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As much as I would like to believe that is the case, it may not be. Officers have shot people with their duty weapons, with no lights on them, when attempting to use their Tasers. We have had numerous posts of officers having NDs with guns that don't have lights on them. We have numerous ones with non-officers committing NDs with handguns and no lights on them.
The light's activation may not be a good design, but whether it actually contributed to this officer's ND is purely speculative. He says it did - no doubt.
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No one is saying that their are other things that have caused accidental shootings, just that this is one more item that has not had its ergonomics well thought out.
Putting a switch that requires finger pressure to activate, especially form the hand already holding a lethal weapon that is discharged by ... finger pressure... is just a poorly conceived thing.