from Fox4
Nov 3, 2011 1:12 p.m.
A Dallas County Sheriff's deputy is recovering after accidental shooting at a gun range on Thursday morning.
FOX 4's Shaun Rabb has confirmed the deputy was participating in a shooting training course in southeast Dallas when the deputy's service weapon discharged as it was being reholstered.
The bullet struck the deputy in the leg. The injury is not thought to be life-threatening.
No further information was immediately available.
Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
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Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
What do they carry for a service weapon? Maybe a Glock?
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I'd bet on it
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“Sometimes there is no alternative to uncertainty except to await the arrival of more and better data.” C. Wunsch
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Middle Age Russ
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
I hope the deputy makes a full recovery from this negligent, not accidental, discharge. This is not a fun way to have the rule "keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target and you are ready to shoot" reinforced.
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
Usually articles about incidents like this leave out the detail "the pistol discharged as his finger depressed the trigger". The point being that his finger was almost certainly on the trigger while hosltering.
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I'm betting the Glocker leg shooting gun (well known by a Ex-FBI Agent too). 
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
He will never live that one down... 
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
I'm glad she will be okay, but that sure is a hard way to learn a lesson. One of the replies was supposedly from a DPD Cop that complained of a lack of a hammer to hold while reholstering. I wanted to reply that if one would keep their finger off the trigger there wouldn't be any need for a hammer to hold, but didn't feel like getting into it there.
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
I knew a San Diego County Sheriff's Deputy who, when jumping out of a pickup camper while drawing his gun, shot himself through the thigh.
He lived, but the damage quickly ended his law enforcement career.
bad, bad deal
He lived, but the damage quickly ended his law enforcement career.
bad, bad deal
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
Seventhsword wrote:He will never live that one down...
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
I think he was talking about the FBI Agent I referenced.
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
It really, REALLY annoys me that anytime there is a NEGLIGENT discharge, the first thing someone says is "musta been a Glock". Guess what, boys and girls? Any gun will go bang at the wrong time, and in the wrong place, if you don't follow the rules.pcgizzmo wrote:What do they carry for a service weapon? Maybe a Glock?
The gun is just the tool. The behavior is the problem.
Fingers don't belong on triggers unless sites are on target!
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AMEN! Goock, Colt, S&W....they are all mindless chunks of steel, its the human element that creates the problems
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Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self
...most "accidental" shootings with a handgun that I've ever known or read about involved a Glock, then a cocked 1911, then a cocked revolver...NEVER have I known personally or read a story where a firearm malfunctioned and went off and hurt someone...
...that hole in the end of the barrel must be pointed in a safe direction...
...know thy weapon well...
...use yer head...
what else is there???
...that hole in the end of the barrel must be pointed in a safe direction...
...know thy weapon well...
...use yer head...
what else is there???