A lot of NDs

[Charlotte the flyer]

What happened to basic safety drills?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... stake.html

Including :

Army sergeant in the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corps accidentally fired an anti-tank weapon in his Helmand Province patrol base in Afghanistan in January 2012. The blunder caused structural damage to the base.

Someone playing Dirty Harry

A lance corporal from the 5th Battalion The Rifles shot himself in the hand and leg in Helmand Province with a Smith and Wesson in May last year

And crockery based craziness from the Daily Mail.

A lance corporal in the 14th Signal Regiment accidentally discharged a P226 Sig Saucer pistol at Camp Bastion last September, causing damage to a tent.

[ordnance]

You can wait for the number to rise now that they have issued Glock handguns.

[Mezzer]

Why did anyone think that letting an army sergeant from the Queen Alexandra's Royal Army Nursing Corp anywhere near an anti-tank weapon would be a good idea! I cannot imagine any particular surgical procedure that would require the use of an 84mm (I may be showing my age here). It's a bit like having sailors and RAF types running around with guns

Mezzer

[kennyc]

You can wait for the number to rise now that they have issued Glock handguns.

only if they play around with them......

[Egg on Leggs1]

A mistake to issue them with dangerous mess kit, those Sig Saucers sound lethal.

[ordnance]

only if they play around with them......

Not necessarily the idea is that you can carry with a round in the chamber. The nd/s are usually caused when the trigger is unintentionally pulled. A lot of police forces found when the glock was issued that ND/S went up. They went to the extent of fitting heaver triggers the New York trigger. You accidentally pull the trigger on a firearm when the safety is on no problem do it with a glock and you have a N/D. They even have a name for it glock leg.

Glock leg


A condition where a person shoots himself (or herself) in the leg while holstering their Glock pistol.

This can happen with any weapon yielded by a user, but it is common among Glock pistols due to the lack of a manual safety, relatively light trigger pull, and lack of a proper hammer to push on while holstering.

[Chuck]

Trigger gets pulled gun goes bang, what's so hard to understand? NYPD, well not exactly shining examples of good gun handling are they - just ask the bystanders that get shot!

Oh the holster in the photo, was he too mean to but a new one? And who uses leather or soft Cordura these days, use a decent Kydex holster and the problem goes away.

A Glock has it's safety on he trigger, if you are haphazard on the trigger you do NOT get a bang - been there done that. You have to depress that little lever which pulling the trigger from the side won't do.

Round chambered and hammer down, ideal carry condition for a personal defence weapon.

Interesting the Swiss (and I think Belgians) have never had this problem in over 10 years!

[kennyc]

only if they play around with them......

Not necessarily the idea is that you can carry with a round in the chamber. The nd/s are usually caused when the trigger is unintentionally pulled. A lot of police forces found when the glock was issued that ND/S went up. They went to the extent of fitting heaver triggers the New York trigger. You accidentally pull the trigger on a firearm when the safety is on no problem do it with a glock and you have a N/D. They even have a name for it glock leg.

Glock leg


A condition where a person shoots himself (or herself) in the leg while holstering their Glock pistol.

This can happen with any weapon yielded by a user, but it is common among Glock pistols due to the lack of a manual safety, relatively light trigger pull, and lack of a proper hammer to push on while holstering.

hmm 30 years after the Glock was launched, people are still trying to blame Glock for poor handling practise ?

[Alpha1]

NDs=('negligent discharges')

[Sim G]

Round chambered and hammer down, ideal carry condition for a personal defence weapon.

Which ostensibly is how the Glock is carried......

Interesting the Swiss (and I think Belgians) have never had this problem in over 10 years!

And the Swiss and the Belgians have seen how much combat over the last 10 years....?