Two injured at Broken Arrow restaurant when Wagoner County reserve deputy's pistol discharges

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Article stated a Colt Mustang .380. Virtually identical to my Sig P238 except if it was a newer one, the Colt has an ambi safety. I personally will not carry an ambi safety firearm out in public. To me it gives more than twice the opportunity to be accidentally clicked off on the "away from the body" side where it could be bumped against something solid and clicked off without realizing it.

To me I am comfortable carrying my Sig condition 1 with my layers of safety. Manual safety only on my skin side covered by the pocket holster, covered trigger, absolutely nothing else in my pocket including my fingers to bump the safety or trigger in public.

Can't help but think this person failed more than one of these items here.

Bad situation, but could have been worse. Seems reserve deputy's in this area have been in the news quite a bit lately.
 

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Came across a dealers custom grind job once, racked it, finger nowhere near the trigger and it went live...
only gun that ever scared me. luckily it only had one round in the mag, cause once we put more in, it didn't stop till it ran out...
gotta be careful with those plant weapons, there's no telling what that nice boy did to them while he was minding his own business on his way to church.
 

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I wonder if department Reserve policies will be reviewed now. In general. This is the second "unintentional" discharge by a reserve sheriff's deputy in recent history.
 

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Those extra floppy thin leather or fabric pocket holsters have caused more than one ND. I have a nice substantial Galco horsehide pocket holster that I do trust with subcompact Glocks. I really don't trust even a DA/SA revolver with the floppy "thins".

I mirror the disliking large ambi thumb safety levers, in my case either single or ambi. They can get brushed off or on, both sometimes bad.
 

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