I recently completed our dept's active shooter class. The class opened up my eyes. I'm glad they finally decided to make it mandatory for all officers. We NEED to all be on the same page.
With that said they didn't really dive into responding to those type of calls with long guns. Not everyone in our dept carries a shotgun and/or AR (must take carbine course and qualify) so I'm pretty sure that's why they didn't go in depth into those weapon systems. Right now my AR is sitting idle at home because the next carbine course will not be offered until June or July of this year. I do however carry a Benelli M2 Tactical in the car and have deployed it on several occasions on night shift patrol.
With that said (if you carry both), are you trained to deploy both at the same time? Sling the shotgun to your back and use the carbine as the primary offensive weapon system?
We also got into the issue of locked doors with no other method of entry. The SWAT officer/instructor basically said "think outside the box and do whatever it takes (SAFELY) to gain entry". I was thinking maybe breaching rounds? Patrol officers aren't trained in breaching doors but in a situation like an active shooter call I don't think they would mind granted we have tried everything else.
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