Then all sorts of hilarity ensued:
Transportation Security Administration screeners saw the gun, described as a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver, and notified a Philadelphia police officer. ... The gun discharged when the officer tried to put the safety on, according to MyFoxPhilly.com.
Christ on Roller Skates, how brain-damaged do you have to be to do that? A S&W Airweight has two frigging controls: The catch that you slide in order to open up the cylinder and the trigger. The trigger pull on an Airweight has never been described as being light. It's not supposed to be. The only way that a modern double-action revolver goes off is if somebody pulls the trigger.
Which is what that cop had to have done.
One would think a number of other options should have surfaced to the TSA cop, especially being obviously unfamilier to the weapon.
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Stupidity rules it seems.
w3ski
If I recall this is an enclosed-hammer revolver for concealed carry where the hammer is never cocked, i.e., double-action only. In other words, even if there wasn't a trigger block to keep the hammer from hitting the bullet if the trigger isn't pulled back, it'd be impossible to set it off unless you, well... pulled the f'ing trigger.
ReplyDeleteSafety? On a revolver? (Face palm indeed!)
Sometimes I am so dense and gullible. This fool wasn't trying for a safety position, if he didn't understand revolvers, how did he know it wasn't On safe already?
ReplyDeleteHe was just some cowboy/kid who couldn't keep himself from pulling the trigger on this "toy" gun he found.
The "safe" comment was just covering his stupidity.
Plain old stupid weapon handling. Guy should find a line of work away from guns.
w3ski
Philly cop, btw, w3ski. My guess, w3ski, given that the guy was on airport duty, was that his superiors thought they already *had* found him a line of work away from guns. Because Philly is a rough town. If someone is on airport duty, either that someone a) has juice, b) is so dumb that no precinct captain will accept him in his or her precinct, or c) both. My guess in this case is on the (c) else he would have already been fired for (b).
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