Law Enforcement Horror Stories:

I thought that this passage from Chiron Training Volume 2 was worth showing you.

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09 FEB 2006  
Nothing works 100% of the time. That's one of the things that is so true to the initiates as to be not worth mentioning ... and so incomprehensible to the theorists as to be invisible. "A .45 acp with FMJ.... "A neighboring jurisdiction had a guy take five and still try to crawl after the officer.

 A local here was shot between the eyes from less than five feet and it bounced off his skull and lodged in the ceiling.

 "It's shot placement- if you know how to hit what you're aiming at..." We use a training tape called "Ultimate Survivors" which describes a bad day in Baton Rouge. By the end of it one officer, Lisa Lawrence, was dead and her partner had almost been beaten to death. The assailant had ten bullets in his chest and head from duty revolvers- .38 special or .357. After a contact shot to the solar plexus, the threat grunted, "That was a good one," and threw the officer across the room. He'd also taken an armpit to armpit perforation. The officer placed his revolver against the threat's forehead and testified that he saw the carpet through the hole he blew in the back of the threat's skull... and the threat got up and tried to attack again.

 Note: Don’t know where I got the carpet line. What the officer actually said was, “I fired a round through the top of his head. And I remember looking at it and seeing a hole through his head.”

Miller, Rory. Chiron Training Volume 2: 2006 (Kindle Locations 363-374). Kindle Edition. 

Horror Stories. - My only comment (after my brain eased-back down) - can only be to observe, that while handguns are potentially lethal and can be highly injurious - their effectiveness is way less than a long-arm such as a 12 Gauge shotgun or a full power center-fire rifle.

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