***Shot by a handgun from 120 yards away? What?***
Nothing new. Elmer Keith used to do it all the time, and Jeff Cooper had his .45ACP 1911 front sight fixed with a gold line near the base for 100 yard shots.
Skeeter Skelton of Shooting Times also did long range shooting with a handgun.
He simply placed the target on top of the front sight, then aligned the top of the rear sight with the line.
Years ago Guns an Ammo did an article on long range shooting with handguns.
There certainly are people in the world who could repeatedly and pretty reliably hit the target at 100+ yards. However they are not likely to be the shooters in that attack. The question stands: what common shooter can hit standing men twice with three rounds, from a handgun, at 120 yards? A typical ghetto shooter, who holds the weapon sideways, cannot hit the opponent from a few yards. It has to be someone with decent training, someone who went through a lot of rounds with this particular handgun.
P.S. I will try this feat at 100 yards next week if I can get to the range. Normally, it's a rifle distance for rimfire - for handguns people set their targets at 20-25 yards, if not closer.
“...nothing new...(120 yards)
Skeptical about a handgun expert being the shooter. I believe it was a local thug with a couple of lucky shots.
Speaking strictly only about target shooting, and not at cops, I would prefer a rifle at that range.
I think a cop in Texas recently stopped a bad guy active shooter at 100 yards with an unknown caliber Glock