Posted on 05/13/2025 10:16:04 PM PDT by BenLurkin
An investigation is underway after a Los Angeles police officer’s personal rifle accidentally fired a round in a parking garage earlier this week, officials announced.
The May 9 incident occurred in the lower-level parking structure of the Compton Courthouse, located at 200 West Compton Boulevard, according to an LAPD news release.
The officer, who has not been identified, was reportedly standing outside his patrol vehicle and was “manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle, when a Non-Tactical Unintentional Discharge occurred,” police said.
Surrounded by concrete, the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling and struck the roof of the officer’s unoccupied patrol vehicle.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...
The way the Media portrayed this “event” sounds like the way premature ejaculation would be portrayed.
What? Did his patrol cruiser back up and drive off by itself, too? !
It could if it was an SUV.
EC
manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle
The drill instructor had a term for that, “finger f xxxxxx” it , which appears to have been the case here.
A new twist on the “desk pop”
Can’t wait for the new Naked Gun movie.
It was a ricochet training lesson boss.
Yeh, that.
“Only highly trained polices should be allowed to have firearms”
/lib speak off
None of my rifles, shotguns or handguns have ever fired a single round by themselves accidentally or otherwise.
= = =
Better check the inside of your gun safe.
Mine is full of dents. More every morning.
Interesting. So does that jurisdiction then take on legal liability for a weapon that may malfunction or do they have armorers that certify safe functionality? Seems like a jurisdiction would want to limit their legal exposure.
In this construction, "fires" is a transitive verb and the rifle is the "doer." So what this moron has written is that the rifle fired itself.
Presuming his "patrol rifle" is an EBR, the AR is NOT a Remington 700 and I have never heard of a single occurrence of the selector switch failing to "safe" the weapon when "Safe" was selected.
Which sort of narrows the possibile causes.
interesting fact that no one commented on is the cop was in the parking garage of the Compton courthouse.
This never happened with Reed and Malloy
Well maybe one time....
Taking It Easy
Episode aired Jan 29, 1974 S6.E17
Reed’s sprained wrist puts him on office duty while Malloy breaks in a rookie partner. A bomb threat and Brinkman firing a shotgun at the station adds to the excitement.
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