Cluster F*** Sir
Two major errors. The cop and the shop.
A shooting acquaintance and safety officer for a cowboy action club I belonged to, working part time at a gun shop.....he showed a customer his own gun after racking the slide back and removing the mag. The customer looked then handed it back. The clerk re-inserted the mag and let the slide go forward. After that it gets sketchy as to what happened . He was using the counter as a safety blockade and somehow the round in the chamber fires. And of course the wood and glass counter was not bulletproof and the round winds up in the potential customers leg.
No such thing as being too safe. This accident put the store out of business... Back to the original thread..as wrong as the cop was, the store should not have handed him a loaded weapon. I assume in a fair world any monies given to the cop will be half of what he would have gotten if he had checked the gun himself first and still got shot somehow