Originally Posted by
jerrysimons
Always love your threads. I never got why LE chooses buckshot over slugs for a standard load. Seems just as devestating terminal effects with more flexibility for longer range engagements.
I think there are several reasons:
1) The old 'alleysweeper' or 'streetbroom' myth. Once you got the old 'the shotgun is a point and shoot weapon that doesn't require precise aim' dogma going in law enforcement, it was hard to beat it out. Many admin folks, and even LE trainers, are not familiar with shotguns.
As late as 1981, my workplace was teaching stance directed hip shooting with the shotgun. Some old timers might remember that for several years Calibre Press was advocating a quasi sternum-mount shooting position with the shotgun.
Pure idiocy and madness.
2) Too much concern about over-penetration with slugs.
3) Many LE folks shy away from slugs due to recoil aversion - even with the excellent performing reduced recoil slugs almost every ammo maker produces.
4) Many folks think you cant use slugs effectively with bead sights.
Just a couple of examples.
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President... - Theodore Roosevelt, Lincoln and Free Speech, Metropolitan Magazine, Volume 47, Number 6, May 1918.
Every Communist must grasp the truth. Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party Mao Zedong, 6 November, 1938 - speech to the Communist Patry of China's sixth Central Committee
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