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"BS - a 100yd headshot from a cold barrel is hardly "trivial" - police snipers spend many, many hours on the range to ensure they can make CNS shots at 50-100 yards every time, from supported positions using expensive rifles. And they still sometimes miss when it counts, however infrequently."

Getting a 4" group (or half that) at 50-100 yards is indeed trivial for anyone with a decent rifle and a sighted-in scope. I just bought several surplus rifles for less than $100 each, and they give 2" groups at 100 yeards with crappy open sights, cold barrel, hot barrel, and lots of dents and scrapes.

Cops may enjoy all the taxpayer-funded practice at playing para-military games, but I hope to God they aren't challenged by a 100yd CNS shot.

Cops may enjoy all the taxpayer-funded practice at playing para-military games, but I hope to God they aren't challenged by a 100yd CNS shot.

My impression is that while someone like the criminal here would probably be perfectly happy with any shot that kills his victims, whether his victims survive half a second or half an hour after the shooting, police and military personnel occasionally have to make a much more precise shot--one where the crook is dead before he even knows he's been shot. Such a shot, from what I understand, had an acceptable target area of about a square inch. At 100 yards, that would be 1m.o.a. Not exactly a hard shot given favorable conditions, but a tricky one if, e.g., the target is moving.