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Thread: Do you *really* need to do inspections on duty weapons?

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    Do you *really* need to do inspections on duty weapons?

    Yes, yes you freaking do!

    I don’t know how this officer did it...but they managed to break both the front and rear sight on their Remington 870.

    For reference:

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    The broken one:

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    When asked they stated they didn’t know how it happened. They don’t appear to have been filed down...and this 870 is an older one bought years ago.

    Anyway, just sharing.

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    Wow! Pool gun or issued to an individual officer?
    "Knowledge is good." Emil Faber, date unknown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason M View Post
    Wow! Pool gun or issued to an individual officer?
    Issued..........

    We perform inspections yearly...he’s had this gun about 3 years.

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    Looks like it was left on the trunk or hood and slid up the street on its sights when the car was driven away.
    "Knowledge is good." Emil Faber, date unknown.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason M View Post
    Looks like it was left on the trunk or hood and slid up the street on its sights when the car was driven away.
    That is my guess too
    Just a dog chauffeur that used to hold the dumb end of the leash.

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    The shit all of us Rangemasters/range staffers/and armorers have seen cops bring in over the years are only eclipsed by the excuses, "IDA KNOWs", and out right lies about how whatever abortion is presented to us for fixing happened.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CWM11B View Post
    The shit all of us Rangemasters/range staffers/and armorers have seen cops bring in over the years are only eclipsed by the excuses, "IDA KNOWs", and out right lies about how whatever abortion is presented to us for fixing happened.
    Yep. Despite the stains and rips, I still love my armorer's t-shirt from Specialized Armament with the back showing a dude firing a burst with the admonition "it was like that when I got it..."

    My wife quotes it at me frequently when I talk about the screwed up guns I get into the armory, with only 45 sworn...

    pat
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jason M View Post
    Looks like it was left on the trunk or hood and slid up the street on its sights when the car was driven away.
    Translated to cop speak:

    "I was on a hot call and laid it on the trunk/hood and forgot about it."

    Translated to explaining it to whoever catches it:

    "I got no idea how it broke."

    My first training officer was a stickler about where I laid my clipboard or other property. It HAD to be on the windshield on the driver's side or on the hood driver side...PERIOD. He broke me of laying anything on a patrol car except in those two spots.

    He saved me tons of problems over the years since then. I passed the tip along to my rookies when I was in the FTO game.

    Regards.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lwt16 View Post
    Translated to cop speak:

    "I was on a hot call and laid it on the trunk/hood and forgot about it."

    Translated to explaining it to whoever catches it:

    "I got no idea how it broke."

    My first training officer was a stickler about where I laid my clipboard or other property. It HAD to be on the windshield on the driver's side or on the hood driver side...PERIOD. He broke me of laying anything on a patrol car except in those two spots.

    He saved me tons of problems over the years since then. I passed the tip along to my rookies when I was in the FTO game.

    Regards.
    And that is now stole...er...appropriated...

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    We had a guy show up for qualification with his HK USP and hand it over to be inspected.

    The R.O. dropped the slide and pulled the trigger.

    Nothing.

    Rack and pull. Nothing. Hmm.

    He takes it in the Armory and disassembles it. Somehow, He had gotten a small piece of gravel down in the firing mechanism.

    "When's the last time you fired this thing?" he asks the copper.

    "Uh...last qualification."

    6 months ago.

    Apparently, he'd cleaned it at the range, somehow getting the gravel inside. Then without performing a function check, loaded up and started answering calls.

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