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Officer's gun accidentally fires, injuring 3 at Reno Livestock Events Center concert
Fox 11 Reno ^ | June 20, 2024 | News 4 & Fox 11 Digital Staff

Posted on 06/21/2024 2:26:19 PM PDT by Reno89519

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To: al baby
"It was a boeing 9mm"

You win the "Response for the Day" award.

21 posted on 06/21/2024 3:35:08 PM PDT by fini
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To: Retrofitted

Striker-fired pistols don’t have manual safeties.


22 posted on 06/21/2024 3:37:14 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Retrofitted; Cobra64
A concealed carry holster typically has friction retention only. For open carry, they will have level 1 through level 3 retention, loosely meaning 1, 2, or 3 distinct hand motions to release the firearm from the holster.

Almost all of my holsters are friction retention only. Only exceptions are an ankle holster, a revolver holster with a traditional leather strap, and my level-3 duty holster.

Self-defense firearms very rarely have safeties. As an example, I typically conceal carry a Sig Sauer P365 with 12 rounds in the magazine and one in the chamber. That is normal. It is a striker-fired gun, so no exposed hammer. (Old 1911-style hammer-fired guns have one or more safeties because of the design.)

I would never have a self-defense firearm with a safety as releasing it could be a life and death delay.

23 posted on 06/21/2024 3:38:51 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: Reno89519

By your logic, I guess all the 1911 folks are risking suicide. I carry and train with a hot cocked and locked 1911.


24 posted on 06/21/2024 3:45:18 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: Reno89519

Somebody take away Deputy Fife’s bullet


25 posted on 06/21/2024 3:47:43 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: al baby

LOL !


26 posted on 06/21/2024 3:51:38 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reno89519
Let me guess...
27 posted on 06/21/2024 3:54:35 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: Cobra64
I've owned several, latest was a Bul Armory 1911 Government. Beautiful gun, very high quality, fun to shoot.

I know many people that carry 1911s and, like you, swear by them.

28 posted on 06/21/2024 4:02:12 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: Reno89519

Yup, its a negligent discharge. Officers are responsible for their weapon.


29 posted on 06/21/2024 4:12:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: al baby

A Pinto 9mm would have exploded


30 posted on 06/21/2024 4:13:02 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Only if rear-ended by an AUDI in 357 SIG.


31 posted on 06/21/2024 4:37:31 PM PDT by normbal (normbal. somewhere in socialist occupied America ‘tween MD and TN)
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To: TexasGator
Striker-fired pistols don’t have manual safeties.

????

Even Hi-Point pistols have manual safeties.



32 posted on 06/21/2024 4:45:41 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Reno89519
Self-defense firearms very rarely have safeties.

Very rarely?

Other than Glock, most manufacturers offer them. For example, the M&P Shield:



33 posted on 06/21/2024 4:52:26 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Reno89519
Ruger SR9 Compact:



34 posted on 06/21/2024 4:56:15 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: T.B. Yoits

True, you can buy a firearm with a built-in safety but that is the exception for self-defense and not normal with most carriers. I’ve never carried a firearm with a safety and my only friends that I know with safeties is because they were 1911-style guns.


35 posted on 06/21/2024 4:57:41 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Trump Please Build the Wall, And Deport Them All. No amnesty for anyone. End H1B!)
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To: T.B. Yoits

There is a real reason police departments don’t use those.


36 posted on 06/21/2024 4:59:28 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: al baby; Chode; Carriage Hill

LOL !!! You have just been promoted to Range Safety Officer.🤠👮‍♀️


37 posted on 06/21/2024 5:00:58 PM PDT by mabarker1 ( (Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress!!!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“A Pinto 9mm would have exploded”

I see you get your info from leftists’ rags.


38 posted on 06/21/2024 5:02:16 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: Retrofitted
(I have my pistol and my shotgun and that's that):

But you lost them in a boat accident just a moment after you typed this.   TWHE and LLSS

39 posted on 06/21/2024 5:04:14 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken! )
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To: Reno89519

Self-defense firearms very rarely have safeties. As an example, I typically conceal >>>> funny statement. All of my firearms can be used for self defense. Including my 20 gauge bird gun. I have personal carry, concealed mostly, that have safeties. I like my 32 beretta that i carry cocked and locked. the hammer firearms i own all have a safety and de-cocker except the .32. Of the striker fired self defense firearms i own, the sw99 has a decocker. which makes the cocked firearm into a double action trigger. no safety. My Styer M40 which has a trigger safety like a glock also has a safety above the finger guard which pulls down for safe. the release is a push up to the frame releasing the safety. Although very much like a Glock. i prefer the extra safety. And the trigger is much nicer in my opinion.


40 posted on 06/21/2024 5:04:20 PM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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