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Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:38 pm
by Rex B
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.

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:41 pm
by pcgizzmo
What do they carry for a service weapon? Maybe a Glock?

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:46 pm
by Rex B
I'd bet on it

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:50 pm
by Middle Age Russ
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.

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:56 pm
by jason237m
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.

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 2:57 pm
by AEA
I'm betting the Glocker leg shooting gun (well known by a Ex-FBI Agent too). :roll:

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:16 pm
by Seventhsword
He will never live that one down... :smilelol5:

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 7:27 pm
by C-dub
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.

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:09 pm
by doc540
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

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 9:12 pm
by n5wd
Seventhsword wrote:He will never live that one down... :smilelol5:

She!

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 10:10 pm
by AEA
I think he was talking about the FBI Agent I referenced.

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:01 pm
by Crossfire
pcgizzmo wrote:What do they carry for a service weapon? Maybe a Glock?
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.

The gun is just the tool. The behavior is the problem.

Fingers don't belong on triggers unless sites are on target!

[rant off]

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 11:20 pm
by Humanphibian
AMEN! Goock, Colt, S&W....they are all mindless chunks of steel, its the human element that creates the problems

Re: Dallas Co. Deputy Shoots Self

Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 3:47 am
by speedsix
...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???