Death at the Firing Line - UPDATED

[GearHead]

Did you see where the entry point of the bullet was?

Nope, she was lying on that side..

I just picked up my gear from the Aurora PD and the Detective told me that the .38 was loaded with "wad cutters" and the bullet fragments didn't go thru the head. Had she had jacketed ammo, the pilot on lane 4 could have been in danger..

[dorifto_poca]

MAGAZINE not 'clip'

but then it'll sound funny as a banana magazine(?)

[7idl]

MAGAZINE not 'clip'

but then it'll sound funny as a banana magazine(?)

do you want to sound like an uniformed anti-gun liberal or an educated firearms owner? [pirate]

[dorifto_poca]

i don't mean to thread jack, but i grew up with the term clip and now more educated its magazine. so what can you do?

[7idl]

It wasn't an attack on anyone here.

we just need to not use the incorrect terms used by the media.

[AR Will]

I made a mistake as a fresh recruit, and asked my Drill instucter "why don't we practice Drill and Cerimonies with a clip in the weapon?" That was the first and last time I called it a clip. Some of us learn the hard way, I blame hollywood for the whole "Clip". I geuss its easier for the misinformed California movie makers to have there action heros say clip....less sylables, or maybe its because they don't alow rifles with magazines in that state. 2cents

[PsychoI3oy]

That's funny. When I was in AFJRROTC the color guard drilled with demilled M1 Garands.

Calling it a clip then would have been accurate :mrgreen:

ETA: In the non threadjacking department.

I've shot at TFL I don't know how many times. Sucks this had to happen there, specially while one of our own was there.

Sucks even worse that it happened at any gun range with a firearm. I've been keeping an eye out but haven't seen anything in the media. They usually have a field day with these things.

The only results on google news and news4colorado.com for 'suicide' and 'aurora suicide' are for a recent 'may have been suicide by cop' and results for "the firing line" on news4colorado don't show anything.

[BadShot]

Always a crappy thing to have to witness a death, especially a suicide. I'm glad you and the others were OK, but at this point I have to say I'm not comfortable with TFL. I've never really been impressed by them or the range, but this kinda puts it over the top for me. I don't think I'll be setting foot in there again.

Still, glad you're doing OK and didn't get hurt.

[rtr]

Heard on the radio today (Sunday Sep. 24) that there was a suicide at an indoor range in Denver, don't remember hearing which one, anybody got more details?

[KarlPMann]

I think that was at The Firing Line in Aurora and happened a few weeks ago, but I'm not 100% sure. There was a thread about it IIRC. Karl.