The reason I like a DA first shot, and SA subsequent shots.  Because, if I were ever stupid enough to confuse a Taser for a Glock, I'd have that trigger weight warning me stuff was wrong.

Oh wait... that excuse is dumber than the View's current events discussion!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/01/06/BART.shooting

There are a few conflicting reports. CNN says that one witness video shows the young man gesturing with his hands as if to ask not to be tazed.

This will be an interesting story to follow. That officer will probably be kissing his career and freedom goodbye. Most tazers are carried on the weak side so you have to reach across to draw them, and there is no need to draw anyway with a compliant suspect. Even if he "zoned out" and grabbed the wrong weapon, he shouldn't have had his finger on the trigger.

What a tragic way to start the new year, especially for Grant's four year old daughter.


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I thought Glocks were SAO. Something about the striker being "cocked." Can't de-cock it unless you dry-fire it.

They are SAO.  Thus, if you go with a standard 5.5 lb trigger or a 3.5 pounder, it's probably no different from the Taser trigger switch.  I was 7 pounds minimum on a serious pistol trigger, or an SA pistol with a thumb safety that's got to come off before it goes pop.

I like the NY-1 trigger for Glocks.

DISCLAIMER: If I'm wrong, feel free to flame me. I don't own Glocks, like shooting Glocks, like looking at Glocks or anything else involving Glocks. I've just picked up that tidbit somewhere.

No worries there.

I think the fact that it invovled a cop takes some of the heat OFF firearms.  If a citizen did that it'd be cold blooded murder, cut and dried, and you'd hear all the usual anti-gun rhetoric.  But as a cop did it, I doubt you'll hear any anti utterings at all.

But overall, yup.  Bad all the way around.


-T.

This sounds vaguely familiar to an incident that happened in SoCal in 2002. A officer had an unruly prisoner in that back of her patrol car that was kicking the windows. Intending to draw her taser she accidentally drew her Glock and fired one round-center punched the prisoner through the heart. You can only imagine the lawsuits that followed, to include the city of Madera Ca. suing TASER international for failure to warn that the X-26 is similar to an actual handgun. I hear after 2 years of litigation that suit was just dismissed. What a mess!!!