gunner194943 If you have to go to court the lying scum sucking pig of a DA is going to say bad things about you anyway, if he/she does not have any factual things to say they will make some up and that is where the idea of "knowing where every round you fire is going, or you are accountable for every round you fire". The truth of the matter is that when cops shoot someone do they drive around for miles to determine that they can account for every bullet to match every case they find on the ground, of course not!
I agree with Kevin that when it is time to shoot someone, it is time to shoot not try to talk to the guy or pop off rounds someplace, you may need that ammo to shoot the guy some more! If you talk to most people who have been in a shooting and ask them how many rounds they fired they will tell you only a couple, unless that person is highly trained, trained much more that any cop who is forced to fire to protect themselves.
Good advise, but for the wrong reason, in court morons are going to ask you all types of dumb $hyt and most of it will not matter.
Cops have a 13% hit rate in cop shootings, are we really paying these guys to find every bullet which has been fired or do they only find the obvious ones, like the ones that hit the old lady while crossing the street 2 blocks down. Only a nut case would fire rounds in a self defense event to purposely miss the bad guy, every round is aimed at the target but if the hit rate for trained cops is 13% why on earth would a citizen be able to do much better?