Posted on 01/21/2015 4:16:40 AM PST by Jed Eckert
I would say that one of the other customers could sue the ex-LEO.
Can you imagine that you are a victim and that cop showed up to do the investigation....???
Scary!!!!
I believe the “Swiss cheese model” applies here, if anyone cares to take the time:
“Every step in a process has the potential for failure, to varying degrees.”
I see several steps that obviously failed.
http://patientsafetyed.duhs.duke.edu/module_e/swiss_cheese.html
Cluster F*** Sir
Two major errors. The cop and the shop.
A shooting acquaintance and safety officer for a cowboy action club I belonged to, working part time at a gun shop.....he showed a customer his own gun after racking the slide back and removing the mag. The customer looked then handed it back. The clerk re-inserted the mag and let the slide go forward. After that it gets sketchy as to what happened . He was using the counter as a safety blockade and somehow the round in the chamber fires. And of course the wood and glass counter was not bulletproof and the round winds up in the potential customers leg.
No such thing as being too safe. This accident put the store out of business... Back to the original thread..as wrong as the cop was, the store should not have handed him a loaded weapon. I assume in a fair world any monies given to the cop will be half of what he would have gotten if he had checked the gun himself first and still got shot somehow
Yeah, I’m thinking his career is over not because of a missing finger, but because of how it turned up missing. One of his higher ups said thank God he didn’t kill anyone, we learned what we needed to know. ... Call it a very serious performance evaluation - that he failed.
And others should never work at gun stores. There's plenty of stupidity to go around in this article.
Dad knew how to teach.
Rule #1. The gun is always loaded.
During my training to be an NRA certified Range Safety Officer, the Instructor told us that anti gun anti freedom useful idiots were going to gun shows and when no one was looking sneaked live rounds into guns they were “looking at” hoping to cause just such an accident in order to advance their agenda.
I have very little doubt but what they prowl around gun shops as well.
Don’t put anything past these shills, and counter them with obsessive compulsive SAFETY procedures at all times!
The left has an Army of highly motivated shills out there, to include most of the “Students” in the academic gulags. If you are ever in a Gun Shop and see someone of college age hanging around, keep a close eye on them!
I also can't imagine testing a gun without checking to see if it's loaded. I always check when I'm testing a gun and I'm not a cop! (and I still have all my fingers! LOL)
whenever i’m in a gun shop the clerk always clears the firearm before letting me get my grubby hands all over it ;-) should they fail to to this simple thing, then i either won’t accept the gun, or i’ll clear it meself.
Leaving a round in the chamber before handing it to a customer was a wreckless act. Certainly anyone hurt by the incident has a good lawsuit. They are lucky no one was killed. Just because the injured party was a cop does not diminish the negligence of the store.
I’ve never been in a shop that would allow a live round NEAR a weapon in the store.
Unless there’s an attached range where you can test certain weapons????
But, then, there’s a pretty serious process for that too.
I won't even take a gun from a clerk without an open slide. And I don't think I've ever had one try to give me one without an open slide.
But that officer made too many assumptions He racked the slide in the correct manner but wasn't paying attention at all. The responsibility lies with the one handling the weapon, but he'll get some money out of this.
I was always taught that regardless of the assurance that the weapon is cleared, YOU SAFELY CLEAR THE WEAPON YOURSELF before handling it.
I would be surprised if it wasn't much higher than 50% that are non-shooters.
My training — given by my father when I was about ten — was that there is simply no such thing as an unloaded gun, and that the safety should always be presumed to be non-functional. Even if metaphysically and apodictically certain that the gun was unloaded by having checked and re-checked for a chambered round, it was never to be pointed — much less dry-fired — at any object whose destruction would cause grief.
Cop was dumb, and trained less well than I was in 4th Grade.
However, the gun shop is liable. They have a responsibility to all customers — regardless of how stupid they are — to handle their firearms with reasonable care.
The only way I think the shop should escape liability would be if the cop put the round in himself.
380? Likely a subcompact. He should have checked a buntline.
Lots of good replies, but this is the best. The person handling the weapon during the negligent discharge is at fault.
The gun shop I go in...everyone in the place is carrying and all weapons are loaded.
The staff and customers all carry and treat every weapon as if it were loaded.
Anyone that puts part of his body in the line of potential fire, and then pulls the trigger, gets what he deserves.
The jury should give the ex-cop a Darwin award and send him to an NRA safety class.
Dumb and dumber.
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