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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: ltc8k6
WTF kind of modern, police approved holster has an exposed triggerguard? I wouldn't be suprised if it came out that the officer was wearing a non approved holster.

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52 posted on 09/02/2013 5:59:47 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (tease not the dragon for thou art crunchy when roasted and taste good with ketchup)
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