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There were a number of accidental discharges in Norway while police were temporarily (for more than a year?) permanently armed. Partly because training assumes

• Auracle 3y ago
  It’s common advice to keep a round chambered and I’m sure (almost) all cops in the US do. You might not have both hands free to chamber the round and it takes time when you may not have any. It really shouldn’t matter as long as your finger isn’t on the trigger until you’re ready to fire. Personally, I still like guns that have a safety lever. I understand that people in a stressful situation might forget to flip it but training should largely circumvent that.
• dmoy 3y ago
  > AFAIK this how you get Glock foot too - drawing a weapon with round chambered, rather than draw-load-fire. Not quite - it's usually on the reholster, not the initial draw. Crucially, this means that the policy of carrying without a round in the chamber can still yield the same failure case, because if the weapon is fired, it'll be loaded when you go to reholster unless you intentionally clear the gun every time. Which, for a failure case caused by literally keeping your finger on the trigger while reholstering, is not gonna be avoidable if that's your bar. Someone who hasn't trained enough to meet the most basic of 8-year-old kid-level gun safety isn't going to be reliably clearing before reholstering either.