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Title: get a load of this!
Post by: Awtha on February 18, 2014, 06:45:45 PM

in todays florida news. . . .  :o 18Feb14
Fla. guard's gun goes off at Shooters restaurant
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/weird/2014/02/18/fla-guards-gun-goes-off-at-shooters-restaurant/5573227/
handgun accidentally discharged, causing minor injuries to a dozen people. ?????
Glock 9mm handgun was also in his pocket, and it went off accidentally????
really?

Title: Re: get a load of this!
Post by: billt on February 20, 2014, 07:24:38 AM

From the looks of it, this was a negligent discharge, not an "accidental" one. These terms get confused with a lot of todays reporting. If the individual causes the discharge because of something careless they did, that is negligence. That appears to be the case here. Glock's, (and all other pistols), don't go off by themselves. Another boneheaded firearms mistake. Lucky no one was killed. There seems to be a lot of this happening lately with cops and the like.