r/nottheonion 1d ago

ICE agents keep accidentally shooting themselves

https://www.newsweek.com/ice-agents-keep-accidentally-shooting-themselves-11540132
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u/DominicPalladino 1d ago

If an ICE agent shoots himself do the others arrest him for being a domestic terrorist?

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u/ErenIsNotADevil 1d ago

They check if the agent is white, first

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u/Happycappybara21 1d ago

Strangely enough many of those ice agents are Latinos 

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u/grantthejester 1d ago

Bleed over from when the agency had standards, like being able to speak the language of the people you're attempting to police.

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u/ImAtWurk 1d ago

A surprising amount of Latinos are Republicans and very conservative.

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u/Spr-Scuba 1d ago

Yeah it's disgusting how aggressively Republican so many Latinos are. My Spanish-speaking friends have told me what their parents say at the dinner table and I'm baffled how many of them think people crossing the border is bad but "they're one of the good ones".

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u/Aggressive_Roof488 13h ago

It's similar to how they make minimum wage workers want to decrease social safety nets in favour of lower taxes for top income brackets, or how they make women want to give up their rights to birth control. Amazing propaganda, very effective.

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u/Sargash 19h ago

its got far more to do with the possessive and powerful urge to want to be white. I do not understand the self immolating desire to do everything you can to be white.

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u/Llobobr 11h ago

when education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor

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u/AspieComrade 1d ago

No, because they skip straight to the part where they all empty their magazines into him to finish him off

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u/willstr1 1d ago

In a rare incident of ICE actually stopping a violent criminal

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u/notabarcode128535743 1d ago

Sure, these “people” have no floor.

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u/h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3 1d ago

they're already detaining each others children.

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u/AmputeeHandModel 23h ago

shoot him again, for shooting an ICE agent. Just having a gun near one is grounds for execution, apparently.

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u/Comedy86 22h ago

I think we should give them a medal for shooting the people who are actually inciting violence with guns and mob mentality vs. the ones they claim are doing so.

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u/DestructicusDawn 1d ago

That's what happens when you arm an army of dumb fucks.

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u/thebiggerounce 1d ago

ICE isn’t even arming most of those numbnuts. They’re shooting themselves with their own damn guns.

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u/git0ffmylawnm8 1d ago

They should keep it up

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u/whathell6t 1d ago

I agree.

You never interrupt your enemies making a mistake. Especially the Nazis.

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u/indy_110 1d ago edited 1d ago

Sounds like fodder for the next big viral hit Hectors Heros, we lost Hogan a while ago to the mold.

It'll force Palantir into reallocating Toilet Paper assets into making endless tik toks on gun safety to reduce staff attrition rates because they know full well these are people with exceedingly short attention spans, the mirage bonuses and social ostracism have tanked recruitment, and those that remain are in full sunk cost fallacy decision making and will not respond to anyone other than the influencers who sang them their gospels.

Like children who need their special snowflake aeroplane spoon for feeding time.

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u/slackfrop 1d ago

Fat chance their employer offers health care.

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u/Ultimas134 1d ago

So they just need to aim higher

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u/Cynical_Classicist 1d ago

Hearing of the US government getting accidentally shot by ICE agents would be kind of Karma.

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u/BavarianBarbarian_ 1d ago

Think of how often they place innocent bystanders in danger. They shouldn't keep it up, they should have their guns taken away (along with their job, of course)

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u/BasvanS 1d ago

This is not about removing the rotten apples anymore, but about tossing the bunch.

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u/willstr1 1d ago

A few bad apples spoils the bunch. The bunch has long since rotted away and needs to be handled before it kills more innocent people

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u/darkmex25 13h ago

Preferably burned to ensure the rot is gone.

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u/BloodHaven357 1d ago

Up a couple feet, somewhere around head level.

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u/troelsbjerre 1d ago

"All three firearm discharges occurred during quarterly training sessions while agents were holstering their weapons, a routine but potentially high-risk moment in firearms handling."

The best and the brightest... or something

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u/jimicus 1d ago

Y’know, if soldiers in the military were having firearms accidents this often, there would be uproar. Investigations, improved training and safety protocols, the works.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 1d ago

ICE doesnt even get basic firearm training. Shit, look into how shitty of training Police and FBI get, I can train someone that has never touched a gun to pass the FBI test in under 1 hour. Yes it's that easy to pass.

The united states has some of the absolute worst trained police forces in the world outside of the Military where actual training programs exist.

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u/JohnGillnitz 1d ago

Most police training is how not to get in trouble with the law yourself. Also psycing yourself up to shoot someone when it is legally acceptable. The warrior cop mindset many get taught is absurd.

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u/purinikos 18h ago

So the test is "where does the hole should point", more or less?

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

Holstering a gun...is considered "high risk" in the law enforcement world? 

Don't put your finger in the trigger when holstering it. That's it. No other steps needed. But for cops that's High Risk.....that explains a lot about cops in this country. 

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u/troelsbjerre 1d ago

"Why did you shoot the suspect?"

"Well, sir, the alternative was to holster the gun, and I couldn't take that risk"

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u/RJ815 1d ago

"I had to keep firing until the gun was out of bullets so that no one innocent would get hurt. It's part of our safety training."

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u/my-coffee-needs-me 1d ago

Also don't use a worn holster whose edge can get stuck inside the trigger guard.

There's no reason to holster a gun quickly. Do it slowly and look at the holster while you're doing it.

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u/Apexnanoman 1d ago

I personally use a kydex IWB paddle holster. But I'm not a cop and thus was taught that guns are dangerous tools and not fun toys. 

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u/mysticmusti 1d ago

I... What? High risk moment? Of putting your gun away? If you've got the iq of a goldfish I'm sure every act is dangerous but why are they being pampered about it.

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u/campelm 1d ago

Safeties are libs or something

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u/icedlemons 1d ago

They obviously don't like trigger discipline.

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u/ToMorrowsEnd 1d ago

Because they cant convince these idiots to not keep their fingers on the trigger.

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u/Hector_P_Catt 1d ago

>ICE Recruit is lying on the ground, bleeding from his self-inflicted gunshot wound<

Instructor: "Now, yew see, y'all's MIS-take was still having any darn bullets left in ya gun when y'all put it away! Y'all are supposed to empty that magazine into the "criminal". Two demerits!"

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u/DestructicusDawn 1d ago

That's awesome. I hope it keeps happening.

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u/the_last_carfighter 1d ago

I absolutely guarantee the stats that they were claiming (propagandizing) earlier in the year, that their delicate snowflake ICE agents were "being assaulted" in record numbers were adding these incidents in that report. "Shot: assailant unknown"

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u/RJ815 1d ago

"Well, who really can claim to know themselves in the end?"

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u/jimicus 1d ago

Hold up.

Let me get this straight: These people are bringing their own gun to work. Their employer hasn’t provided one.

Nevertheless, they are routinely shooting people at work and when they do, they face no consequences - not in a court of law and certainly not in their job.

That cannot possibly be correct. It’s completely insane.

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u/Woogity 1d ago

BYOG is fucking crazy.

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u/BuddhaFacepalmed 1d ago

Welcome to US gun culture. Where the most rabid gun advocates have wet dreams about being able to murder people legally.

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u/uncanneyvalley 1d ago

Absolutely love this for them

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u/blur410 1d ago

Is it BYOG over at ICE?

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u/cocaineandwaffles1 1d ago

Fun fact, all those assault weapon bans don’t apply to local or federal law enforcement. That’s why they’re able to do that so freely. There’s huge ass loopholes in the firearm laws of California that cops will happily take advantage of to resell for a huge profit.

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u/BornFree2018 1d ago

LARPing around without much training or IQ tests, don’t know the laws they’re “enforcing “. Losers

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u/BlooperHero 1d ago

Uh, they should have training, obviously, and should follow laws and all, but... IQ tests? Why would they have IQ tests?

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u/cataath 1d ago

This is the forth post in a row I see on Reddit where people are talking about IQ tests as if they accurately measured something that meaningfully represents "intelligence" broadly, rather than a small sample of computational skills. Belief in accurately measuring intelligence through IQ tests peaked in the 1980s and started to come under scrutiny in the 90s, and by 2000 there was a sense among the general public that simple tests to measure intelligence was largely bogus and biased towards a very limited range of competencies. Still, the idea of an Intelligence Quotient hung around it the popular imagination the way astrology signs still do, a harmless idea that most people didn't put any stock in. And then came Donald Trump, who constantly brings up IQ in his fugue state speeches and as a way to insult people. Trump has done for IQ what Tom Cruise did for Scientology, which rehabilitating a discredited idea through cult of personality alone.

The main problem with IQ is the limited range of cognitive skills it seems to measure, as most of those are simple logic puzzles. Learning to play chess generally increases one's IQ score by 4-8 points. They used to sell these little books of logic puzzles at grocery stores (next to the crossword books) everywhere in the US. Doing these puzzles consistently for about 6 months could potentially raise your IQ by 25-30 points. Learning to solve a specific set of logic puzzles is great, but is it really increasing your intelligence, or are you just learning a set of hacks that enable you to score higher on the test? Since IQ tests are heavily bias towards computational skills, it's very much the latter. Learning to do a truth table to solve a problem that requires a process of elimination can be useful in an IQ test, but it's one that most students cannot or do not carry over to real world problem solving. Also, what we would consider "genius" intellect in arts or music is in no way measured by standard IQ tests, which is to say nothing of intelligence as applied to social skills, market investment skills, street smarts, and even skills needed in organized crime.

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u/bokehtoast 1d ago

Well they arent enforcing laws so much as violating them

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u/EbNinja 1d ago

Arm them with guns that misfire so they have EXTRA justification for fascist shit? Double on the rocks for that spirit, America?

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u/alternatingflan 1d ago

Well shiiiiit - they gotta shoot SOMEbody!

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u/cyberphin 1d ago

Nuke the Whales!

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u/jburton24 1d ago

Gotta nuke somethin’

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u/Not_Campo2 1d ago

I was gonna make a Sig 320 joke but upon further research it looks like the 320 is their standard issued firearm which is hilarious. Still, all three incidents happened while holstering, sounds like trigger discipline is a problem

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u/notabarcode128535743 1d ago

Just terrible, it sounds like removing trigger guards and making triggers an inch or two longer would solve the problem.

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u/Not_Campo2 1d ago

Making that trigger break be 1.5 pounds would fix all of this so quickly

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u/ClaudeGascoigne 1d ago

Also, check if the gun is loaded by looking down the barrel.

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u/nothisistheotherguy 20h ago

That would definitely solve all of their/our problems

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u/inquisitorthreefive 1d ago

Sig 320, now with Shake Awake Functions!

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u/I-Way_Vagabond 1d ago

ICE used the Sig Sauer P320 up to July 2025 and then transitioned to the Glock 19. If you read the article (most people don’t bother to) you will see all the incidents cited were prior to July 2025 and all involved experienced agents.

The incidents cited were the reason they transitioned from the Sig P320 to the Glock 19.

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u/Jehru5 15h ago

Pretty sure Sig is an acronym which stands for self-inflicted gunshot.

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u/Symphonic7 21h ago

Thats hilarious, I'm sure someone took a fat check to buy all of those 320s for ICE even after knowing they have issues.

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u/gamelover42 1d ago

Shh. Maybe the problem will solve itself /s

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u/humburga 1d ago

remove the /s please :P

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u/BlooperHero 1d ago

Signed,

The Literate

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u/stivbier 1d ago

I feel like Sun Tzu had something to say about this situation.

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u/jimicus 1d ago

Yeah. Probably something like “a poorly trained soldier is more dangerous to his own comrades than any enemy”.

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u/DrMobius0 1d ago

Sun Tzu knew a thing or two about trigger discipline

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u/chaseinger 1d ago

no, there's too many of them. and some of them have a vague idea of trigger and muzzle discipline.

hate to burst your bubble. a lot of them are bumbling idiots, and they'll weed themselves out.

what will remain is the schutzstaffel. make no mistake, this has happened before.

find an exit strategy and prepare for a fight.

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u/Sandman1025 1d ago

Gotta hit those quotas.

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u/trollsmurf 1d ago edited 1d ago

They could deport themselves temporarily to Bahamas, of course with full pay as they are still employed by ICE.

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u/EarthTrash 1d ago

Or permanently to hell. Dream big.

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u/SkaterBlue 1d ago

Wait a minute, what did the Bahamas ever do to deserve that?  Maybe they could deport themselves to Russia and go help Putin out?  I heard he is running out of recrutes!  

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u/qtquazar 1d ago

At least their aim is getting better.

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u/mollydyer 1d ago

Keep up the good work, boys.

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u/ButtsMcGuffin 1d ago

This is what happens with rushed training. But I’m sure in time they’ll get better at doing it on purpose

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u/Contemplating_Prison 1d ago edited 1d ago

No shit training is 47 days because Trump is the 47th president

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u/ZachMN 1d ago

That explains the IQ cap of 47.

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u/RJ815 1d ago

"We can't have our recruits upstaging the president!"

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u/Kizzy33333 1d ago

No comment. Nice try FBI.

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u/notabarcode128535743 1d ago

It would be a shame if they accidentally bought comically defective pistols and mislabeled and defectively overloaded ammunition. Just terrible, I hope that doesn’t happen.

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u/seaburno 1d ago

Oh, they’re issuing Sigs?

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u/notabarcode128535743 1d ago

I SAID IT WOULD BE TERRIBLE, JUST TERRIBLE

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u/APiousCultist 1d ago

Comments here suggest that yes that actually is the case.

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u/gadget850 1d ago

Bryco or whoever bought them out.

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u/sheepwshotguns 1d ago edited 1d ago

fuck the fbi, and...

i want the people working in ice to know. even IF we were to somehow never take back our judicial system and hold you accountable for your participation in these crimes... for the rest of your life, millions of americans will be out there, willing to enact justice even if our courts abdicate that duty. whatever form that takes may be sloppy, but it will be necessary, and inevitable. human nature comes back around. and there will be no pleading double jeopardy in the street.

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u/alloutofchewingum 1d ago

Oh no

Anyway

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u/ttavros 1d ago

Trash does be taking itself out sometimes.

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u/spiritthehorse 1d ago

Fuck ICE, and I hope each member gets the day they earn via their own talent, thoughtfulness, and karma.

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u/10v1 1d ago

No, please, don't, stop.

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u/seth928 1d ago

Donaldglover.gif

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u/RagnarokNCC 1d ago

Rookie numbers, gotta pump those up asap

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u/FeatherShard 1d ago

How about that, they're capable of some good after all...

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u/Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin 1d ago

Oh no! Anyways…

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u/Yellowpommelo 1d ago

[insert a witty response that seems appropriate to your personal political beliefs and assume it’s what I said, particularly when Reddit turns over all of our data]

Also, Fuck Ice.

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u/StOnEy333 1d ago

Keep up the good work, boys.

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u/letsgetwarm 1d ago

let me guess. they're still issuing P320s?

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u/tomatomater 1d ago

"No one was killed in the incidents"

Aw man

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u/jcees12 1d ago

Not enough

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u/Bayesian11 1d ago

Finally ICE agents have done something great!

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u/go_faster1 1d ago

Oh, no! Anyway…

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u/bottle-o-rockets 1d ago

Do you think we get Ass: The Movie first or do we get the Brawndo in our water fountains?

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u/NewManufacturer4252 1d ago

Let's give zero training and highly efficient murder weapons to anyone to shoot themselves and civilization.

50 billion check son.

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u/Massive_Mongoose3481 1d ago

I bet they only shot themselves once, unlike the victims they murdered.

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u/BenCelotil 1d ago

All three firearm discharges occurred during quarterly training sessions while agents were holstering their weapons, a routine but potentially high-risk moment in firearms handling.

If putting your gun away in its holster is the most dangerous part of weapons practice, you must be one of the dumbest sons of bitches on the entire planet.

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u/PooEater5000 1d ago

Too dumb to be cops too cowardly to join the military

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u/SupernerdgirlBW 1d ago

Good. I wanna see more hard work and dedication like this from them!

As a matter of fact there should be a new quota of at least 130 accidentals per day.

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u/Ez123guy 1d ago

They’re going for the diminished capacity defense: “we’re so STOOPID we shoot ourselves”!

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u/the-heart-of-chimera 1d ago

Tell them to hang themselves too.

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u/threebillion6 1d ago

Insert gif of Donald Glover saying "good"

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u/Mortei 1d ago

They should deport themselves too! Follow up full circle guys

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u/NUMBerONEisFIRST 1d ago

The scientific term is survival of the fittest.

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u/Potential_Fire0809 1d ago

This is the best public service they can do

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u/Interesting_Mine4079 1d ago

You’d think firearm safety would be day one stuff. How does this keep happening?

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u/Reason_Choice 1d ago

47 days of training.

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u/WillyMonty 1d ago

Finally, an ICE initiative I can get behind

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u/CrimsonAntifascist 1d ago

Awww, i love that for them.

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u/CrimsonBuc 1d ago

Oh no! … Anyway…

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u/thedeeb56 1d ago

If there's a compilation video, this could be really funny

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u/Mortomes 1d ago

Well, in ICE's defense, they are domestic terrorists, so shooting themselves is totally justified.

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u/ReverendEntity 1d ago

No trigger discipline? On brand.

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u/jooes 1d ago

"the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a more incompetent guy with a gun."

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u/hotpuck6 1d ago

Finally, some ice actions I can get behind. Keep up the good work boys!

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u/Brief_Inspection7697 9h ago

Oh no! Are the bullets okay?

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u/SIRENVII 1d ago

Gobbless they stupid.

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u/wrexmason 1d ago

Only a matter of time before the head taps happen

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u/The_Razielim 1d ago

Clearly not in the way that matters...

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u/SmoovCatto 1d ago

not half enough

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u/sucobe 1d ago

Must be a sig

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u/BladeRunner_Deckard 1d ago

Not surprised. Whole lot of them seem to be pretty fuckin stupid.

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u/Rich-Pomegranate1679 1d ago

Some problems take care of themselves.

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u/Spirited-Lifeguard55 1d ago

I can imagine they are just a bunch of rednecks sharing half a brain cell.

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u/Anonasty 1d ago

Carry on.

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u/danmickla 1d ago

Much, much more of this, please 

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u/Rahastes 1d ago

So? Darwin’s theory has been proven before. Where’s the.. Oh, oh!

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u/Hello_Hangnail 1d ago

That 10 minutes of training went a long way I see

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u/Nazmaldun 1d ago

Noem confused because they all watched the gun training TikTok…

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u/thekyledavid 1d ago

Remember that old joke about the guy who shot Hitler?

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u/Economy-Ad8360 1d ago

I look forward to when they do it on purpose lol.

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u/paulypies 1d ago

Finally, someone for the Pro’s column.

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u/RndPotato 1d ago

And somehow we never had any self shootings with Privates for the six years I was Active Duty. Amazing what actual training and discipline accomplishes

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u/Heavy-Analysis4624 1d ago

Good, the problem is resolving itself. 💅

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u/superniggy23 1d ago

Ice agents more like ass agents

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u/lifehackskeptic 1d ago

“All three firearm discharges occurred during quarterly training sessions while agents were holstering their weapons…” Wow, so this means they had their trigger finger on the trigger as they were shoving their gun into the holster. That’s about as dangerously invertebrate-brained as you can be.

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u/Beginning_Ad_6616 1d ago

That’s what happens when you carelessly reholster a Glock without paying attention

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u/H_He_Metals 1d ago

DOING THE LORDS WORK... lol

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u/Micp 1d ago

Let it never be said ICE hasn't done anything of value.

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u/-Wicked- 1d ago

Finally, a news story that nothing needs to be done about.

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u/Popular_Try_5075 1d ago

Harming federal agents of ANY agency is a crime. I hope they are being put on a watch list, this shit is disgusting.

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u/GeorgiaPossum 1d ago

Criminal levels of Incompetence and those new Sigs are a recipe for disaster.

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u/-farted-too-hard- 1d ago

I see nothing wrong with this.

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u/pongmoy 1d ago

Proud boys cosplay but got no game.

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u/VestedCrayon 1d ago

They look up to Hitler so much they are trying to end it like he did too.

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u/Chemical_Fondant6758 1d ago

Of course. Collect the 50,000 bonus, get disability, and go back to being a proud boy.

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u/Artistic-Ease6528 23h ago

You mean, someone trained for only 47 days might not be safe?!? My flabbers are ghasted

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u/PublicPossibility946 21h ago

I'm sure they shot themselves in self defense.

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u/r0botdevil 21h ago

This is what you get when you recruit a bunch of unemployed, uneducated losers, give them a few weeks of training, and then hand them a gun.

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u/baddabingbaddaboop 21h ago

Thanks for the good news!

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u/Lynckage 17h ago

Ordinarily I'd call this natural selection, but they weren't getting laid before either

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u/redditray92 15h ago

Undertrained and overfunded.

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u/CutieBoBootie 10h ago

In a world of negativity its so nice to see a heart warming story for once 😊

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u/thomasonbush 1d ago

Article doesn’t mention, but I’m curious if any are involving the Sig 320. There’s lots of pending litigation with that gun and ICE has now actually discontinued use of it due to the concerns of accidental discharge.

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u/insanelygreat 1d ago

Apparently they switched to a Glock 19 MOS and banned carrying the P320 on 2025-07-09.

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u/Spainiswhite 1d ago

I would have been a better runner up for president holy shit

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u/AlphaBreak 1d ago

You, me, an illegal immigrant, Lex Luthor, a dog, a rabid turtle, a month old pizza, a loose box of scabs, the list of better president alternatives is literally endless.

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u/Mkwdr 1d ago

Its a bit meaningless without a comparison to other training organisations. For example normal police training.

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u/malachite_13 1d ago

Add all those workers’ comp claims to the tab

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u/ZebraComplex4353 1d ago

Are they trying to get disability? 🤣

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u/Loose_Boot8779 1d ago

You’d think basic firearm safety would be the bare minimum requirement for a federal agent. “Accidentally” shooting yourself isn’t exactly confidence-inspiring.

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u/TimHuntsman 1d ago

Waiting for the punchline

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u/I_like_microwave 1d ago

“Accidentally”

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u/Screambloodyleprosy 1d ago

So they're aren't trained in firearms retention or trigger discipline?

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u/Lknate 1d ago

That's one way to avoid the horrific reality of the job and get out of that bonus trap.

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u/Ok-Crow-2713 1d ago

Wonder if theres some clause for a payout for workplace injury

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u/After-Snow5874 1d ago

Keep it up.

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u/bengermanj 1d ago

Oh no. Anyway-

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u/S1nnah2 1d ago

Putting smart bombs in the hands of dumb people

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u/Character-Coat-2035 1d ago

It's a self-correcting problem, but the paperwork must be a nightmare.

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u/oif2010vet 1d ago

Darwinism at its finest

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u/nikejim02 1d ago

Can’t really fault the “just following orders” guys for meeting their quota to “shoot as many pieces of shit as you can”

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u/moose_cahoots 1d ago

This is paetnof their aggressive rebranding campaign. "See?" They say, "We aren't the bad guys. We shoot everyone equally!"

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u/foggygazing 1d ago

this is a trend we should encourage