HazyDayz
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The musical version:
Funniest thing I've seen all day. Thanks for that.
The musical version:
That sucks for him. I really hope it doesn't affect his job. It rather ridiculous that policeman are punished for incidents like these. Its bad enough the poor guy shot himself and had to live through that embarrassment but further now he has to worry about whether his career will be in jeopardy. One of the few professions where if you hurt yourself off duty with a tool of the trade that it has impacts on your career.
My daughter is a cop and I invited her to the range about a year ago.
Of course her training has been mostly about how you get your malfunctioning firearm back in service quickly if it fails to go bang. Usually it's a rapid tap(mag)/tilt(gun)/rack(slide) and back on the target. She does this without even thinking about it.
However, my "civilian" training has been to carefully and safely put the gun down on the bench in front of me and think through what the problem might be. If there's an unfired round in the chamber upon which the firing pin had just landed, but didn't cause a bang, this round gets carefully put into the steel range box after letting the gun sit there for a minute. Generally unless it's an obvious stove-pipe showing I just wait 60 seconds before doing anything.
So anyhoo, the bottom line here is that her training is focused on getting back into action in a crisis situation where having your gun back in action is more important than the danger from the slight chance of a round with a dented primer cooking off.
Her training carries inherent risk in a "day at range" situation.
and that is the difference between target shooting and defensive shooting.
I used to work with nuclear weapons. NDs were not tolerated.
I wonder if there will be a stigma attached to this (or him)
Edit: a Christian pun here