Salt Lake City police officer loses loaded gun; $200 reward offered

[RamboLiberal]

A Salt Lake City police officer lost a loaded duty weapon Wednesday after leaving the sidearm on the trunk of his car and driving off, police say.

The officer drove from 700 South and 1050 West, got on Interstate 15 at 400 South and drove to Woods Cross before realizing the weapon was gone, said Salt Lake Police Detective Lisa Pascadlo.

“The officer will be held accountable for this, as you can imagine,” she said Thursday. “This is something we obviously take seriously. It’s not something that happens frequently at all. Every officer has left a ticket book on top of their car, but this is something entirely different.”

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The weapon is a matte black Glock handgun with the number 17 on it.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51977024-78/officer-police-lake-salt.html.csp

Ooops - who hasn't left their loaded gun on trunk or roof of their car?

[Historic NY]

1. That person should be losing their job.........now!!!..

How do you lose track of your sidearm?

[krispos42]

19. Familiarity breeds complacency, I guess

People have left their kids at home or in the car, too. And unlike a gun, the kids can scream "Hey! What about me?" to a retreating parent!



At some point, it becomes just one more thing to carry on your belt. The question is... "why was it out of his holster in the first place?"

[Angry Dragon]

2. What was it doing out of the holster??

[Straw Man]

6. It may have been in its holster.

He may have been going off duty and stowing his gun in the car before heading home. It may have been his whole duty belt or a paddle-type holster that comes completely off the belt.

Or this could have been just another Glock "torture test" gone terribly wrong.

[Tejas]

3. This thread is worthless withou.............

[TheWraith]

4. I hope that "being accountable" is a euphemism for "a year of unarmed desk duty."

This would be bad enough, except for the fact that 1) Glocks have no external safeties, so when you pull the trigger, it goes off. 2) Cops carry with a round in the chamber. Meaning if the trigger snagged when this thing fell off the car, or someone found it and accidentally or out of curiosity pulled the trigger... bang!

Idiot.

[Straw Man]

8. Idiot, yes.

But a Glock is as drop-safe as any modern handgun. It won't fire when it hits the ground, even with a round chambered. The trigger could be pulled by a foreign object, but the object would have to be just the right size and shape, and would have to remain in contact with the trigger for all of its rather long travel, exerting sufficient force at the end (about 5 pounds) to trip the sear. It's hard to imagine how that would happen in a fall from the top of a car.

The "finding" scenario is much more worrisome. That's why gun safety education is a good thing.

[Euromutt]

5. "The weapon is a matte black Glock handgun with the number 17 on it."

Well, that narrows it down!

[Straw Man]

7. Yeah, once you weed out all the 19s, it gets easy...

A few more random thoughts:

• "loaded gun"? I certainly hope Salt Lake City officers aren't carrying unloaded guns.
  
• "$200 reward"? At that price, they're practically begging the finder to sell it on the street.
  

[petronius]

12. I don't know: a risk-free $200 sounds more attractive than taking an under-the-table

chance at getting more from a potentially unpleasant customer. And if the cops there have any decency, maybe they'd remember you did them a favor and cut you some slack at the next traffic stop...

[Glassunion]

9. I thought I had found it, but all the ones on the ground around my house were

19's and 26's. I'll keep looking. It's like an Easter Egg hunt!!!

[eqfan592]

10. OMG man...

...you owe me a new computer monitor!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:toast:

[RamboLiberal]

11. Me too!

After a week of putting in a new Windows server I needed it. Funny responses!

:toast:

[Euromutt]

13. You might want to let Seattle PD know

One of the 26s might be Gil Kerlikowske's issue weapon.

[spin]

15. That was funny!!!

[gejohnston]

16. Let's see.....

got an FN, Walther, Smith and Wesson, CZ, Ruger. No, no Glocks here.

[slackmaster]

14. I left a VERY expensive pair of prescription eyeglasses on the roof of a car once

Drove off, never saw them again.

[RamboLiberal]

17. Salt Lake City cop’s missing gun found, returned

A Salt Lake City police officer was breathing a sigh of relief Friday after his lost-and-loaded duty firearm was recovered.

The officer had lost the matte black Glock semi-automatic handgun on Wednesday after leaving the weapon on the trunk lid of his car and then driving off.

Salt Lake City Police Chief Chris Burbank said the firearm was turned in at the Pioneer Precinct, 1040 West 700 South, late Thursday night by a man who had seen the weapon tumble off the officer’s car.

“The citizen had pulled over and recovered it with the intent to return it to the officer right then, but the officer had by then driven off, so kept it because he had an appointment to get to, and then returned it to us last night,” Burbank said.

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/51982330-78/officer-burbank-chief-lake.html.csp

[gejohnston]

18. cool. That makes me a little less cynical. nt

[Glassunion]

21. So WTF am I supposed to do with all of these 19's and 26's?

I have grocery cart full of them.

Guess I have to wait for the next buy-back.

[oneshooter]

22. I'll take 4-5 of them. Will PM you with my FFL Dealers info. Got to keep it legal! n/t

[Glassunion]

23. Funny... I took you for more of a 21, 30 or 36 sort of chap.

[oneshooter]

24. I really don't like Glocks. They don't fit my hand well.

But I do know some people who do like them. They will be informed that they can purchase one at my FFL's shop. I get 20% for my trouble. Got 35 or so?

Oneshooter
Armed and Livin in Texas

[rl6214]

20. Shit, let's ban all concealed carry, oops, I mean

let's ban all cops from carrying guns.