0
Newguest Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Protection detail/optic and muzzle signatures
Hi
Police officers come to the murder scene and look around. A certain guy sitting in a car was shot.
"One of the police officers looked off into the distance, tracing in his mind the trajectory of the lethal round. None of the protection detail had seen any sign of a shooter, so he had to cast the potential flight path out farther where the optic and muzzle signatures would be nearly invisible to the naked eye.
Thousand yards? Fifteen hundred? To a target inside a vehicle revealed only through a barely two-by-two-foot opening in the dark and drizzle. And planted the bullet right in the brain."
Does "protection detail" mean evidence here? So the cops didn't collect any evidence which would testify that the shooter was around and so the officer thought the he must have shot from the distance where neither a muzzle nor a long range scope (optic) were visible to the naked eye.
How do you understand it?
Police officers come to the murder scene and look around. A certain guy sitting in a car was shot.
"One of the police officers looked off into the distance, tracing in his mind the trajectory of the lethal round. None of the protection detail had seen any sign of a shooter, so he had to cast the potential flight path out farther where the optic and muzzle signatures would be nearly invisible to the naked eye.
Thousand yards? Fifteen hundred? To a target inside a vehicle revealed only through a barely two-by-two-foot opening in the dark and drizzle. And planted the bullet right in the brain."
Does "protection detail" mean evidence here? So the cops didn't collect any evidence which would testify that the shooter was around and so the officer thought the he must have shot from the distance where neither a muzzle nor a long range scope (optic) were visible to the naked eye.
How do you understand it?
Top answer
Protection detail = bodyguards Right, they weren't able to see a muzzle flash, so they assume that it was a very long-range shot.
- Protection detail = bodyguards Right, they weren't able to see a muzzle flash, so they assume that it was a very long-range shot.
Get the Weekly English Kit 📬
New words, one handy idiom, and a 2-minute quiz — delivered to your inbox to keep your streak alive.
5 Answers
0
Protection detail = bodyguards
Right, they weren't able to see a muzzle flash, so they assume that it was a very long-range shot.
Right, they weren't able to see a muzzle flash, so they assume that it was a very long-range shot.
00
0
It just seems to me that "optic" maybe refers to the long-range scope, but I'm not sure?
So maybe the shooter was so far away that they weren't able to notice the flash from the muzzle and his long-range scope, but I don't know whether it makes sense
So maybe the shooter was so far away that they weren't able to notice the flash from the muzzle and his long-range scope, but I don't know whether it makes sense
00
My only guess is that "optic signature" is the flash from the barrel and "muzzle signature" would be the report (the bang).
00
Related Questions