Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
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Re: Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
May he Rest In Peace. Prayers sent for comfort to those he left behind.
Safeties can and do fail. I remember something about one of our members on this forum accidentally shooting himself in the hand several years ago. I do not remember who it was, and that is not really important to me. What is important is that accidents can happen. An accident could have just as easily involved a tire blowing out or a rusted bolt breaking and causing a fatal rollover. There are no guarantees that we will live the next year, or even through tomorrow.
Safeties can and do fail. I remember something about one of our members on this forum accidentally shooting himself in the hand several years ago. I do not remember who it was, and that is not really important to me. What is important is that accidents can happen. An accident could have just as easily involved a tire blowing out or a rusted bolt breaking and causing a fatal rollover. There are no guarantees that we will live the next year, or even through tomorrow.
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Re: Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
Sad, you never know when a familiar action is going to go wrong.100% attention is not possible 100% of the time, well not for me anyway.
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Re: Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
Sounds like for some reason he had taken his 'appendix carry' gun from its holster, and shot through his left thigh; he was driving and had the presence of mind to call his family and say he was headed to hospital, but he evidently passed out and wrecked his vehicle.marlinman93 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:01 am Can't view USA Today. It wont let me view since I have an ad blocker program running.
No way to know more details.
Personally, I won't 'appendix carry' a chambered gun of any type. Femoral artery and nerve don't like bullets. Buttcheeks or outer thighs can survive them.
I also usually carry an exposed-hammer gun designed for hammer-down carry (first shot 'double-action'), so there is no pre-stressed spring. That means WAY more force has to be applied to the trigger to set the gun off, in addition to the safety being turned off (or mechanically failing). The only ways it could fire otherwise would be if the cartridge primer just decided to detonate spontaneously (which I've never heard of happening) or the gun got subjected to such high g-forces the firing pin hit the primer (which would enough g-force to kill me anyway).
Still.....Murphy's Law is always operative....that's why I won't carry a gun pointed at a particularly vulnerable part of myself, OR in a horizontal shoulder rig, where it is pointing at the head or torso of whoever is behind you. Exception - working overnight shift alone in ghetto pharmacies years ago, but the only other person in the store was 25 yards away at the front cash register.
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Re: Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
I've never found "belly gun" location to be comfortable while sitting. And I'd bet that's why he was removing it as he was driving. Probably started out and thought it was better to put it somewhere else, and somehow he touched a round off as he withdrew it. Sadly a number of mistakes made by someone who likely knew better. Can't imagine how he felt in those last minutes of his life, knowing what he'd done, and second guessing his decision.
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Re: Police Firearms Instructor - Fatal Firearms Accident
Same here.marlinman93 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 01, 2020 11:01 am Can't view USA Today. It wont let me view since I have an ad blocker program running.
I do remember though several years ago a deputy from a sheriff's dept in south central Florida doing the same thing.
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