Firearms Officer Wins Sex Discrimination Case Because Her Firearm Was Too Big For Her.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10643338/Petite-firearms-officer-wins-sex-discrimination-case-because-gun-was-too-big-for-her-hands.html

Well this just about takes the biscuit, why isn't there certain qualifications a person should reach before being accepted in certain positions in the police service?

[ladybirder]

Don't know where the rest of that post went. I was going to say I wonder if they do them in Pink.

And I honestly thought Joe Luke was joking, couldn't be serious surely?

[emmie]

have you never seen his other posts, they are very similar in vein

[Zacs-Master]

so that would make them 'in vain'

[emmie]

probably, i was momentarily distracted

[emmie]

by this bonfire of inanities.

[Baldric]

//as per my link// . . . . not really, but it's good to show the difference,
You show the standard weapon, mine shows the modified with new grips, quite a difference!

[emmie]

no by suggesting that women do get discriminated against, and perhaps this was a way of shoving her out.

[emmie]

apologies Balders, i don't know much about guns - i would like to learn, they might come in handy when the next war starts, provided they don't mind olduns firing off a blunderbuss.

[Baldric]

I see you as being better at firing Broadsides Em!

[emmie]

the bigger cannon the better, thinking of firing a few any minute.

[LazyGun]

"Again I will ask, does anyone know if they all have their own gun or share a pool of guns"

Don't know. But if it were the case that all firearms were kept in a common pool to be issued on an "as need" basis, I am pretty sure that would have been raised as a point in defence against the claim. The fact that it was not suggests that the firearms issue system is more personal than that.

[emmie]

police officer so perhaps they have their own, i can't so far find the relevant info.

[LazyGun]

@ Chewn - Its a point, but in the absence of confirmation a speculative one at best. And I would re-iterate; If handguns were kept in a common pool to be issued on an ad-hoc, as need basis, then the authorities defending against the claim would surely have used that fact as a defence against the claim.

The fact that they did not suggests another system of issue/storage is in place.

It might also be that, since she was assigned to a specific unit, they might indeed have had personal issue guns/ storage lockers.

[RATTER15]

Ladybirder, //I was going to say I wonder if they do them in Pink.//

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=a+Glock+17&client=firefox-a&hs=uko&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=sb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&;ei=VE0CU7OSHen9ygOWsYDQBg&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&;bih=922#channel=sb&q=a+pink+Glock+17&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch

take your pick!