{"id":4203,"date":"2015-02-28T05:07:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4203"},"modified":"2015-02-28T05:07:17","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T11:07:17","slug":"rule-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=4203","title":{"rendered":"Rule 5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently after Kid #2, you&#8217;re bandwidth-limited to one post per month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/2011\/03\/31\/rule-5\/\">Don&#8217;t try to catch a falling gun.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsmv.com\/story\/28225616\/gunshot-interrupts-smyrna-town-hall-meeting\">Gunshot interrupts Smyrna town hall meeting:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) &#8211;<br \/>\nA gunshot rang out in a Smyrna town meeting on Thursday night, causing a brief moment of panic.<\/p>\n<p>It was business as usual as Police Chief Kevin Arnold gave a briefing to members of the town council.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And so we have some volunteers who will be manning the records division,&#8221; Arnold said before he was cut short by the sound of a gunshot.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold sprung into action to investigate what happened in the lobby.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, that sounds exciting!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lt. Earl Barnes was providing security and his gun accidentally went off when it hit the floor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Less exciting than I was expecting, but exciting nonetheless. Strange that they issue guns that aren&#8217;t drop-safe, don&#8217;t you think?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;His handgun caught on the chair, and as he stood up, he realized that his gun was falling out,&#8221; Arnold said. &#8220;And he went to grab it before it hit the floor. And when he did, he accidentally discharged a round off into the floor.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, so, what you&#8217;re saying is that it didn&#8217;t go off when it hit the floor, it went off when <i>he pulled the trigger<\/i>. Well, I&#8217;m glad that no one got hurt. We just need to get that officer some more training.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barnes is the head of the SWAT team with 25 years on the force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wait, what? So how did this happen?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Arnold said Barnes had responded to an armed robbery earlier in the day. When he holstered his weapon, it didn&#8217;t lock into his holster.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh huh.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He will face disciplinary action.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well at least there&#8217;s that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently after Kid #2, you&#8217;re bandwidth-limited to one post per month. Don&#8217;t try to catch a falling gun. Gunshot interrupts Smyrna town hall meeting: SMYRNA, TN (WSMV) &#8211; A gunshot rang out in a Smyrna town meeting on Thursday night, causing a brief moment of panic. It was business as usual as Police Chief Kevin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-officer-safety","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}