Delaware cop has an ND in a classroom demonstration

[Maxwell]

You can pickup a weapon and have an nd on the first day if your careless enough. You can also go an entire lifetime armed without a single accident.
Its not how long you carry a gun or how much training they force you to attend.
Its how much respect you have for them (and I would also add that in some cases, its the design of the gun).
Im not exactly a fan of glocks safety system.
Ive also not heard of many accidents with revolvers or some of the higher quality sa-da semiautos.

Simple logic:
If your going to show off a weapon in a classroom or pass it around, for crying out loud just take a few moments to unload the damn thing properly.

 

[Zen21Tao]

I think that gun grabbers like to look at LEOs with the impresssion that they are the cream of the crop when it comes to firearms expertise. Then when one of their "trained professionals" have a neglagent discharge they like to stress their idea that if it happens to "hight trained" LEOs it must be far too dangerous to let the "average" citizen have a firearm. However, from what I have seen, alot of "average" gun owners speed far more time at the range training and are far more respectful of gun safety. Many LEOs think that because they have a gun on their side everyday they are experts at firarm safety and thus take safety for granted.

 

[SSN Vet]

Sorry MrTwigg

YellowLab has it right.....

The amount of fire arms training on board my SSN was a PATHETIC 50 rounds per year.

The drill for clearing a stovepipe.....raise your right hand, so the Torpedoman Chief can come and clear it for you.

Picture that when Mohamed Jihadist comes along side a moored SSN or SSBN in his small boat with his AK blazing.....and the topside sentry draws his 45 year old .45 ..... stovepipes the second round .... and raises his right hand!

The only way I could be SURE that someone in my duty section could shoot straight was to buy my own .45 and drop several hundred dollars at an indoor range in Charleston (at night, on my own time of course). But I considered it a good investment, and slept better for it.

Whether or not your employer provides adequate training.....PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY CANNOT BE SHIRKED!!! If you carry, YOUR RESPONSIBLE for your own proficiency!!

 

[jerkface11]

I guess this is why only highly trained LEO's are allowed to carry guns at school. No one else is proffesional enough.

 

[Mizzle187]

What no video? its cool once youve seen Rastaman Super ATF agent shot himself youve seen them all! IMO when these talk/demonstations go one with LEO's they should have to check any weapon they will be unholstering at the schools office to show they are unloaded.

 

[ball3006]

Police officers are NOT highly...

firearms trained. I used to be one, and the Chief of the dept for 3 years. I received zero funds for any kind of training. I tried training with the sheriff
's dept but the gun handling was so unsafe, I quit after the second session. The students at the academy, with the exception of me, couldn't hit the broad side of a barn and were passed anyway. The gun club I belong to used to rent the facility to the local police depts for firearms training but quit because the cops shot too many holes in the roof, benches, baffles and supports..........chris3

 

[Model520Fan]

When were you in the Navy ? I was in the Seabees back in the mid 70's and we really got to shoot.

Well, you were in the Seabees in the mid-70's. I wasn't, but I was in for over 25 years, from the early sixties to the late 80's. With the exception of courier qualification (thirty rounds with an M&P) several years after I made LDO, I was never required by the Navy to fire a weapon. I had to search and fight for every chance to use military ammo and, when I was really lucky (?), military weapons. I did, as an E-6, get together with a pro-gun lady personnel officer and set up a program of qualifying every E-4 in the command ONCE with the .45 that they had paperwork saying they already knew how to use. I think that even SSN's experience was above average for the Navy.

Not complaining about the Navy - they don't use guns that much. And I have no complaint at all about some of my firearms-related experience with them. But it was not the norm, and it was pretty much for people who wanted very much to do it, not a requirement for everyone..