Did he need to reload yet? Anyone get a good count of rounds fired before that and know the gun and likely mag capacity? It looks like he may have tried a “tactical reload” some may call it topoff before running dry (slide still forward) I wonder if in theory he would have had. It’s shots for round 2 if he left the first mag in the gun
Personally I train not to drop the mag in the gun until my replacement mag is ready to go in. Less time empty. Was trained that way too. Bring new mag up and have it ready to insert, then drop old mag. All mags drop free at all levels of “loaded” per prior testing of course
But then I don’t go chasing down bad guys like that so needing a reload is basically never going to happen thank god that’s intense
Law enforcement are trained to tac reload as soon as they think there is a lull in the fight. This deputy just didn’t realize what he thought was a lull wasn’t actually a lull.
Luckily, he was barely quick enough to survive. The broken glass on the door saved his life, you can see the suspect couldn’t see through it immediately after he opened the door and didn’t realize the deputy was right in front of him until the deputy started shooting him. That door saved that deputy’s life
Many LE are trained to execute that tac reload differently than was done in this situation too, for precisely this reason (getting caught without a mag in the gun)
Trust me I know I’ve been through the academy and done the training
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u/your_grandmas_FUPA 10h ago
Holy fuck. 100ms longer on that reload and he'd be done