Reply #102: Lets look at that picture [View All]

[quakerboy]

Police are trained to be observant, as I understand it. That looks about as much like a "six shooter" as tin foil looks like saran wrap. Anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with firearms should easily be able to tell the difference. When was the last time you saw a gun with a copper Barrel, or one that had a rounded taper toward the muzzle?

But maybe they couldn't see that, you might argue, that they were too far back. It was 4:40, which tells me there was still light, so visibility should have been OK. And they were close enough for him to see them and to point at them, in an area described as a "courtyard". They were close enough to start to fire, which I assume they are trained not to do if they are a great distance off, as even a trained shot loses accuracy with a pistol at some point. I assume police shotguns are armed with slugs? Otherwise, they must have been even closer, or it would be not so safe to fire one at any real distance.