An off-duty FBI agent accidentally fired his gun, striking another patron in the leg, at a Denver nightclub while he was dancing early Saturday, police said.
It seems from the video that the gun fell out and went off when he picked it up to put it back in his holster. He was trying to a backflip for the crowd.
He's kinda old to do backflips so it wasn't perfect but it was pretty good for a big man. Usually big guys have problems wrapping their height and mass fast enough to do any kind of backflip.
but others here tell me the pistol is considered unloaded unless it has a shell in the chamber at all times.
They're correct. It's a paperweight. But it's safe.
You'll have plenty of time to "load" it if it is for self-defense in the home, given that all you have to do is pull the slide and release it. Who knows, the sound of you doing that may scare the intruder away.
They're correct. It's a paperweight. But it's safe.
A classic video to show why all these people keep telling us not to carry without a round in the chamber. This storeowner got himself and his son killed while trying to just get a round into the chamber.
This storeowner got himself and his son killed while trying to just get a round into the chamber.
I read another story where the bad guy was dragging the woman along by one arm. She got her weapon out but was unable to operate the slide to put one in the chamber.
At some point, I'll probably weaken and reconsider my habit of not keeping a bullet in the chamber in my bedroom gun.
Some years back, my niece dropped by with her very busy and very snoopy toddlers. They got into everything, every closet, every drawer, etc. Regular pint-sized terrorists.
After that, I worried about having a bullet in the chamber in that situation. Some kids aren't trained to never touch the guns. Anyway, hers weren't AFAIK.
I'll probably weaken and reconsider my habit of not keeping a bullet in the chamber in my bedroom gun.
Glocks don’t accidentally discharge on their own. If you follow the four basic firearm safety rules at all times, you’ll have no problems keeping the mag stuffed and “one up”.
If you follow the four basic firearm safety rules at all times,
This guy was a trained FBI agent with who knows how many hours of periodic classroom and range safety training. Yet he carried unholstered in the small of his back -- two big no-no's. Three, if it was a Glock.
Yet he didn't follow the rules. Match the gun to the person.
This guy was a trained FBI agent with who knows how many hours of periodic classroom and range safety training. Yet he carried unholstered in the small of his back -- two big no-no's. Three, if it was a Glock.
It was an odd choice really. And that isn't the small of the back. It's a gun jammed in your asscrack.
Ew. That's gross.
It's a shame he didn't shoot himself instead of some poor bystander.
And just walking away like nothing had happened after he had just discharged the gun and had no idea if someone was injured by it? The FBI should fire him for that alone. Complete recklessness with a firearm.
He really should have been arrested IMO. Reckless endangerment charges, maybe more depending on CO statutes.
FBI agent whose gun went off while doing dance backflip taken into custody
by Daniel Arkin Jun.12.2018 / 2:01 PM ET / Updated 2:09 PM ET
Dance like the whole world is watching.
An off-duty FBI agent who accidentally fired a gun that dropped out of its holster while he was doing a back-flip at a nightclub was booked into custody on Tuesday, jail records showed.
Chase Bishop, 29, was being held in a detention center in downtown Denver. He faces charges for second-degree assault but he has not been formally charged....
I seriously doubt the ammo had anything to do with the accidental discharge -- yet we get details we don't need.
Just out of curiosity -- because it may be somewhat important to the reason for the accidental discharge -- WHAT KIND OF GUN WAS IT? Did he modify the trigger? A "bunching t-shirt" was enough to set it off?
Gold Dot is decent stuff... might have opened up the wound channel a little more than most hollow point ammo. I’m sure that gun fired due to an accidental finger on the trigger or something catching the trigger because the iwb holser didn’t cover the trigger.
I carry a standard 5.5 pound pull on any Glock I carry. I too wear iwb holsters that provide zero weapon retention or much of a trigger guard. I’ve never had a problem with AD’s.
Then again, I don’t do back flips in alcoholic beverage serving establishments, while packing Roscoe.
NYPD add 5.5 pounds for a total of 11... and NYS Police add 3.5 pounds.
The selling point for the increased pounds needed for trigger pull wasn’t to reduce AD’s... it was for lawsuit purposes, to show that these two police departments went to a greater length, to promote safety than even the gun manufacturer did.
To get the sale of their gun in the worlds largest police department, Glock was happy to make the part needed to accommodate the requests.
Even better, a DA/SA set at 12/5. I'll adjust for the second shot. There are some nice ambidextrous pistols out there like that (not Glock).
I was gun shopping again and didn't even want to look at pistols but the gun store had some of those Tanfoglio handguns. Man, were those sweet. I loved the way they fit into my hand, so much nicer than those clunky German guns like Sig or even the Austrian Glocks. Just a sweet Italian design, really hugs your hand.
