Accidental Gunshots Vex LAPD

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guns17aug17,0,5357993,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines

A little excerpt...

One off-duty officer shot himself in a leg as he sat behind his desk and, according to department records, contemplated a complex mathematical problem. Another officer inadvertently pulled the trigger when his African gray parrot flew into his face.

One officer accidentally shot his girlfriend in a leg while trying to retrieve a cartridge from his handgun as a memento of their date. Yet another officer admitted that he accidentally fired his gun because he was startled by a woman holding a teddy bear. Two officers accidentally discharged their weapons as they handled them at home while watching themselves in mirrors.

Officer Timothy J. McLaughlin accidentally fired a .38-caliber bullet through his apartment wall and into a neighbor's home after drinking six beers in 1999. He reported the discharge a day later, only after learning that the neighbor took a photo of the bullet hole and talked to his landlord about hiring an attorney.

[El Tejon]

*SNICKER*

Only the police have the necessary training required in order to carry guns.

[Perd Hapley]

Two officers accidentally discharged their weapons as they handled them at home while watching themselves in mirrors.

Gotta love it.

[ilbob]

Two officers accidentally discharged their weapons as they handled them at home while watching themselves in mirrors.

Gotta love it.

I recall reading about this. They were female officers and had not yet put their makeup on that day.

[RadioFreeSeaLab]

Two officers accidentally discharged their weapons as they handled them at home while watching themselves in mirrors.

Gotta love it.

I recall reading about this. They were female officers and had not yet put their makeup on that day.

Really? I would've assumed young male officers, playing badass in the mirror.  "Get on the ground motherepher!"
BANG!

[Matthew Carberry]

One off-duty officer shot himself in a leg as he sat behind his desk and, according to department records, contemplated a complex mathematical problem.

Sudoku casualty.

[m1911owner]

One has to wonder how many times they've accidentally fired their weapons while pointing them at non-threatening suspects.  And subsequently characterized said non-threatening suspects as deadly killers who were milliseconds from killing said officers.  

[Stand_watie]

Gotta love it.

I recall reading about this. They were female officers and had not yet put their makeup on that day.

Really? I would've assumed young male officers, playing badass in the mirror.  "Get on the ground motherepher!"
BANG!

Actually, I think that's a pretty good idea for police officers - with an unloaded gun!

Maybe I'm the only one, but when I first started shooting pistols (revolvers) I used to get a weird, self destructive impulse to see what it actually looked like to look down the barrel of a loaded revolver. After contemplation of the issue for a while, I realized that a mirror would satisfy my urge without serious danger to my life (in retrospect I should have used safety glasses as flying glass fragments could have blinded me if I'd pulled the trigger). When the light is exactly right, you actually can see down the barrel of a revolver and see the bullet in the cylinder hole that is aligned with the barrel.

[Fly320s]

Stumble, Startle, Sympathetic response.  (SSS) The three biggest reasons for unintentional firearm discharges.

"Another officer inadvertently pulled the trigger when his African gray parrot flew into his face.'
-example of Startle.


"One officer accidentally shot his girlfriend in a leg while trying to retrieve a cartridge from his handgun as a memento of their date."
-could be a Stumble response... maybe he was bending over and started to fall.