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My guess is he was FOT coming out of the holster and discharged the gun as he was bringing his support hand to the gun. Not buying the fumble story.

That will buff right out !


That being said, it doesn't look to be a penetration issue !

This would be my first guess.

I heard of a story a few years ago where a guy was disassembling his Glock and didn't check to see if it was loaded or not. When he pulled the trigger to get the slide off, he shot his daughter.

Kinda looks like powder burns around the entrance wound. That would seem to support the idea of a negligent discharge, rather than the gun firing due to hitting the floor.

Yep powder burns and torn skin from high velocity gases at entry wound indicate very close proximity to muzzle, probably not the distance from the floor up to an outstretched hand distance. I know a guy with a "Fred Flintstone" hand. The hand surgeon just took out all the middle finger bones and then sowed the hand together. He forgot to clear the chamber before starting disassemble his glock. He got a bad surprise when he pulled the trigger. I don't know why someone would ever cover the muzzle of any gun with a body part on purpose but he won't do that again.

I feel sure there is "the rest of the story".

Gotta call BS on this one.

Either he has modified the pistol to circumvent the safeties(3), or he did somethin' stupid, and now wants GLOCK to pay for it.

Glocks - don't just... "go off."






GR

The original Glock Tupperware box helped these kinds of “accidents”

Maybe someone was doing a modified 'press check'.

You know, the one where you put one hand over the muzzle, and press the trigger with the other.


....then he fell down.

That's what I am guessing myself.

We had an older customer do the same thing with a 1911. At least he admitted his stupidity. He was on our range and put his left hand in front of the muzzle to see if his laser was shining. Then he pulled his trigger for some reason that he couldn't explain.

Glocks only go off if you press the trigger. I worked as an armorer and FI at a large department when we transitioned to Glocks. We torture tested them, we even threw one out of helicopter onto a football field. They are very safe.

That wound looks like a contact wound. His hand was on the muzzle. Either he fell or was just being stupid and pulled the trigger with his hand over muzzle.
I don't even buy the modification possibly since the wound is close. He made up a story to cover his poor handling of a pistol.

Are you saying the Glock in it's box can move forward enough to activate and pull the trigger? Not seeing it.

GoDog57: I am just hurting for that fellow - I hope he is RIGHT handed because that is gonna leave a mark!
Having said that I worked on a force of 1,100 plus police types who switched to Glocks about 10 years before I pulled the pin.
I have seen about 100 loaded Glocks fall to the cement, the dirt, locker room floors, the pavement, the fiberglass decks of boats, flooring of most all types and I have never seen a Glock detonate (discharge) as a result of the sudden stop to those falls!
In addition I know MANY officers from many departments and NONE of them have ever expressed witnessing or hearing of a Glock "going off" when dropped.
I personally was once tasked with discharging a Glock 22 as soon as I could after re-dipping it into water whilst I was assigned to our agencies Harbor Unit - the Glock fired from my gloved left hand with NO problemo!
I simply find it hard, VERY hard, to believe the incident you report here actually happened as you reported it.
Long live Glock - one of the safest most reliable firearms I have ever been around/used/owned!
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Yep. I believe someone had a Stupid Attack, in a Smart Zone.

Bet the guy is right handed.
I'd probably "fumble" my pistol too, after I shot myself in the hand.

GeoW.
It can. There was a recall on the older Tupperware boxes.
They had a molded pilled that went through the triggerguard.
If the box was dropped and the pistol moved enough...bang.
My understanding was the same box was used for all models.
So, if you had a 19 or a 26 in a box that fit a 17, lots of room.



Whoever posted the safety systems on a Glock, and every other comment
missed the biggest point.

They are trigger cocked.
The fugging thing wasn't even cocked.

And it's impossible for it to have went off if it landed on the rear
of the slide pointing up.

1. Because it wasn't cocked.
2. Any firing pin inertia would have been directed away from the primer,
not into it.

not guns but I have caused more damage trying to catch some thing I dropped than just letting it fall . I am in the grabbed it wrong dep.

A friend down south Texas was trying to unjam a 9mm pistol.

He had a moment and pushed the muzzle with his palm on his left hand.

Bullet went clean thru,no bones were hit,it was loaded with fmj bullets.

When it happened he became a very good ambassador for gun safety real fast.

It happened after a long day of work and he was tired.

I have spent a few thousand hours on gun ranges w/ both "pro" and amateur shooters and have been present for, or had to write reports on many NDs. Shooters admitting to error and learning from their mistakes are rarer than unicorn turds. Even when confronted with excellent video of the event.


mike r