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ICE Goon Shoots Bed in Neighboring Hotel Room While Fiddling With His Gun (www.thedailybeast.com)

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A retired federal agent rehired by ICE as part of Kristi Noem’s mass recruitment push accidentally discharged his gun in a hotel room, firing one round through the wall that came to rest in the headboard of the bed in the room next door.

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[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

A Glock 19 cannot fire unless your finger is on the trigger.

Iirc you have to pull the trigger to remove the slide on a Glock, so he probably did have a legitimate reason to be pulling it. However the first step is to unload the fucking thing.