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To: RDTF

Dollars to donuts the pilot was playing with it. Weapons don’t “accidently” discharge without someone pulling a trigger. In all my years of being around weapons I have never had one discharge without some input from me.


20 posted on 03/23/2008 6:25:06 PM PDT by infantrywhooah
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To: infantrywhooah

Unless it ws a Glock shoved into a flight bag without being in a holster. The “safety” is on the trigger and it can go off without being handled. Something presses on the trigger and *BANG*.


27 posted on 03/23/2008 6:28:02 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Ask me again tomorrow.)
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To: infantrywhooah

ditto.


41 posted on 03/23/2008 6:37:56 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: infantrywhooah
Maybe it was uncomfortable and he was moving it and reholstering it.
86 posted on 03/23/2008 7:03:13 PM PDT by Fido969 ("The hardest thing in the world to understand is income tax." - Albert Einstein)
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To: infantrywhooah
Dollars to donuts the pilot was playing with it. Weapons don’t “accidently” discharge without someone pulling a trigger. In all my years of being around weapons I have never had one discharge without some input from me.

Can't go into it, but suffice it to say, there is actually an extremely good reason for this. I am not sure what happened, but the possibility of AD is a part of the classified process, without anyone "pulling the trigger."

For the record, this group of LEOs have the lowest number ADs of any Federal Law Enforcement group - in fact, it isn't even close.
108 posted on 03/23/2008 7:17:23 PM PDT by safisoft
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To: infantrywhooah

You haven’t heard the TSA’s insane locking/unlocking procedures, of which I can’t tell you about.

I can say, it would be seen as stupid by any firearms instructor. And this pilot was likely just following that procedure.

You can do a google search for FFDO holster on the webb.


201 posted on 03/24/2008 7:49:49 AM PDT by AmericanDave ( Terrorism.... it's a growth industry....)
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To: infantrywhooah

>>Dollars to donuts the pilot was playing with it.<<

Bingo.


202 posted on 03/24/2008 7:50:05 AM PDT by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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