Authorities: 4-year-old picks up Tenn. deputy's gun from a bed, fatally shoots officer's wife

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22. This is a problem with Automatics, note it was a NON-Service pistol that was fired.

Old Fashioned Revolvers were safer, require more pull on the trigger then most four year olds can do. I suspect this is an Automatic, most service automatic duplicate revolvers

Local Story about the incident:
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130408/NEWS03/304080039/Wife-deputy-shot-killed-Wilson-County-accident?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE&nclick_check=1

The Glock, an automatic pistol a lot of Police Department have adopted, have a revolver type trigger, requiring more power then in other automatics to work the trigger. Please note this accident did NOT involve a service issued weapon so I suspect it is an automatic, but not a Glock:

http://world.guns.ru/handguns/hg/at/glock-e.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glock

The factory-standard two-stage trigger has a trigger travel of 12.5 mm (0.49 in) and is rated at 25 N (5.6 lbf), but by using a modified connector it can be increased to 35 N (7.9 lbf) or lowered to 20 N (4.5 lbf). In response to a request made by American law enforcement agencies for a two-stage trigger with increased trigger pull, Glock introduced the NY1 (New York) trigger module, which features a flat spring in a plastic housing that replaces the trigger bar's standard coil spring. This trigger modification is available in two versions: NY1 and NY2 that are rated at 25 N (5.6 lbf) to 40 N (9.0 lbf) and 32 N (7.2 lbf) to 50 N (11.2 lbf) respectively, which require approximately 20 N (4.5 lbf) to 30 N (6.7 lbf) of force to disengage the safeties and another 10 N (2.2 lbf) to 20 N (4.5 lbf) in the second stage to fire a shot.