Breaching is a topic about which I know a thing or two...
...the purpose of a chainsaw, with all tactical advantages and disadvantages considered, befuddles me.
Noisy, slow, gives your bad guy inside plenty of time to take aim at the door.
You expect boobytraps on the hinged or knob edges? That argues even more strongly for avoiding the door entirely.
Anyway...wrong apartment.
They note in the story that the true target was arrested in the end, from the proper apartment.
I suspect they did not do the chainsaw trick twice...I'd bet they just knocked, or just arrested him when he curiously stuck his head into the hall to see what f'n idiot was running a chainsaw...
Kerodin
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