A picture is worth a thousand words.

[Meister]

 

[68_F100]

Thats worse than the HK picture with the rounds in the mag backwards.

 

[SERparacord]

Keep that elbow up and you won't be hitting fly balls.

 

[pokersamurai]

Keep that elbow up and you won't be hitting fly balls.

The magazine in backwards won't help either.

 

[IndyGunworks]

Keep that elbow up and you won't be hitting fly balls.

Although not very tactically sound, the elbow up is a long time tried and true method of firing a rifle standing unsupported. So she gets a pass on that.

 

[Meister]

Thank the good lord that cops like this are in the minority. Kind of a self correcting problem if they choose to engage a bad guy.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I remember when this first hit the gun boards years ago.

The gun nuts went on and on about the position of her elbow, not the fact that the magazine was inserted into the weapon backwards. Not a man Jack of them said "she needs more training" "this is unacceptable training" "fire the FTU", on and on and on about elbows and oncet MEYE Sar-gint tol' me to . . .

Count on gun nuts to miss the gun shop for the guns.

 

[ViperJock]

Anyone can put the mag in facing forward. Lets see YOU try to shoot it that way! It reminds me of two quotes/ideas:

1. People are always afraid of what they don't understand.
2. Any technology sufficiently greater than your own will appear to be magic.

I rest my case.

 

[Constructionist]

So won't that make the boolits shoot towards the officer?

 

[SmileDocHill]

I think I remember reading that someone on a different board photo-edited the picture of the newspaper article to make the magazine backwards in the rifle. A prank that stirred up a lot of the interwebs a while back.

 

[db1959]

What wrong with barricading yourself in your home? I do that every night.

 

[zenbruno]

So won't that make the boolits shoot towards the officer?

Right, she must've been reading my profile quote.

 

[littletommy]

I think I remember reading that someone on a different board photo-edited the picture of the newspaper article to make the magazine backwards in the rifle. A prank that stirred up a lot of the interwebs a while back.

I believe you are correct. Pretty sure it's a fake.

 

[RandomName]

Will a 30 round curved mag even go in the mag well and lock in if its put in backwards? Seems like you would notice when you tried to chamber a round even if it does.

 

[repeter1977]

Will a 30 round curved mag even go in the mag well and lock in if its put in backwards? Seems like you would notice when you tried to chamber a round even if it does.

Sadly I know this from being in the Army, and seeing someone do this. It will go in there, and hold in there just fine. Bolt will go forward, as nothing is in the way. I have seen things that will make people weep. Rounds loaded backwards into those magazines. Yes, they will load like that too, so, goes in, and then the bolt tries to slam forward. Makes me wonder how people manage to breath on their own sometimes. I am sure there are more then a couple others, but its 5am, so Im not thinking of them all right now.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I believe you are correct. Pretty sure it's a fake.

It is not fake.

 

[churchmouse]

If sense were common everyone would have it.

 

[scottka]

It is not fake.

That seems to be what my research has found as well. Crazy... haha. Glad she didn't need it desparately! Click, no bang...

Here's a link... Just pretend the reference to the "ammo clip" doesn't exist.

 

[BE Mike]

Thank the good lord that cops like this are in the minority. Kind of a self correcting problem if they choose to engage a bad guy.

So you are suggesting that it would be beneficial for a police officer to be killed in the line of duty by a "bad guy"?

 

[BehindBlueI's]

Although not very tactically sound, the elbow up is a long time tried and true method of firing a rifle standing unsupported. So she gets a pass on that.

Isn't that usually with a sling, though? Doing the chicken wing move to tighten up the sling to help stabilize the rifle in an unsupported position?

Sadly, it appears her training staff failed her. Hopefully she got the chance for some remediation after that incident so that she will be a bit more prepared in the future.