LEO Discharges Gun in Airport

Jim March - whether the gun at the airport was an NAA or not I found your information eye opening. I had no idea that someone would build and sell something that is so tricky.
 
Welll...they're really not that bad! You have to practice a few times unloaded but...after that, it's perfectly practical if weird :).

The other thing is, let's say you screw it up and you've got it "half cocked" on the equivalent of the Colt SAA "safety notch", hammer lined up with a live chamber. Sounds bad...drop it and it'll go "boom", right?

Except the damn gun is SO light there's not all that much momentum involved to cause the hammer's half-cock notch to break!

:)

This is one reason there aren't all that many accidents with these little cuties.

This video shows how it works well enough on unloading:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMiBu-6xN5c
 
The idiot who fired off the gun was not a LEO..
He was a TSA screener..
They are not trained for firearms..

This TSA moron was being talked through the clearing of the firearm by the owner..since he has no formal training that is the most likely problem why the gun went off. Finger on the trigger..
 
The idiot who fired off the gun was not a LEO..
He was a TSA screener..
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Well, the article in the AJC stated, "while an Atlanta police officer responding to the scene tried to clear the five “snake” shot bullets – small game pellet ammunition – in the handgun, a shot went off". So, do you have other information that indicates it was the TSA?
 
Love how the TSA is keeping us all safe now. If the gun is in a case or a holster and is not pointing itself at anyone then LEAVE IT WHERE IT IS. Taking it out and playing with it a VERY BAD IDEA.
 
I'll accept that the formal training is limited, but why aren't they teaching themselves? I'm an engineer and 99% of what I learned was after school and most of that on my own time.
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Firearms are not always the most important thing in police work. They usually take a backseat to training on new laws, local problems and areas of interest/incidents.
 
Don't be so sure. A number of years ago I grabbed my road-trip bag by mistake when flying Reno to Elko. You should have seen the look on the xray operator's face when he say the loaded .380 auto, loaded spare clip and box of ammo! Turns out they do have a jail at the airport!
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I can imagine.

I have a laptop case I'm always taking between the house or hotel and my car. I'll often put a holstered gun into one of the pockets just to bring it out to the car. Occasionally, I will forget to put it in the glovebox, and will open the bag up at work. "Whoops", I say, and walk my bag back out to the car.

I got sent out of state unexpectedly a couple of months ago, and had to rush to the airport. I took my laptop case through airport security and it alarmed- a very serious looking TSA agent took me and my case to the side and started going through the pockets in my laptop case. I about ****** my pants.

"Still blows my mind that 67 folks forgot they had guns in their bags at this specific airport this year."
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Turned out I had left a leatherman in there. Thank God. I was sure I was going to be one of those guys who accidentally brings a gun into airport security. But I can see how it can happen. Actually kinda surprised there's only been 67 at Atlanta this year. A lot of people move through that airport.
 
" a lot of people move through that airport" and the TSA clowns miss a lot of stuff, trust me. Every time they are tested they miss everything.:rolleyes: If they caught 67 that means about 700 or 800 got through.
 
drail said:
" a lot of people move through that airport" and the TSA clowns miss a lot of stuff, trust me. Every time they are tested they miss everything.:rolleyes: If they caught 67 that means about 700 or 800 got through.
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That's absolute nonsense. I worked for TSA for over two years. We were randomly tested (without warning) numerous times by outside teams during that period. Not a single one of our officers EVER missed a SINGLE test item in that time. 100%

I know they miss stuff, no bodies perfect. Some people don't even care. But "every time they're tested they miss everything" is pure, unadulterated bullcrap.
 
Why is it that the vast majority of the accidental discharges that I have been hearing, in the past few years, have all been by cops?
 
Accidental discharges will pretty much happen where there are loaded firearms and people. We had a retired assistant police chief from a large agency join our agency. He had to clear his weapon for an inspection when he fired it into the side of our station. An officer from another agency walked up to me while I was putting a new holster on my duty belt, grabbed my weapon, racked the slide and fired it into the ground in front of me. "Damn, was that loaded?" A lieutenant of ours fired his weapon through our academy window. A patrol officer assigned to SWAT shot a round through one of our station's walls. Our range officer, a retired officer from the above listed large agency, shot himself while instructing one of our academy classes. I could go on.
 
TMNT said:
Why is it that the vast majority of the accidental discharges that I have been hearing, in the past few years, have all been by cops?
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Because those are the only ones that make the news. If it isn't in a public place, no one ever knows that Joe Public had an oopsy and Joe Public, even the really dumb ones, almost never touch their weapons in public.
 
An officer from another agency walked up to me while I was putting a new holster on my duty belt, grabbed my weapon, racked the slide and fired it into the ground in front of me. "Damn, was that loaded?"
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:eek: Seriously? WT...Heck was he thinking? That is so wrong, on multiple levels.
 
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