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MichaelV

Post subject: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:11 pm

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Even the pros get this wrong.

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-me-0601- ... 8179.story

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buffybuster

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:24 pm

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MichaelV

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:49 pm

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GforceJunkie

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 5:22 pm

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buffybuster

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:06 pm

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The majority of Local, State and Federal LEO's carry a duty firearm as a requirement of the job. They practice/qualify only when they have to. Even supposed SWAT/ESU/TAC Unit personnel aren't very savvy when it comes to gun handling. Disturbing but true.

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Gnzrme

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:31 pm

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So if this occured at ASR on a thursday afternoon involving a LAPD officer.... I wonder if it was.....SWAT?? They are there every other thursday on the rifle line and it occurs on my thursday off which yesterday would have been a day off if I wasn't working the light duty shifts. So, its a very good possibility that this was a SWAT officer..... Don't know the circumstances surrounding the event, but guns usually only go off when something presses the trigger.....

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robert hode

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:46 pm

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I've been on a couple of runs where cops shot themselves in the leg and one where he blew the light bar off the roof of his patrol car when his 12 gu went off while he was still inside the car trying to get out. We got called because he went deaf for a while. :oops:

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Connor P Price

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:55 pm

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MichaelV

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:41 pm

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MichaelV

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:44 pm

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Gnzrme

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 7:51 pm

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yeah... I see that.... He was performing a "tactical movement" Wonder what that was.... :?:

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PRYDE

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:01 pm

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I was at Angeles that day: they shut down the left side range for about a half hour until the helicopter could land and take off again.
According to one of the rangemasters who is a buddy of mine, the guy had his finger on the trigger while reholstering and shot himself in the leg.

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Gnzrme

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 10:10 pm

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did he fall like the article states.... That was what I was thinking or from a quickdraw.....

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Connor P Price

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Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 11:41 pm

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MichaelV

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:34 am

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6079Winston

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 7:45 am

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Another safety tip is if you drop your gun don't try to catch it as it falls, picked that one up at Cameron's Action Pistol Match. Might be good to include in the safety briefing on matches involving movement.

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buffybuster

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Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 1:16 pm

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Chris

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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 2:10 pm

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Anybody ever stuck around on a Thursday afternoon and watched the SWAT guys? Wow. Just wow is all I can say.

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robert hode

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:09 pm

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Is that a "good" wow or a "bad" wow?

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Chris

Post subject: Re: NO FINGER ON TRIGGER UNTIL READY TO SHOOT!

Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 5:34 pm

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DavidRSA

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 10:42 am

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Here is a picture just before the event. Note the trigger finger position:

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Stoopy

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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2011 4:20 pm

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