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Maine State Police Lieutenant Not Disciplined After Gun Went Off Inside
Bangor Daily News ^ | May 18, 2013 | Dawn Gagnon

Posted on 05/18/2013 2:41:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: Conserev1

certainly not in front of him!


21 posted on 05/18/2013 3:48:55 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (3 guns when you only have one arm? "I just don't want to get killed for lack of shooting back")
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To: nickcarraway

Lt. Shawn Currie is part of the elitist’s sinister plot to shoot patriots in the foot. Watch your feet around Rambo Currie, FReepers.


22 posted on 05/18/2013 3:54:24 PM PDT by sergeantdave (No, I don't have links for everything I post)
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To: Admin Moderator

I don’t like stupid & bad cops. Get over it or ban me.


23 posted on 05/18/2013 3:58:07 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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I hate clowns too.


24 posted on 05/18/2013 4:12:10 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: redreno

I don’t get it. WTF was the AM hounding you for?


25 posted on 05/18/2013 4:21:14 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: Vendome

Well, it’s their forum. So, they can complain or cry about anything they feel b*tth*rt about. However, As my FR home page states......I am a disobedient individualist. Habitual line crosser.


26 posted on 05/18/2013 4:28:24 PM PDT by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: redreno

K. But, my question relates to you being called out of the blue on this post.

You weren’t even on this post until the AM openly called you out.

Ain’t right.


27 posted on 05/18/2013 4:33:22 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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To: redreno

I hate clowns, too.

Have a fresh cookie.


28 posted on 05/18/2013 4:35:40 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: Mark17

While no one was injured, the discharged round of ammunition ricocheted off the floor and struck Trooper Shane Northrup, who also was attending the training session, in the back of the leg, Wright wrote. Currie suffered a small powder burn on his right leg from the discharge and Northrup had a small red mark on his right leg from the ricochet, he noted.

What?


29 posted on 05/18/2013 4:46:21 PM PDT by glyptol
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30 posted on 05/18/2013 4:48:34 PM PDT by abb
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To: RedMonqey

i’d bet the farm it was nothing like that japanese pistol.

h&k don’t make crap pistols. further they could not duplicate the error in testing his pistol.


31 posted on 05/18/2013 5:04:27 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Ok. You are in a police educational class. You have a chambered round because you need that split second advantage encase the bad guys surprise you. That chambered round will get you quite often. Morons.


32 posted on 05/18/2013 6:27:11 PM PDT by LoneRangerMassachusetts (The meek shall not inherit the Earth)
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts

He must have felt threatened by his fellow cops.


33 posted on 05/18/2013 6:39:30 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: nickcarraway

First off, the article doesn’t contain enough information to judge other than armchair QB-ing. I won’t dispute that LEO are treated differently than civilians in these cases, but my drum-beat here is that there is never a discussion on holsters or holstering safety. A decent holster minimimzes accidents; a bad choice by CCW-holders, plus lack of awareness (read ‘complacency’), compounds the probability (not possibility) of an AD. It can happen to anyone. Shamefully we’re not all treated equally.

Related re ‘obstruction’:
http://pistol-training.com/archives/7094


34 posted on 05/19/2013 6:42:47 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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h&k don’t make crap pistols.

Didn't mean to imply they did.

Anyway most of the Japanese pistols were scrapped after the war and now they are very rare and somewhat of a desirable curio among gun collectors. Kinda like Edsels are today...
35 posted on 05/19/2013 8:06:19 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
You are in a police educational class. You have a chambered round because you need that split second advantage encase the bad guys surprise you.

A bad case of complacency. The “The gun just went off” syndrome. A common mistake among "professionals".

Another police instructor killed himself with an "empty" gun that he pointed at his own head while in a hostage training course in San Fransisco. IIRC

An “I thought the gun was unloaded” malady

36 posted on 05/19/2013 8:25:17 AM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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