Anything less would be uncivilized!
Posted on 02/08/2006 9:23:25 PM PST by DuckFan4ever
A Portland Police officer who was injured while firing a handgun has filed a multi-million-dollar lawsuit against the manufacturers of the gun and the ammunition.
Officer Florin B. Pirv was taking a qualification test in March 2004 with a .45 caliber Glock 21 when the “breech/cartridge feed ramp fractured, causing backward propulsion of hot gases, hot air, and shrapnel to be blown into Pirv’s face, body, and hands,” according to the suit.
The lawsuit names Glock and two ammunition-makers, Federal Cartridge Company and Alliant Technosystems, also known as ATK. Glock is based in Georgia. The ammunition-makers are based in Minnesota.
None returned phone calls and emails seeking comment.
Pirv was one of two Portland officers injured while firing .45-caliber Glocks in March 2004, prompting Portland Police Chief Derrick Foxworth to order the recall of the weapons carried by 230 officers.
The bureau replaced them with 9mm Glocks.
Pirv’s suit seeks $50,000 in compensatory damages, $3 million for pain and suffering and $50 million in punitive damages.
Pirv is assigned to a patrol shift, according to a Portland Police spokeswoman.
Great fix! Replace a powerful, effective plastic gun with a lower power, ineffective plastic gun. DUH!
The guy wants $50M in puni's?? What a whack job! He must hate being a cop so much that he is trying to hit the lottery here and get off the force.
Glocks can have kB! problems, but if this is the incident I recall, the Portland PD was using +P ammo, which (surprise!) the Glock manual warns against.
RTFM, ya dumbs***s.
According to the anti gunners, The Lawful Commerce in Arms Act just passed would not allow any lawsuits against gun companies.
Thus proving yet again the anti gunners are total liars.
Interesting.
Confirms my first suspicion that the ammo was bad or the wrong type as you say.
Why is he suing two cartridge companies? Does he not know what ammo was in the gun?
My understanding was that that act barred strict liability claims. I assume that this is a case for manufacturer's negligence.
I find it very hard to accept "bad" ammo. Wrong type, very easy to believe. Defective gun-? I, myself, don't trust plastic guns.
Maybe Federal assembles all the bits and boxes it, but ATK makes the projectiles and powder? Or a different combination of the above.
Defective ammo would be a better way to put it.
PING!
Ms.B
Anything less would be uncivilized!
Could be. I guess the bottom line is that the lawyers will go after any company that isn't bankrupt yet. They have liability insurance and assets to go after.
Pirv. With a name like that how did he make it through high school with half his sanity intact. Every time the roll is called the class would be giggling
Anyhow. How badly did he get hurt -- only cosmetic damage, or loss of function? They say he's still on the force, patrolling... maybe the sight of that guy's face is enough to drop a crook? ...
It is not a normally publicly known fact about which powder is in factory ammo, but there is a powder manufacturer named Alliant, I believe.
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