Oh, yeah, that'll stop him from doing it again...just put a note in his personnel file. This puke should be charged with reckless endangerment. District Attorneys are NOT law enforcement officers...but they sure are treated as such when they screw up, negligently discharge weapons in a public place, and endanger the people they "serve."
Better luck next time.
“The only thing I would consider charging Parker with is reckless endangerment, but the bullet traveled out the window, not into the building iteslf,” said Flaherty.
Yup, nothing but targets and other Peons on the outside of the Hall of Justice, eh Flaherty?
The gun wouldn't shoot itself anyway - not just because the ejector was broken. Someone has to pull the trigger.
Pretty smart. Once the gun is destroyed, even an assessment that the gun was in fine working condition can be challenged very successfully since some sources of malfunction can be very subtle and cause problems very infrequently.
My guess would be that the trigger was pulled while a round was in the chamber and the gun "malfunctioned" by firing. Chalk up another statistic for the anti-gunners to use against the Second Amendment.
How come my employee can carry and I can't?
It is these irresponsible gun owners that give us responsible gun owners a bad name. What a nerd he is.
Reid said the handgun had a mechanical malfunction with the ejector slide.There's something fishy here. Most people have broken firearms fixed, not destroyed. I wonder what that trace turns up. (And if that info will be made public!)Sheriff David Huffman said Parker turned the handgun over to authorities and asked that it be destroyed by the State Bureau of Investigation.
“I was on vacation when it happened, but I think that Parker was so shaken by the incident that he just wanted to get it out of his sight altogether,” he said.
When someone asks to have a gun destroyed, the SBI checks the serial number to verify the history of the gun before destroying it.
Parker’s .380 semi-automatic accidentally discharged
Note that the gun is the subject of this sentence, when in reality, Mr. Parker caused the discharge.
The bullet put a hole in a window...
Note that Mr. Parker put a hole in the wondow, but the story makes the bullet the subject.
“The only thing I would consider charging Parker with is reckless endangerment, but the bullet traveled out the window, not into the building iteslf,” said Flaherty.
If it had been an ordinary citizen, it would have been: "the perpetrator shot out the window."
Reid said the handgun had a mechanical malfunction with the ejector slide.
Bad Handgun!
Sheriff David Huffman said Parker turned the handgun over to authorities and asked that it be destroyed by the State Bureau of Investigation.
After all, if the handgun were an ordinary mechanical tool, but Parker were a dangerous fool, we'd destroy him, not the gun, right? Punish the gun for its wrongdoing. Put down that mad dog?
I have been loading and unloading semi-automatic pistols for 30 years and have never had one go off unexpectedly.
Of course, I always look in the chamber (the extractor could fail).
And I don't play with them. They ain't toys.
Uh...whats an "ejector slide", seen and ejector and I've seen a slide.