Not long, my friend.
CARTER LAKE — A Carter Lake police sergeant was wounded Wednesday by his chief.
Authorities are investigating how, as a city press release explained, Police Chief Shawn Kannedy fired a weapon inside the Police Department offices that hit Sgt. Dan Driver.
Kannedy, Driver and a third officer had been discussing firearms when the chief accidentally discharged one, according to the city release.
Pottawattamie County Sheriff Jeff Danker, whose office is investigating, said the sergeant appeared to have been shot accidentally in the lower torso, beneath his bulletproof vest.
Danker said that the gun may have malfunctioned, but many details about the shooting remain unclear.
I'm sure the evil, evil black gun went off all by itself. Sure it did. The fat finger on the trigger had nothing, NOTHING, to do with it at all.
Is that in the interview?
"Can you name the four firearms rules?"
"Uh, what now?"
"HIRED!"
Best wishes to the unfortunate bullet stopper who picked the wrong time to ask chiefy about his piece.
2 comments:
yeah, the gun was defective. More like the Chief was defective. Apprently the Chief is unable to safely carry or demonstrate safe gun "discussions" they need to pull his authorization to carry a firearm in Nebraska. You can bet your backside if it had been a civillian that had a Negligent discharge he would be yelling to take all of the guns away from those that are not "professional".
Truly defective firearms very rarely harm anyone or anything unless pointed in an unsafe direction. The exception being exploding barrels or receivers.
Everyone that has had much experience with firearms has seen an unintentional discharge. All of them I've seen involved a finger on a trigger. In all of these instances, save one, the weapon was pointed in a safe direction. In the one case I saw a cat put a .45 round into the dirt about 2 inches from his foot while staring downrange and believing the gat to be 'empty'. Again, the finger should not have been on the trigger.
The most egregious unintentional discharges involve irresponsible horseplay. An acquaintance was shot dead by a pal who put a .22 revolver on the table in a poker game as a joke. When he was told not to fool around like that, the idiot announced that it wasn't loaded, then put it to his head and pulled the trigger. Pop! Nervous reflexes caused the dead joker to shoot one of the other poker players through the heart, killing him as well.
There are degrees of negligence, but with firearms they don't mean much if you get shot.
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