Couple things
If you’re getting your gun repaired, unload it. And don’t pull the trigger on a gun without checking to see if it’s loaded. But not like his guy
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May 12th, 2015 at 6:47 pm
All guns are always loaded.
Especially in my house.
May 13th, 2015 at 6:48 am
It’s hard to tell from the account what actually went on. If the story begins with “Gunfire erupts” when there was a single shot fired, do you call that a “lead sentence”?
Jam in the chamber, ‘splodey, bad grip, ricochet in the bullet barrel? Could be, seekers, could be. America is lucky there was a song-writer right there to comment. Reminds me of when you couldn’t die in a mine cave-in without Carson J Robison getting a cable at his hotel.
May 13th, 2015 at 1:55 pm
That’s horrible reporting.
It’s not too clear, but it sounds like the guy’s hand might have been cut by the slide. I wonder, was he pulling back the slide to inspect the chamber, and it slipped and set off the round in the chamber?
May 13th, 2015 at 4:26 pm
A discharge into a gun clearing backstop/tube/pipe sounds like everything and everyone worked as desired, except the gun had a round in it instead of being empty.
I think that is the reason one checks guns for being cleared by using a gun clearing backstop/tube/pipe instead of by pointing them at the floor or ceiling.
May 13th, 2015 at 4:51 pm
@ mikee: Yup. Sounds like their safety procedures worked.
Didn’t CSI do a bit on that once, years ago? Guy goes to fire a round for testing, racks the slide, and the gun goes off due to a stuck firing pin. Then the main character had to explain to the visiting ignorant bigwig that witnessed it that the tech wasn’t being grossly negligent and dangerous because he had it pointed in a safe direction, so no one was hurt and only the bullet-resistant glass wall was damaged.
May 13th, 2015 at 7:05 pm
So nothing happened, and yet notice the mega response; police, ambulence, news media. It looked as though there was an active hostage situation in there. We’ve truly gone batshit insane.
I refer to this hyper over-reaction as “Control By Freakout”, or CBF. When you over-react to the little things, over-reaction becomes routine, and other people begin to over-react in kind. Thus everything is an “emergency” and so the government must, of course, be involved in everything. Never let a crisis go to waste, and everything is a CRISIS!!!
CBF also means that, because you’re in DEFCON One at the sight of a skinned knee, or a finger “gun”, when something serious actually does happen you’re way beyond your natural ability to deal with it. You’re paralyzed. That’s when the responding cops hunker down and call for backup, and then those who came on the scene as backup call for backup…
Also; I believe there was more than a bullet in the chamber. I’m betting there was also a case, a primer and some powder, all fully assembled into a complete cartridge. That’s pure speculation on my part though – the media and the store manager probably knew what they were saying, being as they’re the professionals.