‘Sir, why did you shoot me?’

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Tecmos Deception [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

50 yards is a pretty long ways to shoot accurately with a pistol. Cops are trained to do it though, and it's possible to be accurate enough to hit a human target even further away.

But a rifle is like 10x more accurate than a pistol. You have more contact points with the gun, helping to stabilize it. You have a longer "sight radius" meaning you can line up your eye with the sights (or scope) with the target more easily. The recoil is probably easier to handle for more accurate follow-up shots. And more.

Anyone who shoots rifles should be ashamed of missing by feet at 50 yards (or so). A trained cop (apparently also on their swat team) should be shooting apples off of heads at that distance without fail.

Obviously the situation wasn't quite like target practice at the range, but it really sounds like the only way out of getting fired (or worse) for the guy is if his equipment was defective.

Hmmm, so pretty bad then. Maybe even horribly incompetent?