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I think I'm going to term this the Daniel Bennett Competition… there will be no award, though… for Most Misdirected Litigation Involving a Firearm.
The unfortunate Mr. Bennett, it may be recalled, was the proprietor of an strip mall pizzeria in Tuscon who a decade ago obtained a new Model 23 Glock (because of its reputation), went to the range, put part of a box of American Eagle 180-grain SWCs through it, went back to his store, loaded ten (10) rounds into the (pre-ban) magazine, and placed it in Condition Three beneath the counter.
The following year, when a couple of murderous goops barged in and started waving guns around and making demands, Mr. Bennett went into action. He actually got one (unsuccessful) shot off before the bad guys shot the bejabbers out of him as he strugged valiantly to clear the malfunction and get back into action. He couldn't and they fled the scene.
They are both now on Arizona's Death Row for a prior nearby triple homicide under similar circumstances, and Mr. Bennett survived, with certain disabilities, to sue the manufacturer for failure to advise in the pistol's manual that a certain level of training was required. His first litigation was, not surprisingly, unsuccessful, but then the appellate process afforded him a second shot, so to speak, and I'm not sure where that action now resides, although our good Doctor sent me a link to some part of it not long ago.
Comes now one Jeffrey Holland (thank you, Welder Walt), an Omaha MOS who engaged a pair of bank robbers and is now suing our friends in Smyrna because his pistol malfunctioned after taking a round from one of the goops… Officer Holland somehow equated "Glock Perfection" with the guns being virtually indestructable…
Kudos to both Mr. Bennett and Officer Holland for, as Patty Rogers says, "staying in the fight."
Bronx cheers, however, for their extraordinarily misguided litigations.
I cannot but help observe that a lotta people out there who probably should know better, have read far too much into the "Glock Perfection" campaign.
And it must be noted that most of my information about the awful Bennett event came directly from Mr. Bennett himself who attempted to enlist me to his cause back in the early days of our grand ol' Prodigy SS BB.
The unfortunate Mr. Bennett, it may be recalled, was the proprietor of an strip mall pizzeria in Tuscon who a decade ago obtained a new Model 23 Glock (because of its reputation), went to the range, put part of a box of American Eagle 180-grain SWCs through it, went back to his store, loaded ten (10) rounds into the (pre-ban) magazine, and placed it in Condition Three beneath the counter.
The following year, when a couple of murderous goops barged in and started waving guns around and making demands, Mr. Bennett went into action. He actually got one (unsuccessful) shot off before the bad guys shot the bejabbers out of him as he strugged valiantly to clear the malfunction and get back into action. He couldn't and they fled the scene.
They are both now on Arizona's Death Row for a prior nearby triple homicide under similar circumstances, and Mr. Bennett survived, with certain disabilities, to sue the manufacturer for failure to advise in the pistol's manual that a certain level of training was required. His first litigation was, not surprisingly, unsuccessful, but then the appellate process afforded him a second shot, so to speak, and I'm not sure where that action now resides, although our good Doctor sent me a link to some part of it not long ago.
Comes now one Jeffrey Holland (thank you, Welder Walt), an Omaha MOS who engaged a pair of bank robbers and is now suing our friends in Smyrna because his pistol malfunctioned after taking a round from one of the goops… Officer Holland somehow equated "Glock Perfection" with the guns being virtually indestructable…
O, well, read it for yourselves: Former Omaha police officer sues gun manufacturer for malfunction.
Kudos to both Mr. Bennett and Officer Holland for, as Patty Rogers says, "staying in the fight."
Bronx cheers, however, for their extraordinarily misguided litigations.
I cannot but help observe that a lotta people out there who probably should know better, have read far too much into the "Glock Perfection" campaign.
And it must be noted that most of my information about the awful Bennett event came directly from Mr. Bennett himself who attempted to enlist me to his cause back in the early days of our grand ol' Prodigy SS BB.
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