[Eaker]

The gun, a .380-caliber Browning automatic handgun was in his shoulder holster when it went off

I don't own a holster in which a gun can just "go off"!!! This is bull$hit.

Both Hartford police and state Capitol police could not determine why the gun went off

Try checking the trigger!!!!

and found no negligence on Warren's part

The antis want to take my gun away under the premise that I am safe because cops have them!!??!!

This is nothing but negligence!!!

[IYAS9YAS]

There was a thread a while back where a poster made the claim that all "accidental" discharges could be found in one way or another to be negligent discharges...I'd have to agree.

[FreedomPoster]

>>This is nothing but negligence!!!

Worth saying again.

It just pisses me off to see something like this described as an "accident". In fact, the term "accidental discharge", so common it is often appreviated "AD", just sets me off. Descibing a negligent discharge as an "accidental" discharge should be a felony misuse of the English language.

A few years ago, a local cop shot and injured another cop with a weapon in an evidence locker. I actually got the following letter printed in the paper in response to the poor reporting:

Firearms safety rules ignored

A news item described how a Gwinnett County police officer was wounded when a rifle discharged as he and another officer were processing it ("Confiscated rifle discharges, wounds officer," Law and Order, June 18). This certainly should have been reported as a "negligent discharge," not as an "accident."

The four basic rules of firearms safety are:

All guns are always loaded.

Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy.

Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target.

Be sure of your target.

The first two rules were certainly ignored. The third rule was also almost certainly ignored.

Firearms rarely fire on their own. The article states that "it discharged." This implies that the gun did this on its own. I would maintain that violation of the third rule is the more likely culprit.

[FreedomPoster]

[KneelBeforeZod]

Could it be that Browning makes the "potato gun" that "misfired" that frog into some kids face?

[harpseal]

In the state of Connecticut for a civilian any accidental discharge of a firearm will at minimum bring revocation of one's pistol permit. If the police labratory could not find a reason a browning .380 pistol discharged then I would suggest they have ruled out mechanical malfunction. Clearly they also must know from the recovered shell casing if the primer had been impacted from a firing pin. Now given all the above it is clearly the officer's fault and he should be facing the same charges that any civilian would face.