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A 7-year-old Leominster boy learned an important lesson during his spring vacation: Don’t play with daddy’s guns.
The boy accidentally fired his cop dad’s automatic handgun into the ceiling of the Leominster police station wounding no one, but causing a scare in the room. “We are very lucky nobody was injured,” Leominster police Chief Peter Roddy told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
The boy was visiting the station with his father, an off-duty cop who was not identified, last Thursday during school vacation, Roddy said. His father was showing off a new holster to three other police officers in a room inside the police station about 1:30 p.m.
He set the weapon, identified as a Sig Sauer P226, which can chamber a 9mm or .40-caliber round, on a table behind him when the boy grabbed the gun and fired.
Roddy told the paper that the boy’s father immediately scolded him, “You know better than that.”
The boy told his father he thought the gun was unloaded. He had watched his father go through a procedure clearing the gun, moments before he fired it. But, while the clip was out, one round was left in the chamber.
“The young boy touched the weapon when he shouldn’t have and it went off,” Roddy told the newspaper.
Roddy said an investigation was under way, but added the police officer was usually very safety conscious
It would seem that the father has some fault in this as well. Not sure why he would take the mag out of the gun, but leave a round in the chamber. Not exactly making the gun safe that is for sure.
The boy accidentally fired his cop dad’s automatic handgun into the ceiling of the Leominster police station wounding no one, but causing a scare in the room. “We are very lucky nobody was injured,” Leominster police Chief Peter Roddy told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.
The boy was visiting the station with his father, an off-duty cop who was not identified, last Thursday during school vacation, Roddy said. His father was showing off a new holster to three other police officers in a room inside the police station about 1:30 p.m.
He set the weapon, identified as a Sig Sauer P226, which can chamber a 9mm or .40-caliber round, on a table behind him when the boy grabbed the gun and fired.
Roddy told the paper that the boy’s father immediately scolded him, “You know better than that.”
The boy told his father he thought the gun was unloaded. He had watched his father go through a procedure clearing the gun, moments before he fired it. But, while the clip was out, one round was left in the chamber.
“The young boy touched the weapon when he shouldn’t have and it went off,” Roddy told the newspaper.
Roddy said an investigation was under way, but added the police officer was usually very safety conscious
It would seem that the father has some fault in this as well. Not sure why he would take the mag out of the gun, but leave a round in the chamber. Not exactly making the gun safe that is for sure.
