Pilot's gun discharges on US Airways flight

wcnc via Drudge Report ^ | March 23, 2008 | DIANA RUGG

[Eric in the Ozarks]

ditto.

[Eaker]

Your opinion means little to a person like me who has carried a Glock since the 90’s without a single incident where it jumped off my desk and started discharging rounds.

I agree that the stupid and untrained should rely on several safety’s.

[When do we get liberated?]

LOve my Taurus .45 Millenium Edition P145

[Eaker]

Revolvers don’t have safeties at all.

Why didn’t you jump to the conclusion that it was a revolver rather than a Glock?

[Kirkwood]

That’s just it. The Glock trigger can be depressed and the gun fired without having a finger on the trigger. They have discharged when being forced into a tight (new) holster and they can also discharge in purses or handbags where a lipstick case or a pen can work its way into the trigger guard and press on the trigger. I’ve seen several reports of such NDs with Glocks. I refuse to have one. Better to have no safety at all than a stupid safety.

[garyhope]

Thank you. My old career Army dad taught me gun safety at a young age.

I don’t know why anyone would carry a pistol with a round chambered in an aircraft unless he was expecting big trouble. It’s not like it’s takes a long time to rack a slide. (I assume he wasn’t carrying a revolver.)

Even if you were going to parachute into combat, I don’t think you would exit the aircraft with a round chambered in your weapon.

[Larry Lucido]

A fly-by shooting?

[Lancey Howard]

A gun does not “accidentally discharge”.
Some moron pulled the trigger.

[Mr Rogers]

So, how does that differ from a standard revolver?

[MartinStyles]

I believe pilots are all supposed to carry H&K USP’s. If so, there’s no ‘accident’ possible.

[Eaker]

So you would never own a revolver either?

Putting an unholstered gun in a purse or bag is the NEGLIGENCE!

That is why some of us can carry a Glock safely and the negligent can’t.

[Lancey Howard]

I have heard of “Glock leg”.
I wouldn’t own one, ever.

[1rudeboy]

Speaking of that, what’s the protocol if a pilot suddenly decides to shoot dead his copilot, for whatever reason, then hides behind those reinforced cockpit doors?

I will guess that the protocol, at that point, is "let's wait and see what happens when the plane hits the ground."

[386wt]

...what’s the protocol if a pilot suddenly decides to shoot dead his copilot...

Call home and say goodbye. Don't worry about the cell phone violation.

[Fundamentally Fair]

Speaking of that, what’s the protocol if a pilot suddenly decides to shoot dead his copilot, for whatever reason, then hides behind those reinforced cockpit doors?

Prayers.

[infantrywhooah]

Every handgun (or weapon for that matter) has a safety. It's called the person with his finger on the trigger. No amount of engineering can (or should) take the place of a responsible person exercising gun safety.

[RDTF]

see post 18

[Lancey Howard]

[AFreeBird]

You mean on your person, out and about in the real wooly world?

I can see that.

Not quite the same though as being behind a locked door at 30K ft. I figure the pilot has at least a second or two to grab the gun and rack the slide if if trouble is brewing on the other side of that door.

And yea, I agree with you, I don't like Glocks at all.

[Eaker]

That is the question that Glock haters avoid like the plague.