For a reminder, PB shot himself in the leg with an illegal pistol in a NYC night club. The pistol was a Glock semi-automatic. Like a lot of semi-autos, the Glock doesn't have an external safety. The only safety is a very long, heavy trigger pull. The pistol is "DAO," or double action only. IOW, you can't .... a hammer and just pull the trigger. The safety is the long, heavy trigger pull, making it almost impossible to pull the trigger accidentally, unless, well, unless one were "impaired." The next hole in Plaxico's story is that he had it inside his waist band and it starting sliding down his leg. If this is true, he's so dumb, two years was an inadequate sentence. First, I know of no one who just sticks a pistol in his pants, like a pirate movie. They make very good inside the waist band (IWB) holsters which fix the gun in place. Surely he could afford one. Also, the jeans I've seen athletes wearing lately have scarcely the room for a gun to move very far. Most likely theory? He was impaired, reached for his (illegal) gun to check it and lost control of it, dropping it down his pants. IF he grabbed the trigger and pulled, that's even more evidence that he wasn't "with it." His gonads can thank him it was aimed outwardly. These guns are designed to be very difficult to fire unintentionally. Holsters for them are designed so that they are almost impossible to draw with a finger around the trigger. I know all of mine are. But, then, I'm not in the habit of carrying illegally while impaired...
