was this "accident" caused by horizontal shoulder holster???

[Chad4000]

yeah very weird....

[Skully]

Agreed!! The entire story makes as much sense as putting a screendoor on a submarine.

Yeah I read the story a couple different times and re-read it. There is pieces missing or the public isn't getting the whole story.

..........whatever the outcome of the investigation, it is sad someone that young had to depart under bad circumstances with absolutely no meaning.

[anomad]

I've seen videos of some pretty interesting "bumpin and grindin" that constitutes dancing these days...

But yeah, most likely the gun "just went off".

[Clint45]

Freak accident. A Glock in a defective or damaged horizontal shoulder holster could've discharged due to being pressed against material touching the trigger. I have heard of several cases where a Glock in a worn holster discharged as someone was entering or exiting a vehicle due to worn leather bending inside the trigger guard.

It is also possible that if a drunken woman with impaired judgement was groping him from behind she may have deliberately grabbed his gun from an awkward angle and accidentally fired it.

I wonder if they made the officer get tested for alcohol?

[SuperiorDG]

Just speculating, but perhaps when she touched his gun he reacted by grabbing it and pulled the trigger.

[10mm-man]

Just speculating, but perhaps when she touched his gun he reacted by grabbing it and pulled the trigger.

That is what I was thinking, speculation (as it all is right now) but what if;she came up from behind and accident grabbed his gun? He didn't know her or her intentions (or maybe who it was at all) and out of reaction fearing for his life pulled the trigger???

Speculation yes, but why we are all at it, thought I would through my $.02 @ it...

[stevelkinevil]

From a different website I read that the gun was a S&w m&p 40. The suggestion was that you could "stage" the trigger (pulling it back halfway disengaging the safety, and then release it and the safety would not reset). At that point it would be much easier to fire, even if it just took a shock. Anyone have any experience with this? Is this plausible? Is this a m&p issue only? Would Glock, xdm, sig, have the same issue? Any m&p exPerts out there?

I cant speak to the Glock or XD, but as a certified M&P armorer I can tell you that is not the case for the M&P. I still think the whole thing stinks to high heaven and not just because it involves Detroit.

[Adawg38]

Man I am totally confused here.
Shoulder holster or iwb holster? Iwb I just don't see it without the officer being shot. Shoulder holster maybe. Anyway it is a tragic accident and it sucks. I know the mother is devastated and sorry for her loss but I really don't get it and kind of get upset when something like this happens and the victims love one has to question why the person had a gun like in this case the mother asks why he was carrying a loaded gun at his own home and his own party. I don't mean to sound like a dick.

[10mm-man]

the mother asks why he was carrying a loaded gun at his own home and his own party. I don't mean to sound like a dick.

Think maybe she is just trying to deal with her loss. Maybe she don't carry, so it doesn't make sense to her.

[trlcavscout]

M&P 40 in a soft neoprene holster. $20 holster! Why?

http://wap.myfoxdetroit.com/w/main/story/66870571/