Authorities are investigating what appears to be an accidental shooting at the Montgomery County Public Safety Training campus in Conshohocken.
The incident happened at about 11 a.m. Thursday at the center that is located in the 1100 block of Conshohocken Road.
According to authorities, an officer with the Norristown Police Department was training at the facility when he accidentally shot himself in the leg.
The unidentified officer was flown to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania as a precaution.
Montgomery County detectives are investigating the shooting.
Friday, April 26, 2013
Pennsylvania Cop Shoots Himself while Training
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This actually happens fairly regularly nationwide. Often with Glocks because when you pull the trigger, you are also turning off the safety. It most likely happened during drawing or holstering where he broke Col. Cooper's third rule of gun safety, "Keep your finger off the trigger till your sights are on the target"
ReplyDeleteYes, it's always negligence. It's always a violation of one or more of the Safety Rules.
DeleteA cop? You mean the select group that the Brady Bunch and E.N. approve of having arms?
ReplyDeleteOn the topic of those who Brady, CSGV, E.N., Mike, and Laci would give a monopoly on violence to:
DeleteDuring the final barrage of gunfire before the young bomber was arrested, I remember Chris Matthews asking his former FBI agent whether he could tell what types of guns were being fired so that he could tell who was shooting. The guy couldn't tell from the poor quality of the recording. (Now we know that it was all the cops and that the bomber was unarmed.)
They then went on to discuss the potential accuracy of those shots. The FBI guy said that if it was the bomber shooting, God only knows where his shots might be hitting, but that if it was the police, then you could count on those shots being, in his words, "extremely accurate." They therefore guessed that the bomber was dead after the exchange since every cop's shot must have riddled him, and they ignored chatter regarding movement in the boat.
Of course, it turned out that the cops shooting at the boat were shooting with about as much cause as the cops who shot up the newspaper ladies in California, and that they had about as much accuracy as those cops, and as the guys at the Empire State Building.
Every time I see the actual marksmanship standards for well-known departments, I think, really? That's it?
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