Posted April 28, 2017 12:58 pm by Comments

By G. Halek

GREENFIELD, INDIANA — A police officer allegedly trying to “clear his gun” ended up negligently discharging it into his knee cap. He was supposedly sitting in his car, trying to make sure the gun was clear, and somehow managed to lay his finger on the bang switch.

The Hancock County Sheriff’s Department responded and noticed the officer was laying on the ground, clutching his knee. They have since said they are very interested in using additional training to ensure other officers don’t make a similar mistake.

Basic firearm safety.

We take it for granted until it blows back on us — sometimes literally. It takes one trigger pull to cause a world of hurt. Triggers don’t care if it’s an accident. They’re mechanical assemblies placed into, usually, very well designed receivers that are meant to work under a lot of trying conditions.

It’s a running assumption that police officers and soldiers are immune to negligent discharges and firearm safety problems because, well, we all know they have a baseline of education in the proper use of firearms… Right?

Well, funny I should mention that.

In professions that deal with guns, the assumption that everyone in that field intimately understands firearm safety is a HUGE assumption. While …Read the Rest

Source:: Concealed Nation

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