Excessive booger-hooking of the bang-switch
At a water pistol fight, a man “accidentally” shot a teenager:
And when he went to holster it he was spinning it on his finger, he pulled the trigger and accidentally shot her near the collarbone
Egad. Don’t do that.
April 18th, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Ack! I saw this story last night, but it didn’t have the cowboy spinning part. Durrr.
April 19th, 2016 at 2:21 am
Well. If he accidently shot her he isn’t particularly culpable. And besides that I personally hate getting wet. So I might have also pulled that trigger. Just saying.
April 19th, 2016 at 9:04 am
Just what we need a careless gun owner . These acts of stupidity give ammo to the argument that people can not be trusted with guns
April 19th, 2016 at 2:40 pm
In my opinion, the news article opened more questions than it answered. In the words of the female assistant US Marshal in the Fugitive, “Care to revise your statement, sir?”
April 19th, 2016 at 3:15 pm
Yeah, well it helps to understand the difference between a single action revolver (“cowboy guns”) and a double action.
April 19th, 2016 at 10:29 pm
And a Glock Lyle. DA revolvers with heavy DA trigger pulls are not particularly capable of AD/ND by twirling.
Semi-autos, on the other hand, can be very bad news.
April 20th, 2016 at 12:39 pm
The point is that, if the hammer is not cocked, there’s nothing you can do to the trigger of a single action (revolver or semiautomatic) to make the gun fire.