Double Naught Spy
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How can a simple hug cause a weapon to discharge?
Maybe a better question would be to know how it is that you determined this to be a simple hug when the article you cited did not call it such a hug and the hug described occurred while dancing which obviously would not indicate any sort of simplicity. Obfuscating the event with a query that introduces incorrect information isn't a way to arrive at a proper answer.
Absolutely impossible--there has to be more to it that what is being reported--otherwise our streets would be littered with accidentally shot people.
Um, no. Just because an event doesn't happen frequently does not mean it is impossible, improbable, but not impossible.
I can see that as a possibility for explaining how the gun went off. I'm still very skeptical about the idea that a gun in the IWB holster of a standing person could go off and injure the person standing next to him in the chest.
This seems to be the most sensible point of contention. Given that most adults are not amazingly different in height such that an IWB holster which should be carrying the with the muzzle pointed downward somewhere below being level, how did she end up shot in the heart. No ricochet is mentioned. No disparity of height is mentioned. From the initial read, it sounded like a shoulder holster incident, but that isn't the case.
I'm not saying it was an intentional shooting, but I would buy here grabbing at the gun from behind.
Along those lines, I am thinking that sense it is IWB, it probably isn't locked down by a thumb break or other retention device, became partially dislodged during the hug and discharged when pushed by into the holster, but this would still utterly fail to account for the shot to the chest.