Here's the actual NBC coverage, online:
http://www.nbc5.com/news/8698552/detail.html
I decided to go through the images/slideshow. The reporters, reporting for NBC, declare that Lee Paige, the DEA agent: "In the video, he points the gun in the air and pulls the trigger. The firing pin clicks, but the gun does not go off."
Typical sheeple/liberal reporters.... What they report to be Paige holding his Glock in the air and pulling the trigger is actually Paige pointing the gun in the air and dropping the slide...chambering a live round.
Apparently, before shooting himself, when Paige steps off-screen, he clears the action by pulling the slide back and he locks the slide open. What he has forgotten to do is also to pull his magazine out of the mag well...so, when he points his Glock into the air, and drops his slide, he chambers a nice new fresh round....
Glocks might be ordinarily very safe...unless the person holding it isn't thinking too hard....
Lee Paige says that the DEA, allegedly releasing the video on the Internet, has ruined his career. He ruined his own career. Having the video online is just a good example that some folks either don't know enough about firearms, or, that having great familiarity with their duty arm may make even the best LEOs careless.
During the Today Show interview with Matt Lauer, last week, both Paige and his lawyer were sitting down. It makes me wonder if a point-blank .40 S&W round, in either his thigh or foot, hasn't permanently disabled him, and his suing of the DEA isn't just a way to make some money....
GeoThorn