I bet that hurt
Cop stops guy from shooting him by jamming his thumb under the revolvers hammer.
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October 11th, 2011 at 9:26 am
Bet it hurts NOW, but at the time I bet he didn’t feel shit, and his ears were ringing with adrenaline.
October 11th, 2011 at 9:30 am
I imagine it hurt a lot less than .357 Magnum or .38 Special would have. Yikes!
October 11th, 2011 at 9:47 am
Wait… There’s no guns in New York… this story is a lie.
October 11th, 2011 at 10:13 am
There was a gun a couple of years ago that did the same thing by grabbing the cylinder and stopping it from advancing to the next chamber.
Just goes to show how unreliable revolvers are.
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October 11th, 2011 at 10:13 am
We had an armed high school hostage situation. The suspect (a student) was disarmed by two other students. Discharge of the pistol was prevented by one of the students by jamming a finger behind the trigger while they struggled.
October 11th, 2011 at 10:18 am
Bugs Bunny always used a carrot in the barrel.
October 11th, 2011 at 10:21 am
@North…LMAO!
October 11th, 2011 at 10:30 am
Just be glad the Goblins aren’t practicing Retention Techniques.
October 11th, 2011 at 11:30 am
right ring finger, not thumb:)
October 11th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Isn’t this standard procedure at close range? And if not, why not?
October 11th, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Yup. At body contact range, fend off the attacker with your off-hand while firing.
Any pistol can be malfed by a knowledgeable person who can get their hands on it.
October 11th, 2011 at 4:54 pm
+1. I’d much rather have a bruised/torn/cut hand or finger – or even a bullet hole in my hand or a finger or two blown completely off – than get shot/cut/stabbed in the torso. At that point, it’s life over limb, and hand injuries are much less likely to kill you than torso injuries.
October 11th, 2011 at 5:26 pm
All the same, it would be nice to have a study of how many times such desperate measures have been attempted, and how often they actually worked. Someone who believes that they can consistently malf a handgun by grabbing it is someone who’ll end up with an embarrassing epitaph.
October 11th, 2011 at 5:43 pm
I remember seeing this on Bones…she used the fleshy bit of her hand between her thumb and forefinger.
I cringed, but it was cool to see.
October 11th, 2011 at 9:50 pm
“used the fleshy bit of her hand between her thumb and forefinger.”
Had a next-door neighbor patrol cop who did the same thing back in Rome NY a hundred years or so ago. Shook him (and his wife) up a lot. He got off the street a few months later.
October 12th, 2011 at 12:30 am
James Garner did something similar when Walter Brennan pointed a pistol at him, I think in Support Your Local Sherrif, poking his pinkie in the barrel. Brennan objected, if he fired it would probably explode and wound him – Garner retorted that it would not do his hand much good either.
October 12th, 2011 at 12:49 am
I swear I read “Cop stops guy from shooting him by jamming his thumb in the barrel” and had flashbacks to old Bugs Bunny cartoons.
October 12th, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Shades of “Lethal Weapon”!