Well, my spine is chilled!
I do a lot of dry fire practice and worry that sort of familiarity may come back to bite me in the ass.
I guess the only approach is an absurd level of caution.

We have to tie wrap all of our pistols open at the shows here in Arizona; that's the rule. Regardless we had an AD here at a show last year, which just continues to show how careful you have to be. I picked up a 1910 Browning at a show in Wickenberg AZ last week that wasn't tie wrapped and had a round in the chamber with a full clip. The dealer about had heart failure when I ejected the chambered round. Sold the Browing to me cheap though, because I didn't make a too big deal of it and he wanted to get rid of me fast.
Lyn

Lyn, you gotta know when to strike hard and exploit an opportunity. Congratulations.

I have seen this happen 3 diferent time. The first was here in Klamath Falls. A guy walked in and did not have his 22 pistol checked at the door. Was showing it to a dealer and the dealer was holding it up and pulled the triger. It went threw the palm of his other hand and then threw a tshirt of a kid just grazed him and then into the wall.

Hillsboro Ore. The show permoters father(who used to be the show owner) shot a 25ACP into the floor. He did not even get thrown out of the show. Needles to say I will not go to there shows any more.

Reno last year a guy pulled the triger on a 12 gauge. luckily he had it aimed at a light fixture and just blew it away. He was escorted out.

You can never be to carful.

A young boy was killed this week end with a full auto Uzi, seems even though he was under adult supervision, the gun climbed up when being fired and hit him in the head.....just let go of the trigger....just the reason why we were first instructed with 3 to 5 rounds in the Uzi mag at first to work on trigger control........tragic as this boys death is, here come the anti's and they will use it for all it is worth.

Howard, The youngster was fireing the weapon? What city? I will google search the article...

Jerry Burney

Jerry, google

A young boy was killed this week end with a full auto Uzi


a ton of info comes up

http://www.masslive.com/news/index.s...ots_himse.html

In the MSN article I read this morning the headline stated that the shooting took place at a gun show. Only upn reading the article did one learn the truth. Typical careless or willfully dishonest liberal media.

I also heard a reenactor was shot last weekend with a live minie ball at some Civil War reenactment.
Has anybody else heard this? (at the office no time to google)

I hear now that is was a "Micro Uzi"......have not heard anything about a CW reenactor being shot.....

Civil War Reenactor SHot....

Aw, heck, I needed to find out. Turns out it was last month not last weekend but true enough.....

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...t_N.htm?csp=34

National news now...Truely a tradgedy that the young fellow was not given adequate instruction on weapons control. Same thing could happen with cars, ATV's or motorcycles or dozens of things. If you don't know how to operate machinery it could kill you.
I really feel for the young man..15 is a terrible time to lose your life. His Family too...

Jerry Burney

Jerry....is was just 8.

8 is worse yet! I hate to be critical but it seems common sense was on vacation. Granted a MP like this has a freakish rate of climb but surely this so called certified instructor would have known that and taken it into consideration for an 8 year old!
Reminds me of a similar mistake I made with my 10 year old Niece. She wanted to ride a small dirt bike I had. After a half hour of instruction I put her on it for a leisurely put put around the circle drive. No sooner than she twists the throttle.. the force of the accelerating bike pushes her back, she holds on the tighter, causing the throttle to come full on and she rockets into the corner of my house. By the grace of God she is not killed outright and is only slightly injured. I learned a HUGE lesson that day about young children. Thank God the tuition was reasonable.

Jerry Burney

houston tx show--fellow pulled the pin on a teargas grenade..
 

evacuated the building....that is some nasty stuff..

also a hou tx show, fellow shot a round, hit the aluminum pole of a booth, showered the adjacent booths with shrapnel, and one lady seller had a nasty wound on her arm...

I have heard of a couple of cases now where someone has placed an object into the barrel of a firearm, coins in a shotgun for example.

Gun safety education
 

If all this happens, it is a clear sign of a lack of gun safety education. When I take a gun in my hand, the first thing I do is a chamber-check while pointing the gun to the ground. I never trust a gun until I checked it. This is a routine.
I guess one cause of this problem is that there is no draft anymore. That means no strict gun saftey training for the majority of the male population. (Finger off the trigger rule)
But even in the military accidents happens.
Handling a gun is like jumping with a chute. If you think you are very experienced and you get negligent, then accidents happens.
Since I have kids, I am even MORE careful.

BTW, a while ago a guy with an M4 type rifle had some "problems" with his gun, then he turned around with the gun talking to his buddy. Immediately the range officer came and sent him off the range. Really scary situation...

I've seen 3 ADs at gunshows over the years, none recently.

Really gets your attention.

Nowadays they require wire thingies in the action.

At least we can still have shows.

The thing with the kid was beyond tragic.
Could have been avoided with familiarization using a two or three round load.
Plus hands on supervision.

I have attended approximately ten shows over the years where firearms were discharged. At least four of those discharges resulted in wounded individuals.

I personally know of one person that has been responsible for 3 AD's.:eek: