Posted on 04/24/2018 7:17:01 AM PDT by simpson96
Edited on 04/24/2018 9:57:10 AM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
OCALA, Fla. (AP)
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“LET ME SHOW YOU SOMETHING!”
I'm mildly curious as to what model Ruger you have.
Was his name Barney Fife?
Put bullet in shirt pocket................
You just know this guy’s gonna be called ‘Barney’ forever, now................
Haha...since it’s mild...LC9. Hate it, too small
My DA/SA doesn't have a safety. most "classes" use fake guns. One on one trainings use the real thing. Not sure what this guy was trying to do.
Not sure what this guy was trying to do. .....................being a good example of a bad example..............
LC9 ... that’s a double-action only, right? Squeezing the trigger moves the hammer back and then releases it for every shot?
He failed to treat the gun as a loaded gun.
He failed to unload it prior to teaching “firearm safety.”
He failed to keep his finger off the trigger.
I’d bet big money that it was sheer luck that the gun was pointing in a safe direction when he committed his negligent discharge.
A classic!
My son and all my children have been taught the four rules of firearms since they were very small. A week or so ago he was training with his universities SWAT team on room and building clearing. While in the early part of the training a call came in and the lieutenant holstered up and answered the call and in about twenty minutes he returned and rejoined the training.
They were doing a three stack room clearing exercise with their blue dummy glocks. My son was number two in the stack. The first guy was a combat medic in Iraq and they were going down the hallway and he moved left and cleared that room and my son prepared to follow and clear the room on the right. All of a sudden the first guys starts yelling hot gun on the range!!! The lieutenant who had taken the call was creeping behind my son and the other guy with his duty weapon and worst still his finer inside the trigger guard! The officer conducting the class just shook his head and told him clear your weapon and go place it on the weapons table and sit down!
Last year on the range in live fire exercises same scenario and this same idiot on the back of the clearing team was given the order to engage a target he squeezed the trigger and click, nothing. He starts trying to cycle the slide and the guy in front of him turns around and he has his finger on the trigger and it pulled, cycling the slide and it pointed at him. The guy who had the sidearm pointed at him nearly took his head off.
This putz is a lieutenant clearly a danger to himself, his fellow officers and anyone else if he has his sidearm. I have told my son if you are around this idiot watch him like a hawk, he will end up shooting himself or you or an innocent bystander, he needs to be fired for these inexcusable events.
Rules One of Safe Firearms Handling: EVERY firearm is ALWAYS loaded ALL THE TIME (even if you “know: it’s not).
That’s beyond ridiculous. Like I said, novice. Even when I’m dry firing to practice, first thing I do is remove my mag, check the chamber, ensure it’s empty, then pick a safe spot to aim. Heck I’m just a noob at it and do better than some experts
I'm kinda surprised it was just a negligent discharge.
I saw those two special words and was expecting meth, nudity, running from police, something involving alligators, and crashing a pickup truck on the roof of a house.
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