Posted on 03/25/2013 9:48:04 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
New York -(Ammoland.com)- 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 Eotech sight on his combat rifle.
As users on Reddit were quick to point out when the image was 1st 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.
The officer is using a military style assault weapon with a close quarters combat sight that costs roughly $500.
Its disturbing to think that 1) none of his buddies corrected it, and 2) hes in a real-life situation with his optic on backwards, which means hes never fired that rifle with the optic on it, which means it isnt zeroed and he thought it was OK to show up to a gunfight with an unzeroed weapon, wrote one Reddit user.
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Cheap version, too
what a maroon!
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We should trust our lives and property to the highly trained members of our law enforcement communities.
And the guardianship of henhouses to our toothless, somnolent watchdogs.
Maybe they use the “spray and pray” training methods. No sight needed then.
Apparently that is why some innocent bystanders were shot a few months ago. I guess the press believed that putting the sights on backwards made the gun fire out that back. Ala Matt Helm in the Silencers.
Lon Horiuchi ROE.
Read somewhere else, 30% or less actually hitting target. But that’s general police force, not SWAT.
I bought a Swiftech reflex sight and attached it to my AK. The installation looks identical to how this EOtech is installed, so either EOtech sights install reverse of how mine does, or I installed my sight backwards as well.
Sounds about right. Cops in Chicago recently shot a unarmed convince store clerk who called them because he was robbed at gunpoint 11 times.
Of course they never looked in the area where the buzzrds were circling. A local farmer found the body of the killer who had committed suicide there.
Morons
My gracious, isn’t that one of those deadly “high capacity ammo clips” I see there? What’s a NY cop doing with one of those things? They shoot people all by themselves is what I heard.
The EOTech 512, 552, etc. with the illumination controls on the back are difficult to turn off and on if a back up iron sight is used. By turning it around, which doesn’t affect how a holographic sight works, the sight can be manipulated with the off hand.
I simply cannot come up with a logic explanation for why or how he could do this! Even stupidity is not sufficient excuse.
SWAT “snipers” generally field $5000+ rifles, yet they consider sharp shooting to be hitting a stationary human at 50 yards.
They consider a 6” group at 100 yards to be exceptional. Your average red neck could outshoot them with iron sights on a ‘94 Winchester.
Ok Mr. Buzzkill.
They all wanna be SEALs or Green Berets etc
Posuers
Way too much of these crap
I got two words
Charles Whitman
Guts
Although ironically that spree is often cited along with the New Orleans HoJo shootings and Jackson MS BLA violence as reasons to have
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