Learning from others part 3 - Holster selection matters

[grantar2]

Off-duty Ohio cop mistakenly shoots himself in elevator

Published January 04, 2015

| Associated Press

CINCINNATI – Authorities say an off-duty police officer out to dinner with his wife in Cincinnati accidentally shot himself in the stomach inside a parking garage elevator.

Cincinnati police say Officer Darryl Jouett of the Erlanger, Kentucky, Police Department was headed back to his car on Saturday night when he tried to adjust his department-issued weapon in his holster, and it discharged.

Police tell WCPO-TV that the bullet ricocheted off the elevator walls and struck him.

Jouett was taken to the University of Cincinnati Medical Center with injuries that weren't life-threatening.

The veteran officer has spent more than 25 years at the police department in Erlanger.

Capt. Mike John with the Cincinnati Police Department calls the situation "very unusual."

[SkyHawk]

The video of the shooting is here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V1tzzLdj0U

And another one making the rounds about your garment, your holster and your CCW pistol: Chief shoots himself in gun store after reholstering:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0_qdJ4IDI8

http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/01/police-chief-accidentally-discharges-for-the-second-time/

Perhaps we should re-title this, 'Tales from: we're safer with guns than you are so we can buy any gun we want - because training'.

[grantar2]

Sky.Hawk, thanks tells a very different story.

[postal]

I was wondering about what the heck kind of holster doesnt cover the trigger so this could happen 'adjusting the holster'.....

Now proof.....
Keep your booger hook off the bang switch......

[DysfunctionalVet]

He almost shot his wife. You can see the round leaving the barrel.