Pull the other one
So, a police officer negligently shot someone. And, of course, blames his gun and his training:
Defense attorneys have argued the gun was faulty, saying in opening statements that Liangs finger was alongside the trigger not on it following police protocol.
But Detective Marc Acevedo told jurors Liangs gun was on the high end of the NYPDs acceptable range for trigger-pull the force required to fire the weapon. The Glock needs 11/₂ pounds of pressure to fire, out of a range of 9 to 12 pounds.
Will this gun fire if someone simply places their finger alongside this weapon? prosecutor Joseph Alexis asked. No, the detective replied.
It was a Glock. His finger was on that trigger or I’ll eat my hat.
February 2nd, 2016 at 1:05 am
Yeah, it’s a Glock. But it’s an NYPD Glock with one of those idiotic heavy triggers installed. Are those things reliable?
February 2nd, 2016 at 9:11 am
The heavy triggers definitely make it harder to fire the Glocks accurately. They don’t make them go bang without touching the trigger. It’s a laughable defense.
February 2nd, 2016 at 11:23 am
I keep reading on the gunblogs that the average CCWer is better trained than the average cop. Now when a cop blames his lousy training, suddenly his training is good? Which is it?
NYPD is allegedly has decent academy firearms training but bad followup. If I’m not mistaken, post-academy NYPD officers only qualify once or twice a year (which is about all that can be done with such a large department).
Of course the gun didn’t fire by itself; this is a standard defense ploy of throwing everything at the wall to see what will stick. If you were in the cop’s shoes, you would do the same thing.