I was just wondering as I was reading the various gun boards etc. if after the last few decades starting as far back as the 60's when Jeff Cooper and others started all the different pistol competitions and shooting schools if they have realy made a positive difference in performance for the armed civilians and or LEO's when using deadly force .
My understand is that even into the middle 70's even Police force firearms trainers were trained themselves and certified as NRA instructors .
Now here we are decades later with many Police forces seemingly thumbing their noses at the NRA and using whatever seems to be the hottest trend in shooting starting with the weaver stance , to isosceles in the 80's or so to who knows what these days .
But has all of it made any significant difference in the ability for officers/civilains to 1) survive a gunfight and 2) actually improve their hit percentage on live targets that are trying to hurt/kill them at the time they fired said shots .
Also just as a point of interest has all of this increased training helped to reduce the instances of accidental discharges within the Law enforcement/shooting community ?
After all doing a simple seach of gun training Schools on the internet you'll get a bunch of different places to go not to mention what you'll find reading the various gun magazines or asking on the Progun forums .
My understand is that even into the middle 70's even Police force firearms trainers were trained themselves and certified as NRA instructors .
Now here we are decades later with many Police forces seemingly thumbing their noses at the NRA and using whatever seems to be the hottest trend in shooting starting with the weaver stance , to isosceles in the 80's or so to who knows what these days .
But has all of it made any significant difference in the ability for officers/civilains to 1) survive a gunfight and 2) actually improve their hit percentage on live targets that are trying to hurt/kill them at the time they fired said shots .
Also just as a point of interest has all of this increased training helped to reduce the instances of accidental discharges within the Law enforcement/shooting community ?
After all doing a simple seach of gun training Schools on the internet you'll get a bunch of different places to go not to mention what you'll find reading the various gun magazines or asking on the Progun forums .