From: "Derek Bernard", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Please do tell... What 3? Does this include the one I heard about at
> Tiddsley Wood, many years ago? The woman who got hit one yard INSIDE the
> safety exclusion zone?
>
> Nigel
Sorry! I did this research many years before starting to sort and file
electronically. A somewhat hurried look has failed to unearth my notes.
My recollection is as follows:
1. The 3 cases were identified in a written Parliamentary answer about 10
years ago.
2. 2 were military and 1 was police.
3. All 3 could be classified as accidental discharges combined with
extremely poor gun handling and supervision.
4. One involved a woman victim.
It has been suggested that ranges should be designed so that any AD, or
ricochet, in any direction, will always be contained. I would respond that
that is not "holistic" analysis. Such an approach enormously increases the
cost of even a pistol range, much less anything much over 100 metres. It
also generally makes them much less pleasant places to use. This will either
reduce the number of ranges and/or increase the resources consumed in their
construction. If the first, the amount of shooting practise will go down
and society will be less well-equipped for self- and national defence; if
the second, society would have got a much better return on its investment
by spending the resources on better roads, or schools, or hospitals, indeed
on almost anything else.
Derek Bernard
--
There have been several since then, what about that copper in the Met
who has had two ADs fired into him!
Steve.
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