This was e-mailed to us from one of our Police advisors

[Stubob]

This is why people need training. He waves the gun at the camera operator.

http://my.break.com/media/view.aspx?ContentID=357152 :shock:

[FirstFlight]

How right you are! If one owns a gun, training should be scheduled on a regular basis. Even if one has been shooting for 50 years they still need to keep up the training cycle.

[VegasGeorge]

That exact same thing happened when I went shooting with two friends. One was an experienced, well trained shooter. The other was not. We were at an outdoor range, shooting in a pistol revetment. After several minutes of shooting, the inexperienced fellow came walking up to us with the pistol in his hand. He fired a shot that hit the ground right in front of us, actually splattering us with dirt. The first thing out of the guy's mouth was a claim that the gun "went off all by itself." I explained rather forcefully that guns just don't do that, and told the guy to keep his finger off the trigger, and out of the trigger guard until he was actually intending to shoot.

The lesson I learned is that I just have to watch the other guy like a hawk. Especially someone I don't know, or who isn't an experienced shooter.

[ccadmin]

Even though I have not had a gun go off by mistake - do not anger your CCW instructor by bragging that you are just as good right handed as you are left handed. I was taking my class and she was talking about eye dominance. I thought I knew everything and said ..... I am just as good with both hands.

Well she stopped the class and walked us out to the range. She said ok ... Prove it ...

So. I at 25 yards had the target and shot with the right hand in the dead center of the head shot. While this happened the expend case caught the wind and hit the bill of my ball cap and lodged itself into my forehead.

While I was smelling burning flesh, I removed the shell and drew down with a shot from the left hand and it was within a dime of the first shot.

It was a valuable lesson... Do not brag about your shooting, learn to shoot with both hands, and do not wave a gun around no matter how bad the flesh is burning.

Had I waved the gun around, I would not have been given my CCW Permit. Also one of my good friends would have shot me. He lived through Nam and he commented that he felt safer shooting next to me than some of his gang.

Do not anger your CCW instructor....

Thanks for your posts.
:D

[nodaywithout]

yeah i have that same clip in one of my topics it is sad that people can be so careless

[packnrat]

the link goes to a P-off traffic cop, not a bad gun handling video.

[Mudcat]

If you copy and paste the address after it has redirected you to the P'd off cop it redirects to a page disclaiming the content as being removed due to either not being proper for the community or copyright infringement.

[pioneer461]

1. It was a taser, not his pistol.
2. There is no camera operator, it is a dash-cam.
3. The officer was way out of line for a stupid traffic violation (unless there is more that went on and the video was edited.)

http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb294/pioneer461/Police/130-224.jpg