CHAPTER 12

Reports about early problems with accidental discharges include: Gilbert Jimenez, “Police Chief Red Faced After Gun Discharges,” Chicago Sun-Times, December 20, 1989; Kathleen Ovack, “Gun’s ‘Hair Trigger’ Under Fire,” St. Petersburg Times, February 19, 1990; Dan Huff, “Accidents Happen, But All Too Often with the Glock 19,” Arizona Daily Star, November 20, 1990; and “Glock Pistol Under Fire in S.C.: Is It Simple and Safe or a Dangerous Hair-Trigger,” Associated Press, December 13, 1994. Washington’s transition to the Glock is described in Rene Sanchez, “D.C. Officers Get 9mm Pistols for ‘Parity with Drug Dealers,’ ” Washington Post, March 4, 1989; Elsa Walsh, “D.C. Police Pistol Gets Poor Safety Marks,” Washington Post, April 8, 1989; Jeff Leen, Jo Craven, David Jackson, and Sari Horwitz, “D.C. Police Lead Nation in Shootings: Lack of Training, Supervision Implicated as Key Factors,” Washington Post, November 15, 1998; and Jeff Leen and Sari Horwitz, “Armed and Unready: City Pays for Failure to Train Officers with Sophisticated Weapon,” Washington Post, November 18, 1998. To describe the Grant suit in Knoxville, I relied on daily coverage by the Knoxville News Sentinel, June 13 through June 21, 1994. Massad Ayoob discussed the Glock in “The Glock Pistol: Perspective from the Field” and “Glock’s Perfection Questioned on the Street: Enter the New York Trigger,” GUNS, September 1990.