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Old 06-24-2007, 10:58   #32
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Originally Posted by Gene Econ
Am still curious as to why the range officer didn't cease firing when the first rifle blew. That one leads me to question the competency of the outfit in question.

Gene
As I understand it now firing was stopped. Everyone ooh'd and aaah'd over the first Kaboom. But it was dismissed as a freak accident, which has never happened to us in the past so the thinking from the guys on the range at the time was "that our luck ran out and we had our freak accident".

However when number 2 went; all training ammo was pulled from the range and only issued duty ammo was shot.
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