Originally Posted by
Der Gebirgsjager
Well, Larry, Taz, Paul and GhostHawk, you fellows do me a disservice by your criticism. Firstly, the officer was only about 6 months my junior time on the job, and went through the same academy as I did. The two of you that I know or believe have been LEOs probably never subjected your partner and peer to a weapons inspection, especially if he was long past the rookie stage, which this fellow was, having about 10 years on the job at the time. Perhaps it was the hand of God that things worked out the way they did. I did give him a pithy lecture on firearms maintenance and one's responsibility to themselves, their partners, wives and children, and doubt if it ever happened again. Personally, I've always been more of the mind set to make sure that my stuff was all squared away and to assume that the other guy felt the same way. I'm about all I can handle!