Always think about safety

[GunnersMate]

I found this over on GlockTalk very sad hope this never happens to anyone else.
http://www.glocktalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=384209
Besure to look at the pictures at link near bottom of thread. A picture is worth a 1000 words.

[Joni Lynn]

Ouch............now I know I want at all costs to avoid something like that. I do have a friend that laid his Browning Buckmark down on a tail gate of a truck, then a minute or so later sat down on it without remembering it was there. It shot him in the knee. Luck for him it was a 22, unlucky for him it wasn't a pellet pistol.

[Hawkmoon]

Firearms safety has always been foremost in our family. Somewhere in my lineage is a great-great who always appeared in photographs (or linotypes, or whatever they actually were back in the days of metal plates) with a beard. The reason he always wore a beard is that he shot a hole through his jaw while cleaning the proverbial "unloaded" pistol.

[Joni Lynn]

I am alwayws amazed at how some pople take safety so easily......guns, cars.whatever. Like those two at the gun show this last weekend that resulted in another guy with a new hole in his body.

[Moose63845]

My half brother did the t.v. in like Elvis, and had a buddy of mine put a .44 special into his wall. Also know about some other complacent holes in the wall at the local P.D., and at my range from the P.D. that used to shoot there (different town than P.D. #1). Gotta love what people do when they get comfortable with firearms. My dad saw a guy hand over his 1911 in 'Nam in a chow hall to another guy forgetting it was loaded. Guy shot through one guy think it was the owner of the .45 and killed the guy next to him in line. If I remember the story correctly, all I know for sure is two guys shot one dead. Not exactly sure who the 2 shot were or anything anymore.

[Joni Lynn]

I heard on the news a couple weeks ago....some guy robbing a store......pulled the trigger on the revolver and it goes 'click', so he looks down the barrel and pulls it again. There by saving the tax payers a lot of money. Takes all kinds.

[Joni Lynn]

Hawkmoon did this relative of yours learn from this bad experience? I would hope so. I know a man near me that has blown up more shotguns and rifles than most of us even have heard about. He's still still going strong.......can still make a 30-06 shoot faster than a 300 Weatherby..or a 12 gauge outperform a 10 gauge...ditto with handguns.......just not when I'm around. (I leave if he shows up)

[GunnersMate]

But I thought it just might get everyone thinking about what could and still does happen when we let our guard down.

[Joni Lynn]

The gun show shooting is new, happened about 10 minutes before I got there this last Saturday. I always tell others that there is no such thing as being too careful.

[texasbatman]

I heard on the news a couple weeks ago....some guy robbing a store......pulled the trigger on the revolver and it goes 'click', so he looks down the barrel and pulls it again. There by saving the tax payers a lot of money. Takes all kinds.

Now there is a Darwin Award winner. :) That wound looked pretty painful. The guy has a lot of moxy for posting it. Gotta admire him for that.

Jim