...and even if his finger had fully recovered, he should STILL have been forced out of the police department for being an unsafe-gun-handling-dumbass.
Uh.. Roosevelt left out #4.
No matter what else ... the store should not be handing loaded guns to customers. That’s going to go bad for the store!
Even though the guy was foolish in his actions, I’d have to side with him because the gun should not have been loaded when taken from the display case in the store. He wasn’t expecting it to be loaded straight from the display case.......Yes, I know you should treat all guns as if they are loaded..................
He belongs in PRISON
reckless endangerment involving the use of a firearm
Attempted Suicide(he shot himself)
Aggravated Assault on a Police Officer
Assault with a Deadly Weapon upon a Police Officer
ALL FELONIES
and just plain being STUPID
20-30 years should do the trick.
If a gun store employee or anyone else hands me a gun, EVEN IF THEY DO A SAFETY CHECK, I always do a sfety check , also.
It’s just the way it should be done.
Never take a gun in trade without opening the action and confirming it is unloaded. Never put such an unchecked gun in a display cabinet for sale to the public. Never handle a gun or allow a gun to be handled until its been confirmed that it is unloaded.
Never shoot yourself in the hand. This last one doesn’t seem necessary to state but,to me, neither do the previous ones.
Thank goodness it wasn’t a Glock!
I wouldn’t expect that a clerk in a gun store would hand me a loaded gun, but I’d check anyway. It’s just a habit of mine.
Unloaded guns are just as dangerous as loaded ones.
Of course that’s a 1970’s meme I learned from my parents. But it echoes in my head anytime a gun is present so it serves its purpose.
F”ng Idiot!
A .380 ?
I agree with what was a loaded gun doing in the display case. Was it a trade-in? In which case the store should have taken the weapon down to check for wear and functionality and cleaned. Someone at the store dropped the ball on this weapon.
On the other hand the LEO should at the very least checked the chamber with the weapon pointed in a safe direction. However my experience with LEO’s at the range is when they show up I leave. Most unsafe group I have ever been around
Some life lessons have to be learned the hard way it seems. No sympathy for either party. Gun safety is your responsibility.
Most have almost always left the weapon on the counter for me to pick up, rather than handing it to me, except in situations where it was very crowded, and laying a rifle down would have put it in front of two other customers examining their own personal potential purchases. Even the Walmart guys do it right.
You’ll put your eye out, kid.
Complacency complacency.
When you pick up a gun you accept personal responsibility for its safe handling. You, and nobody else. Sure, the gun shouldn’t have been loaded when it was given to him, but it’s in his hand. How, at that point, he managed to shoot his finger off is also no one’s responsibility but his own. All IMHO, of course.
It’s called personal responsibility. Had he checked the weapon as he should, he doesn’t shoot his own finger off.Simple as that. The judge should fine him for being a public menace.
Stupid should hurt. They got off light.
Think this is beyond even "special" stupid.