Since there are no major arteries in the pelvic region...
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Let me tell you what happens when you pull a firearm and are prepared to use it...Time perception slows down, tunnel vision creeps in, and fine motor skills go to hell.
Maybe, just maybe, the shoot to wound technique could work if the guy you are trying to put down has something like a club or knife. But I think we are going to get some cops killed before people figure out this technique doesn't work.
Back in the fifties, early sixties, cops were taught the "FBI crouch". Pull your revolver, fire off one shot to discombobulate your assailant as soon as the gun cleared leather. As you crouched down, you brought up one arm in front of your chest (to help slow down or stop any bullets), firing your second shot as the shooting arm leveled out. The third shot was fired with the arm extended and using the sites, or at least the front site.
Worked ok, except it got you killed.
Weaver, Cooper and Cirillo took a world of common pistolcraft and applied it to the working cop. Things got a lot better.
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Just a general comment...
Americans are very different when it comes to handguns and their applications. AFAIK, we are the only military in the world that teaches pistolcraft as an offensive skill, rather than as last-ditch personal protection or as a way for an officer to enforce orders.
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The problem is that shooting them in the abdomen or pelvis doesn’t incapacitate them. If they have a firearm, they are still able and even more likely to fire.
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The problem is that shooting them in the abdomen or pelvis doesn’t incapacitate them. If they have a firearm, they are still able and even more likely to fire.
@lufins-dad said in Since there are no major arteries in the pelvic region...:
The problem is that shooting them in the abdomen or pelvis doesn’t incapacitate them. If they have a firearm, they are still able and even more likely to fire.
Please skip to 1:00
(And this is a terrific movie)
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