pretend bobbies

[arjimlad]

It is very hard to know what I would do in this situation, but without seeing who it was that was telling me to abandon my gun & walk away from it, surely there is a high risk that it could be some chavs ?

 

Perhaps the accent would give a hint, but I'd be inclined to put the gun down, stand near it & ask for more details of who was telling me to leave it alone. we have read the post on here about antis plaguing a rough shooter and it would not take much for them to resort to such tactics.

 

Putting the gun down would at least take the heat out of the situation. Obviously if I was "surrounded by armed ********" in the immortal words of DCI Gene Hunt, I would comply unhesitatingly, loaded or not.

 

For the future safety of others, not least himself, I do think this particular uniformed individual should be reported to his superiors.

[deadeye ive]

Unbeknown to myself and others the SWAT team actually watched us from a distance before making a move .All very professional and amicable with the end result having a positive outcome .....Albeit for the Chief of Poice upset about the £5000 bill for the helicopter and teams on the ground coming out of his funds .

 

The thing is the previous post is correct by stating how would you know who was telling you to down your Firearm ,loaded as well .A firearms team has a certain protocol to follow i'd imagine and I don't think lighting you up with a 20,000 000 candle power lamp and hailing you with a loud hailer all in a split second is one of them .......that is unless your up to something ILLEGAL

[Guest]

IMO if im asked by an officer with multiple guns aimed at me, to place my weapon on the ground, I will do so, with verbal notifications of everything I am doing, so the officers are not in anyway confused or misguided as to my actions. I would not attempt to make any adjust to the firearm, especially near the trigger. Of course notifying the team that the firearm is loaded, will be useful information to keep everyone safe.

 

For me, although I have never been in a situation like this, this seems very sound advice.

 

The last thing you want is plod not knowing what the **** you're fiddling about at with the gun.

 

If told immediately to put the gun on the ground by a load of tooled up coppers, I would safety catch ON or OFF.

 

One other thing, if you are in this situation, although it seems very obvious, keep the barrels pointing at the floor all the time, break the barrels of a shotgun. Some very basic things are very easy to forget when nervous, whatever the situation.

[rec-baller]

i was out shooting at night on one of my golf courses a couple of weeks ago, when. i heard a shout over the gates, i made my weapon safe and aproached the voice to be confroted by a female c.p.o. who had climed onto a set of 6foot high gates to see what was happening !!!! she asked what was i doing as they,d heard shots fired and had radioed it in to headquaters.

i explained i had full written permission ant it was in my car along with a copy of my lisence if she wanted to see it- the reply was NO don,t worry we,ll be on our way, i then heard a male voice asking what was happening and realised there was a male bobby standing on the floor who had let a female climb ont a set of gates and stick her head and torso over when there were shots being fired !!!

so much for male chivalry !!!!