I always wondered why they take the uniform off at the end of there shift they also put their gun in something and click it. I'm not sure what it's called and I don't know anything about guns.
Police in my area wear their uniforms to and from work.
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The red barrel is called a clearing barrel and it's used as a safe place to make sure there aren't any rounds left in the chamber. When Dov's gun fired it was a bad thing & that's why someone said that he was going to have a ton of paperwork to do. (Because technically he had fired his gun indoors.)
Here's an article that goes over it a little bit. http://www.army.mil/article/58684/
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It was Lukes gun. I think detectives can take theirs home. I remenber in season 1 Dov asking for permission to take his gun home to "clean" it.
shareWith a semi-automatic gun, being charged and being ready to fire are not the same thing. You will see on TV shows/movies people with pistols grabbing the top of the gun and moving it backwards with a noise. This takes a bullet from the magazine and puts it in the chamber, ready to be fired. At that point if you remove the magazine, the gun can still fire that single bullet, and it's a cause of a great many accidents and deaths. That's why they remove the magazine then shoot in the red barrel, to be 100% certain the gun is now safe.
Here in France a lot of cops still carry a revolver (Manurhin MR 73), I have no idea what they do with them off duty though.
Not all pistols are able to fire without the magazine. There are somepistols that have magazine safety's. Neither a pistol that has a magazine safety if the magazine is removed the pistol cannot be fired even with a round still in the chamber.
shareThe Manurhin MR 73 is a rare gun in the U.S. but its quality is excellent. It is very similar to the S&W revolvers in .357 magnum caliber that U.S. police predominantly carried for decades. It wasn't until around 1990 that the police in the U.S. converted almost exclusively to carrying automatics.
shareYou will see on TV shows/movies people with pistols grabbing the top of the gun and moving it backwards with a noise. This takes a bullet from the magazine and puts it in the chamber
I was in the Air Force for 11 years. During one assignment, I frequently augmented the base Security Forces, armed with an M16A2, and I was also deployed as a Force Protection augmentee to Iraq, where I armed up with either an M16A2 or an M9 pistol every day.
The red barrel is the clearing barrel. When you are issued your weapon at the beginning of your shift, you need to clear it to make sure that no rounds were left in the chamber, etc. You do the same when you turn it in. That reduces the changes of an accident.
One thing that likely differed is that while we were on duty, with our M9 pisols we kept the weapon on Fire and a round in the chamber.
while we were on duty, with our M9 pisols we kept the weapon on Fire and a round in the chamber.