Posted on 02/06/2002 11:44:28 AM PST by inflorida
Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - yorktown
Send it back to Kel-tec, they'll fix it. Or you can try to fluff and buff it some yourself. Also, it's kind of sensitive to the brand of ammo I hear, I shoot Fiocchi in mine and have never had a single problem. It seems it's luck of the draw with Kel-tecs. Check out http://www.ktog.org/ if you haven't already.
As far as Glocks are concerned, I carry one everywhere I go (well, almost everywhere). There is no other gun I'd trust my life to. If you've ever been in a high stress situation (like a gunfight) you'd know that it's easy to forget to do simple things like disengaging safeties, racking the slide, etc. Most gunfights begin and are over in 3 seconds. Safeties, racking, etc. could be the difference between life and death.
On the other hand, I'd have to admit that it's probably more likely that a negligent person would have a negligent discharge with a Glock. But you also have to remember, that it may seem like that are more ND w/ Glocks, but that Glocks own something like 40% of the hand gun market, so all things being equal there will be more incidents w/ Glocks than any other brand.
A year or so ago, I took the standard NRA "personal protection" class (after having taken LFI-1 and LFI-2) as I wanted to get a refresher on the specific scene regarding Pennsylvania laws and what I might expect in my home area (Ayoob's courses do not go into the specifics of local laws in each little area)
The instructor was a cop and NRA certified. At one point, he unloaded his sidearm in view of the class, and then to illustrate a point in his discussion I saw him handling the gun so it swept the entire class. I cringed in my seat and afterwards spoke to him about it, but he didn't see himself as having done anything dangerous.
You are out of step with the Fabian conventional wisdom. Turn in your national I.D. card. No soup for you!
(Boy, was it LOUD!)
It happened to me once when I was about 16, a viet nam vet who was still "twitchy" yanked the Marlin 22 out of my hands by the barrel and then used the butt in my chest to put me on my back. I deserved it and never forgot it.
This was also the rule in the military, regardless of rank. You do NOT sweep anyone!
As an individual that carries a gun, she should have made decisions in advance concerning situations such as dropping it. In most cases let it bounce and suffer embarrassment rather than legal charges.
Eaker
Our local range has a disclaimer that states if an unsafe act is observed or reported your day at the range is at it's end. If you repeat an unsafe act then your gone for good.......hopefully only from the range :o)
Stay Safe !
If I had a dime for every time I've been "swept" I'd have Bill Gates serving me my dinner.
I love the studied ambiguity in that range sign!
The 12 guage was the worst.
I suddenly had their complete attention.
They had for, for years, been able to tell their parents, "it was an accident, They didn't mean to do it, etc. etc. They had been brought up to think that accidents are normal. Well, sorry kids, shooting someone is not normal and it isn't going to happen. I wasn't telling them the truth because I would never harm them or lay a hand on them but they didn't know that. There may be two types of people who haven't had a ND yet and those who will but my ND was when the rifle was on the bench rest and I hit the 2 pound trigger accidently and I think I may have hit the target in the black. That's the one and the only one I'm permitting myself.
Was lowering the hammer on an .45 auto and let the hammer slip. I fortunately had it pointed toward the ground but I still have a scar on the end of my thumb where either the hammer or slide cut it.
Now that I look back on it, I am glad it happened. I was taught gun safety from a child but there is nothing like an AD (also an ND) to make a permanent impression.
I guess technically, I have had two. When I was about 11, I picked up my best friend's Daisy and asked if it was cocked. He said no so I aimed at a cowboy on tv and pulled the trigger. It put a little bullseye on the glass covering the picture tube. Every time I visited, I would see that little reminder.
There are no take-backs, no do-overs. Every action has a result, there is no horseplay, it's "deadly serious".
That is very "grounding" for kids.
I was in a large gun shop basically just shooting the breeze when a guy who gave me the impression of being a little strange, wanted to look at a military sword. He took it and played with it a little then looked at me and sort of jokingly drew it back as if he were going to attack. I was 99% sure he was not serious but it scared me. I told in a firm and angry voice to put it down. Fortunately he did so.
For some reason, perhaps deep in the psyche, the sword bothered me far worse than a pistol. Of course the guy holding it made some of the difference.
If you took an NRA Personal Protection course a year or two ago,
it was just a warmed-over pistol course.
It taught Isosceles and point-shoot only.
There is a new course called "Personal Protection in the Home";
one would believe that Masaad Ayoob was involved in the development of the syllabus.
The current course teaches Weaver and modified Weaver only and combat sighting.
It is less than a year old.
I have taught the new course and next month will train instructors in how to teach the new course.
I personally would not trust an LEO as an NRA instructor.
We train NRA instructors never to have live ammunition in a class room!
The officer you cite is incompetent and should have been reported to the NRA Training Dept.
XeniaSt
NRA Certified Training/Counselor
A trainer of NRA Certified Instructors
My guess is that she has lawyered up and she and her lawyer know that she could be in the orange jumpsuit soon. I suspect her lawyer contacted the paper, etc.
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