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LSL wrote:

Keith B wrote:Maybe he was left handed and trying to use his right hand to engage the safety. It can happen. It happened to a CCW student in Missouri. Here is a recreation of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7AMMF7WaB8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Just ignore how the draw was done and think about someone rotating the gun to try and click of the safety.

For the sake of clarity:

"receation" = fun activity while "re-ceation" is a renactment or "do over" of something that occurred earlier.

LSL wrote:

Keith B wrote:Maybe he was left handed and trying to use his right hand to engage the safety. It can happen. It happened to a CCW student in Missouri. Here is a recreation of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7AMMF7WaB8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Just ignore how the draw was done and think about someone rotating the gun to try and click of the safety.

For the sake of clarity:

"receation" = fun activity while "re-ceation" is a renactment or "do over" of something that occurred earlier.

FishInTx wrote:

Keith B wrote:Maybe he was left handed and trying to use his right hand to engage the safety. It can happen. It happened to a CCW student in Missouri. Here is a recreation of the event http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7AMMF7WaB8" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;. Just ignore how the draw was done and think about someone rotating the gun to try and click of the safety.

Most miss fires occur when? Turning safety on and off? Clearing jams? Load/Unloading gun? Itchy trigger finger? I'd look it up but I gotta go to bed!!

seamusTX wrote:While we all like to whistle past the graveyard, a man has died here. Probably he left behind a grieving family. Unless someone wants to pry loose the detailed police reports, we probably will never know what kind of weapon it was or exactly what went wrong.

I can guarantee that everyone who accidentally shot himself or someone else thought he knew exactly what he was doing until the weapon fired.

- Jim

seamusTX wrote:Dead people can't collect workers comp. That is for medical treatment of on-the-job injuries.

Most employers carry accidental death insurance for on-the-job deaths. It's inexpensive in most industries.

It's also not clear from news reports whether the man was an employee or owner.
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas ... 440885.php" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

- Jim

AndyC wrote:

Scott in Houston wrote:Yet another reason to carry GLOCK !

Hardly - here's another incident from yesterday:

“He turned the handgun toward his person when it discharged, striking him,” Pryor said in a statement.

Patterson was taken to Medical University Hospital, where he later died. The shop is at 7163 Cross County Road, which is just northwest of the Charleston International Airport.

A witness said he shot himself in the chest with a .45-caliber Glock.

Full story: http://www.postandcourier.com/article/2 ... 868&slId=5" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

AndyC wrote:I'm not sure where you get that from.

Spencer Pryor, spokesman for the North Charleston Police Department, said that just after 5 p.m., Patterson was shooting on an indoor range at the Trader World Gun Shop when he turned his handgun to inspect it.

“He turned the handgun toward his person when it discharged, striking him,” Pryor said in a statement.

Might have been a hang-fire, sure - might have been a dummy unloading his pistol by pointing it at his chest with his finger on the trigger, too. I've seen the latter technique quite a lot of late - did I miss some popular movie recently where that was espoused as a cool way to do it?