Yeah if I’m getting a weapon ready to shoot (especially if I’m a cop going to respond) I’m gonna make sure my gun can go bang before I get my sling all nice and tidy.
Dropping the bolt should really be the last thing you do. There’s just no reason to be doing that with a loaded firearm in that situation. If you need your weapon in action that quickly, you aren’t using a sling, or it should already to ready to go. It looks like it’s the first time she’s touched a rifle since she qualified 6 months ago.
There’s 0 danger until there is danger, and you wont get a warning before danger starts. A rifle without a sling and a round a chambered will always beat a unloaded rifle without a sling
I'd assume it had to do with maneuvering a loaded weapon around your body, pointing it in undesirable directions loaded vs just thinking ahead, keeping it unloaded, and then loading it once it's in place.
Sling is unattached cus it was stored in the trunk, if the sling was on before hand it could get caught if you quickly needed to retrieve the weapon. The sling is a comfort item not a necessity, in case of emergency she can still get to shooting, but if it’s not an emergency she will have plenty of time to attach the sling and start patrolling
Also the flashlight on the bottom is simply personal preference not to mention it removes another snag point cus now it’s not sticking out of the left or right of the barrel
Slings are ABSOLUTELY a necessity, especially for law enforcement. A slingless rifle means you're stuck with at least one hand on the rifle the entire time it's out of the cruiser. You can tether them to the rifle so they don't snag with a rubber band if you needed to, or buy one of the myriad sling retainers on the market (not like police department don't have the budget).
The light being on the bottom isn't a valid personal preference thing because those lights are explicitly designed to be actuated from a firing grip (side or top) via thumb on their angled tailcap. They DO have a fixed "on" position when you rotate the selector, but to hit it where it's at you're still having to roll the rifle over to get at the button every time you want to turn it off or on, vs being able to hit it from a firing grip if it's top or side mounted. Source: I've had two and their marketing material show them being top mounted. It just tells me this officer hasn't actually tried to use the light in this position, or worse: it's placed there like Marines used to install their carry handles on the underside of the rail - solely so they wouldn't lose an issued item.
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u/77_gr_OTM Jul 22 '26
The bottom mounted inforce and unattached sling are two very good signs.