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January 1, 2013, 01:17 PM | #26 | |
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January 1, 2013, 11:04 PM | #27 |
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Autoloaders can double, and I can envision the slide of a pistol that had fired in a pocket being prevented by the constraints of the pocket from moving all the way back, moving far enough to catch and chamber a round but not far enough for the sear (or its equivalent according to the type of pistol) to engage.
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January 2, 2013, 06:34 PM | #28 | |
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January 2, 2013, 07:58 PM | #29 |
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Fort Clayton RP(Panama City Panama)....
While I was deployed to Fort Clayton in Panama in the early 1990s, I had a MP in my platoon tell us how a military police soldier(rank unknown) had a ND with his issued M9 9mmNATO sidearm. The MP was a National Guard soldier & working in Panama. When he went to turn in his duty pistol to the unit arms room, he fired a FMJ bullet into the arms room clearing barrel. He was so shocked by the loud report, he kept firing round after round! A US Army MP officer yelled out a window for someone to grab the MP & disarm him.
No one was hurt but the MP got UCMJ actions(Uniform Code of Military Justice). On a another deployment to Panama around the same period, there was a MP Sgt(E-6) who took his loaded M9 pistol off(he had a M12 shoulder holster rig) and left it on a outdoor table by his company bldg. When he returned, the M9 was gone! He got in BIG trouble! That was just stupid. Clyde |
January 13, 2013, 09:22 AM | #30 |
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A well known firearms instructor lost his permit last week for ranting on the internet about what he would (supposedly) do if Obama enacted gun control through executive order. His rant including "killing people" and the state decided his presented a threat to people, so they have revoked his permit.
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January 13, 2013, 09:33 AM | #31 |
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When I was in my early 20's I worked at a gas station. Many police officers frequented our restroom. We kept a clean restroom, and it was the kind you went in, and locked the door. I lost count of the radios that were left behind on the TP dispenser. Twice guns were left behind. One uniformed cop left his service gun on the tank of the toilet. One Plain clothes detective left his service revolver on the sink. I found the weapons. Put them under the counter by the register. Both times they came back in less than 45 minutes asking if they left anything in the rest room. Both times I gave them back.
The radios it was a different story. After one was under the counter for two days we called the shift seargent who came and retrieved it. I will bet that officer did not hear the end of it for quite a while.
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January 14, 2013, 07:48 PM | #32 | |
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January 14, 2013, 08:04 PM | #33 |
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Tennessee, and it was a YouTube video, not a forum, per se.
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January 14, 2013, 08:26 PM | #34 |
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Wasn't it here on TFL that we discussed a case where a cop set down or dropped a firearm during an arrest in a park and children were the ones to find it???
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January 14, 2013, 08:34 PM | #35 | |
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January 15, 2013, 03:38 PM | #36 |
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"All the holsters I use for CCW have a thumb snap to retain the pistol. Yes, I need to remember to un-snap it, but that is part of my training. __________________ Pilot" Thumb break is the way to go, especially when you have to go... Bob |
January 18, 2013, 08:48 AM | #37 |
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Pistol on coat-hook: To me, the most plausible version--
Years ago, I read an account by Mas Ayoob where he wrote of an officer who hung his 1911-style pistol on the hook, and bumped the trigger when he tried to lift it off. The pistol fired (the safety obviously having been knocked off) and the officer jumped, bumping the trigger again. I think that only two shots were fired, but it's been a while.
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January 18, 2013, 10:40 AM | #38 |
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"There is a story - could be an urban myth - of an officer who hung a semi on a coat hook and somehow the trigger got jostled. The gun spun around the hook, emptying its mag as it kept bouncing on the hook."
I can't remember who it was, but it was one of the gun rag writers in the late 1970s or sometime in the 1980s recounting a story like that, only in it the guy who did the hanging on the hook shot himself multiple times in the arm. IIRC he was hanging a High Power on a hook in his gun safe.
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January 20, 2013, 01:12 PM | #41 |
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Good point, but owning 1911s myself, I can see how the grip safety can be depressed with the thumb while grasping it.
Fingers on frontstrap, thumb on back, on the safety and you're ready to go.
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January 21, 2013, 09:27 AM | #42 |
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What the OP brought up could be a whole thread in itself :-)
Someone should market a toilet roll dispenser that is designed to set a sidearm down on while you do your business. I bet that would sell to ranges and LE facilities I never have but I can see how that happened . It is a problem that I have never heard addressed before - what's a good technique when using a public restroom? Ah hell - I'll do it |
January 21, 2013, 10:03 AM | #43 |
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Whatever works...this is yet another reason I like pocket carry. I do, however have to be careful about the shape of the pocket I carry in. I have had the gun slip out of large, square pockets--thankfully, no one saw it...
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