anything but standing still facing you, and your blood was full of adrenalin, often with bullets whizzing past.

Hat tip to Joe Olson...

Full post as published by Of Arms and the Law on May 08, 2008 (boomark / email).