"A Deschutes County sheriff’s patrol deputy of eight years has been placed on “modified duty” after his service rifle discharged as he was driving on U.S. Highway 97 and the bullet hit a building.
Ron Brown’s AR 15 rifle went off just before midnight Tuesday. The round penetrated the front of Wood Monsters, a flooring business in the 20500 block of Robal Road in north Bend.
No one was inside at the time, and no one was injured, said Kevin Taylor, owner of the business.
Sheriff Larry Blanton said he did not have many specifics about the incident.
“(The rifle) was in its holder, but he heard it rattling up there and was trying to put it back,” Blanton said.
He said department policy allows for bullets to be inside the magazine of a rifle in a patrol car, but not in the barrel “unless we are responding to an issue that would necessitate having a bullet in the barrel.”
Huh? What in the name of all hells was a "bullet" doing IN the barrel? Once a firing pin has impacted the CARTRIDGE, the BULLET then EXITS the barrel.
You mean the Sheriff's office doesn't know the difference between a cartridge and a bullet?
Oh.
Perhaps they use caseless ammunition that also tends to just "GO OFF", without hitting a window of the patrol car but somehow exiting the AR, PLUS the vehicle, then impacting a nearby building.
How many time have I told them about them experimental caseless rifles that DO tend to rattle without cause too.
Thanks to The War on Guns.
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