Just saw this posted on Instagram, I thought it served as a friendly reminder to clear your weapons…
Ouch!!
If only there was something like a simple guideline for gun safety. Maybe three or four very simple rules that if strictly observed would prevent ALL gun tragedies, even those that are the result of mechanical failures.
Just a pipe dream I guess.
The shit people do… I talked to a guy locally that shot himself in the upper leg last year, with a .45, was loaded with man killers naturally… he didn’t die. Didn’t break his femur(upper?) Or the artery, went clean through, then ricochet off the chair right back into the thigh…lucky lucky lucky…
So I asked him, “what exactly were you thinking? You ND’d into your leg while sitting down…?” He reply was I was cleaning it and went to pull trigger to disassemble. I wasn’t thinking…had my mind elsewhere…"
It just so happened to be loaded… broke every rule there ever was.
It could have been worse
We need to be safe around ALL machines
I was in a room next to a Soldier who was cleaning his M4 after Skyping with his wife and finding out she wanted to divorce him. He wasn’t focused on what he was doing, put a mag in after re-assembly, and went through a function check. Shot a round into the floor between his feet. His excuse? I couldn’t think straight.
Most recently, a Soldier in my Company ND’d an M9 in his room doing **** all for I know. I just remember a shot going through his CHU wall and striking an I beam outside. His excuse? I didn’t know it was loaded.
Steyr nailed it. Being a safe, responsible gun handler isn’t hard. It just takes some self discipline and adherence to the rules of gun handling.
Still not as funny/pathetic as watching a female MP NCO clearing her M9 going into a chow hall and not dropping the mag. She got off three rounds in the barrel before some SFC came over and yanked the pistol out of her hands and explained in some of the most creative NCO-isms I’ve ever heard how stupid she was.
Okay then.
Can someone please explain to me what kind of machine is in the second picture and how something like that is possible?
Engine Lathe. Get something caught in a chuck going a couple thousand RPM’s and go for a ride
showing that hand is like showing a car wreck and saying dont text and drive ?
cant stop ignorance and stupidity sadly people get to complacent maybe
Also do not wear rings while working on lathe. My parents know several people who, if lucky had rings yanks off and shot to parts unknown of the shop they worked in. Those who weren’t…
That had to be painful with time for regret.
I have a cousin who accidentally shot his hand with a 38 derringer…
I have a long time friend and student who is a bit into guns. Years ago he had a ND that resulted in an injury to another friend of his. A few years back I went shooting with him and was amazed at how complacent he was with firearm safety.
Whenever I’d correct him as he was “about” to fail muzzle control 101 he acted like I was nagging him. Really bothered me. He’s one of an endless number of people who was never taught how to shoot responsibly with safety stressed and he basically learned “on his own.”
This means among other things that if he believes a gun isn’t loaded he can point it anywhere, more than a few times I’ve had to move the muzzle of the gun he was holding into a safer direction and he always gave me the same confused / quizzical look because “it isn’t loaded.”
He’s now a grown up with kids so and remedial instruction opportunity is simply gone. He’s set in his ways, really enjoys shooting and thinks my guns are seriously cool. He constantly wants me to get this gun or that gun for him but I actually worry about being the guy who gets a gun for him. I certainly don’t want him to be unable to defend his family or home, but I also don’t want to be the one who got him the gun “he had a tragedy with” due to complacency.
And when I do shoot with him, I don’t really get to focus on my shooting, I spend all my time watching his muzzle direction.
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Once I take over as head of the BATF I am going to mandate that all homeowners have clearing barrels installed in their homes.
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A local cop had a ND while reholstering his Glock. He had keys in his gun hand, and they contacted the trigger as he pushed the pistol into his holster. This event took place at the jail after he retrieved the Glock from the outside safe box.
Last year, a local cop had a ND spinning his Glock around his trigger finger like a Wild West gunfighter in the parking lot at a shopping mall while talking to another officer. Fortunately, only his cruiser was damaged and he is no longer an officer.