NY Judge Rapped for Approving His Own Concealed Carry Permit, Accidental Gun Discharge in Chambers

abajournal.com ^ | Aug 27, 2012 | Martha Neil

[real saxophonist]

A New York judge who has been threatened several times during his nearly 20 years on the bench decided he wanted to get a concealed-carry permit and take a loaded firearm into the Tioga County courthouse at which he worked.

However, although there was no rule against having a gun in chambers, Judge Vincent Sgueglia should not have approved his own concealed-carry permit, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct said in an opinion (PDF) earlier this month.

[Sax]

The Honorable Plaxico Burress Presiding

[Talisker]

...Judge Vincent Sgueglia...

Youse gotta problem wit dat?

[real saxophonist]

...as Sgueglia was trying to repair a faulty mechanism that cocked the .38-caliber Smith and Wesson and rotated the cylinder.

Probably messing with the internal lock and pulled the trigger to see if it was unlocked.

[OB1kNOb]

So he was playing with his pistol behind the bench, and it prematurely went off half-cocked?

[infool7]

It’s a classic case. He got his booger hook caught on the bang switch.

[Fido969]

...as Sgueglia was trying to repair a faulty mechanism that cocked the .38-caliber Smith and Wesson and rotated the cylinder.

While it was loaded?

Q: What do you call the fellow who finishes last in his class at law school?

A: "Your Honor."

[Kozak]

Guns for me, but not for thee, peasant...

[LaserJock]

Doncha hate those accidental discharges?

[TurboZamboni]

that’s why they have the big robes

[ansel12]

My stepdad was the County judge, but he never went to college, nor of course, law school.

He did carry a .357 in the court room though.

[Chode]

thankful i wasn't eating or drinking when i read that...