Originally Posted by BlackKnight (Post 66638)

A few years ago my partner and I were responding to a man with a gun call. As we get to the scene we see a male brandishing what appeared to be an MP5.
We jump out the vehicle pointing our handguns yelling for him to drop it. Fortunately he did and never turned or pointed the weapon towards us.
Come to find out it was an airsoft where he or someone painted over the orange tip. Also he was 16 years of at the time. He found it funny that we thought it was real. I was so hyped up. We both came very close to shooting that kid. I took the weapon and with a swift kick gave the kid a stern talking too.
It took hours before our heartbeat settled into being somewhat normal. I still think about how close came to shooting that kid.
Now mind you that kid was no innocent. A week later he actually did shoot someone with a real gun.
Thought so. I knew I had picture. He're a picture of the gun. Tell me in a split second decision this kid could have been shot.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...a/DSC00354.jpg

Originally Posted by Carl in GA (Post 66654)

I'm not a LEO, but if he pointed that at me he'd gain some nifty new thoracic ventilation holes.

Originally Posted by milkmanjoe (Post 66658)

Same here.......


But where are the pictures of terrorists, of dred wearing gangstas?

Originally Posted by milkmanjoe (Post 66658)

But where are the pictures of terrorists, of dred wearing gangstas?

Originally Posted by Roverron (Post 66659)

Tony, that had to be a hell of a call on your part!

Originally Posted by BlackKnight (Post 66665)

And that's gets to the point of my post. We have and use them. We use a realistic target of of a man pointing a gun back at you for the qualifications. Within it is the same qualification area that is required for this state to count the hit and misses. To that end I conduct practicals and utilize different types of shoot and no shoot targets. I've even used zombie targets.


Yeah, fortunately, it worked out. I hate to think the B.S. I would have to go through if it went the other way.