I too can attest to this. I have several officer who's new gun goes straight from box to where ever they carry it.
They do have to do a minimal qualification that's far too easy and only about a a dozen rounds to be officially blessed. But many carry them prior to the official ok.
Totally foreign to me. Can't imagine carrying a gun that I don't even know if it works.
Again, most officers are not gun guys. It's a just a tool they are required to wear like a carpenters hammer.
In Memory of Paul "Dietrich" Stines.
Dad: Say something nice to your cousin Shirley
Dietrich: For a fat girl you sure don't sweat much.
Cue sound of Head slap.
RIP Muggsy & TMan
"If you are a warrior legally authorized to carry a weapon and you step outside without that weapon, then you become a sheep, pretending that JOCKO will not come today."