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At least he'll face charges for negligent discharge in a public building
when his gun went off
NYT really putting the ASS in passive voice
They used active voice in the title at least, even if they are trying to pass it off as """accidental"""
Negligently. It's a crime during the hysteria the New York Times stoked by publishing atrocity porn without any editorial oversight. I've handled several dozen guns and have yet to find one I could accidentally fire. Only willful criminal negligence about the most basic gun safety rules makes a gun go off unintentionally.
You have to be really fucking up to negligent discharge. Guarantee this cop fuckup had his finger in the trigger well while drawing it. Pity he didn't blow his femoral and off his useless self
If I accidentally broke the office coffee pot I might get fired. Insane that the best police officer gets to have 1000 infractions that would get the average employee fired anywhere else. Literally our worst and dimmest
Guns don't go off accidentally unless it's by a child that doesn't know better.
Or a shitty gun. Surely the billions of dollars of police money buys them good quality guns, right?
Cops pretty much always carry Glocks.
Glocks have a trigger safety that prevents them from firing when dropped or otherwise abused but make it very easy to begin firing without thinking.
Cops prefer this setup because they're lazy cruel cowards that want as little between them and filling a kid with bullets as possible.
But they don't fire accidentally.
The NYPD in particular uses custom-ordered glocks which require increased trigger pressure to fire.
I think they went back on that because they were too frustrated at not being able to jump straight to killing people quite as easily.
There are absolutely videos of cop weapons going off by accident. This is the sig sauer going off in holster: https://youtu.be/OSAI_HUZDI0
You can see the cop pull his hand right by the trigger when it goes off. He's either wearing a holster that doesn't protect the trigger (negligent) or isn't wearing it correctly (negligent).
This gun has numerous reports of going off, and also had a redesign because it would go off when dropped as well. I don't think he touched it at all. It's a shit gun.
Now I'm not saying that's definitely the case with this gun but it's worth knowing about this as it will come up every time this happens in future.
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Or a cop looking to incite violence from panicked protesters that they can later use to justify the "self defence" beatings of the protesters.
Not sure if the intent is to say that accidental firing happens but I don't think of whacking a gun repeatedly behind the pin with a mallet as accidental or stimulating an accidental situation (like a fall).
Sig Sauer pistols are known to fire accidentally
Just the P320 and it was more or less recalled (after a lawsuit) because of that.
Guns are inherently unsafe but an NYPD cop doesn't "accidentally" fire their gun, they fire it through negligence or intentionally.
okay
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
"accidentally"
The gun had an accident. The gun made a mistake. The gun fired itself in a situation where a gun shouldn't be firing itself.
Dang, guns just do that?
Once again, another school shooter surrounded by police that did nothing... shakingmydamnhead.gif
The sergeant had broken the glass of a locked office on the first floor of the building and switched his firearm — a 9-millimeter handgun with a flashlight mounted on it — from his right hand to his left hand to reach through the broken glass to unlock the door from the inside...
Also... HAHA... cop did a vandalism before doing a school shooting.
it went off! it happens.. you know it just happens. They dont make guns how they used to you know.
oopsie woopsie :^)
-- the cop
I'm all for an individuals right to carry.
As long as you're not a cop. They're the last people who should be armed.
Is the mentioned video publicly available? Does anyone have a link?
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