[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

Again what blithering idiot did not get the memo that professionals NEVER chamber a round until it is ready for business. Then again most of these so called 'trained' police officers were probably never in the military and are being trained by people that were never in the military.

You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.

just because a person is a police officer that does not mean they have the training or the sense that God gave a monkey.

[Eaker]

You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.

I always have a chambered round. I am always ready to use my weapon.

Are you going to school me to think differently?

[safisoft]

You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.

How about keeping the bullet in your pocket? Barney Fife would be proud of you. I have never read anything so stupid in all my life.

Weapons on aircraft today are there to defend the flight deck. The time needed is seconds. Literally. "Ready to use" means "all the time" when defending aircraft. You have no idea what occurred.

[AmericanDave]

“You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.”

Wrong!

You never put your finger on the trigger, until you are ready to use the weapon.

All federal officers, and I, when I was in the Air Force; carried with a round in the chamber or else a fully loaded revolver.

It takes TWO hands two chamber a round, a pilot may need one hand to fend off a close assault or box cutter.

[TexasGunLover]

You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.

Uh... That's a pretty bad suggestion... you never put your finger on the trigger until you're ready to use the weapon, but not having a round chambered shaves response time you won't have when it comes time to use the weapon.

I can't imagine carrying WITHOUT a round chambered, and always carry with a round chambered.

[El Gato]

Again what blithering idiot did not get the memo that professionals NEVER chamber a round until it is ready for business. Then again most of these so called 'trained' police officers were probably never in the military and are being trained by people that were never in the military.

The pilots, and most police, have to be ready for business, whenever they are "on duty". These pilots were. Thus a chambered round.

[USNBandit]

You never chamber a round until you are ready to use the weapon.You are correct for the wrong reason. When we go on duty we have to be ready to use our weapon(s). LEO's aren't going to the range, we are going to a gunfight. It may be today, tomorrow, next year or never, you just don't know.

My personal guess from talking to a couple FFDO's is that this guy was trying to put the pad lock in his poorly designed holster and got the hasp in front of the trigger instead of behind it. Just a bad selection of equipment combined with excessively stringent regulations.