DescentBB

Accidents happen.

heh, still had a live round in the chamber, dumbass.

"Everyone was pretty shaken up," Farmer said. "But the point of gun safety hit home. Unfortunately, the agent had to get shot. But after seeing that, my nephew doesn't want to have anything to do with guns."

It's sad, but I still stand firm that first hand experience of what certain things can do to people at a young age is a good deterant from them getting mixed up with stupid stuff later in life.

This also applies to witnessing the truth about the consequences of committing a crime, which I think should be harsher then they are, but *shrug*, what do I know.

must be related to redbone....

heh... this was on CNN.com like 2 weeks ago... I'm surprised this is the first time it's been posted here.

He drew his .40-caliber duty weapon and removed the magazine, according to the police report. Then he pulled back the slide and asked someone in the audience to look inside the gun and confirm it wasn't loaded, the report said.

Witnesses said the gun was pointed at the floor and when he released the slide, one shot fired into the top of his left thigh.

If this is what really happened, that is one seriously defective gun.

Rule #1: Always treat a gun as if it's loaded.

Rule #2: Never point a gun at something you aren't willing to destroy.

I don't know what really happened but he definitely broke the rules!

It should go without saying that regardless of what someone else thinks of the loaded/unloaded condition of a gun, you have to verify for yourself each time you handle it that it is unloaded before you do anything with it.

When I hand someone my pistol I unload it, rack the slide open and lock it open. Then I look to be sure the chamber is empty by putting my finger on the breechface and look down the barrel to see my fingernail, then look down the empty magazine channel to verify no loose rounds, then hand it to them, slide locked open barrel pointed at me.
(contradictory to rule#2 I know, but it's old school gun etiquette, old habits die hard )

Even if they only hold the gun for a moment when they hand it back the first thing I do is verify that the gun is unloaded even if I was watching them the whole time.

This guy screwed up, probably because he handles his gun daily in a certain way that was safe for the conditions he uses it in ie; only he handles it, but then he changed the routine...
If he never stopped using the basic rules of gun safety in his routine that accident wouldn't have happened.

Seems kinda odd that the gun would fire from that. But yeah, he should have been more careful to make sure there really wasnt a bullet in the barrel.