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Dan W:
A friend of mine had a 13 year old son blow a hole in his hand with a 25.06 that belonged to his Grampa.

He dropped it while crossing some railroad tracks and when he grabbed for it, he found the muzzle and the trigger.

This happened down in the Republican river valley near Red Cloud and the sheriff's department treated it as if it were an intentional shooting for some time, I think they confiscated the rifle and questioned the whole hunting party about their involvement in the shooting

omaharj:
There are two types of discharges that provoke a standard response with me. One, when someone dies from a gunshot that occurred while cleaning their gun. I always assume suicide. Maybe I'm sometimes wrong . Two, when I hear of a gunshot from dropping a gun, I assume they fumblefingered it as it was falling. Again, maybe I'm wrong sometimes.   I hope he recovers quickly,thats GOTTA hurt. RJ

Chris Z:
BS like this that is published in the news media is what misinforms the majority of the general public. People read this and begin believing that guns just go off on their own.

Of course we will never know all of the facts........ But one fact is for sure... OPD carries Glocks, and Glocks will not fire when dropped.  (as Shawn mentioned though, could have been a different gun. I highly doubt a OPD officer would have a High point .380 as a backup, but stranger things have happened).

There is more to this story and we will never hear it all. Had this been a CHP holder, he would have been cited for discharging a firearm in the city (as a CHP holder was when he had a negligent discharge in Omaha a while back)

Phantom:
Gee out side his home too ..

Sounds like he wasn't on duty either ...

How come he don't get cited for discharging his firearm within city limits?
if it happened to one of us they sure charge us adding insult to injury!

Now the Bigger question I could be wrong but.....

Don't they have some sort of retaining straps on their holsters?
So why was the officers gun unsecured ?
If he was carring it unsecured it makes me wonder if the safty was still intact or had he disabled it ?

Sounds to me like it's real lucky that it was only the officer that got shot.

bk09:
As I recall most officers use a safariland holster that requires a thumb depression to unholster. And like everybody else said, no way a glock went off without the trigger being touched or somehow tampered with... Wonder if that gun has aftermarket mods that OPD didn't know about...

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