ICYMI — One of Trump’s untrained racist ICE goons slips and falls on the ice and his gun goes off in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood
ICYMI — One of Trump’s untrained racist ICE goons slips and falls on the ice and his gun goes off in a residential Minneapolis neighborhood
I can’t quite see how that weapon discharges though.
The guy’s arms are well out flailing at the time of the flash negating a flinch reaction or grab of the trigger, and it seems to be before the full fall which would eliminate the possibility of a mechanical failure.
I can only imagine the trigger hooked on a piece of equipment. I thought it might be something else but it sure looks like a muzzle flash.
edit: In fact, that’s a really really focussed beam of light, perhaps it was some sort of tactical light mounted on the underside or side of the weapon?
Gun manufacturers spend a lot of time and money making sure weapons never just “go off,” despite what movies would have you think.
So that suggests to me that he has modified his firearm. It could be he added a bump stock or modified the trigger to reduce pull time or distance, or maybe he simply removed the safety feature that prevent accidental discharge.
In any event, any accidental discharge ought to be an immediate dismissal and investigation for negligence at a minimum. Of course, that would be if we lived in a country with a functional legal system.
That’s a weapon light. Even a bump stock will not cause the weapon to go off. You still have to pull the trigger.
This is a nothing burger, other than getting to laugh as a gravy seal nazi falls on his ass.
Aren’t ice issued sig p320s? Like… the one modern firearm that actually DOES “just go off” if there is even a speck of dirt in the assembly?
But also, this is very clearly just a flashlight. That is not the light pattern for even a CGI John Wick discharge and the actual footage is muted with nobody really caring. A real ice pig would have looked for the nearest brown person to frame.
Although, honorable mention goes to glocks and their trigger safeties. Shockingly easy to simulate things catching on the trigger dingus and turning them into a live weapon bouncing around in a bag or getting quick drawn from a push through holster (a whole different level of stupid on its own). But most of those negligent discharges are morons trying to disassemble a loaded weapon so…
No I largely agree. My limited understanding of modern firearms would suggest that with an unmodified firearm, the safety catch would have had to have been manually disengaged (which is daft enough) and whatever has actuated the trigger must have pulled evenly on the trigger safeties too, which I’m finding really unusual.
If they’ve modified their weapon system though, then yeah it could be all sorts of jank interfering with the safety systems.
I’m still not entirely convinced it’s an actual discharge. The video feed I saw on the Bluesky post didn’t have sound so the discharge can’t be heard, and there’s no signs of impact on the snow or pavement, though in fairness the video is of a low frame rate.
It does look like the beam of a mounted tactical light. It is very white and bright and the light is projected forward onto the snow below. There is no “ball” of light in the air in front of the muzzle.
Something could have very easily bumped the light switch.