After a bit, I looked out our front window and saw that one of the three doors of the garage was open. That part of the garage was empty, so I also could see the door that leads from the garage into the house.

Then a police car pulled up, and an officer got out, walked up to the house, and began to check around the outside. Soon after that, another police car pulled up, and another officer got out and approached the house.

Both officers approached the opened garage door. The first officer drew his gun and held it stiff armed (isosceles like position), with arms and gun pointed down. His backup did the same. They then entered the garage one at a time.

The first officer moved towards the door that leads into the house from the garage. To reach that door, he had to go up four steps.

I knew that the door leads into a small laundry room which has a sink, and a washer and dryer on one side. So the laundry room is more like a hallway than a room. After the sink and appliances, there is another door which leads into the house.

Also, the door that leads into the laundry room swings in and is spring loaded, so you have to push on it to enter. And the door leading from the laundry room into the house also swings into the laundry room. So to enter the house from the laundry room, that door has to be pulled towards you.

To continue with the house check, the lead officer had to reach up (and awkwardly because of the isosceles like position), with one hand to turn the door knob and push the door inward. I could not see him open the second door, but to do that, he would have to again raise one hand up and then pull that door towards him with the gun in a one handed lowered isosceles like position.

The point of all of this, is that even though armed, the officer was very vulnerable to attack. Holding the gun in a lowered isosceles position made it awkward to move into the garage (we don't usually move around with our arms extended out in front of us or with our arms extended downward in front of us). And he was even more vunerable when he pushed open the door into the laundry room.

And then once in the hallway like area of the laundry room, it would be difficult to bring the gun up easily as the space is not that wide or long. So when pulling the door towards him to enter the house, he would in reality, be disarmed.

Further, because of the house configuration on the other side of the entryway, with the gun extended out in front, the gun and/or his arms could be grabbed or struck, as there is space on either side of the entrance where someone could stand and wait without being observed.

In such a situation as described above, if the gun was held up in the C.A.R. "high position" or even "my" wrist-lock-grip position, the gun would be up where we normally carry things. And it would be relatively easy to move around with the gun held there. The gun also would be close to the body and in a firm retentive position. And one could shoot from that position if needed, by just pulling the trigger.

It isn my opinion that the officers acted appropriately and as they were trained to do.

But, that training (the use of the isosceles) was impractical for use in real time, and made the lead officer very vulnerable.

If there was a real bad guy ready and waiting for them and poised to attack, it could have resulted in one or both of them being attacked, or shot and/or killed as they entered the house.

One does not have to be an expert or professional to arrive at that conclusion.

In an open (range) situation, the isosceles is OK, but in real time close quarters house check type situations, where doors swing in and out, and steps go up and down, or in a move and shoot dynamic situation, it is not OK in my opinion.