[dayglored]

"This is my rifle, this is my gun...."

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.

[OldHarbor]

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.