Interesting article and comments on Firearm safety

cavan shooter

Guys thought I'd share this with ye. It's in relation to a Police Firearms instrutor who shot his pupil (as in learner) not eye

http://www.shponline.co.uk/article.asp?pagename=incourt&article_id=9305

read on through the comments made

Rew

Drill rounds are pretty obviously not live and live rounds are pretty obvious as well, very careless.

CJhaughey

Rew wrote: »

Drill rounds are pretty obviously not live and live rounds are pretty obvious as well, very careless.

Careless or Negligent?

Bananaman

Careless or Negligent?

Both

Rule 1 - always point the gun in a safe direction
(does not indicate you can do otherwise when unloaded, loaded with dummies, etc)

The Mistake he made was to aim the gun at someone - end of story - if you never point a gun at someone you cannot shoot someone.

If he had been pointing the gun in a nominated safe direction and it had gone off then he would look stupid/lose his job/face prosecution for discharging a firearm off a range/whatever but nobody would have been hurt.

B'Man

deerhunter1

Bananaman wrote: »

Both

Rule 1 - always point the gun in a safe direction
(does not indicate you can do otherwise when unloaded, loaded with dummies, etc)

The Mistake he made was to aim the gun at someone - end of story - if you never point a gun at someone you cannot shoot someone.

If he had been pointing the gun in a nominated safe direction and it had gone off then he would look stupid/lose his job/face prosecution for discharging a firearm off a range/whatever but nobody would have been hurt.

B'Man

100% correct, the devil loads the empty gun. some our guys are not far behind these police either in elation to handling firearms.

ranger4

deerhunter1 wrote: »

100% correct, the devil loads the empty gun. some our guys are not far behind these police either in elation to handling firearms.

Agree, Garda firearms training has improved but a lot more work needs to be done.