SWAT Officer At Armed Standoff Has His Rifle Sight On Backward

[majormadmax]

D'oh!

SWAT Officer At Armed Standoff Has His Rifle Sight On Backward

Most military services teach "attention to detail." That the slightest lack of attention to detail can result in lives lost.

The fellows pictured here are not military, and certainly not in combat. They are local SWAT teams in upstate New York, the small town of Mohawk, population 7,500, and they're surrounding an alleged killer holed up in a local business.

What's telling about this picture though is that the officer with the "military style" assault weapon and the $500 "military style" close quarters combat sight has that same combat sight attached to the rifle backward.

Oops.

In effect, it's useless.

Reminds me of this article...

Now I can understand how the second officer accidentally inserted the magazine in the wrong way, but not how a SWAT officer could be using a rifle with a sight that hasn't been zero'd in...

 

[Jon Payne]

Just a damn shame. There's no way he's qualified with that individual rifle and any instructor that signed him off needs to reevaluate their course goals.


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[Mic]

I would say that those are funny, but they are not. These officers are likely dealing with some real d-bags and this could end badly them, their partners, and nearby civilians. It would be a damned shame to lose an officer because they aren't effectively trained on their weapons systems.

On the other hand, if there ever comes a day where officers are tasked with gun confiscations, I hope that the officers out "following orders" will be making similar mistakes (and I'm guessing the ones that are real gun people wouldn't be out following those orders).

 

[Acera]

Funny how the link calls him a "FBI Officer"

FBI Officer's Rifle Mistake - Business Insider

 

[M. Sage]

I want to know who would be so stupid to roll into a possible life or death situation with a weapon that's not zeroed. Guy's a lawsuit waiting to happen to his employer. If the wrong person had been shot by this guy and that picture got introduced at trial? Done.

Not a fan of his light setup, either.

 

[Charlie]

D'oh!



Reminds me of this article...

Now I can understand how the second officer accidentally inserted the magazine in the wrong way, but not how a SWAT officer could be using a rifle with a sight that hasn't been zero'd in...

Dilbert, through and through.

 

[stalker19]

In the other pics it looked like a USMS badge on his vest.

Doesn't really matter and I'm sure it'll come out once this goes viral.

Since I don't know and thus don't know what SOPs they have, it is also possible that he picked up the gun from another vehicle or an armorer screwed it up and the guy didn't check the gun upon re-issue(until he needed it).

Regardless, somebody done screwed up. From seeing plenty of similar mess ups, I'm tempted to think it was someone who was tired or otherwise mentally exhausted, rather than sheer amateur status.

"I want to know who would be so stupid to roll into a possible life or death situation with a weapon that's not zeroed."

Easy. The same people that find things like training on, maintaining or just having to carry a gun to be inconveniences. Sadly, that is the majority of folks who carry guns for a living.

 

[M. Sage]

pdb : YOU CAN’T EXPLAIN THAT Found the explanation.

Lots of people trying to defend the cop, say it's a Sightmark sight. I can see the up, down and NV buttons on the front/back of the sight in that pic. And I can make out what looks like EOTech, but it's a bit fuzzy. I can definitely tell the letters/logo on the side are in a format, "XXXxxxx".

 

[hkusp1]

That's an eotech xps2. No way in hell that is a sight mark.


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[M. Sage]

That's an eotech xps2. No way in hell that is a sight mark.


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Definitely not a Sightmark. The yellow sticker alone is a dead giveaway for an EOTech.

 

[Shotgun Jeremy]

Hey-at least his rear flip up is raised. Is that sight magnified? Maybe he is wears glasses and has flipped the thing around to help him see better? I dunno....Im scratching for some sort of logical reasoning here.....

 

[stdreb27]

Ehhh he's not even using it. He's got his flip up sites flipped up.

 

[Glockster69]

EOTech is correct ..... rifle is backwards. Derp!

 

[ROGER4314]

I'm more concerned about the female officer standing up like a fool. If she needed to have that rifle mounted and ready to fire, she should be taking cover. Is that how they train?

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[kusai]

In NY they shoot everyone but the target.

 

[A.Texas.Yankee]

Not a fan of his light setup, either.

Out of curiosity because I'm thinking of mounting some light on my ar, what is wrong with the light set up? I thought that was a preferred spot since it provided quick operation?

Sent knowing my life is boring unless I'm looking down range. And that most of you are jerks.

 

[M. Sage]

Hey-at least his rear flip up is raised. Is that sight magnified? Maybe he is wears glasses and has flipped the thing around to help him see better? I dunno....Im scratching for some sort of logical reasoning here.....

No magnification to an EOTech.

Out of curiosity because I'm thinking of mounting some light on my ar, what is wrong with the light set up? I thought that was a preferred spot since it provided quick operation?

Sent knowing my life is boring unless I'm looking down range. And that most of you are jerks.

Where he's got the light, it can cause a shadow in the head/face area, which kind of defeats the purpose of having a light in the first place. You want that sucker shining in the face of anybody you point your rifle at so you can identify them and so they are too busy having their retinas fried to be able to even think of aiming at you. The front sling loop is about to drop down in front of his light.

Most of the time, you see people who know mounting their lights on the side to avoid that problem. If the light is low-profile enough (that one might be) you can sometimes get away with mounting it on the top of the handguard.

 

[Tomservo92]

The gun grabbers I often debate with say we should leave guns to the "professionals".

 

[M. Sage]

The gun grabbers I often debate with say we should leave guns to the "professionals".

The optics on all my rifles are properly mounted.

 

[Tomservo92]

The optics on all my rifles are properly mounted.

I'm just saying that not all "professionals" know what they're doing.