Firearms Exam 6 #1 Questions with correct answers
4 cardinal rules of safe gun handling - ✔✔1) All guns are loaded
2) Never let your muzzle cover anything you are not willing and able to destroy
3) Keep your finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard until your sights
are on target and you have decided to fire
4) Be sure of your target and whats around and beyond it
Involuntary Contraction (physiological factors) - ✔✔1) Startle Effect
2) Postural Distubance
3) Exertion of maximal force / interlimb interaction
Safe direction - ✔✔When a NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE occurs, the gun is pointed in a
direction that will cause NO PERSONAL INJURY AND MINIMAL PROPERTY
DAMAGE
Condition check - ✔✔When picking up a weapon that has been out of your direct
control, even for an instant, POINT THE WEAPON IN A SAFE DIRECTION AND OPEN
THE ACTION TO CHECK WHETHER OR NOT THE GUN IS LOADED.
Firearms should be _______ and __________ when it's not under my direct
control - ✔✔Inaccessible and inoperable
How much force can officers legally use to affect a lawful arrest? ( Graham V
Connor) - ✔✔Objectively, reasonably, necessary
, Tennessee V Gardner - ✔✔Cannot shoot at an UNARMED and NONVIOLENT
fleeing suspect unless necessary to prevent the escape and unless the officer has
probably cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or
serious bodily injury to the officers or a third party
Levels of force - ✔✔1) constructive authority - pointing firearm at suspect/verbal
command commands/presence
2) physical contact - handcuffing guiding someone (procedural)
3) physical force - kicking, punching
4) mechanical force - OC, K9
5) deadly force - chokeholds, pointing a firearm at a suspect and making the
decision to fire
Contagious fire - ✔✔An officer fire simply because another officer has fired. You
must be legally JUSTIFIED and RESPONSIBLE for every round you fire.
Criteria to shoot/finger on the trigger? - ✔✔Your sites are on target
You have made the decision to fire
Seven step draw - ✔✔1) grip
2) clear
3) rotate
4 cardinal rules of safe gun handling - ✔✔1) All guns are loaded
2) Never let your muzzle cover anything you are not willing and able to destroy
3) Keep your finger off the trigger and outside the trigger guard until your sights
are on target and you have decided to fire
4) Be sure of your target and whats around and beyond it
Involuntary Contraction (physiological factors) - ✔✔1) Startle Effect
2) Postural Distubance
3) Exertion of maximal force / interlimb interaction
Safe direction - ✔✔When a NEGLIGENT DISCHARGE occurs, the gun is pointed in a
direction that will cause NO PERSONAL INJURY AND MINIMAL PROPERTY
DAMAGE
Condition check - ✔✔When picking up a weapon that has been out of your direct
control, even for an instant, POINT THE WEAPON IN A SAFE DIRECTION AND OPEN
THE ACTION TO CHECK WHETHER OR NOT THE GUN IS LOADED.
Firearms should be _______ and __________ when it's not under my direct
control - ✔✔Inaccessible and inoperable
How much force can officers legally use to affect a lawful arrest? ( Graham V
Connor) - ✔✔Objectively, reasonably, necessary
, Tennessee V Gardner - ✔✔Cannot shoot at an UNARMED and NONVIOLENT
fleeing suspect unless necessary to prevent the escape and unless the officer has
probably cause to believe that the suspect poses a significant threat of death or
serious bodily injury to the officers or a third party
Levels of force - ✔✔1) constructive authority - pointing firearm at suspect/verbal
command commands/presence
2) physical contact - handcuffing guiding someone (procedural)
3) physical force - kicking, punching
4) mechanical force - OC, K9
5) deadly force - chokeholds, pointing a firearm at a suspect and making the
decision to fire
Contagious fire - ✔✔An officer fire simply because another officer has fired. You
must be legally JUSTIFIED and RESPONSIBLE for every round you fire.
Criteria to shoot/finger on the trigger? - ✔✔Your sites are on target
You have made the decision to fire
Seven step draw - ✔✔1) grip
2) clear
3) rotate