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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. — A firearms instructor in southern Massachusetts has been assigned to other duties after his gun accidentally went off while he was teaching a class on weapons safety.

Officials say the Glock handgun discharged while Maj. Donald Lamar was demonstrating to Bristol County deputy sheriffs how to safely holster the weapon.

The bullet ripped a hole in Lamar's pants but missed his leg and foot.

Sheriff Thomas Hodgson says the officer made a "gross error in judgment" by not emptying the weapon before the class last week.

Lamar, a certified firearms instructor since 2005, was transferred to another division and will not carry a firearm while the incident is being investigated.
 
demonstrating to Bristol County deputy sheriffs how to safely holster the weapon.
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I could see "glock leg syndrome" when doing other activities but you'd think an instructor would be paying particular attention to how he was holstering his gun when he's teaching people how to holster their guns. Perhaps the good instructor wouldn't be using a loaded gun anyway though.

At least he's alright, I bet he learned quite a lesson that day.
 
If he thinks the problem with his reholstering accident here was that the gun should have been unloaded first, he should probably reexamine the reholstering technique he's teaching. Unless he was intentionally showing the wrong way to do it, and didn't check to ensure the gun was empty first.

Safe reholstering technique doesn't require that the gun be unloaded in order to not go off.
 
second one I've seen involving a GLOCK... uh oh... better stay away from GLOCKS :neener:

Seriously though, who on earth teaches anyone about safety with a loaded weapon? That's about as smart as teaching a 16 year old kid to drive a triple trailer semi...
 
I remember years ago when Glocks first hit the market here in the US. A couple of Florida undercover cops that were used to carrying their weapons tucked into their wasteband and concealed by large untucked shirts managed to shoot themselves, ahem.........in the goods! :eek:

Makes me cringe to even think about it.
 
Always keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot. :)

I don't want to place blame on the gun manufacturer but when some companies claim their gun is safer than another then it may give a person a feeling of confidence that they shouldn't have. :rolleyes:
 
It is sad that professional LEOs make these mistakes. A firearms trainer no less. The simple fact of the matter is that guns require training, respect, and vigilance.

Still, if there are safer options out there, why not use them? We humans are not perfect and we make mistakes, get in a hurry, do things under stress.

Another vote for the M&P or the XD
 
Well we can be certain he was NOT qualified to teach firearms safety.
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Oh, I don't know. A truly great teacher may go to great effort to present material in a way that students will remember. Great teaching can be life-altering.

Sometimes, being a great teacher requires great personal sacrifice.:evil:
 
It's all GLOCK's fault!!! With any other handgun you can yank the trigger all you want with your booger hook while holstering! :uhoh:

I hope it went like this: "Make darn sure you keep your finger outside of the trigger guard while holstering otherwise watch what can happen" *expecting a click and gets a bang* rather than trying to demonstrate how to holster. I wonder if they'll start using blue guns for training now.
 
Until they stress firearm safety these "accidents" will continue. This time the officer was lucky. We have all seen the video where the DEA agent shoots him self in the leg in front of a school class or the Las Vages Metro Officer comes with in inches of drilling the guy in the head with a bullet as he is cuffed by another officer. It all comes down to complacency. That one time they get lax they put their finger on the trigger and boom.

The gun worked as it was designed to work.

Safety is something stressed in most work places, but law enforcement seems to be behind. They should be talking gun safety every day.
 
Why is it so bad to say that this gun design is a BAD DESIGN?

Might as well carry around a single action six-shooter with the hammer back all day long; seems just as safe to me.
 
I'm not sure it's a bad design, so much as an interesting design that has some potentially tragic, and far-too-likely, unintended consequences.

Oh wait... If it's anything but a Glock, that would be called a bad design.

But I'm an Austrian-American, so f--- you.:p

Seriously, there are a couple of guns that are made for quick drawing. Both of them were originally made in .45 caliber for the US Army, and both of them still work as intended. Point well, too.
 
Every time I start thinking I might like to get a Glock I hear about something like this. Or the cop that got killed in Maine a week or so back holstering a S & W auto-think it was prob. an M & P with a Glock type trigger. Think I'll stick with my XD
 
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