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Firearms Basic Rules and Use Exam
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- What are the advantages of a rifle over a pistol? - Answers: ✅
More accurate More ammo Better terminal ballistics More range Can fire rapidly Can penetrate body armor
- What are the disadvantages of a rifle compared to pistol? -
Answers: ✅ Not as maneuverable Requires more training Can't take it everywhere we go
- What are the advantages of a rifle over a shotgun? - Answers: ✅ Less recoil Faster to reload More accurate Capable of longer ranges Weighs less Easier to accessorize Can penetrate body armor
- What are the disadvantages of a rifle compared to a shotgun? -
Answers: ✅
More expensive Can only shoot one type of ammo Less reliable if dirty or dry
- What is a soft malfunction? - Answers: ✅ Firing pin is struck no rounds fired Bad ammo No round chambered, bolt carrier will be all the way forward
- What is a hard malfunction? - Answers: ✅ Bolt will not be forward May be more than one round in the chamber What are the cardinal rules of firearms? - Answers: ✅Treat all firearms as if they are loaded Keep your finger off the trigger until ready to shoot Never point your firearm at anything you do not want to destroy Be aware of your target and beyond
- When is deadly force ok? - Answers: ✅ In self defense In defense of another Other occasions covered my PP
- What are the priorities of life? - Answers: ✅ Victim/hostages Bystanders Officers
- What is the fleeing felon case? - Answers: ✅Tennessee v. Garner
- A type of operation normally associated with revolvers, where pulling the trigger rotates the cylinder, and cocks and fires the weapon. The term is also used to describe certain semiautomatic pistols where pulling the trigger will cock and fire the first shot. - Answers: ✅Double action
- A type of operation normally associated with revolvers where the hammer must be manually cocked for each shot. The manual cocking also rotates the cylinder, bringing another cartridge in line with the barrel for firing. The term is also used to describe certain semiautomatic pistols that must be manually cocked prior to firing the first shot. - Answers: ✅Single action
- a handgun that contains its ammunition in a revolving cylinder -
Answers: ✅Revolver
- an auto loading action that will fire only a single shot for each
function of the trigger. - Answers: ✅Semi auto
- What are Garrity Rights? - Answers: ✅Rights you have after an officer involved shooting that protects against self incrimination (5th amendment)
- The _______________________ of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on
the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. - Answers: ✅reasonableness
- Discharging a firearm is NOT permitted under the following; -
Answers: ✅
1. The mere suspicion that a fleeing subject committed a life threatening felony; 2. In non-life threatening felonies and misdemeanor offenses, and 3. When an arrest may be affected using less than deadly force.
- feet shoulder width apart and knees slightly bent - Answers:
✅Isosceles stance
- Strong side leg goes back - minimal side stance - more for
target shooting - Answers: ✅Weaver stance
- Placement of the shooters hands on the handgun.You don't need a death grip on a gun. Second hand supplies support - Answers: ✅Grip
- Front and rear sight level and equal distance on both sides of front sight Sight alignment MUST be maintained while the shot is being fired. FRONT SIGHT should be in focus - Answers: ✅Sight alignment
- This is determined by the inside diameter of the bore. Also refers to the bullet size. Both handgun and rifle ammunition is referred to by this - Answers: ✅caliber
- Shotgun bore size as well as the ammunition is referred to as _____. This is determined by the number of lead balls it takes to make one pound in weight - Answers: ✅Gauge
- Usually used for sporting purposes. May be used as a training round in police work. Shot sizes range from #12, smallest to BB the largest. Recoil is lighter than Buckshot. - Answers: ✅Birdshot
- Sizes start at #4, smallest to #000, the largest. Typical round for L.E. is #00 buck. This round contains eight or nine pellets in 2 ¾ inch 12 GA and 12 in 3 inch 12 GA each pellet is .32 to .33 caliber - Answers: ✅Buckshot
- This round contains one projectile which is .72 caliber and
weighs one ounce. - Answers: ✅Slug
- This is the basic material used to manufacture both handgun
and rifle ammunition - Answers: ✅Lead
- A projectile which has a harder metal covering on the outside of the lead core that only covers part of the projectile. The exposed lead, or soft point, is designed to control expansion upon
impact. Some are hollowed out at the nose to further cause expansion. Theses are known as "Hollow points" - Answers: ✅Semi-jacketed
- Also known as "Ball ammo". This fully encases the projectile to
it's base, minimizing its expansion - Answers: ✅Full metal jacket
- What do you do when securing a firearm other than your own?
1. Request assistance with an unfamiliar firearm from an officer who is familiar. 2. Makes visual assessment of the type of firearm to be secured. 3. Take physical control of a firearm with due regard to its potential as evidence: 4. Remove ammo 5. Inspect the chamber visually and physically 6. Secure the firearm physically. Ie; places the firearm in a locked container / Never in waistband
- What are the appropriate off duty procedures of carrying a
firearm? - Answers: ✅ 1. Carry ID 2. Carry handcuffs and ammo 3. Should I get involved considering - use of alcohol, lack of ID, lack of communication?
and ha little incapacitating effect if the projectile is a slow moving pistol bullet - Answers: ✅Temporary wound cavity
- This is the process where the projectile breaks apart after striking target. This rarely happens with a handgun round unless it strikes mass bone structure or it lightly constructed. - Answers: ✅Fragmentation
- A shot placed to the central nervous system, ie. Brain, spinal column, immediate death, not caliber dependent. Interrupts vital life process, key blood loss, not caliber dependent.
- Answers: ✅Physiological incapacitation
- "Oh my god, I've been shot and I'm going to die" or
"That bastard's not going to kill ME" - Answers: ✅Psychological incapacitation
- Define concealment - Answers: ✅hide
- Define cover - Answers: ✅stops
- What are the dynamics of fear - Answers: ✅
1. "Here comes trouble" 2. Vulnerability awareness 3. Decision to take action 4. Survival
5. Decision to respond 6. Respond
