SWAT officer attracts ridicule after he’s pictured with his rifle sight on backwards
The scary thing about this, as I know from experience as I own a less expensive version of this rifle sight, is that it requires some practice to get it calibrated just right. I've never been able to re-calibrate mine in fewer than ten minutes firing about 20-25 rounds. Once it's "sighted in", it's great and highly accurate. If it isn't, shots will go wide; sometimes wildly so.
So, as I believe someone in the article mentions, this means that a SWAT officer is using a deadly weapon, what politicians call an "assault weapon", in a live-fire zone without ever, ever having used it on a range. He has never practiced with it. Great. These are the people we're to trust with our safety because, you know, they're the ones trained to use guns.
This was a lazy, bone-headed move that endangered people. Had I ever done this, Gunnery Sergeant Webb would have made sure that I would not have been able to sit down until the next century.