Officer hurt in accidental shooting sues gun maker

[CDR]

This nimrod and his legal team have have put together a strategy that will take advantage of a political climate where he is most likely to gain a favorable ruling.  After all, is there a gun manufacturer in the world who stands a chance in a courtroom in California?  It's a disgrace that a case like this should be entertained......the officer should be charged with endangering the welfare of a child.

Should they lose this case, maybe Glock should consider following STI's lead in pulling out of the great state of California....completely, including law enforcement.

[MikeBjerum]

As I recall from my time spent in the land of fruits and nuts, it is a crime to leave a gun of any kind where a child can gain access to it.  Case law, nationwide, states that if you are injured or suffer a loss in the commission of a crime you forfeit your right to sue or receive compensation from that act.  Outside of our anti-gun court system rewriting the laws every other day, explain to me how this man has a leg to stand on  (have to rephrase this, because I do care about his injuries and feel for him) can stand a chance of getting anything.

[tumblebug]

 ANTI's will jump on this + support. It's for the children rember.

[Ksail101]

Everyone has said pretty much what I am thinking, wow did I read that right, his 3 year old son was riding in the backseat with a .45 cal handgun in arms reach. It doesn't matter if it was a Glock, Springfield, or S&W, and it doesnt matter if has an external safety or like any other striker fire pistol, a 3 year old boy was able to pick up a firearm that was loaded and un-supervised.

Where is child protective services at on this one? Glock should counter sue says he put his son and everyone else in danger that the was around. What if the child shot the gun and it went out the side window into the car next to it. An external safety would have done nothing in this situation because the guy probably wouldnt have had it engaged anyway. If he is willing to let his 3 year old son sit next to a loaded handgun, then he probably would walk around with a live weapon. He has no care for safety

Wow, this is why licenses\background checks need to be required to have children. Not everyone is parent material. To buy a firearm you must go through so many checks and balances and to have a child all you need is a bottle of wine and Marvin Gay.

What is more dangerous, a firearm, or a person not raised right by his parents? (What makes the firearm go bang?)

[HAWKFISH]

I'm not even going to waste my time writing how stuipid this is.

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[Hazcat]

Hawk,

It's from the land of whiners (CA), what do you expect?

[MikeBjerum]

We're getting ready to start a Firearm Safety class tomorrow, and this is one more example of something we stress.  Beyond the basic rules of firearm safety and everything else MN DNR requires us to teach and the students to pass tests on, we stress that with the Right to Keep and Bear Arms comes the responsibility for those arms.  There are cases where we can lose control of our guns that are excusable, however this officer did everything wrong and deserves to be punished for what he did not rewarded because someone built and sold him a valuable tool.

Haz, have you read anything on this concerning whether there have been child endangerment charges filed against this officer?

[Ron J]

Rastus was dead on with his comments.

My first thought was that he should have been shot in the nuts so he couldn't reproduce.  We have enough bad parents and dumbasses. 

[jerry]

The lawsuit alleges the defendants knew the safety device was defective and that 5.5 pounds of pressure on the trigger frequently results in accidental discharges.

5.5 lbs... accidental?  I thought accidental was like maybe drop it and it goes bang, or just touch the trigger and it goes bang, but 5.5 lbs.  Hopefully his genes are no longer in the gene pool.

[Pathfinder]

My first thought was that he should have been shot in the nuts so he couldn't reproduce. 

Too late. Same reason you cannot win the Darwin award, no matter what stupid thing you did, if you have actually reproduced.

We have enough bad parents and dumbasses. 

Amen, brother, amen. Way too many.