According to St.Louis Today
(U.S. Rep. Russ) Carnahan’s first stop was at the St. Louis Police Academy, where he visited with a class of 31 recruits funded by the Recovery and Reinvestment Act. While he was there, Carnahan tested his own acuity with a firearm — stopping the paper suspect dead in its tracks. Using what appears to be a 9mm pistol, Carnahan landed three shots squarely in the center of the target, two of which were pretty close — if not right on — the bullseye.
The photo is labeled Carnahan shoots while St. Louis Police Chief Dan Isom, far right, watches
If this chief allowed the Congressman to shoot like that, he should be relieved of his command. Where is the eye protection? Where is the ear protection?
How could they let a photographer stand down range with a live firing line?
Or is it even a real gun? It is not a great pic, but it looks like the barrel has an orange tip? But I can not confirm that.
Where's the firing line? Something else about this photo bothered me... the lighting on Carnahan's face and extended hand is too contrived.
ReplyDeleteI'll bet you the photographer moved his subjects around to create the lighting effect under the room's overheads and ignored the firing line as well.
We can only hope that he then proceeded to photoshop a color change on the barrel tip.
There are other sketchy things about this photo too...not the least is there are generally partitions in indoor firing lines and the room looks more like a classroom then a firing range.
ReplyDeleteRegardless, Phil, you highlight the most important safety issues and correctly throw down the BS flag on this one.