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Originally Posted by m21sniper View Post
It's not possible to mistake the overall weapon weight, or trigger feel/mechanism of a taser for a pistol. You'd have to be a brain dead moron to make such a mistake. And even then it may not be possible...
(This would be like grabbing a timing light and somehow thinking you were holding a .44 magnum revolver. Just not possible for someone that's at all familiar with their equipment.)

Also, a cops pistol is in a TRIPLE RETENTION holster. It takes a specific movement/sequence to unholster it.

So the tazer explanation is utterly ridiculous on it's face. And at any rate, there is zero justification for tazing a restrained and non-resisting subject anyway.

None.
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I don't know if the shooter in this incident was even armed with a Taser, but your conclusions are ridiculous.

If the officer was carrying a Taser, odds are it would be this model:

http://www.taser.com/products/law/Pages/TASERM26.aspx

It weighs about 20 oz.

A Glock 17 weighs about 30 oz. loaded.

Your conclusion, "This would be like grabbing a timing light and somehow thinking you were holding a .44 magnum revolver," again demonstrates that you know less about this subject than you have tried to imply.
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