Nice shot
One of Marquez’s bullets struck the suspect’s pistol, traveling straight down that gun’s barrel and disabling it. Officials say such a shot is “one in a billion.”
I guess it’s risk you take when shooting someone pointing a gun at you in the face.
July 14th, 2016 at 5:38 pm
That kind of precision will be normal in the future, when robots have guns. Robots have no pulse to interfere with their accuracy.
July 14th, 2016 at 5:46 pm
AKA the “Briscoe County Jr. shot”
July 14th, 2016 at 6:32 pm
This seem appropriate… https://youtu.be/-JZ_moituIo?t=107
July 14th, 2016 at 8:02 pm
Suspects gun also would have been disabled if the officer had missed the gun and instead hit the suspects face 🙂
July 14th, 2016 at 9:30 pm
If it works, it ain’t wrong… 🙂
July 14th, 2016 at 9:36 pm
Easier to shot placement a 9mm down the barrel of a 45 than the other way around.
Now we can finally be done with that silly debate!
July 14th, 2016 at 9:39 pm
@wizardpc
True but I find this outcome preferable. Everyone deserves, at minimum, a trial. Have you ever seen, like, any western?
July 15th, 2016 at 9:04 am
The result of well spent range time.
July 15th, 2016 at 11:29 am
If it had been a series 70 1911 (or one with a shwartz safety) the gun would have blown up too, which would have been kinda neat.
July 15th, 2016 at 12:38 pm
The result of well spent range time? As though he meant to do that?
July 15th, 2016 at 1:48 pm
Hitting your opponent’s gun, or gun hand, is a somewhat common occurrence in gunfights. The mind wants to focus on the gun as the immediate threat, so bullets tend to gather near it. This is compounded by the gun being positioned between the two of you.
Looking at shoothouse targets that have a gun displayed show a concentration of bullet holes at the gun’s position, even when held near the waistline.
This is one of the reasons to be competent with your offhand, as your primary hand may be damaged due to this.
July 15th, 2016 at 3:42 pm
“If it had been a series 70 1911 (or one with a shwartz safety) the gun would have blown up too, which would have been kinda neat.”
No arguments but I do not understand. Could you please explain?
July 15th, 2016 at 6:05 pm
@Nukemjim
He’s saying the impact would have caused the firing pin to bounce back, then forward with enough force to inertia fire the gun. It would blow up because the barrel was obstructed.
July 15th, 2016 at 7:03 pm
Series 70, inertia? Seriously, gentlemen, that is something over which one should not get into a pissing contest. ISIS slaughtered men, women, children and babies by the dozen today on the Cote d’Azur. We have a dagger aimed at the heart of our Western civilization. Let us consider greater things today, and by all means avoid petty squabbling over insignificant and minor technical issues. We can no longer afford that luxury.
July 16th, 2016 at 12:50 am
@Chas,
With all due respect that isn’t my problem. I’ll start worrying about it approximately never, which is when I expect the next terrorist attack to happen in my area. Most of the world’s problems are caused by people freaking out over stuff that doesn’t even personally affect them.
July 17th, 2016 at 11:09 am
This is a rarer shot, at least recently in the movies and on TV, than one sniper shooting through the scope of another to kill their opponent, which I’ve seen several times in recent years.
But I remember some decades back when cowboys used to shoot the handguns and rifles out of their opponents’ hands with regularity (the Waco Kid scene below from Blazing Saddles being an extreme example). And without loss of fingers from the opponents’ hands, as happened to that bad guy in Shooter (too gory for a link).
Real life is almost always more amazing than fiction.
July 19th, 2016 at 2:12 pm
wizardpc got it right. It would have spared the destruction of a nice pistol and eliminated some real human detritus