Posted October 25, 2016 5:59 pm by Comments

By Ammoland

No Loaded Guns

By John Farnam

Firearms Training Failure, by Choice
Defense Training International, Inc
Defense Training International, Inc

Ft Collins, CO –-(Ammoland.com)- “In a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom!” ~ Terry Pratchett

This from a student and colleague, who works with a state agency:

“Assisted at our state police academy for the past few days.

It was like entering a time machine!

Techniques are all thirty years out-of-date. Never any mention of actually fighting with a gun. Mostly what we did was prepare young officers to pass the very standard, and antiquated, ‘qualification course,’ which is also thirty years out-of-date.

In four days, students got only twelve house of productive training. The rest of the time was squandered!

‘Cold’ range: Constant unnecessary unloading of guns and other unnecessary gun-handling, wasting time and dividing attention. Only unloaded guns allowed in holsters. Guns were locked-up when breaking for lunch. Heaven forbid we would eat while armed!

‘Mother-May-I?’: Students were sternly admonished never to do anything on their own initiative, but always to wait for command. Do nothing unless/until instructed to do so. Mind you, these are fully-sworn, uniformed officers, currently on patrol in marked patrol units, not folks …Read the Rest

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