Stop touching it
A prosecutor was killed when a gun presented as evidence “went off accidentally”. I’m going to guess someone tried to catch a dropped gun. Don’t do that.
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November 21st, 2019 at 10:56 pm
OK, someone done f***ed up.
I’m a cop. In my dept, when we package a gun as evidence, it’s unloaded, and either the slide is zip tied open (I usually loop one through the barrel and over the top of the slide, and a second through the ejection port, down the magwell, and around the grip) or the cylinder is zip tied out (I go through the cylinder and around the trigger guard.) The ammo goes in a completely separate package, with the round counted and inventoried.
November 23rd, 2019 at 11:31 am
A lot of prosecutors aren’t particularly gun savvy. I defended a murder case one time where the prosecutor repeatedly swept the jury with the muzzle of a pistol during closing arguments.
Fortunately, the gun was secured properly, i.e., the slide was fixed out of battery by a zip tie.
November 23rd, 2019 at 5:38 pm
Africa, guys. Africa….
November 25th, 2019 at 10:40 am
I read in another news source that it was a shotgun. So it could have discharged when dropped without human intervention, since so many shotguns aren’t really drop-safe. (The article also stated that someone stands to be charged with negligent homicide for not checking the gun’s status.)