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Title: Cop shoots himself in leg unloading gun
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Post-Tribune
URL Source: http://post-trib.com/news/index.html
Published: Nov 5, 2010
Author: Erin Guerra
Post Date: 2010-11-09 03:33:58 by sizzlerguy
Keywords: cop, shoots, leg, gun
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Comments: 20
Valparaiso - A recenty sworn-in Hebron reserve police officer shot himself in the leg Wednesday while unloading his gun before going inside a school to pick up his 5-year old son. Daniel Glickauf, 29, of South Haven, was sworn in as a reserve officer on Monday. On Saturday, he completed the required 40-hour prebasic training with the Hebron Police Department, Chief Steve Sibbrell said. That training, conducted in-house, includes firearms training, Sibbrell said, although reserve officers continue to get further training once they are working with the force. "It's just an unfortunate accident," Sibbrell said, noting Glickauf had surgery on his leg on Wednesday and probably was still in the hospital. Glickhauf, who shattered his femur into eight peices when the gun fired, will not physically be able to work with the police force for some time. And after he's healed, "He's going to have to go through a department review," Sibbrell said. Porter hospital in Valparaiso, where Glickauf was taken following the shooting, did not release his condition or confirm if he is a patient there. According to the police report, Glickauf went to First Presbyterian Church of Valparaiso, 3401 Valparaiso St., to pick up his 5-year-old son from school. He was in his vehicle in the parking lot just before 2:30 p.m. when he decided not to alarm any other parents by walking in with his firearm on his hip. He also did not want to leave a loaded gun unattended in the vehicle. He ejected the magazine from the gun, ejected the round from the chamber, and reinserted the ejected round back into the magazine, he told police. He then attempted to put the magazine back in the gun but it didn't fit right. Not being familiar with the Smith & Wesson Springfield .40-caliber handgun, although he said it was his personal gun that he also uses for work, "he thought if he pulled the trigger the magazine would seat prperly," Glickauf told police. Instead, the gun fired and the bullet went into his upper left thigh.
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#1. To: sizzlerguy (#0)
I'm de only one in dis room be professional enough....bang!
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic. That does not make sense to me. .
Lord Acton
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#2. To: sizzlerguy (#0)
He ejected the magazine from the gun, ejected the round from the chamber, and reinserted the ejected round back into the magazine, he told police. He then attempted to put the magazine back in the gun but it didn't fit right. Not being familiar with the Smith & Wesson Springfield .40-caliber handgun, although he said it was his personal gun that he also uses for work, "he thought if he pulled the trigger the magazine would seat prperly," Glickauf told police.
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#3. To: sizzlerguy (#0)
Jesus Christ on a pogo stick! What a complete FRIGGING idiot!
He ejected the magazine from the gun, ejected the round from the chamber, and reinserted the ejected round back into the magazine, he told police. He then attempted to put the magazine back in the gun but it didn't fit right. Not being familiar with the Smith & Wesson Springfield .40-caliber handgun, although he said it was his personal gun that he also uses for work, "he thought if he pulled the trigger the magazine would seat prperly,"
"If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable." - Thomas Jefferson
#4. To: sizzlerguy (#0)
Too stupid for words (or to carry).
#5. To: PSUSA, X-15, christine, Jethro Tull, HAPPY2BME-4UM, James_Deffenbach, bluegrass, Ada (#2)
For some reason those who shoot themselves tend to fib to minimize their feeling of stupidity. I'm guessing that he either jacked the slide first then pulled the trigger or the slide was open when he inserted the mag. (Less likely because the mag would have probably gone in and locked in place easily) Or, he could have ejected the first round while the mag was still in the gun not thinking that he had just replaced the round with another, then ejected the mag without having locked the slide open and visually inspecting the chamber. (I teach students to visually check and then insert their pinky tip into the spout the way some vets were taught with govt .45s) In any case the fact that the firearm wasn't pointed in a safe direction and there was a round in the tube is the best evidence that this was another *ND by an inexperienced shooter. The S&W .40 has a decocking lever so there was no reason to pull the trigger if in fact the hammer was cocked after he ejected the first round and the mag. (the article didn't say if his pistol was DAO) It's quite possible that A) he jacked the slide then removed the mag and B) he pulled the trigger instead of using the decocking lever believing the gun was empty. He apparently didn't stop to think because if he had A) the gun would not have been loaded, and B) his leg bone wouldn't be in 8 pieces. If this was how the scenario went down then the deux deux about the mag not seating properly was just his way of trying to justify having pulled the trigger. *ND-not an AD-a Negligent Discharge cannot be excused by labeling it "Accidental", according to **Jeff Cooper. The "Chief Of Police For Life" of a nearby small town leg shot himself his first week out of the academy on a traffic stop. The motorist made a sudden threatening move and the chief slapped leather and discharged his firearm before ever clearing the holster. Needless to say he blamed the firearm. It was sent to the appropriate testing labs and the weapon checked out fine. But to this day nearly 30 years later the lying ass cop is still in denial. **The now deceased Lt. Col Jeff Cooper (Chairman Jeff, Dr. Death) is considered the father of combat handgunning. He claimed to have at least one leg shot trainee at each of his training sessions at GUNSITE ACADEMY, his elite training facilities for military and police, PI's, private security and citizens of sterling reputation and character with appropriate references. Those NDs are almost always the result of quick draws where the students don't keep clear of the triggers until the weapons are,.... well, you know. For a newly minted reserve officer to shoot himself without any external stimuli to factor in or fault can be downright emasculating.....In fact if I was G_D I'd say, "Okay fella, you were issued that badge and them gonads by mistake so, hand 'em over...."
That does not make sense to me.
#6. To: James Deffenbach (#1)
You should read his lawsuit against the DEA. He claims that he was their best undercover agent (it must take real skill to hide his Harvard education and talk and act like an inner city doo wah drug nig) but now he's humiliated because they leaked the video, and his fellow agents snicker when he's around and they leave messages all over making fun of him. He failed to grasp that he made the agency look like (or revealed the truth that they're) a bunch of idiots, and even if he hadn't shot himself his arrogance on tape was damaging enough. It was really funny because after he shot himself he asked for the AR-15 and everyone in the room shouted "NOOOOOOOO!"! LMAO! They didn't want him to ricochet a rifle bullet around the room! at 3300 FPS he could have killed someone other than his own dumb ass!
I'm de only one in dis room be professional enough....bang!
#7. To: HOUNDDAWG (#6)
I think I may have seen some excerpts of that dumb @$$e$ suit. And there are people who claim that the video is fake, lol! If it bese fake why de brutha be suin' cause ob losin' face like dat? This was an amusing little video. Especially when, as you say, he went after something that could take out the whole room instead of just him. Dem kids didn't think he be professional enuff fo' dat.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton
He (Gordon Duff) also implies that forcibly removing Obama, a Constitution-hating, on-the-down-low, crackhead Communist, is an attack on America, Mom, and apple pie. I swear these military people are worse than useless. Just look around at the condition of the country and tell me if they have fulfilled their oaths to protect the nation from all enemies foreign and domestic.
OsamaBinGoldstein posted on 2010-05-25 9:39:59 ET (2 images) Reply Trace
#8. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
Now that is plausible. One thing's for sure, he didn't tell the truth, at least as it is relayed in this article. And of course you are right about always checking the chamber. Saying "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it to someone accidentally shot by a careless moron. .
Or, he could have ejected the first round while the mag was still in the gun not thinking that he had just replaced the round with another, then ejected the mag without having locked the slide open and visually inspecting the chamber.
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”I say to each man and woman, you are unique and sovereign, the center of a universe. However right I may be in thinking as I do, you may be equally right in thinking otherwise. You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.“ - Aleister Crowley
#9. To: PSUSA (#8)
Hear hear. If I'm in proximity to unsafe gun handling and I can't convince them of my genuine concern and end the antics then I leave. The irony is that even a victim of misadventure is tainted and people assume that he too was a toothless ignorant hillbilly. Why else would he have been hanging around with the dumb shit who shot him?
Saying "I'm sorry" just doesn't cut it to someone accidentally shot by a careless moron.
#10. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
Exactly. If you don't have a clear bore, the slide is not locked, and you can't see light through it, it is NOT clear. This guy was a friggin' idiot.
I'm guessing that he either jacked the slide first then pulled the trigger or the slide was open when he inserted the mag.
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
#11. To: HOUNDDAWG (#9)
That would seem to preclude going hunting with Deadeye Dick Cheney.
Why else would he have been hanging around with the dumb shit who shot him?
"One of the least understood strategies of the world revolution now moving rapidly toward its goal is the use of mind control as a major means of obtaining the consent of the people who will be subjects of the New World Order." K.M. Heaton, The National Educator
#12. To: Original_Intent (#10)
This guy was a friggin' idiot. He'll be hearing that for a long time.
Exactly. If you don't have a clear bore, the slide is not locked, and you can't see light through it, it is NOT clear.
#13. To: Original_Intent (#11)
As I recall that guy was a lawyer and a bigshot with the state Republican Party and he was no doubt thrilled to host the VP's drunken quail hunt. If he didn't have guts to lay down the rules, i.e. guns and likka don't mix, then I don't have to wonder why he apologized to Cheney. A "good Republican" would take a blast of #8 shot in the puss and never mention it so as not to embarrass his honored guest.
That would seem to preclude going hunting with Deadeye Dick Cheney.
#14. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
Quoted for truthiness. The rookie should be fired for incompetence.
*ND-not an AD-a Negligent Discharge cannot be excused by labeling it "Accidental", according to **Jeff Cooper.
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#15. To: sizzlerguy (#0)
that cop who shot & killed the black guy in the back in oakland also testified that he had only once in his life fired a gun.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13
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#16. To: Artisan (#15)
That's tough to believe on many levels. Beam me up.
that cop who shot & killed the black guy in the back in oakland also testified that he had only once in his life fired a gun.
#17. To: Lod (#16)
i read the court transcript of his testimony. when he was a kid, he shot his dads gun, maybe once. that is what he said on the stand, through tears. he was also, though, trying to convince the jury that he confused his gun with his tazer, so his claim of inexperience was to make it a mere tragic mistake, instead of murder. i believe he got probation for it.
"if I have all faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing." 1 Cor 12:31—13:13
"I don't know where Bin Laden is. I truly am not that concerned about him"
George W, Bush, 3/13/02 http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2002/03/20020313-8.html
#18. To: Artisan (#17)
And aren't the tasers bright yellow, while the sidearms are black, so even the most moronic of us could easily tell the difference?
#19. To: Lod, Artisan (#16)
...before he entered the police academy. 30 years ago it was about 68% of new recruits who had never fired a handgun. I don't know what the present stats are in gun happy USA. Once Dirty Harry featured a Model 29 S&W as the co-star it began a trend in action movie films. (Dirty Harry actually moved up to outdo himself with an .AMT .44 Auto Mag gas operated pistol in Sudden Impact. At that time there was no commercially loaded ammo (a wildcat cartridge) and cases had to be made by trimming .308 or .30-06 cases down to 1.30 inches and running them through a .44 AM sizing die.) After that the gun rooms of the film studios were equipped with every state of the art firearm available. Secret Service Agent Charles Bronson carried an American Arms derringer in .410 cal. in his ankle holster (unlike other shotguns which are gauges the .410 is an actual .41 caliber smooth bore) and bad guys from here to Timbuktu started blasting away at cops and rival gangstas with Desert Eagles, Sigs, Beretta 92s, and lots H&K MP5s..... And now we're seeing more and more of the Barrett M107 50BMG Rifles. Why? Because they don't make a .60 Cal Barrett.
that cop who shot & killed the black guy in the back in oakland also testified that he had only once in his life fired a gun.....
The letter of the law is too cold and formal to have a beneficial influence on society. Whenever the tissue of life is woven of legalistic relations, there is an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses._Solzhenitsyn
#20. To: HOUNDDAWG (#19)
but they do make the .416, which totally outdoes the 50 - get one -
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