HPD SWAT officer mistakenly leaves loaded rifle in Fiesta parking lot in Katy-Cypress area [More]
"Nobody is going to be harder on that officer than he or she will be on themselves..."
I dunno. How hard do you think they'd be if you or I had done that, and would the news story have given out our name?
[Via jumpinjonnydee]
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Be assured this negligent cop will give himself a good talking to.
By now all HPD employees know who screwed up, none will utter his name.
Just a little detail, like guilt or innocence. Would not want that guy as my backup.
Interresting the news flaks reported that “retired HPD officer Mark Stephens" claimed it appeared to be a “semi-automatic rifle.” Besides the fact that some selective fire markings on some semi-auto rifles are purely vanity markings, that doesn't appear to be the case with this rifle. The pin for the auto sear is clearly visible directly and immediately above the semi-auto pictograph on the receiver. The rifle the cop drove off and forgot is a select-fire rifle (AKA machinegun, and short-barreled too!); something the police brass obviously wouldn’t want the public to realize. Yeah, I wonder if one of us left a NFA-registered firearm out in public, outside our immediate control, what the police response would be.
The above closes with an especially interesting question. “Yeah, I wonder if one of us left a NFA-registered firearm out in public, outside our immediate control, what the police response would be”. It would likely be interesting to watch, fro: a safe distance, or so I would think.
Sounds like management material...
Interesting that the retired officer did not recognize the auto-sear pin above the safety selector. this is not surprising since it was probably never his responsibility to check AR-15 pattern firearms for this small detail along with the presence or absence of the federal NFA tax stamp.
I have a modest proposal. Use a drafting template and a paint pen to draw a small appropriately sized circle above the safety selector of your semi-automatic AR-15 pattern firearm so that it appears from a distance to be a pin, even though obviously it is not a pin. Since many condemn the firearm for appearance alone, this will excite them. Confuse them more by only doing it on only one side of the lower receiver.
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