usmarine0352_2005
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Even though this gun had a safety, I still don't know of any gun that goes off just sitting there without the trigger being pulled.
The article says that it was a Sig Sauer. I don't know of any Sigs that don't have safeties but perhaps it does not. Still does not change the fact that he pulled the trigger causing the pistol to fire. It doesn't specify what Sig model it was, I'd assume it is whatever the Bureau of Land Managment permits.
Obviously he is a felon and isn't supposed to have a gun but I'm sure his attorney is pressing for a lesser charge or dropping of certain charges.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/09/08/attorney-in-steinle-case-blames-gun-it-has-no-safety/
The article says that it was a Sig Sauer. I don't know of any Sigs that don't have safeties but perhaps it does not. Still does not change the fact that he pulled the trigger causing the pistol to fire. It doesn't specify what Sig model it was, I'd assume it is whatever the Bureau of Land Managment permits.
Obviously he is a felon and isn't supposed to have a gun but I'm sure his attorney is pressing for a lesser charge or dropping of certain charges.
http://www.breitbart.com/california/2015/09/08/attorney-in-steinle-case-blames-gun-it-has-no-safety/
ATTORNEY IN STEINLE CASE BLAMES GUN: IT ‘HAS NO SAFETY’
by AWR HAWKINS8 Sep 2015
Last week Matt Gonzalez–attorney of alleged gunman Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez–agreed with testimony that Lopez-Sanchez allegedly shot Kathryn Steinle but argued that it was the gun’s fault. He suggested the gun went off without the trigger being pulled because it “has no safety.”
Gonzalez responded by blaming the gun, a .40 caliber Sig Sauer that had been stolen from a federal agent who works for the Bureau of Land Management. He says the gun “has no safety” and claims “there is no evidence that [Lopez-Sanchez] put his finger in the trigger.”
It is interesting to note that Lopez-Sanchez reportedly told police at one point “that he was shooting at a seal or a black fish.” He would need to put his finger on the trigger and pull it to do that.
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