Ohio firearms instructor charged for unintentional shooting

[HeadJunter]

This case points out the importance of being aware of where your muzzle is pointing. Muzzle direction is the primary safety of safe gunhandling; always has been and always will be.

http://exm.nr/NYgdnK

 

[Fred Fuller]

And it wasn't his first - http://www.dispatch.com/content/sto...ng-was-not-first-for-firearms-instructor.html

 

[Speedo66]

He's lucky he was only charged with a misd., especially it being his second time. Had he been in a gun unfriendly state, coupled with a zealous prosecutor trying to make a name for himself, it might have been a felony reckless endangerment charge.

Whoever gave this guy his training credentials needs to revoke them.

 

[Schwing]

He's lucky he was only charged with a misd., especially it being his second time. Had he been in a gun unfriendly state, coupled with a zealous prosecutor trying to make a name for himself, it might have been a felony reckless endangerment charge.

Whoever gave this guy his training credentials needs to revoke them.

What about all those people he has "trained"?

 

[Arkansas Paul]

Had he been in a gun unfriendly state, coupled with a zealous prosecutor trying to make a name for himself, it might have been a felony reckless endangerment charge.

Only if the incident had met each element of the crime of felony reckless endangerment. Contrary to what many think, prosecutors generally don't just pull a charge out of their rear end and charge it. Their success rates are extremely high for a reason.

Whoever gave this guy his training credentials needs to revoke them.

You'll get no argument there. What a moron.

 

[Speedo66]

I now see in the other article he has held several local police and political jobs, so it may have been a political favor not to indict him for a felony.

According to the article, when he was a reserve Lt. in a local police dept., the dept. never even took action against him for the first shooting, which if it wasn't reckless, certainly showed poor judgement in firing his pistol in the air at a children's event.

 

[rtroha]

Whoever gave this guy his training credentials needs to revoke them.

The Ohio Peace Officers Training Commission, the same government agency that trains LEO in Ohio.