{"id":5960,"date":"2019-08-26T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T13:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5960"},"modified":"2019-08-23T15:04:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T19:04:25","slug":"a-famed-police-gunfighter-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/a-famed-police-gunfighter-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"A FAMED POLICE GUNFIGHTER PASSES"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was\nsaddened when I got the message from Bill Allard\u2019s son that his dad had passed\naway. I met Bill in the early 1970s, introduced by his friend and partner Jim\nCirillo, whom I had met at a PPC match in Rhode Island.  They worked on the famous NYPD Stakeout Unit.\nI was able to spend a few days with the unit, going on stakeout and\ninterviewing several members including then-acting commander Joe Volpato, for\nan article that appeared in Man\u2019s <\/em>magazine.  Jim and Bill became lifelong friends. We lost\nJim more than a decade ago in a tragic auto accident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allard led\nthe unit in the number of gunfights won and violent gunmen killed in the line\nof duty. He was a strong advocate of using the front sight and carefully aiming\neven when under fire, and did so in all but one of his shootings. He never\nfired a shot that missed his opponent, and never lost a gun battle.  \u201cI remember the seven ridges on the front\nsight of my 1911,\u201d he said, speaking of actual shootings.  The department had given him special\npermission to carry that .45 auto, his favorite sidearm through the end of his\nlife. He emphasizes that it was skill at arms that he developed off The Job on\nhis own time that accounted for his amazing hit ratio in actual combat. Bill\nwon national championships and was a strong advocate of competitive shooting\nexperience as an enhancement of gunfight survival capability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can read about his adventures in \u201cGuns, Bullets, and Gunfighting\u201d by Jim Cirillo and \u201cJim Cirillo and Tales of the Stakeout Squad\u201d by Paul Kirschner, both available on Amazon.\u00a0 You can also hear my interview with him on the ProArms Podcast<\/a>.\u00a0 Our discussion of his gunfight experience begins about 28 minutes in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like it or\nnot, the police are society\u2019s gunfighters. Even the people who want to ban your\npossession of \u201chigh capacity\u201d Glocks and AR15s say that if you\u2019re in trouble,\nyou should call the cops \u2013 who will likely arrive with Glocks and AR15s.  Men like Bill Allard and Jim Cirillo were\nexemplars of the guardians who face death to protect and serve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIP, brother\nBill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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