A duty handgun is essentially a knife that allows you to stab someone from fifty feet away. The round can only damage the tissue that it touches. Good training would have provided these officers the knowledge that you keep getting hits until the assailant stops doing whatever it is that you want him to stop doing and if he doesn't stop after hitting him where your aiming, you aim somewhere else. I'd suggest to them that they move to the face. As has been said before, there are not many creatures two legged or four that will not stop doing immediately what ever it is they're not supposed to be doing when you shoot them in the face. The pelvic area is another good choice to move to, especially if the target is upright and moving because the pelvis tends be the part of the body that remains most "stable" during most movement.
On a serious note, I've seen this happen a lot in my career. Part of it is the Hollywood expectation that the guy is going to grab his chest, fall down and say: "You got me, copper!" and the other are wholly unrealistic expectations with regard to their weapon. The answer is training. Plain and simple. They be wise to read FBI SA Urey Patrick's Handgun Wounding Factors and Their Effectiveness. It'd be a good place to start.
Last edited by DireWulf; 04-24-13 at 13:01.
Nothing man-portable is guaranteed to end a fight.
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