ATF "Citizens Training" Roving through the halls of the Glendale Galleria one night earlier this year were about a dozen wannabe cops trying, with varying degrees of ridiculousness, to be covert.I know, because I was one of them.
I was there as a student in an eight-week Citizens' Academy held by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, better known as the ATF.
Our mission that night was to covertly observe a gun transaction involving real ATF agents posing as bad guys and to discreetly tail them to their cars. My fellow students and I had been told at our "pre-operational briefing" that it would go down in or around a cafe on the ground floor of the mall.
My partner and I were supposed to call our "team leader" on his cellphone and give him a detailed description of the suspects once they arrived.
Suddenly, there they were: a long-haired dude in a Hawaiian shirt and couple of other guys in their 20s, looking nervously about.
Even though it was just an exercise, the adrenaline began to kick in. My partner, a paralegal in the Los Angeles city attorney's office, scribbled down the suspects' descriptions.
Eager to deliver the intel, I tried our team leader on his cell. No answer. Again and again I tried, but the result was the same. LA TImes
2 comments:
gotta get ready for these teabagger's and gunned up nouveau militia men and wimmin....,
very interesting that it's jumping off in one of the high-probability, economically "failed states"
But not to worry.
Most people have somewhat weak wrists.
If they hold the gun straight up-and-down, they tend to shoot up and to their right (if right handed).
If they hold they gun sideways like some gangsta' from Menace To Society, they tend to shoot up and
to their left (if shooting with their right).
If they've never been in a bad situation - many people panic, causing them to spend most of their rounds with their eyes closed.
In any case, with these scared folks with guns - just stay low and keep moving.
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