Ferrari Mailing List: Re: High Capacity Magazine Firearms

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In a message dated 9/19/2006 5:44:48 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
dave [at] davehanda.com writes:

Actually  any qualified SWAT officer should be well trained in one handed 
malfunction  drills.  BUT, they may wish to go to the back up handgun because 
it 
is  FASTER than doing the clearance drills one handed, not because they are  
incapable of performing them.






Dave:
 
What you say is true if the injuries are limited to that single area, but  
trauma may be more generalized. The speed consideration is a valid point,  
however, as well as, depending upon how his gear is worn, accessibility to  
additional magazines, available cover, etc. I didn't mean to imply that the 
only  
reason why a backup firearm is used in tac ops is injury, it is just one of  
them.
 
My assumption that you and I are perhaps the only "qualified SWAT officers"  
on the list has a high probability of a validity. I do believe that anyone who 
 is not "duty bound" and who cannot clearly articulate a valid probability of 
 success in a conflict environment should make disengagement their principle  
tactic. Additionally, it would be a rare circumstance in which an armed 
civilian  would be anything but a distraction to trained personnel in any 
emergency 
 situation. Imagine trying to first determine which armed individual is an  
adversary and which is a well-meaning but untrained coincidental participant,  
then worrying about what an untrained individual will do with a firearm under  
stress, and third, what collateral damage will that third party do during the 
 course of events. 
 
Dr. Steve  

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