Remember that pilot who's pistol discharged...

[767Jockey]

Originally Posted by AMF

The program didn't make this idiot discharge his gun. I don't care if the program makes him load it, unload, dry fire it, holster it, put it in a safe, remove it from a safe....whatever.

PEOPLE discharge firearms, not programs. Just like PEOPLE kill other people with firearms. You can pass all the laws you want. You can alter all the policies and do whatever you like, but it's training the PEOPLE that prevents firearm accidents.

If a person isn't qualified, then maybe they shouldn't oughtta volunteer to carry the damned thing. If you can't even negotiate this "program" without discharging the thing, then it makes me question whether or not you're qualified to actually use it. I'd a whole lot rather have a pilot with no gun, than a pilot who THINKS he knows how to handle a gun.

Modern firearms just don't go off by themselves.

Again, make the penalty immediate termination from employment and loss of flight privelages for the person who discharges it and have some sort of penalty for their supervisor and this sorta thing would practically never happen. Guys would know that they better take extra care when handling the gun (and it would probably encourage those who weren't properly trained to take the extra time to get there) and it would also encourage supervisors to check and double check (imagine that concept).

You seem to feel you know exactly what happened here. I'll sit back and let you explain. I doubt you'll even come close. I have plenty of time, go ahead..........