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1 posted on 09/02/2013 5:05:15 PM PDT by walkerk
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To: walkerk

Glock.


2 posted on 09/02/2013 5:09:05 PM PDT by elkfersupper
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To: walkerk

seriously, swat holsters have trigger guards, probably serpa or fobus or kydex that you can’t fire them in the holster. there’s more to this than what’s reported.


3 posted on 09/02/2013 5:09:12 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: walkerk
A few years ago, it came out that Connecticut administered an IQ test to people who wanted to be police officers. If you scored too high, they wouldn't take you. True story.

I don't know about California, but maybe they don't have to worry about smart people applying.

4 posted on 09/02/2013 5:09:21 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: walkerk

Somesing doesn’t sound wight.


5 posted on 09/02/2013 5:09:40 PM PDT by Venturer ( cowardice posturing as tolerance =political correctness)
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To: walkerk

Typical. Our modern thug army is a running demonstration of the hazards of mixing guns and mental retardation.


9 posted on 09/02/2013 5:13:44 PM PDT by jonascord (Hurrah for the Bonny Blue Flag that bears a Single Star!)
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To: walkerk
the gun that went off was secured in a holster at the time

yeah, right...

that word, secured, i don't think it means what you think it means

10 posted on 09/02/2013 5:14:02 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: walkerk
When you can't retain your weapon and keep a 6 year old from discharging it.... It's time for a new job.

/johnny

14 posted on 09/02/2013 5:19:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: walkerk; Chode
during a community meeting

obviously a high danger situation where an unsecured loaded weapon is a must

15 posted on 09/02/2013 5:19:53 PM PDT by bigheadfred (INFIDEL)
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To: walkerk

They should count themselves lucky the kid didn’t get his finger on the MP5.


17 posted on 09/02/2013 5:23:54 PM PDT by KirbDog
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To: walkerk

Only the police and military can be trusted with guns.


20 posted on 09/02/2013 5:26:03 PM PDT by Standing Wolf (No tyrant should ever be allowed to die of natural causes.)
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To: walkerk

Oh, Lord! Stuck in a Lodi again.


23 posted on 09/02/2013 5:28:28 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: walkerk
a young boy walked up behind an officer and discharged his handgun

Clearly the LEO was using a NON-standard holster.

A holster with the trigger guard un-covered.


26 posted on 09/02/2013 5:37:17 PM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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——The incident occurred on Aug. 24, but was disclosed by police in a news release on Sunday. Lodi is located about 40 miles south of Sacramento. According to police, a SWAT team member was displaying tactical equipment to children at the meeting-——

Gee...what in the world would the purpose of displaying tactical weapons to six to eight year old children.....?


27 posted on 09/02/2013 5:40:07 PM PDT by Popman
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To: walkerk

A little situational awareness goes a long way. Seriously, the officer should have to go through some additional gun safety training at a minimum.


32 posted on 09/02/2013 5:42:34 PM PDT by 3Fingas (Sons and Daughters for Freedom and Restoration of the Republic)
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To: walkerk

Here’s a classic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeGD7r6s-zU


40 posted on 09/02/2013 5:50:15 PM PDT by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: walkerk

Why would your Glock be ready to go during such an event?

http://www.lodinews.com/news/article_de9f9313-fdcc-50d8-8232-4bf7d6901b26.html

During the Little Buckaroos Reading Round-up event, Officer Robert Rench was helping a boy try on pieces of SWAT team gear, when another young boy approached unnoticed. The boy, who witnesses told police was about 6 years old, reached his finger toward the gun and pulled the trigger, Piombo said.

Besides Rench, no one was injured. But a woman left with the child who fired the gun, and so far police have been unable to identify him.

The Glock handguns that SWAT members carry aren’t equipped with a safety, Piombo said.

“There is nothing we could have done differently,” he said. “It was just an accident. It boggles the mind why a child would do that.”


44 posted on 09/02/2013 5:53:35 PM PDT by ltc8k6
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To: walkerk

If we follow the “logic” of liberals, this means that it is now time to enact common-sense gun control on police guns.


58 posted on 09/02/2013 6:30:07 PM PDT by NewJerseyJoe (Rat mantra: "Facts are meaningless! You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!")
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To: walkerk

Who would buy a gun that had no safety?


65 posted on 09/03/2013 8:22:13 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Gun Control is the Key to totalitarianism and genocide.)
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To: walkerk

Supposedly the cop had a light on the front of the glock and that caused the gun not to be fully seated in the holster. Enough of the trigger was exposed to let the kid pull it. You have to wonder about a 6 YO kid who 1) would notice the trigger was exposed and 2) would pull it while it was attached to a cop.


66 posted on 09/03/2013 10:07:08 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Obama being re-elected is the political equivalent of OJ being found not guilty.)
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