After their first firearms training, Jimmy and his team had to attend a special class on judgment shooting exercises.
"Hi, I'm Senior Agent An. Today, we're going to conduct judgment shooting training. Before we start, you need to know what the deadly force policy is.
1. The subject possesses a weapon or attempts to obtain a weapon, and intends to use the weapon to attack an agent or other persons
2. The subject possesses a weapon and flees to obtain cover
3. The subject has the capability and intention to cause death or serious physical injury without a deadly weapon or to otherwise incapacitate the agent
4. The subject attempts to escape from a conflict in which they were involved in causing or attempting to cause death or serious physical injury
In today's training, you must make instantaneous decisions. A wrong choice could sacrifice innocent lives or your own life."
Indeed, FBI agents are not like in the movies, shooting freely at targets. They have guidelines for firearm use. In most cases, they draw their guns for deterrence, and only under specific circumstances do agents fire to stop a subject.
The judgmental shooting training that Jimmy and his team were doing was just like this, involving many simulated scenarios where trainees made simulated judgments on whether to draw their guns for deterrence or to fire to stop a threat.
However, Jimmy had no particular feelings about these deadly force policies because since being transferred to the county police Support Team, he had often encountered situations that required drawing his gun, and he had fired his weapon numerous times. Compared to other trainees, Jimmy performed very well in judgment shooting exercises.
By the way, aside from live-fire shooting at the range, their firearms training or situational awareness training used simulation guns painted in different colors, such as orange or blue.
As the course progressed, Jimmy and his team also began to incorporate live-fire training in dark environments, training with flashing police lights, and so on, all to help trainees quickly familiarize themselves with scenarios they might face in the field and not falter in actual work.
Similarly, Jimmy performed very well in these scenario trainings. Flashing police lights were already part of his daily patrol environment. As for training in dark environments, possessing Heart Eye, he could clearly judge the shape and position of the targets while others were still adjusting to the dark.
After learning for a while, the firearms training included stress test elements, post-exercise shooting drills, and later added M4 rifle training. Relatively speaking, training with the Glock pistol was the most frequent.
For Jimmy, using the Glock for extended periods made him miss his own sidearm. To avoid becoming unfamiliar with revolvers, Jimmy applied to use the shooting range during his free time. After approval, he was finally able to bring his Smith and Wesson M686-1 from the dormitory.
Jimmy brought the M686-1 and a box of .357 Magnum bullets to the range after class. Since the day's session had ended, there was no one at the range except for the range officer.
Jimmy loaded the revolver one bullet at a time, then grabbed a handful of bullets in his left hand, aimed at the 15 cm head target, and fired. This type of head target was a steel plate that toppled when hit. After shooting them all, pulling the rope beside him would reset all the targets.
The head targets in front of Jimmy were lined up in a row of 10, which was somewhat annoying. He could not finish in one round, and two rounds left him with two extra bullets. After one round, Jimmy had to unload and reload, and at the end, he still needed to pick out the unfired bullets from the pile of shell casings.
Jimmy gave up after one round. Although the 15 cm 6-head target was better for practicing precision, it was too troublesome, so he switched to the adjacent torso target, reloaded, and began practicing at his own pace, focusing more on reloading drills than shooting because over time, it was easy for his hands to become untrained, requiring him to regain his feel.
Jimmy's shooting pace was unlike most people's. A revolver, two rounds with only a 2-second interval to clear the chamber; to someone only listening, it could be very confusing what exactly he was practicing with.
Jimmy focused on regaining his tactile sensitivity, unaware that several people had already gathered behind him.
"What's his name?" one of the onlookers asked, looking at Jimmy. The range officer picked up the registry, "Jimmy Yang, from Arkansas. More information would need a file check."
"Got it, I'll look it up. Let's keep watching."
After several rounds, Jimmy completely relaxed and felt good about his performance. Although he hadn't used a revolver in a while, it seemed his touch was still there. He thought that in the future, he just needed to familiarize himself with it occasionally, without continually worrying about losing his feel for the revolver.
Jimmy started picking up the shell casings that had fallen on the table and the floor, which he needed to collect and hand over to the range officer for disposal.
He reloaded the remaining bullets back into the cartridge box, packed the shell casings in a bag, placed the gun back in its holster, and turned around to leave.
When Jimmy turned around, he was startled because he was wearing noise-canceling headphones for indoor shooting, and he hadn't noticed when people had arrived behind him.
"Good evening, gentlemen, is there something you need? Or did I disturb you?"
"NO, we were just passing by. There's nothing up, you can go."
Jimmy nodded to the few people and walked toward the range exit. Watching Jimmy leave, the people moved to the front of Jimmy's torso target.
A torso target is essentially a rack holding a target paper without a wooden or steel backing. Looking at Jimmy's target paper, the majority of the bullet impacts were near the left chest heart area, with a few at the top neck area of the paper.
"I'm taking his target paper with me; don't mention this to anyone," the previously speaking person said, removing Jimmy's target paper from the clips and folding it before leaving the range with it in hand.
Jimmy did not know that someone had taken notice of him; he had enjoyed his session thoroughly and felt refreshed. After returning to the dormitory, he first took a bath to cleanse the smell of gunpowder, then sat at the bedside table and picked up a box, revealing his honorary police badge inside.
Jimmy wiped the badge, then overturned the box, removing the red fabric-wrapped sponge padding inside to reveal the Gold Coin underneath. After checking that everything was in order, he repositioned the sponge padding, closed the box, and placed it back on the table.
This was the Gold Coin he had brought with him. As this was the FBI academy, even though they conducted safety inspections, they likely would not disturb his belongings, so he kept it stored this way, directly in his backpack. While it wasn't needed at the moment, it was good to be prepared.