"A police marksman is under investigation after accidentally shooting a colleague in an extraordinary blunder.
The victim, a civilian employee, was seriously injured in the accident at a lecture room at the HQ of Thames Valley Police near Oxford.
He was apparently being shown the workings of a police Glock pistol when it went off, blasting him in the torso.
The victim, aged in his 50s, was left writhing in agony with blood pouring from the wound.
He underwent emergency surgery and his condition was described as serious but stable.
The hugely embarrassing incident prompted a major internal investigation and stunned officers.
One police source at the HQ said: "There are a lot of red faces about this. Why the hell was an experienced firearms officer demonstrating with a loaded pistol in an enclosed environment?
"Someone’s head will have to roll."
The victim was among a group of about a dozen civilian employees attending a pre-lunch lecture at the Kidlington headquarters when the blunder happened.
New employees were being shown the work of the tactical firearms unit when the gun went off and the man was hit at close range."
(Pictured: The victim was apparently being shown the workings of a Glock pistol like this when it went off.)
First off, sweet mother of pearl but look at how much finger this detweiler has on the trigger, and will someone, anyone, tell the Brits that cup & saucer went out with bellbottom jeans. Every time I hear tell of firearms "training" in the UK an inadvertent shudder races down my spine when it hits home that they continue to teach law enforcement all the wrong ways to handle a gun.
And B, do any of us REALLY need to get into the strange case of the self-shooting-pistol?
Thanks to The War on Guns.
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