Depends on the weapon. That was a good rule for the old .45s.
A typical police sidearm is a Glock, where there are more safeties than a WW2 pistol had, and none of them external where an idiot can accidentally turn it off. It's not crazy to carry one with a round in the chamber. I once nerded out learning how they worked on the inside, and could not imagine any physical way it could fire without conscious effort. Even snagging the trigger wouldn't be enough. There's a lever on the front of the trigger that has to be pressed back in order for it to go off.
Other pistols have longer and more difficult trigger pulls for a first shot.
If they make tasers with pistol style grips, manufacturers should be required by law to make the grips Feel entirely different - have the grips covered in those squidgy bumps they put on door mats, for example. They could easily require that the tactile difference be extreme enough to provoke a tactile detection response within a time frame shorter than that required to draw the weapon. Or they could just stop making them have pistol like forms. This sounds like a mistake waiting to happen.
Probably better than either one by itself.
Can you post this 50 more times just in case nobody gets your point? TY
If it goes mango-shaped, you know you're in the tropics.
So very sad. Ta, Stephen.
Depends on the weapon. That was a good rule for the old .45s.
A typical police sidearm is a Glock, where there are more safeties than a WW2 pistol had, and none of them external where an idiot can accidentally turn it off. It's not crazy to carry one with a round in the chamber. I once nerded out learning how they worked on the inside, and could not imagine any physical way it could fire without conscious effort. Even snagging the trigger wouldn't be enough. There's a lever on the front of the trigger that has to be pressed back in order for it to go off.
Other pistols have longer and more difficult trigger pulls for a first shot.
Not exactly, but when the allegedly good cops don't do anything about the bad ones, they're all bad. They need to police themselves.
The fact that she shouted "Taser! Taser! Taser!" can also be interpreted that she was thinking ahead to the cover story she would need.
If they make tasers with pistol style grips, manufacturers should be required by law to make the grips Feel entirely different - have the grips covered in those squidgy bumps they put on door mats, for example. They could easily require that the tactile difference be extreme enough to provoke a tactile detection response within a time frame shorter than that required to draw the weapon. Or they could just stop making them have pistol like forms. This sounds like a mistake waiting to happen.
Timothy McVeigh was pulled over for a tag violation.
My experience has been with a couple of revolvers and two automatics, all of which would now be verging on antiques.
That’s interesting, though, because I’ll make you a bet that a taser has a different safety system from a Glock.
Yeah. And so embarrassing. All your neighbors now think you're a criminal. Sorry man. :(
I'm betting she was either intoxicated or medicated to the eyeballs and should never have been allowed to serve on that day.
Surely a blood test was conducted on the scene and will either prove or disprove this. /s
I think she's still the head of their Police Union, though. She's spent decades keeping cops from being tried for their crimes.
In close quarters, cops like to taser in the face.
Or a fireman.
More than a pound.