Bonus Podcast: "GUN" Command in Police Training

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🗓️ 15 April 2011

⏱️ 5 minutes

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While filming one of the latest episodes of Gun Talk Television with six law enforcement officers, Tom noticed that the command "GUN" is used to instruct the officers to fire. Does using this command while training condition law enforcement to react to a person legally carrying a gun in a negative way? Email Tom your thoughts at Tom@guntalk.com

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0:00.0	Hey, this is Tom Gresham from Gun Talk with a bonus podcast just for folks who are checking
0:08.5	on the podcast.
0:10.3	Had a thought.
0:11.5	We were shooting TV for our Gun Talk television show a few weeks ago.
0:17.4	It's a very good show.
0:18.7	We call it Top Cop.
0:19.7	And we have a lot of
0:21.0	different law enforcement officers getting training with the AR-15. The thing that got my attention
0:27.2	as I'm looking, well, I actually noticed it while we were shooting it. And then as I'm looking
0:32.0	at the video, the trainers, and they're very good trainers at the VATA group, they've got background in military and law enforcement.
0:41.2	The, and this is, maybe I'm out of sync, maybe I'm overreacting, maybe I'm overly sensitive, okay?
0:53.5	And I'd love to get your take on this.
0:56.1	As the trainers are giving the command to shoot,
1:01.8	what they say is the trainers yell gun.
1:08.2	And that's the command for the law enforcement officers to draw and shoot or use their
1:12.9	AR-15s and shoot.
1:15.9	Here's my problem with that.
1:19.0	As regular citizens, it is not against the law for us to have a gun.
1:26.0	It's not against the law to have a gun concealed in most places. It's not against the law to have a gun concealed in most places. It's not against
1:30.4	the law to have a gun worn openly in most places. You go back to a number of incidents where
1:40.7	police have reacted simply on the basis of someone having a gun and shooting them.
1:47.0	The most egregious, of course, being at Ruby Ridge, where the FBI gave shoot-to-kill orders.
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