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Reid said the handgun had a mechanical malfunction with the ejector slide.
Sheriff David Huffman said Parker turned the handgun over to authorities and asked that it be destroyed by the State Bureau of Investigation.
“I was on vacation when it happened, but I think that Parker was so shaken by the incident that he just wanted to get it out of his sight altogether,” he said.
When someone asks to have a gun destroyed, the SBI checks the serial number to verify the history of the gun before destroying it.

There's something fishy here. Most people have broken firearms fixed, not destroyed. I wonder what that trace turns up. (And if that info will be made public!)

Reid said the handgun had a mechanical malfunction with the ejector slide.

Broken ejector slides do not cause a gun to "accidentally" fire. The only thing that causes a gun to fire is a person with his or her finger on the trigger.

Perhaps the DA obtained his pea-shooter from a "fellow LEO" who had a sterile drop gun that he could spare for a friend.

But the truth may never be know, given that the DA openly asked the sheriff to destroy the evidence.....