Texas Cops can shoot

[Irving]

Yep. Lucky shot.

[hurley842002]

M&P 40 is worthless and not accurate.

Really?

Lol

[Bunny]

Lucky shot or not, his M&P handled that situation.

[Ah Pook]

Really?

Newb, the satire owns you.

[KAPA]

How many rounds did he send downrange before the hit? Article doesn't seem to say. I would think the average shooter could put about a quarter of their rounds on a man sized target @ 100 yds. Any one of those makes contact with a mass shooter and we all know their next move is to eat their gun asap. Seems to be the case here. Still a great shot under stress, especially if it was shot 1.

[flogger]

Good guy 1, Bad guy 0.

[earplug]

We need to give the horses credit for standing still

[earplug]

Another lucky shot from 1994, mountain bike instead of a horse

[theGinsue]

This officer's shot was remarkable & definitely worthy of our praise & respect as citizens and as fellow shooters - particularly for stopping a potentially lethal shooter.

While very different, there are interesting similarities to an incident in 1994 at Fairchild AFB...

This might be a record of some sort. The previous long range pistol stop was a MP shooting a 9MM on the US post.

Yep, I believe you are referring to the Fairchild AFB Hospital event.

Meanwhile, Senior Airman Andrew P. Brown, age 25, with the 92nd Air Force Security Police Squadron, was patrolling the base’s housing areas on a bicycle when he received an emergency call on his two-way radio. He pedaled a quarter-mile to the scene and, while still some 70 yards away, spotted Mellberg shooting at scores of panic-stricken people in the parking lot.

Brown ditched his bicycle and ordered the gunman to drop his weapon. When Mellberg turned and shot at him, Brown dropped into a combat crouch and returned fire with his 9mm Beretta M9 semiautomatic pistol. He fired four rounds at Mellberg; two missed, one hit him in the shoulder and one struck him between the eyes, instantly ending his homicidal rampage. The drum magazine in Mellberg’s MAK-90 still held 19 rounds of ammunition.

Beretta M9's, in my experience, are not the most accurate firearm. It (in my opinion) takes an amazing shooter to consistently perform well with one of them. So, that, with the fact that this USAF Security Police (they were still "SP's", not "Security Forces" back then) had just ridden his patrol bicycle 1/4 mile to respond to the hospital, earns a huge amount of my respect.

ETA: Damn! Earplug beat me by 4 minutes. I took too long to type it up.

[osok-308]

When I first heard this story my thought was: "damn, how can I get this good?"