California Sheriff Loses AR-15, Placing It On Top Of Car And Driving Off
BY Herschel Smith
8 years, 10 months ago
Via Uncle, Twitter. An Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy loses his patrol rifle. “The Deputy set the rifle, inside its case, on the trunk of his vehicle and inadvertently drove away.”
I guess inadvertently driving off is sort of like inadvertent discharges. It’s all okay because its inadvertent. Gosh, I hate it when that happens to me. I do it all the time. I remember the last time I did that. The gun shop replaced it for free, and we all laughed and laughed and laughed.
One interesting question over Twitter is “Why is it called a patrol rifle when law enforcement has one, and an assault rifle if a civilian has one?”
Because shut up, says law enforcement.
On January 29, 2016 at 10:54 am, Duke_Digger said:
Had I observed this behavior, I would have secured the rifle (probably a carbine) by placing the wheel of my truck on top of case and all, to insure it didn’t go berserk, and dialed 911. Gladly surrendered it when LEO arrived to take it back into custody.
/s
On January 29, 2016 at 12:57 pm, Archer said:
After getting a badge number and a photo ID and possibly a background check, of course. I’d hate to be accused of firearm theft and illegal gun trafficking if a “fauxnly one” showed up to claim it.
On January 29, 2016 at 8:37 pm, Ned Weatherby said:
Big deal. It was only a “patrol rifle.” It’s not like it was an “assault weapon” or something sinister like that. Besides, since it was obviously only a trained LEO “patrol rifle,” the “rifle” (not “weapon”) would likely have turned itself in after being “forgotten” (not “lost”.) That is, of course, unless someone like Duke (paranoid as he apparently is – – heh) managed to capture the errant “patrol rifle” (not assault weapon) and held it safely under the foot of his truck until a properly trained LEO could insure public safety, and collect the errant “patrol rifle ” (not assault weapon.”)
But wait – besides figuring out who is a properly trained LEO, since a LEO misplaced (not lost) the rifle – not “weapon,” how do we know what is merely a “patrol rifle” and constitutes an “assault weapon?” Perhaps alerting a Prozi reporter/ know-it-all regarding the existence of such an errant “patrol rifle/assault weapon” is the answer.
Once the Prozi “expert” determines whether or not the firearm has “that shoulder thing that goes up” and/or uses “high- capacity clips” – they can, and will, save the immediate populace from harm. If they figure out that the ammo in the “clip” is capable of killing and cooking a deer, the experts will have spoken. And saved us all. Again.
As a non- expert in such matters, I suppose that if it’s a “patrol rifle” there’s a pretty strong possibility that what we refer to as a “safety” lever likely has 3 positions: safe, semi, and auto.
My guess is – a lot of folks who find one “on the street,” in a box with three “safety” options may “forget” to alert the authorities.
But the powers that be will be hard pressed to determine if the firearm in question was simply delivered to drug dealers via F&F, or if it was just “forgotten” by a LEO.