Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-03 | Page 23 | Learning to Shoot

i iy y F Learning to Shoot l c i MoRE M JORE rORE than tOO bank officials of Los Los Los-An- geles es are being schooled in the use of pistols by Los Angeles Angele police Every Sunday morning the crack shots of the Los Angeles 55 police department take the bankers int into the the hills hills and give instruction in marksmanship S It is freely broadcast that the pur purpose ose of these drills is to make bank hank officials and em- em capable of warding off attacks of JF ba bank bandits S. S As soon as the bank officials are capable i of hitting the bullseye with fair frequency p I other of pf the bank tank including guards 5 will be given a i thorough schooling The idea ide is according to the statement of Los Angeles Angeles' S police authorities to make robbing banks a aless aless aless less desirable pastime in the southern California California Cali Call fornia city k Sergeant Ronald French of the Los Angeles An An- geles eles police for forte e has charge of the firearm firearm instruction He declares that the bank hank offiS officials S daIs prove anything but novices at the om-I om art artof artof artof of hitting the target and that a i surprisingly S few of the shots are so far off aff the target that they would not have been a 11 hit had hada S a human body happened to tobe be the target S The daring and nd boldness of highwaymen in the larger cities of the country as well as in the smaller villages where a few robbers robbers robbers rob rob- bers will take command of an entire town during the course of a robbery makes it essential that the old western knack of hitting hitting hitting hit hit- ting th the bullseye be developed amon among private privateS S citizens as well wen as police officers and in inthe the army