Posted on 03/16/2013 12:35:50 AM PDT by expat1000
A SWAT team in upstate New York is being mocked as an example of the difference between military and police training after an officer was captured peering through a backwards sight on his combat rifle.
As users on the military Reddit were quick to point out when the image was posted, the reverse sight makes it effectively useless.
Users mocked the SWAT officers training and some went so far as to question the motives of some of the men serving in local law enforcement.
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Tard....
What’s that little Muppet camo dude doing down there?
Ok I received no formal training on an EOTECH other than looking at the box, and I can use it rather well on my M4 and I don’t get nearly the practice time these guys do.
I hope this was just a “in a hurry, he noticed the second he sighted the gun the first time” thing, but I doubt it..
Reminds me of a guy at college that was always bragging about how great a skier he was. On and on and on.
Then when we got the first snow he came out with his ski boots on into the living room and hopping around and all excited how he was going to hit the back bowls at Vail and the double diamonds and the chutes, etc. I let him go on for awhile.
“Um, Jerry. You got your boots on the wrong feet.”
Gear can’t make the man, look at how decked out cops are getting.
Some cops now wear full camo instead of the typical all-black SWAT look. Local and State LEO really has become a bunch of Walter Mitty’s, and the shift likely has contributed to a significant change in the police mindset as well.
change occurred long before. two things:
1. they became LEOs, no longer peace officers
2. #1 dept policy became “officer safety above EVERYTHING else.”
Quick Question.....
Seems odd that it would lock in place backwards.
Has anyone here ever tried that?
Can it really lock in?
Un-effing real! Looks like his finger is inside the trigger guard as well.
I always felt that as a practical pistol shooter (IPSC) I had more respect and better safety habits with my guns that most of the cops I knew.
change occurred long before. two things:
1. they became LEOs, no longer peace officers
2. #1 dept policy became “officer safety above EVERYTHING else.”
It was a real emergency. It was a recent police standoff between the police and a gunman in New York state.
Everything in the U.K. is ass-backwards!
>>Everything in the U.K. is ass-backwards!
The source for the story is in UK, but the cop is one of New York’s finest!
Actually New York state, not NYC.
Hiding from the sniper that just made him stain his underwear. If SHTF they better invest in body bags.
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