I wouldn’t trust a member of the NYPD discharging their weapon in a situation like this anyhow, trying to hit a moving target with the gun setup that they use. The NYPD requires 12 pound trigger pulls (a Glock comes standard with a 5.5 pound trigger pull, for reference) and an officer need only shoot around 50 rounds…

In the summer while I was in college, I worked at a campground, and the business owned a large number of Ford vehicles. The majority of these vehicles were 15 passenger vans, used to ferry people upriver hauling trailers full of canoes, where people would be dropped off to float down the river while drinking beers and…