I have trouble with this... Michigan requires registration, and with that a safety inspection. Gun's don't fire when dropped, unless they're broken or very, very old and have been set up wrong (i.e. you don't leave a 1910's single action pistol with the hammer down on a loaded chamber, you leave the hammer on the safety notch between chambers)
I think the guy accidentally shot himself goofing off and being a dipwad and came up with a cunning story with a patsy who'll never talk...
Yes, but dude, it's Iron County, the guys a yooper. The Michigan equivalent of the southern hillbilly stereotype, but with moose. Broken, very old, set up wrong...any one, or a combination, is just not that unlikely here.
My reaction too. Guns chambered in 9mm aren't old enough to go off when dropped, I don't think. The mechanisms that prevent that are not a recent development. He shot himself playing with his gun. In the leg? Probably practising his fast draw with a loaded gun. if he's a cop, the report will verify whatever excuse he could think up on the spot. Cops protect their own.
I was wondering the dropped gun (having just read an article griping about the use of the plot device in fiction), but I also figured that the police would actually be knowledgeable enough to cry "bullshit" on a story like that.
probably 90% of the time the police don't know anything either. They get handed a glock (which has no safeties for a *reason*... no training required) and told to aim here, squeeze trigger.
Fully half the officers I see at my store/range, are lousy shots. They know plenty about the law but little of the tools of their trade.
Oh, and I'm accidentally developing pretty high standards for what I read... guns are *such* convenient plot devices, but when the facts are wrong, my skin just crawls... pulls me out of the story, and the book's pretty much ruined form there.
OK, as many firearms as we have in the house, NONE are in the kitchen. In fact, I think only our shotgun has rounds in the magazine (not in the chamber) - every other firearm we own is kept unloaded.
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Date: 2005-03-10 02:57 pm (UTC)I think the guy accidentally shot himself goofing off and being a dipwad and came up with a cunning story with a patsy who'll never talk...
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Date: 2005-03-10 06:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-03-10 03:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-10 03:03 pm (UTC)Fully half the officers I see at my store/range, are lousy shots. They know plenty about the law but little of the tools of their trade.
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Date: 2005-03-10 03:05 pm (UTC)Some of this stuff is just *so easy* to check...
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Date: 2005-03-10 03:01 pm (UTC)Damn sneaky cats...
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Date: 2005-03-10 03:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-10 05:15 pm (UTC)its a conspiracy!
Date: 2005-03-10 05:23 pm (UTC)This must be how Planet of the Apes REALLY started!
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Date: 2005-03-10 05:59 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-03-10 07:51 pm (UTC)EVER.