A couple people had expressed interest in this topic, and I have a bit of extra time for a couple days, so here goes:
Bona fides: I am a former infantry NCO and sniper, hunter, competitive shooter, reloader, hobby gunsmith, sometimes firearms trainer and currently work in a gun shop, mostly on the paperwork/compliance side. Back in the day, was a qualified expert with every standard small arm in the US inventory circa 2003 (M2, 4, 9, 16, 19, 249, 240B, 21, 24, 82 etc.), and today hang around the 75th percentile of USPSA classifications. I've shot Cap-and-Ball, Trap and Sporting Clays badly; Bullseye and PRS somewhat better and IDPA/USPSA/UML/Two-gun with some local success. Been active in the 2A community since the mid-90s, got my first instructor cert in high school, and have held a CPL for almost twenty years now.
I certainly don't claim to be an expert in every aspect of firearms, there's huge areas that escape my knowledge base, but if you've got questions I'll do my best to answer.
Technical questions
Gun control proposals for feasibility
Industry
Training
Wacky opinions
General geekery
Some competition links (not my own) just for the interested.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5IhsWamaLY&t=173
https://youtube.com/watch?v=93nEEINflXE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=utcky0zq10E
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Notes -
To be clear, the summary I quoted and linked just suggests that police officers (pre-1980s; as my quote says, training has changed since) tended to take cover too little, not that criminals were immune to the same problem; the possibility that home invaders might not similarly revert to gun-range-mode behavior is a pure hypothetical, that's why I called it "not impossible" rather than even "likely".
I agree that we should pay more attention to reality when it conflicts with a priori reasoning; that's why what I linked to was summarizing an NYPD review of 6000 real cases. Dismissing that as "a few guys ran some bad studies or something" is the sort of motivated reasoning I would have tossed in the "bc it sounds like it makes sense" bin.
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