If you haven't already, you might want to check out Force Science News #348.
You can subscribe at www.forcescience.orgA Force Science research team has completed an update of its ongoing analysis of unintentional firearms discharges by LEOs in the US and Canada. We reported on the initial phase of the team’s work in Force Science News #317 [8/10/16], when the researchers had studied 137 UD occurrences. Now 171 additional instances have been analyzed, offering a broadening picture of the causes, circumstances, and consequences of “an unplanned activation of the trigger that is outside a handgun’s or long gun’s prescribed use;” i.e., an unintentional discharge.
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