{"id":11556,"date":"2026-11-12T11:37:55","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2026-11-12T11:37:59","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T16:37:59","slug":"dissecting-the-newhall-chp-gunfight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=11556","title":{"rendered":"Dissecting the Newhall CHP Gunfight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Image: California Highway Patrol<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For the past four years, I have been proudly authoring articles for The Armory Life<\/a>, an online community sponsored by the Springfield Armory. Much of what I have been writing would be of interest to ThinBlueFlorida readers. You can view my contributions HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In researching my latest Armory Life article, I was moved by how tragedy can transform to teaching with the proper analysis. The April 1970 confrontation between two heavily armed criminals and officers from the California Highway Patrol significantly changed law enforcement\u2019s approach to both training and equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In 1970, revolvers and shotguns were the firearms that cops carried. While they can get the job done, serious deficiencies in how these weapons were employed in the field accounted against the officers. Go on over to The Armory Life to read my take on the Newhall Shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks for sticking with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Randall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For the past four years, I have been proudly authoring articles for The Armory Life, an online community sponsored by the Springfield Armory. Much of what I have been writing would be of interest to ThinBlueFlorida readers. You can view my contributions HERE. In researching my latest Armory Life article, I was moved by how tragedy can transform to teaching with the proper analysis. The April 1970 confrontation between two heavily armed criminals and officers from the California Highway Patrol significantly changed law enforcement\u2019s approach to both training and equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,33,72,4,10,227],"tags":[834,828,93],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firearms","category-off-duty","category-officer-down","category-officer-safety","category-street","category-tactics","tag-officer-down","tag-officer-safety","tag-smith-wesson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t