“unintentional” discharge
Negligent discharge.
I’ve wondered for years why PDs everywhere are so casual with gun safety i.e. not using a clearing barrel to clear their weapons, stowing weapons in desk drawers and clothing lockers. And using a personal rifle on duty? What’s up with that?
I can't help it. Somehow, “manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle, when a Non-Tactical Unintentional Discharge occurred" just sounds dirty.
Like he was playing with himself and came to an unintentional conclusion.
Jane Spencer: “I’ve heard police work is dangerous.”
Frank Drebin: “It is. That’s why I carry a big gun.”
Jane Spencer: “Aren’t you afraid it might go off accidentally?”
Frank Dreblin: “I used to have that problem.”
Jane Spencer: “What did you do about it?”
Frank Drebin: “I just think about baseball.”
Regards,
after a Los Angeles police officer’s personal rifle accidentally fired a round in a parking garage earlier this week
Interesting...
““manipulating his personally owned patrol rifle, when a Non-Tactical Unintentional Discharge occurred,”
As opposed to a Tactical-Unintentional Discharge.
The rifle “just fired” when he was manipulating it? Thanks, media, for the unbiased presentation of cause and effect.
Idiot!
...officer’s personal rifle accidentally fired a round in a parking garage earlier this week.
None of my rifles, shotguns or handguns have ever fired a single round by themselves accidentally or otherwise.
Dumb ass headline and lead in.
No the rifle did not fire a round. His booger finger on the bang switch fired a round.
Unintentional is a big long word.
Ignernt is easier to say.
What? Did his patrol cruiser back up and drive off by itself, too? !
A new twist on the “desk pop”
It was a ricochet training lesson boss.
“Only highly trained polices should be allowed to have firearms”
/lib speak off
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.