Dismayed, CooperвЂ™s student aimed for the head, and while his shot was not exactly on target, it severed his adversaryвЂ™s spinal cord and ended the fight. According to Cooper, one of his students had run face-to-face into a terrorist armed with an AK-47-and two pistol shots to the wishbone area had failed to slow the rifle-wielding adversary down. The tactic is more closely associated with former Marine Jeff Cooper, considered the foremost expert on modern handgun techniques and tactics.Д¬ooper was also the source of the Failure to Stop Drill, also referred to as the вЂњMozambique DrillвЂќ because of the story of the tacticвЂ™s origins.

Some sources say it was originally conceived of by British policemen Eric Sykes and William Fairbairn as a method of ensuring that an assailant was incapacitated, but they seem to be mainly anecdotal.

With the introduction of its Combat Pistol Program in 2013, Marines hoping to qualify at the Marksman level or higher with their service pistols would have to become proficient at three specific techniques or tactics: Controlled Pairs, Failure to Stop, and Speed Reloading.ДЄlso called a вЂњdouble-tap,вЂќ a Controlled Pair is two shots fired in rapid succession from a handgun, with the shooter sighting the target before each shot.

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