Post by BoW GaCAman on Dec 20, 2015 14:18:03 GMT -5
Anti-Gun Sheriff Mike Johnstone Negligently Shoots Self
Des Moines County Sheriff Mike Johnstone infamously warned of "wild west shootouts" when concealed carry laws changed. He should have worried about himself.
Mike Johnstone, an Iowa sheriff infamous for pushing the anti-gun lie that “shall issue” concealed carry will lead to “wild-west” shootouts, has managed to Glockify himself.
Des Moines County Sheriff Mike Johnstone is recovering after his personally-owned handgun went off accidentally while he was cleaning it at his home on Wednesday.
A press release from the Des Moines County Sheriff’s department says that Johnstone suffered the injury at around 11:30 pm. A sheriff’s department official tells KBUR that Johnstone was beginning the process of cleaning his weapon when the gun, a Glock pistol, discharged, shooting Johnstone in the hand.
Sheriff Johnstone was taken to Great River Medical Center Emergency Room for treatment of the non-life threatening injury. GRMC made arrangements to have Sheriff Johnstone transferred to another medical facility where he could be treated by a surgeon who specializes in hand injuries.
Johnstone removed the magazine from his pistol but failed to do a chamber check before squeezing the trigger as part of the Glock design’s standard takedown process.
The general public shares the common belief that law enforcement officers are highly-trained firearms experts. While there are indeed some incredibly talented shooters in law enforcement, the vast majority of patrol officers and deputies simply aren’t “gun people,” and aren’t typically as skilled as serious concealed carriers.
Tags: Iowa, Negligent Discharge
Comment on LibertyHead's thread of same article:
Ralph K.
There was I cop in Miami that went to shoot a dog that was in is own fenced in yard and shot himself in the foot. Then there was another cop that accidentally shot a child that was playing on a construction site at night. If any gun should be banned in US its Glocks. Beretta would be my choice if I wanted something concealable.
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I'm not for banning ANY guns, (and I understand you don't mean it in an 'anti-gun' way, Ralph) but the Glock should have went back to the factory decades ago for a retro-fitting of a thumb safety, ala the 1911. What the Glock cult will never admit is that the original never had the 'double trigger' safety and that was added after it was found that the gun could (and WOULD) often fire when dropped. When Colt was developing the 1911 (then known as the Model 1905) it had NO thumb safety (like todays Glocks) but one was added for the 1911 for the same reason it should be, now...fear of self-shootings due to the light pull (& similar actions/Glock's is just internal) of the (two) designs!