[Dean Speir]

Note the construction of the headline…

Officer accidentally shot with own gun​

…police consider the shooting to be an accident, but said it would remain under administrative review.

…Gonzalez and Jorge Navarro, Jr., 48, were working on a welding project when Gonzalez showed Navarro his department-issued Glock 9 mm handgun.

While examining the gun, Navarro allegedly pulled the slide back when it accidentally discharged.

See source story for brand of pistol…

 

[SpecialEd]

It's amazing it could go off with the slide being pulled back!

 

[Tim Burke]

See source story for brand of pistol…

It was the ammo.

 

[Charlie Petty]

I'd sure like to hear the rest of that story....

 

[SpecialEd]

Is anyone else botherd by the fact that a 14 yr MOS and SWAT member would hand a loaded gun to someone to inspect?

 

[OldStar]

It sounds like a suicide pact between incompetents.

:wink:

 

[jar]

I really enjoyed the addition of "and hit a can of carburetor cleaner, which exploded and spilled corrosive fluid on both men."

Now that simply made the story ring out like a crystal bell.

 

[WaltGraham]

I had surmised that the intense electro-magnetic field generated by the arc welder potentiated the event. And then I realized that that would have only been possible if the pistol had some ferrous components...

 

[JRWnTN]

Is anyone else botherd by the fact that a 14 yr MOS and SWAT member would hand a loaded gun to someone to inspect?

Sadly, not the first time it's happened:

A Monterey County sheriff's deputy is in trouble with the law, accused of giving his gun to a convicted felon who then allegedly pointed it at people in a packed bar....He has been charged with aiding and abetting a convicted felon.

http://www.theksbwchannel.com/news/3741257/detail.html

 

[Snake45]

Ain't it great that "trained law enforcement professionals" can be trusted with handguns, "assault weapons," and the right to carry, and the rest of us in the hoi polloi can't? :shock: