Amazing how those firearms just go off...

[GunClasses.Net]

... There's some weird hugging going on here.

...and that may be the kindest way to put this.

So, young girl walks up to man who's at a party with his wife, gives man a 'special hug', and dies. Hm.

[EAJuggalo]

Multiple reports label it as department issue S&W .40, S&W press release confirms that DPD issues M&P .40's.

[The Lance]

something smells fishy in this story like a beached whale..

[SparkyJeff]

Why would a woman want to hug a cop?

[Lunchbox]

For the same reason they like strippers dressed as cops?

[OldmanFCSA]

Seems like the wife was giving the hug from behind and "accidentally" shot the woman in front giving oral favors to the husband.

[GunClasses.Net]

Seems like the wife was giving the hug from behind and "accidentally" shot the woman in front giving oral favors to the husband.

Could be... Is that a hunch or an item from a news article?

[CraigJS]

I haven't seen anything in print or reported to that effect.. BUT, the angles would be about right. (from what I remember )

[Lunchbox]

To pull it out of the gutter: what if she was just a midget? The angles could still work without oral coming into play.

Just saying.

[ronin069]

Any bets on how this guy was carrying his gun? I can't honestly think of any way that a properly holstered firearm would discharge from a hug... even one from behind.

I'm wondering if it wasn't one of those t-shirts with the built-in holsters.

I could see how the fabric could get caught in the trigger.

If you are referring to the one by 5.11, I own and were a couple of them. Usually with my 229. I am incredibly self conscious when I wear it and avoid all hug-like physical contact for fear that I may be "made".

"maybe" it could happen of he was not wearing a cover shirt; but she would have had to grip the handle and pull the trigger through the shirt.