Deputy on leave after dropping gun
Seriously???
A Lake County sheriff’s deputy has been placed on leave after her gun fell out of its holster and skidded across the floor of the crowded courthouse lobby Wednesday morning.
Seriously??? To Quote Tam “Stop touching that!”
Most cop holster have some sort of retention device, be it an internal lock like in the Blackhawk Serpa, or the Bianchi FingerLok holsters…or the more ubiquitous thumb-break. But even if the holster doesn’t have some sort of manual retention generally police departments don’t cheap out on holsters and any decent holster should retain the gun at any angle without a retention device in normal circumstances.
So what was happening, obviously Ms. Harris was fiddling with a gun she didn’t need to draw and it hit the floor.
Oh this isn’t her first boner:
The sheriff’s office confirmed the courthouse deputy is the same officer who accidentally shot herself while retrieving her service weapon from the trunk of her car in the Lake County Courthouse parking garage in February 2009. The bullet went through Deputy Karen Harris’ hand and then lodged in her abdomen
Remember, the police are the only people trained well enough to handle a firearm.
You can’t fix stupid!! I am 66 years old and got my first gun when I was 8. Got my first deer rifle (94 winchester) when I was 12 and my first handgun when I was 12. Never dropped a firearm, never had an accidental discharge,
and was drilled very intensly by my foster father in firearms safety. The officer in question needs to work in dispatch or anywhere she dosn’t need a gun. Two accidents are two too many.
I also believe that I am not special, in that most people who have firearms are just as careful.
Paul in Texas
I’m still trying to figure out how she managed to shoot herself in the hand and the abdomen at the same time. The geometry of that just doesn’t make sense.
You’re right though. The only two ways that gun “fell” out of the holster are either it wasn’t in properly (operator error) or she was fiddling with it (operator error + STUPID!).
Two incidents of negligence with a firearm – especially when one involved an injury – means she needs to be fired, for cause, and in a way that ensures she is never employed as an LEO again.
“Accidentally” shot herself? More like negligence. Idiot. The woman needs an intensive course in keep-your-paws-off-the-trigger, accompanied by a pink slip.