Compounding stupidity
According to NBC Phildelphia idiots converged at Philadelphia International Airport this weekend when a flight attendant from West Chester, PA accidentally brought a loaded gun to work and was stopped at a TSA checkpoint. I’m actually amazed that TSA stopped an actual gun from going through because they’re so busy stopping cigarette lighters and mouthwash from getting to 33,000 feet.
But, anyway, having a gun in their possession, TSA called over a police officer.
A US Airways spokesman says that a police officer was called over to check out the gun and that’s when it accidentally discharged, the spokesperson told NBC10. The bullet went into a TSA break room where an employee was sitting but luckily no one was injured, police said.
Notice the gun discharged, no one pulled the trigger or anything, it just discharged, accidentally. The flight attendant, Jaclyn Luby, 27, apparently was licensed to carry the weapon, but obviously not in the secure area of the airport and now her license is subject to scrutiny by the county that used the thing. but, I think someone should be scrutinizing the ability of the police officer who witnessed the gun discharging itself. I mean, if the first thing he does when he gets his grubby paws on a weapon is pull the friggen trigger, he’s dumber than any private I’ve ever seen on the range.
And the reporter should be called in for a class on how a weapon can accidentally discharge. The officer accidentally discharged the weapon, nimnil.
Who writes a headline like this;
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
It “went off” after some idiot PULLED THE DAMN TRIGGER!
The Colt 1911 .45 ACP was renowned for accidental discharges primarily when in the hands of un-trained individuals.
In the last 20 or so years with the advent of “safe action” handguns like the Glock followed by manufacturers like Ruger, S&W, Beretta and Sig Sauer designing double action only auto loading weapons for the expanding law enforcement market….I am at a loss, until I know the make and model of this weapon as to how in the hell an accidental discharge occurs.
Woman flight attendant – maybe a little Beretta single action .25?
Sigh, some people really shouldnt be allowed to even look at firearms let alone actually handle them…… Having said that, how exactly was this gun discharged? My S&W 66 can be fired either SA or DA. Even in SA it still requires the trigger to be pulled for the firearm to discharge. If the gun was a S&W it has a hammer block that keeps it from being fired if it is dropped on the hammer. Regardless of what the make and model of the revolver was, it still required someone to do something to it to cause it to fire. It didnt just magically fire its self.
“A day after a flight attendant’s gun accidentally went off in Philadelphia International Airport more information about the gun’s owner serviced Monday.”
Pretty sure that was supposed to be “surfaced” you twatwaffle
Thanks Jonn… it just discharged, accidentally Made my day.
I’m one of those folks who think The Second Amendment is the ONLY prerogative that matters.
Negligent Discharge not accidental.
I know a thing or 2 about firearms. I have been called on to replicate supposed accidental discharges and have only seen one that did not have a direct connection back to operator Negligence. In that case it was a heavily modified Colt sistema Model 1927 (Argentine 1911) that failure was due to poor gunsmithing.
Bottom line is that keeping the booger hook off the bang switch will keep the weapon from going boom 99.999999% of the time.
The Cops need better instruction in how to safe weapons
It’s pretty obvious the cop had an attack of “alert dumb.” Just because s/he was a cop doesn’t mean they’re a weapons expert. And the flight attendent/owner needs a refresher course also, because doing anything with a gun “accidentally” is what gets people killed — accidentally.
Enigma4you, thanks, I needed that. Now if I can only remember to use your terminology next time Im running a range Ill be in business.
The magical, mystical gun just went boom. Nobody saw nothing, nobody knows nothing. Duh-uh. And that is why nobody should have none of them – cause we got no idea how they work.
Here’s a clue for the brainstrust on the left – I don’t know how all those stupid phones and such that you use all day every day work either, but it doesn’t bother me one bit if you continue to use them. And I don’t want to make them illegal just because I don’t want to own one, either.
(But would you take that stupid thing out of your ear? I’m gonna get a hernia or something one of these days from laughing at how ridiculous you look!)
Meanwhile, unless you try to rob me or mine, you will never know whether I do or do not in fact own a handgun. Although, taking advantage of the open carry law is looking more attractive all the time. Hmmm.
David Copperfield would just shrug his shoulders at this one. Pure effin magic, that’s what it is.
The following is a public service announcement from Poohbah, Lord High Everything Else:
Please keep your booger hook off of the bang switch until you actually intend to engage a target.
We now return to our regularly scheduled blog.
Hmmm…I’ve owned my 1911 since 1985 and it’s NEVER had an “accidental” discharge. The only time it’s discharged was when I pulled the trigger.
Emigma4you #5: Only a fool would debate your position.
I’ll add that is ALWAYS a human who is responsible. Guns don’t have an agenda.
Lots of people have killed other people without guns being involved..
Very, very few guns have killed people without other people being involved.
On the bright side, I still feel safer living near Philly than NYC – at least the cop didn’t accidentally shoot 9 bystanders.
To paraphrase Cell Block Tango from “Chicago”…
“And then my gun went off by it’s own self… it went off by it’s own self 9 times.”
It’s worse than you think. According to several reports, the gun was a S&W Airweight revolver. That’s right, a wheelgun.
I’ve owned guns for over 40 years, none, not one, ever went off by accident.
PN, @6, the cop should know how to make any kind of weapon safe. Even if it means putting the thing someplace secure, and asking for someone who actually knows what they are doing.
A few years ago when I was flying out of San Francisco, I told the airlines I needed to check in my firearms. The TSA puke pulled them out of the case, looked down the barrels then pointed them at everybody in the room- BEFORE he checked to make sure it was empty.
There are very few modern firearms that will go off by themselves. Maybe a light saber?
My carry piece is a 600 series S&W Airweight wheel gun. The trigger pull on it is about 11 lbs. Some idiot either TSA or cop needs to be fired and cited with firing a weapon within city limits, either that or charge with being stupid.
It was not an accidental discharge. It is a biomechanical alien which dispenses its eggs into waiting surfaces as soon as it experiences contact with a warm, flexible surface. The eggs then hibernate, become larvae and subsequently exit through a separate portal by tunneling through the warm flexible surroundings, and morph into other biomechanical aliens.
Sigourney Weaver fought off a whole slew of them with a flamethrower awhile back.
I must unload all my firearms before they to fire all by themselves. Hurry Now Joe
I have only had my weapon discharge once without the trigger being pulled. Granted that was during a defense live fire after putting multipiple magizines through my weapon and my bolt got jammed forward with a round in the pipe. I highly doubt that the cop had a cook off.
Now come on! You all know it is sometimes easier to pull the trigger thingy than look down that dark barrel!! Remember, “Incoming fire ALWAYS has the right of way!”
No really this does happen. I have witnessed it myself.
Take a loaded gun put it on a table and just wait. Eventually it will go off. ALL BY ITSELF!
On a unrelated topic but just as stupid, did you see the Paranormal show on TV last night? It was awesome … real spirits and gobblins … I believe in ghosts too!