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They weren't training. They were putting on a show. I've never done training with real firearms where someone pulls the trigger pointed at someone else. I wouldn't categorically rule it out in some situations, but it would certainly involve everyone present clearing the gun independently and only people who were knowledgeable enough to know they SHOULD do so and knew how to. Not people who may have never handled a gun before. |
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I mentioned before that the exercises were with well trained folks with lots of checking and precautions.
My comments were aimed at the absolutist statements that included not even pointing blue guns at people. Of course, this incident was a failure of that organization.
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Honestly you can really tell who hasn't served in the military or done realistic training by reading this thread. Every force on force training I ever did for 24 years in the service involved pointing real assault weapons at people. Some of these involved civilian role players.
The majority of the time it was blanks, a number of time sim rounds. I never once felt unsafe. Never once was there a training accident involving live ammunition anywhere I was stationed or even heard about where live ammo was not supposed to be in use. As a police officer our department does this type training about once a year, excluding the two weeks spent at the academy doing it. I have never heard of such an accident until this one. |
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what are people, including elderly ladies, expected to learn by having a gun pointed at them?
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Um, how to respond when it's a REAL gun?!
Disarming tactics, for one thing. Plus, there's a real adrenaline rush when there's actual consequences like a painful airsoft pellets or paintballs. Not to mention, the Internet Commando (and the non-Commando alike) will quite quickly realize what does and does NOT work under realistic circumstances. Besides, it's not a gun if it's a Blue Gun or a Simunition or an Airsoft. Only guns are guns. The lessons are the same though, except safe.
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a 73 year old lady is not a good student for such a lesson as that.
i'm not convinced, but i'm in the minority, so carry on. keep pointing guns at each other, and maybe no one will get hurt. me? if i have a gun pointed at me, i'm pointing mine at them and likely pulling the trigger. i'm too old to wrestle, too slow to run away from someone younger and faster. |
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Blue guns, airsoft and simunition modified guns ARE NOT GUNS. Only real guns are guns. What age is someone too old to learn? Why can't the elderly be trained?
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They seemed to have accomplished that, albeit not in the manner they intended
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don't yell at me, i didn't point a gun at anyone. go yell at the officer who killed the lady. yell at his boss. and his boss's boss.
someone taught him that what he intended to do was ok. wasn't me. at my last concealed carry class refresher, the instructor at one point pulled out his blue gun, and all during his handling of it, he made it a point that it was never pointed at the class. it was always pointed down range (classroom adjacent to the indoor range), in what he considered a safe direction. if you want to learn how to engage in hand to hand combat, knock yourself out. i contend that a 73 year old lady was not a good student for such a lesson. if anything, she should have been taught how to draw and shoot safely and accurately. but Barney denied that chance to her. |
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Yeah.... see, the blue gun was used to DEMONSTRATE safe gun handling techniques without using a REAL GUN.
Let me ask you this.... If I get a 2x4 board, cut out the shape of a Glock and name it "Brown Gun", are you going to tell me it's not safe to point it at people? If I get a ketchup bottle and name it "Red Gun", are you going to tell me it's not safe to point it at people? You do realize that a "Blue Gun" is literally a piece of plastic, right? It's not a gun. At all. In any way.
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This was a tragic incident that should not have happened. The problem was not the training being given though. There were several safety steps and checks that did not happen here. There really is no legitimate excuse for that.
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When using simunition was it with a conversion kit? I am not aware of any simunition that uses the normal barrel. If so, not exactly the same thing as an unmodified duty weapon. |
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My objection is strictly to a fully functional firearm capable of chambering and firing live ammunition in a training scenario. Disable that firearm and my objection diminishes quickly. I have no objection to visibly disabled firearms
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I had the misfortune to observe a FN officer who showed up to a range with a BFA on his weapon. The BFA launched a good 25 feet and the 50 meter target still went down. |
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How did it happen?
I suspect the cop had simulation ammo in it earlier then they broke for lunch and he reloaded with live ammo, racking one in the chamber in the process. Then after lunch he just swapped mags and did not check the chamber. Yes, forgot to check the chamber for live ammo. Least that's my guess. Nope... my mistake! He uses a 5 shot snub S&W .38. I guess he somehow mistook .38s for simulations or blanks... Or just never checked to see what was in the gun (was it his? Was it given to him loaded? Makes one think maybe someone did it on purpose.. strange accident.) Who loaded the gun? Deaf
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Marine fire burst of frangible rounds through blank adapter
I generally agree that a BFA is not designed as a safety device. I don't agree it is unlikely to stop a bullet. I used the singular indefinite article in what I wrote. A blank adapter is likely to stop a single bullet. I would agree something is likely to be sent forward and/or out the side through the flash protector at high enough velocity to be dangerous. Probably not as dangerous or for the same distance as an unimpeded bullet. In most cases it will not be the bullet, especially going forward. My understanding of this reality is why I linked to an article describing an event in which someone was very nearly killed in US military training when a single round was fired with a blank adapter installed and a piece of the blank adapter was sent forward at high enough velocity to cut his femoral artery. That is for US milspec adapters. My understanding is some people are playing organized "wargames" with blank adapters that ARE designed to stop a live round and disable the weapon if one is fired. I haven't looked into it as I have no interet, but I would guess they are designed to induce a severe barrel blockage. The adapter also give a clear reminder to the weapon operator that they are not supposed to load live rounds in the gun. It should diminish the chance you have something like a person goes to lunch, loads live ammo, forgets to switch back and has an incident. You don't load live ammo without taking the BFA off and you are much less likely to forget you didn't switch when the BFA is not present. Simunition has its own set of issues http://www.policemag.com/channel/car...accidents.aspx I don't think this is the only case where simunition guns were confused with live unmodified firearms. There is a definite negative to using visually identical training aids that also feel the same. Quote:
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Whoever loaded it knew that those were live rounds. A .38 is almost never a standard issue firearm anymore and mostly just used for training these days. We keep several for scenario training as well. We don't even have live ammo for them. |
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familiarity breeds contempt
Familiarity breeds contempt, and lack of focus. Someone had their head up their a-s. First and last thing you SHOULD/MUST do is check your firearm. Especially if someone hands it to you! There is a reason why pilots have written check lists instead of just remembering to do stuff. Where the heck was the safety officer! Numerous system failures here by at least 2 people unless the safety officer was the shooter.
Makes you real concerned going to gun shows and shooting ranges. If someone is going to pretend shoot at me, I am going to be checking their firearm ammo each and every time! Very disturbing.
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Without those inserts put into the gun, it will still chamber live ammo as well as the simunition rounds. My guess is somebody decided to not insert the chamber inserts because they are inconvenient and dont add to the mechanical function of the sim rounds. A horrible tragedy, to be sure. As someone that not only participates in FoF training but hosts classes where it is employed. I firmly believe it is necessary at certain levels to employ that type of training. You cannot train to be a race driver without driving fast. You cannot train to be a gunfighter without shooting people. Obviously, that cant be done live fire..so Simunition allows that level of training Is it needed for all training?...No. Is it needed at some levels?..Yes |
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