ND ?Originally Posted by olstyn
ND ?
I am thankful that he was just injured. He was released from the hospital pretty quickly so probably no major ortho trauma. If one of those 5.56 rounds had skipped into his abdomen/thorax there would be more outrage than this country is prepared to handle.
Actually this is why I'm wondering if it was, in fact, a rifle round.
Mild injuries could come from secondary projectiles. Also, the story I saw quoted the shootee as saying "it stung" or words to that effect.
My baseless speculation is AR off off safe with the finger on trigger. Multiple shots could be a series of startles. Startle response actually increases as the degree of stimulus increases. An unexpected AR discharge would be a pretty significant stimuli.
Last edited by John Hearne; 07-21-2016 at 03:37 PM.
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If it passed through his calf or something there might not have been enough tissue for the bullet to tumble/expand/etc ("through and through").
The video that I've seen cuts out right before he was shot. That's a little odd, but I'm not going to make a conspiracy theory off it. At any rate, if the shooter fired three times at what is alleged to be a stationary target, missed completely twice, and only managed to strike him once in the leg.... None of that sounds good. I hope they have dash cam / body cam footage.
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ND on a happy switch? May account for 3 rounds.
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Last edited by Dagga Boy; 07-21-2016 at 05:05 PM.
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Actually, as pointed out by John Hearne, multiple startles. Most didn't know they did it, and tend to be the exact same folks who will also startle shoot at hearing the shot. I spent a majority of my time with our patrol folks on the "Gun handling" part of the equation as it is the part of the triangle that they are doing all the time and around the public. It is a part of the equation horribly under trained, especially in agencies that have cut way back on firearms training, and only work on basic marksmanship.
Just a Hairy Special Snowflake supply clerk with no field experience, shooting an Asymetric carbine as a Try Hard
"If I had a grandpa, he would look like Delbert Belton".
To be fair, it seems like there is a lot of work to be done in just improving that; though it does seem intuitive that gun handling and marksmanship ought to be taught at a 1:1 ratio.
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