[Henry Bowman]

Girl Wounded In Accidental Shooting

A ten-year-old girl remains hospitalized this morning after she was injured in a shooting. Authorities say the girl's father, who's a police officer, was cleaning his gun when it went off. It happened shortly before 9p.m. Monday in a home on Toll House Drive in Union, Kentucky. Investigators say Campbell County Police Officer Mickey Collins was assembling his service revolver when it discharged, striking the girl in the buttocks. Officer Collins drove the girl to Saint Luke Hospital West in his cruiser. She was later taken to Children's Hospital. Her injuries are not believed to be life threatening. Collins is a ten year police veteran. Authorities are calling the shooting an accident. Charges are not expected to be filed.

Here is the link (http://55krc.com/jacor-common/local_news_common.html?ID=20031111065450&feed=local) .

Let us review the 4 Rules . . .

[4v50 Gary]

Assembling his service revolver? Very well informed newsreporter or editor. Be careful about the link. Plenty of pop-ups.

[J Miller]

Investigators say Campbell County Police Officer Mickey Collins was assembling his service revolver when it discharged,
That's a crock of bull if I ever heard one.
They wont charge him, but I'll bet it was a total ND on his part. No way was it an accident.

[Henry Bowman]

Here is another link (http://www.kypost.com/2003/11/11/cop111103.html) to another version of the story. (Hopefully w/o pop-ups.)

[manwithoutahome]

Sure, clean a gun while it's loaded, hell, may as well point the barrel up to your eyeball with your finger on the trigger, while it's cocked, to see if it's clean enough.

Jeez, they will say it's the "guns" fault when it's the idiot behind the trigger.

Even if you know it's unloaded (and you should always act as if it is loaded), "DON'T POINT THE GUN AT ANYTHING THAT YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY!!!!!!".

Sorry for the rant.

M

*1: Treat a gun as if it is always loaded
2. Never point the muzzle (gun) at anything that you are not willing to destroy.
3. Never put your finger on the trigger until you are ready to fire.
4. Always know your target and what is behind it.
5. A gun is not a toy, treat it with the respect it deserves

**Just off the top of my head

[shermacman]

The gun discharged after he was finished cleaning it????? How clean could it get with a round stuffed in battery? *** part of cleaning a gun involves leaving a live cartridge in the chamber? No way this story is true. No part of it makes any sense.

[rayjay]

No matter what or how it happened, which it should've happened, he shot his daughter in the a#@! I'm gald she is ok and not seriously hurt. I think that little girl is gonna rake it in big time this Christmas! I think the Dad should have his butt kicked up over his head for that ND by Mom..... IF she hasn't already done it. Another canidate for the rubber gun squad just stepped up folks.

[gun-fucious]

i kinda doubt the reporter knows the difference
between a "service revolver"
and a "service pistol"

i would assume the officer had a 9mm pistol

he prolly dropped the mag
removed the slide
cleaned it
reassembled it
locked it back
slammed a magazine in
and released the slide
chambering a round

then he "dry fired" and shot his daughter

[geekWithA.45]

I thought Kentucky used 10mm glocks?

[Standing Wolf]

Police Officer Mickey Collins was assembling his service revolver when it discharged...

If I were his chief, he'd be out of a job.

[P95Carry]

cleaning his gun when it went off The actual phraseology hardly matters .. as ever the reporting tries to state that a gun was having a bad day - and so ''went off'' to make its own statement about just how pi$$ed it was at everybody.

I wonder if we'll ever see an actual, accurate report that states something like (it has to stay polite of course) .....''In the course of cleaning and maintaining his service weapon, Officer XXXXX neglected to check it was clear and safe, as a result of which a negligent discharge took place.''

Oh for more emphasis on the safety aspect ..... which is down to the individual .... instead of painting ''The Gun'' as always being the bad guy ...... which of course is wonderful fodder for the anti's.

''Oh look Diana ...... another unfettered and uncontrolled gun has gone crazy''!:rolleyes: :banghead:

[manwithoutahome]

P95Carry, bahhahahahahahahahhahah, holding my side and puking up my guts.....


''In the course of cleaning and maintaining his service weapon, Officer XXXXX neglected to check it was clear and safe, as a result of which a negligent discharge took place.''

Yeah right, and the news will actually become unbias and "fair and balanced"...

We wish but it will never happen

M

[WAGCEVP]

just goes to show you that even "trained" cops can have "accidents".


:banghead: :banghead:

[DontShootMe]

Gun goes off while cleaning?

Gun crime on the rise in the UK?

These things are UNPOSSIBLE!

[Shane]

he prolly dropped the mag
removed the slide
cleaned it
reassembled it
locked it back
slammed a magazine in
and released the slide
chambering a round

then he "dry fired" and shot his daughter

Maybe. But what kind of poor muzzle discipline would he have been using to be pointing his gun at his daughter in the first place?

[carpettbaggerr]

A 10-year-old Boone County girl shot in the leg when the service revolver her police-officer father was cleaning went off is expected to recover after undergoing surgery Monday night.


Campbell County Police Officer Mickey Collins told Boone County Sheriff's Department deputies that the gun, a .357 Sig Sauer automatic, discharged accidentally as he was putting it back together about 9 p.m. in the family home near Richwood.


So they're using automatic revolvers now. And in .357 Sig no less. And I'd call it the leg if I was shot in the buttocks. Thigh wound. Upper thigh. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[TallPine]

I guess the phrase "not sitting down for a week" takes on a new meaning.