# horses and gunfire

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-and-gunfire/177990>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 28, 2003, 11:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-and-gunfire/177990 "2003-05-28T11:57:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\
**Post date:** [May 31, 2003, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/horses-and-gunfire/177990/21 "2003-05-31T18:11:31Z")

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Ok, a followup. I spoke to my friend. What he said was that what he told me was “not _every_ horse can be trained to not startle and jump at gunfire.” And because of this, as well as other reasons, they (the police officers) are trained to always dismount from the horse before they shoot.

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