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Secret Service Agent Accidentally Shoots Self
KEYT ^ | 2/4/2011 | staff

Posted on 02/04/2011 7:33:34 PM PST by RKV

A Secret Service Agent is recovering after accidentally shooting himself Friday morning.

It happened just before 10 a.m. at the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department shooting range on Aviation Drive, in Camarillo.

A spokesman for the Sheriff’s Department says the gun went off as the agent was putting it back into his holster

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KEYWORDS: banglist; glock; hk; onlyones; rkba; ruger
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

ROFLMAO!


21 posted on 02/04/2011 7:45:22 PM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: Travis McGee; GSP.FAN

GLOCK envy?


22 posted on 02/04/2011 7:45:41 PM PST by BipolarBob (Even the earth is bipolar.)
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To: Tupelo

I’ve carried Glocks over 20 years and have only shot myself 4 or 5 times./s


23 posted on 02/04/2011 7:46:25 PM PST by umgud
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To: 23 Everest

This was many years ago thanks I carry a b - license


24 posted on 02/04/2011 7:47:08 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom!!! <sarc>)
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To: RKV

Finger on the trigger while reholstering is my guess. Poor trigger discipline N.D.

And I bet we never know if I’m right.


25 posted on 02/04/2011 7:47:49 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 23 Everest

I do the same. I learned that respect for guns from my parents, and I hope that most owners have experienced the same childhood lessons.


26 posted on 02/04/2011 7:48:57 PM PST by digital-olive
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To: Travis McGee

I think Secret Service carries the Sig in .357 Sig.


27 posted on 02/04/2011 7:49:34 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: BipolarBob

Great guns point shoot.


28 posted on 02/04/2011 7:50:32 PM PST by GSP.FAN (Some days, it's not even worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: FreedomPoster

Sounds about right. ND. No excuse.


29 posted on 02/04/2011 7:51:26 PM PST by RKV (He who has the guns makes the rules)
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To: al baby

Your “B” beats my C-36, General.


30 posted on 02/04/2011 7:53:16 PM PST by 23 Everest (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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To: FreedomPoster
Possibly getting the thumb break of a pancake holster into the trigger and giving it a good push. I don't know which trigger they have. I know ICE has the same gun in .40 cal with the DAK trigger, but I've never shot one.

The only Sig I ever carried was the compact in 9mm in the Navy, but it had the conventional DA/SA trigger with a de-cocker.

31 posted on 02/04/2011 7:53:44 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: RKV

GLOCK!


32 posted on 02/04/2011 7:58:48 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, A Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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To: RKV

Someone probably told him he had to be willing to take a bullet for the president. So he thinks, “MAN this is probably gonna really hurt,,, but ok, its my job i guess, ,,,here goes,,,, BANG!”

OUCH!! F&%K!!!


33 posted on 02/04/2011 8:00:32 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office)
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To: RKV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLsg0EvZozI


34 posted on 02/04/2011 8:01:12 PM PST by JNRoberts
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To: umgud
"I’ve carried Glocks over 20 years and have only shot myself 4 or 5 times./s" I think you understand what I mean.
By the way, I too like Glocks.
35 posted on 02/04/2011 8:01:23 PM PST by Tupelo
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

A retired Marine told me this one:
“What do you do when you start to miss your ex?”
His self answer:
“I recommend 2 clicks right windage!”
LOL


36 posted on 02/04/2011 8:02:35 PM PST by TaMoDee
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To: umgud

I spoke recently to an in-law who owns a Glock. He isn’t as knowledgeable as he should be. I pointed out the notion that as far as a Glock is concerned - the holster is the safety. He was somewhat puzzled. I suggested that he buy a thousand rounds and sign up for an NRA sanctioned pistol training course and practice till the 1k ammo runs out.

I know one person who sold his Glock and replaced it with a Springfield XD Tactical - the one with the thumb safety as well as the grip safety and mis-named ‘trigger safety’.


37 posted on 02/04/2011 8:04:22 PM PST by PeteCat
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To: RKV

Oh, right, blame the victim.


38 posted on 02/04/2011 8:04:32 PM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: RKV

Has this article passed the smell test?


39 posted on 02/04/2011 8:05:13 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I have been shooting since I was old enough to remember and was taught safe gun handling from the same time, but I have had an accidental discharge. OK it was a negligent one but it was easy to have happen.

I was 18 and had bought a new Colt 1911 from Gibson’s in Ft. Walton Bch. Fl.

As I lowered the hammer on a live round, the hammer slipped off my thumb and it fired. Fortunately I did have it pointed safely at the ground.

Either the slide or hammer cut the end of my thumb. I still have a tiny scar to remind me.

I am actually glad it happened as I have never done anything like that since. I have to remind myself sometimes to never get complacent tho.


40 posted on 02/04/2011 8:05:13 PM PST by yarddog
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