Delightful post LOL
Posted on 01/06/2014 6:08:36 AM PST by FreedomPoster
Jerome M. Hauer, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's director of homeland security, took out his handgun and used the laser sighting device attached to the barrel as a pointer in a presentation to a foreign delegation, according to public officials. It happened Oct. 24 in Albany at the highly secure state emergency operations center below State Police headquarters.
These officials, one of whom claimed to be an eyewitness, said that three Swedish emergency managers in the delegation were rattled when the gun's laser tracked across one of their heads before Hauer found the map of New York, at which he wanted to point.
Hauer, commissioner of the Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services, was disabled by a stroke a few years ago and can be unsteady. He isn't a law enforcement official. He carries the loaded 9-millimeter Glock in a holster into state buildings, an apparent violation of state law barring state employees from bringing weapons to the workplace, several witnesses say.
The incident with the Swedish delegation occurred during a two-hour briefing at the operations center concerning the state's response to Superstorm Sandy, according to one of the officials.
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Totally agree. I've been saying the same thing for years! The WORST presentation starts with "this slide shows us several interesting things"
Lasers work very well on “bedroom guns” for fast acquisition in dark rooms.
Or the desk of a nodding student - especially when you get the angle and swing just right, and the pointer hits the desk simultaneously along its length.
Thwack!
On TV maybe, or in the movies, possibly in COD Ghosts.
Not in real life.
“If he removed the laser, reholstered the gun, and then proceeded to used the targeting laser as a laser pointer, then I wouldn’t really have a problem with it”
What if he unloaded and showed clear, then he would just be using a gun shaped laser pointer? Seriously the whole thing is absurb and inappropriate on a number of levels.
Agreed. However, I still think there's a major difference between using a "gun-shaped laser pointer" and a laser pointer which can be (but is not currently) attached to a gun.
Don't try to get around Rule #1. That is how accidents happen.
Damn fool.
FFIW, he shouldn’t have a gun the police building.
But he won’t be prosecuted.
Delightful post LOL
The straight man would approach (young) women on the street (sidewalk) and proceed to drop it to then engage them in conversation while "chasing" same.
Funny at the time as few had actual personal experience with a laser dot.
(Entertaining kitties is a regression...;-) )
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