• @[email protected]
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    I remember in elementary school a cop came over to show something or whatever. Anyways, one of my classmates stood next to him and saw the gun and poked the holster because he didn’t know what it was. The cop elbowed him full blast in the nose.

    We were like 6 years old…

  • @[email protected]
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    4021 days ago

    Fake as fuck. Cop’s holsters have locks that require more interaction than a plastic Dino grabber can provide.

    • Track_ShovelOP
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      5321 days ago

      Yeah, but they never use them, how else are you going to headshot a grandma in her kitchen before your partner reacts?

    • @[email protected]
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      721 days ago

      I agree. I would expect any service holster to at least have some kind of a mechanical lock to prevent theft or an accidental drop of a gun.

      I have a cheap plastic holster that requires a button press with your index finger. You can do this while grabbing the handle and starting to pull the gun. When completely pulled out, your finger is then aligned near to the trigger for quick response times. That’s the system I expect a modern police to have. It’s really difficult to take the gun out when you’re not pulling from above from a natural position.

      I know the cops in the US have a very bad reputation but this can’t be true.

    • @[email protected]
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      721 days ago

      Like not just cops’ but arent most holsters with saftey features built to be difficult for anyone but the wearer to access smoothly?

      I’m not an enthusiast or anything and could be wrong, just an impression I’ve gotten over the years.

      • @[email protected]
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        821 days ago

        Most are actually just two pieces of leather with an optimistic outline of a pistol stamped into one side. No special devices at all.

        • SSTF
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          I’m sure some cops somewhere still do that, but I can’t remember the last time I saw a uniformed patrol officer not using some kind of retention holster. Even the old fashion leather holsters had thumbsnaps every time I’ve seen them for the kind of role.

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        A duty holster will have a retention lock of some kind, usually a thumblock or button. Thats what you’d expect a uniformed patrol officer to use on a belt kit. A detective or some other LEO that wears more business casual clothes or formal clothes will more likely to have a holster without a retention, but they aren’t normally making traffic stops.

        Not really worth a deep dive since the story is made up in the first place.

  • key
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    3421 days ago

    ACABB - All Cops Are Brontosaurus Bait

    • SSTF
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      220 days ago

      Just like the fake story gets repeatedly posted.

  • @[email protected]
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    3121 days ago

    Good thing the cops considered him “the right kind of person” otherwise he’d just be dead.

  • Uriel238 [all pronouns]
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    I’m reading plural incidents.

    I want to know how many time he successfully dino-lifted a gun and got away with it before he was caught.

    If the number is more than zero, well done Mr. Dino-Grabber Suspect, well done!

    • SSTF
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      220 days ago

      The number was, in fact, zero. (The story is made up. It circulates around every so often with the same mugshot that came from a real, but very different case.)

        • SSTF
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          520 days ago

          I acknowledged that in the comment.

          Judging by other top level comments, it seems many people do indeed simply accept it as something that actually happened.

    • @[email protected]
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      120 days ago

      Yes, from holsters that require special training to simply remove the gun from.

      Even if they weren’t special holsters, try unsnapping a leather or ballistic snap with a dino toy.

      It’s just fake funny shit that gets distributed waaay too far because our species has lost all capability to think.

  • Blackout
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    621 days ago

    How? I can barely shoot mine with a slinky, maybe he puts silly putty in its mouth for better grip?