New York – -(Ammoland.com)- A SWAT team in upstate New York is being mocked as an example of the difference between military and police training after an officer was captured peering through a backwards Eotech sight on his combat rifle.
As users on Reddit were quick to point out when the image was 1st posted, the reverse sight makes it effectively useless.
Users mocked the SWAT officers training and some went so far as to question the motives of some of the men serving in local law enforcement.
The officer is using a ‘military style’ assault weapon with a close quarters combat sight that costs roughly $500.
‘It’s disturbing to think that 1) none of his buddies corrected it, and 2) he’s in a real-life situation with his optic on backwards, which means he’s never fired that rifle with the optic on it, which means it isn’t zeroed and he thought it was OK to show up to a gunfight with an unzeroed weapon,’ wrote one Reddit user.
New York is the same state that recently passed the NY SAFE Act restricikng ownership of the same type of rifles to regular New York citizens, with one of the reasons being that they do not receive the same training as SWAT “Only Ones”. To add insult to injury the New York legislature is in the process of passing an amendments to the SAFE Act to exempt police from this law.
Who wrote this article? LOL There is some interesting use of the English language is it.
“New York is the same state that recently passed the NY SAFE Act restricikng ownership”
Upstate NY state is a different beast!!! They pull from different jobs in emergency situations. Definitely not an NYPD ESU officer. They Have THE it SH&t Together.
Just another total and complete moron in nyc.! Pitiful,just pitiful ! Notice even the other SWAT team members don’t pick up on it ? These idiots must mount those Eotechs ” bloomberg style”. I really can’t get past the total dumbass of this !!! HBH
Nothing suprises me from that city of total idiots !HBH
For 1 you don’t understand the whole situation and for 2 It looks like he is a medic from the patch on his vest Andy hat he knows better because he is using the flip up and fixed sight.
For a NY swat officer that makes $95k-175k , he sure is ignorant and unsafe. He should be removed from duty permanently , as it appears this was at a SWAT response call if he had needed to use his weapon he would have been extremely useless.
Rickjames – you’re trippin’ – that plate would say “police” just as well, since all one can see is part of “IC”.
As for the flips, what else? You should know he can’t see reticle in the optic…
These are the reasons to not militarize cowboy cops.
Don’t worry…I’m sure Mr. Bloomberg will outlaw rifles with backward sights.
These cops are not from the NYPD
Notice that the front patch on his plate carrier looks like “MEDIC”. That explains everything in one word. Maybe a medic assigned to the Team from a local FD? He also looks to be using the back-up, flip-up style rear sight with the A2 front sight. No excuse for others not picking it up but just sayin’….!
Lets hope he points the carbine the right way ??
As of this writing, over 50 NY counties oppose the NY “safe” act. This should come as no surprise since most of NY State is rural. What the city politicians (Cuomo) have failed to realize is that the entire southern tier of NY State, as far east and north as Schoharie and Otsego counties, is included in the cultural region known as Appalachia. Google Appalachia or Appalachian counties. The Appalachian Mountains stretch from Maine to Alabama but the Appalachian cultural region is more specific. In violating the second amendment rights of NY citizens, Cuomo has not only declared war against… Read more »
So the new logic in New York is-Civilians cannot own these weapons as they are incapable of handling them safely, hence they are to be used only by cops and soldiers. When the police demonstrate incompetence-let’s change the rules-as in the rules do not apply to cops. Brilliant…….
It doesn’t really matter if you shoot with your eyes closed.
What is the point of trying to leave a reply if you don’t publish the reply. My submitted reply was to reply appropriately only to be advised that my reply wasn’t acceptable.
There are so many incidents of Cops exhibiting a lack of training and a inability to properly do their job. I’m retired Law Enforcement and its sickening to see all these screw ups occurring. I have to say that there is way to much of Media and TV shows showing I improper handling of firearms. I watched a TV Hunting episode the other night that showed guys shooting at Pigs from Helicopters. The shooters bragged about shooting a string of hogs beneath them and being able to harvest the seven or eight hogs with their AR scoped rifles. How can… Read more »
In most of the country, pigs are vermin. A dangerous nuisance, requires little-to-no licensing to hunt, no season, no limits. They’re horrible.