[ArrogantBustard]

IIRC, the athlete in question had the pistol stuck in his belt (no holster), it fell out (supposedly), and fired on impact with the ground (supposedly).

You can take the thug out of the ghetto, but you can't take the ghetto out of the thug.

Carry a quality pistol in a quality holster, and things like this become vanishingly unlikely.

[Geoffrey]

Some things bother me about this report.

1. How can he shoot ammo that was loaded in the gun? I realize he says the cases have gone thru the trial phases but what about appeals and destroying evidence? How does the firearm & ammo become the property of the police dept?

2. The author gives exacting percentage answers and then selectively adds phrases like “roughly” before one of three or four percentage numbers. Why aren’t the other numbers approximate too?

3. Guns are used by criminals to achieve their objective which is not always to win a gunfight...I suspect they are used to intimidate the weak, perhaps to gain status, etc, etc.

Overall, I rank it as a pretty silly article.