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FBI agent accidentally shoots bar patron when gun falls out of holster while dancing
ABC News ^ | 3 June 2018 | MARK OSBORNE

Posted on 06/03/2018 1:46:43 PM PDT by Magnatron

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To: DuncanWaring
How about not picking up a sidearm with your finger on the trigger. Just another drunk holdover from the decadent Clinton years.
141 posted on 06/03/2018 6:31:23 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

Correct sir.

I carry a CZ with a decocker. It is half-cocked. I keep my finger off the trigger.


142 posted on 06/03/2018 6:34:28 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

What a moron!


143 posted on 06/03/2018 6:35:09 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: Bonemaker

“How many minutes does it take to rack a Glock? Most people could do it in between the initial draw and getting on target with no time lost.”

Takes two hands, and if one is out of commission it may not be possible if not something to push against slide.

More than a few people are dead because they have drawn and pulled the trigger on an empty chamber.

Anyone, and ironically those that consider themselves too unsafe to carry with one in the chamber, are unsafe.


144 posted on 06/03/2018 6:38:27 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Magnatron

After seeing the video, all I can say is what a MORON this guy is! You NEVER, NEVER, EVER pick up a pistol off of a flat surface like this!(Finger on the trigger) The name of the game is CONTROL and you have NO CONTROL over that weapon until it is properly gripped in your hand!


145 posted on 06/03/2018 6:39:40 PM PDT by eastexsteve
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The way he walks away screams drunk to me. If he was sober he goes over to help his victim.


146 posted on 06/03/2018 6:52:16 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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To: eastexsteve

“You NEVER, NEVER, EVER pick up a pistol off of a flat surface like this!(Finger on the trigger) “

Luck for him he found out he was not proficient before he was faced down by a thug.


147 posted on 06/03/2018 7:09:47 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1)
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To: Magnatron

148 posted on 06/03/2018 7:27:48 PM PDT by BlackSeal
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To: Freedom_Is_Not_Free

1911 is designed for condition one.


149 posted on 06/03/2018 8:40:50 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Bonemaker

Exactly, right up to the point where it doesn’t feed, or you don’t pull back far enough because you’re in fight or flight mode, and it gets you killed.


150 posted on 06/03/2018 8:43:05 PM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Magnatron

What would Mae West have said about that?

151 posted on 06/03/2018 9:18:51 PM PDT by Songcraft
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To: backwoods-engineer

Smart policy...if not chambered it is, indeed, unloaded.
Safe to carry as long as the gun is not cocked.

Y’all be careful out there.


152 posted on 06/03/2018 10:02:00 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: The people have spoken

No safety on my Sig p239, gun has round chambered, gun is holstered, no back flips or drinking and no finger in the trigger area.


153 posted on 06/03/2018 10:13:45 PM PDT by Rj Snows (Some years back Sacramento area used to be the capital of tomatoes)
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To: Magnatron

Remember.

Only professionals like LEO and military should have guns so things like that won’t happen.

Oh.

Wait.

Never mind.


154 posted on 06/03/2018 10:29:22 PM PDT by Califreak (Take Me Back To Constantinople)
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To: School of Rational Thought
Got hubris much?



155 posted on 06/04/2018 5:40:21 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Bulwyf

“Exactly, right up to the point where it doesn’t feed, or you don’t pull back far enough because you’re in fight or flight mode, and it gets you killed.”

That cocky, drunken fool of an FBI agent felt the same way.


156 posted on 06/04/2018 5:44:48 AM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Seruzawa

DEA idiot shoots himself teaching gun safety!
https://youtu.be/vfONckOPyaI


157 posted on 06/04/2018 5:52:39 AM PDT by Fitzy_888 ("ownership society")
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To: Magnatron
"...keep your damn finger out of the hole when picking up your weapon."

I saw the video this morning and the gun went off as soon as he touched it, like it was cocked.

Pretty much for sure he didn't pull enough to fire a double action.

Maybe it 'cooked off' just as he picked it up.

In any case, dumbassery abounds. Who dances & does back flips with a gun in their waist-band (not even a holster)?

158 posted on 06/04/2018 6:39:25 AM PDT by HangThemHigh (Entropy is not what it used to be.)
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To: Magnatron
He picked the gun up and it went off

Really? All by itself? Bad gun! No donut!

159 posted on 06/04/2018 7:51:52 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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To: TexasGator
Clocks don’t have safeties.

Yeah, but I have to wind mine once a week.

160 posted on 06/04/2018 7:55:17 AM PDT by zeugma (Power without accountability is fertilizer for tyranny.)
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