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Aroogah in reply to @Constable_Savage

If you, as an armed police officer, are confronted with someone wearing what you perceive to be an explosive device, who has attempted to or has killed people, then they have to be stopped. That means you keep shooting until they stop moving and cannot initiate their bomb.

Blame Hollywood. The one bullet myth. It takes far more than that to stop someone. Autopsies on criminals who die in shootouts with the FBI have shown that in some cases people continued to fight for 2-3 minutes after their hearts stopped. Continuing on sheer adrenaline.

Plenty of examples of this. This is the one I remember.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_FBI_Miami_shootout

50 rounds is pretty controlled really.

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Ordinata in reply to @Aroogah

With this in mind. (Also not wanting to detonate any device) Would one not aim for the head?

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Aroogah in reply to @Ordinata

Would one not aim for the head?

Very, very hard to hit the head. Even if you are told to aim for it, especially with iron sights + lots of adrenaline. I'm sure the officees were well trained but they are human.

With semi-auto weapons they are usually taught to shoot in bursts of three. I would hazard a guess that many of them would have been covering fire to allow colleagues to get in closer.

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