handgun discharged at gun show today..10/12/08

[Ron Smith]

I was tuning a .45 Colt Commander at our dining table while off work after knee surgery. I had been taking pain medication (should have been a clue).

It was my house gun so I put a loaded mag in before taking it back to the bed side stand. Sat there for awhile drinking coffee, and decided to check the trigger one more time. Blew the leg off of one of the dining chairs, found the bullet on the couch.

I was on probation for a couple of years after my wife got home. Louie, my Border Collie, who I found behind our bed, didn't speak to me for a week.

Lesson learned...