Cop shoots cop while playing Russian roulette

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firearms safety, RKBA

A St. Louis police officer has been charged with killing a fellow officer after a Russian roulette-style game went horribly wrong.

Nathaniel Hendren, 29, was charged Friday with involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action, according to Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner and a probable cause statement.

Hendren, who was on-duty at the time of the shooting, and Katlyn Alix were allegedly playing a game where all but one bullet was removed from a revolver and the two would take turns pointing it at each other and pulling the trigger, according to the probable cause document.

link: https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-officer-charged-killing-fellow-cop-russian-roulette/story?id=60640412

It is too dangerous to allow government employees called police to be armed!

Oops, French Police Sniper Accidentally Shoots 2 People

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firearms accidents, firearms safety, guns

Let’s review basic firearms safety. This sniper violated 2 of the 4 rules of gun safety (read linked article for details).

1. Keep your finger off the trigger until you have made the decision to fire.
2. Positively identify your target, and what lies beyond.

The other 2 rules are:

3. Don’t point your muzzle at anything you do not intend to destroy
4. Every gun is loaded unless you personally verify otherwise.

link: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39121997

Firearms accidents lowest since 1903

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firearms accidents, firearms safety, gun accidents, gun injuries, guns, Shooting

And 1903 is when record keeping started. What, you did not hear this on CNN? How could that be?

Details can be seen in this article.

When I was taking the class for my NRA range safety officer training, they told us that someone on a shooting range was 130 times more likely to be injured by choking on food that by gunfire. Don’t have a link for this, sorry.