He threw the gun into the bay after he shot Kate, but even that wouldn’t matter as the gun was issued to a BLM ranger so a substitute of same model would work.
To me, it sure looks like the DA’s office AND the judge threw this case away for the sake of politics.
This case will be forgotten soon if people let it be forgotten.
Could have? Did I miss something, did the gun used in the crime suddenly disappear?
Maybe he was worried about tainting evidence for a future trial?
Sig Sauer P239 in .40 S&W. It’s double action for the first round, single action after with a decocking lever. The hammer is bobbed, but it could be “cocked” for the first shot by someone who knew how it operated. In court the police expert who tested the piece said it had a single action trigger pull of about five pounds and double action pull of about ten pounds. Normal for a pistol of this type. It was in good working order.
It’s possible but unlikely that the pistol was cocked with a round in the chamber when the felon took possession of it. More likely he had to overcome the longer, harder double action trigger pull.
Either way, you have to pull the trigger to make it go boom. I’d wager the felon pulled the trigger to see if the thing would fire, because he’s that addled and/or stupid.
If this guy walked because the trigger was too light, every single criminal shooting could be blamed on the correct functioning of the firearm. If he walked because he didn’t know guns fire when you pull the trigger, same thing, anybody could plead stupid and walk.
The POS defense attorney was pushing the “hair trigger” thing with the jury. I hope he rots in Hell after being “accidentally” shot by an illegal alien.
I heard he threw it in the water - assumed they had recovered it since they claimed it was the gun stolen from some agency’s car....