The Harbinger of Change by Timothy Jon Reynolds

Author:Timothy Jon Reynolds [Reynolds, Timothy Jon]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: American Pride Press
Published: 2014-11-28T05:00:00+00:00

7—Blindside

His hands were doing it again, and Matt hated it. Every time he arrested someone, his adrenaline shot up, and his hands would shake. Once he had busted a seventy-year old woman stealing a scarf, and his hands were shaking during the arrest, most notably during the writing of the incident report. Funny as it was, he knew that if he was going to really be a cop one day, then he might have to take a hard shot. If his hands were shaking, then he wasn’t going to be able to hit the target—or worse, he’d hit something else.

It was right about that time that he had met Russell Peltz. Peltz was a hard-looking man, a man who had written the book on old school. Russell had taught firearms at the local Community College, but he was no college teacher. He was a Sergeant for the Sunnyvale Police Department. He was also the SWAT team leader, and he just flat-out loved guns. So much, in fact, that he had sacrificed most of his hearing with bad decisions he had made in his youth. Peltz was pepper-haired and sixtyish, and kept his hair cut tight at all times. Matt believed Peltz could have taken anyone in the room out to the woodshed for a good beating and never broken a sweat.

The fact that Peltz had been sixty and still a Sergeant was all one had to know about his people skills. But if one loved and respected firearms, and wasn’t annoying or a criminal, then Russell Peltz could be one’s best friend. Matt remembered looking through the class schedule, and when he saw firearms listed he had thought, Wow, that’s a funny class for school.

Then he had noticed the prerequisite of an active twelve units of Administration of Justice to take the class. Matt had met the requirement, so he had taken the course.

The first day, Peltz had started by saying, “You’ve all had your backgrounds thoroughly checked to be in this class. Now I’m hoping a lot of you are fairly inexperienced, so everything you know or thought you knew about guns, is going right out the window with little resistance. I will reshape you. If you happen to be an expert already, and you came here to show off, then leave now. I have no time for novelty acts, and this class is for people who want to learn.

“If you came here to safely learn everything that I know about firearms, and you promise to listen to instructions at all times, then I’m your man. Consequently, I have no leniency toward mistakes on the firing line, as there is no margin for error. I have one main rule: never bring ammo into or load a weapon in this class or outside of the firing range. Does everyone understand this?”

Everyone responded, “Yes.” The class had been a mixture of all races and sexes, including the obligatory fat, lonely, talkative guy, who had ended up working for the ATF of all things.

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