Flight attendent takes her gun to work in Philadelphia

[Speer4]

Media anti-gun bias... again

I get so frustrated by how the media portrays any issue involving guns. Watching Headline news and they are hyping a story they are going to talk about where a flight attendant forgot she had a gun in her purse and it went off in the airport.

If you wait for the whole story, they finally get around to mentioning that it went off when the police were trying to unload it.

They make it sound like guns just "go off" on their own.

 

[Tom Beavert]

GUN!

Wow!
Do you have a link? I would like to read more on this.
tb

 

[jaykellogg]

Police: Flight attendant’s gun fired at Philly airport as officer was trying to remove bullets - The Washington Post

This is wrong on many levels. The Stewerdess "forgot" she had a gun in the purse. They found it at the airport and a Police Officer trying to unload it had an ND. I believe she got a disorderly conduct citation.

 

[feralmerril]

There was nothing in the article that indicated whether the gun was a semi auto or a revolver. I wouldnt assume either. There are so many different type autos out there, both single action or double, I can see a cop being confused to anything other than what he or she was trained on. Wanting to be a LEO doesnt automaticly say the person was interested in guns to start with.

 

[speedyquad]

different article says it was a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver.

Flight Attendant Tries to Bring Loaded Gun Through Airport Security - Yahoo! News

 

[GatorFarmer]

Philly is a rough town.

 

[A10]

There was nothing in the article that indicated whether the gun was a semi auto or a revolver. I wouldnt assume either. There are so many different type autos out there, both single action or double, I can see a cop being confused to anything other than what he or she was trained on. Wanting to be a LEO doesnt automaticly say the person was interested in guns to start with.

You are being very generous in your assessment of the officers abilities there feral-to quote the Tarzan school of firearms safety, "trigger make gun go bang...."

 

[Marshwheeling]

different article says it was a .38 caliber Smith and Wesson Airweight revolver.

Of course it was.

 

[blujax01]

The article also says the officer who accidentally discharged the gun will go get additional training on handling weapons!

 

[Hillbilly77]

"...says a police officer tried to make the weapon safe by removing the bullets, but instead accidentally fired it."

Well, that's one way of unloading a handgun....

 

[feralmerril]

I have been present at four AD`s that I can remember. Two of them happened to gun knowlegble men that carried them for their careers all their working lives. Never say never.
One time a officer came in to HQ in the middle of the night and out of boredom unloaded his revolver and dry fired at a clock. He blew the clock off the wall! The chief told him had he missed he would have fired him and let it go at that!

 

[jaykellogg]

I have been present at four AD`s that I can remember. Two of them happened to gun knowlegble men that carried them for their careers all their working lives. Never say never.

There are videos on You Tube of LEOs having an AD. Amen to never say never it can happen to anyone.

I showed a friend of mine a scar I got on my LH thumb courtesy of my Colt Woodsman. I was using a two hand hold and I had my thumb knuckle too high and the slide got me. His exact words were "How can anyone be so dumb"? Less than an hour later he asked me for a bandaid. He told me he had answered his own question.

Apparently about once a month someone shows up at the Philadelphia airport with a gun they forgot. The article I just read said there is a chance she may get the gun back.

The bullet went into a break room where an employee was sitting but no one was hit. That would be a pucker moment for the cop and the person sitting in the break room.

 

[LVSteve]

Out of boredom some years ago my wife and I were watching Cops on TV. They nabbed this convicted felon for being an uncooperative and suspicious type (trust me, he was) and lo and behold pull a gun out of his waistband. It was a Star Ultrastar, and for some reason the one officer had a hard time clearing it. He struggled with it for that long I said to my wife "He needs to put that down and let somebody else do it before he hurts himself". He eventually got it done but it looked darned scary for a while. I think the very low rise slide had him baffled.

 

[Stevens]

About 30 years ago a couple of young officers were in the station practicing their "Quick Draw" cowboy style, one shot the other in the gut, the guy was stuck with a colonostomy bag for years, maybe still is.
Steve W.

 

[Oldiron]

Was watching Yukon Men last night and they were running a commercial for Alaska State Trooper. They showed one of the troopers empting an AR by racking every round in the mag through the action.
I guess for every good LEO like we have on the forum there is one out there that is a real know it all jerk. Kinda like the Fed a couple of years back that was the only person in his lecture that was qualified to handle a firearm and procedes to shoot himself in the leg.
Larry

 

[jaykellogg]

They showed one of the troopers empting an AR by racking every round in the mag through the action.

With some folks it isn't what they don't know that is the problem, it is what they do know that ain't right".

 

[Oldiron]

jay, that could be very true.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

"Investigators say a flight attendant forgot to take a gun out of her purse before leaving for work and the gun fired at Philadelphia International Airport as a police officer was trying to remove the bullets."

Maybe he was using an inertial bullet puller.

 

[m l mosley]

More often than not AD's can be sumed up by the old saying, " FRAMILIARITY BREEDS CONTEMPT".

 

[papajohn428]

Flight attendant brings revolver through Philly airport security and gun accidentally fires into TSA break room - NY Daily News

I found this on the MarlinOwners forum............there is some serious spin in the article itself. Apparently the author doesn't knows much about guns except that he hates them, and describes the accident as being caused by the officer trying to put on the safety......on a S&W revolver.