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Police Chief Accidentally Shoots Himself -- Again

Don't know if this has been discussed, but link was on FNN.
Dang Glocks ,again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :tooth:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2014/01/21/connersville-police-chief-shoots-himself-again/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
".........Nurses thought the police chief was kidding .........................."
Dang Glocks ,again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :tooth:
http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2014/01/21/connersville-police-chief-shoots-himself-again/?ncid=txtlnkusaolp00000058&
".........Nurses thought the police chief was kidding .........................."
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Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
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FIFY.
Adam J. McCleod
I own many Glocks, and I am not saying they go off by themselves, but then again, there are more than one report of Glock AD's out there.
IMHO
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
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Yep...
― Douglas Adams
Well, at least he appears to admit to his mistake, instead of blaming the design of the weapon, the phase of the moon, or assault rifles.
Once ouch, but twice? Come on - at least he showed a little smarts enough to change.
Words of wisdom from Big Chief: Flush twice, it's a long way to the Mess Hall
I'd rather have my sister work in a whorehouse than own another Taurus!
I am not convinced that Glock's are 100% safe. They make a big deal out of their safe pistol design, but statistically that can mean 99.99999% safe and 1 in 10 million is not. I think it is an acceptable design risk, but often we are quick to jump on the user when it can be a mechanical flaw.
I thought about this and every time their is a Glock AD the gun seems to be exonerated. I wonder what response you would get if you created a blog sight "GLOCKAD.COM"? There are millions of Glocks out there, lots of idiots, but I am sure there are a few flawed guns.
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Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.... now who's bringing the hot wings? :jester:
I don't have any trouble believing that any manufacturer can have a dud leave the factory, but with any gun, following the gun rules means that even if there is a malfunction of some kind, the risk of injury is significantly reduced and/or minimized. Could be that the reason the guns keep getting exonerated is that there's no fault in the gun. You know, that whole "Occam's Razor" thing..........
A glock is what it is, you pull the trigger it goes boom, and a hell of a lot easier than say a double action revolver. It doesn't take all that much pressure on the trigger for it to shoot. I am old school, I will take a pistol with a manual safety any day, it is all natural for me to take the gun from the holster, thumb the safety off then fire the gun. It really kind of surprises me a lot of departments haven't gone back to firearms with a manual safety.
I got my Glock 17 (Gen 2) about that time and shot it a lot. I still have that gun and mine has gone off only when I wanted it to.
However, the number of "mishaps" with Glocks led to the "New York trigger" and even had some departments having the
guns modified with an external safety device.
An interesting read from a 1998 Washington Post article.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/longterm/dcpolice/deadlyforce/police4page1.htm
Reference to retired police sgt.'s patented safety device for modifying Glock pistols to make them "safer".
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/729088/posts