Tonight at the range I frequent, the guy two stalls down from me - about 15' away- had been consistently shooting a 30.06 S&W rifle. I was shooting a revolver & my Glock. While reloading the revolver one of the shots from the guy sounded weird, and there was a cloud of smoke around him when I looked over - thought he had switched to Black Powder rifle. No, he was staring at a hole in the ceiling where his 30.06 was pointing, muttering "Holy Sh--". His rifle had discharged with his hand nowhere near the trigger, went thru the tile-ceiling, through the 2nd flr and into a the concrete-looking building ceiling - maybe ricocheted somewhere else, don't know. He said the round before - while he was aiming at the target - had seemed like it might be Unintentional Disharge, but he wasn't sure what had happened; so he had raised the gun to examine the breech and while sliding the bolt back forward: Bang! - Hand was far away from trigger. Range owner was nice and didn't blame the guy after - and said trigger was shot when he examined his gun.
I shot the 6 in my gun and took off. Later, I thought if the guy had pointed the weapon slightly at an angle to his left, I would be have had an exploded head, or if the round had ricocheted back down in a certain angle, a hole in the top of my skull.
I really realized how important it is to NEVER POINT A GUN AT A PERSON NO MATTER HOW SAFE YOU THINK IT IS - EVEN FOR ONE MOMENT - no matter where your hands are, no matter how far away from the trigger, no matter what you believe as far as its being loaded or not - NO MATTER WHAT!!!
I also was thinking of carrying my Glock unchambered and my revolvers with an empty chamber. Or selling them all. In short, I'm suddenly afraid of guns.
I think I'll go out and take a walk with one of my guns on the way it usually is (chambered). Get some confidence back.
Quite a freaky experience....
I shot the 6 in my gun and took off. Later, I thought if the guy had pointed the weapon slightly at an angle to his left, I would be have had an exploded head, or if the round had ricocheted back down in a certain angle, a hole in the top of my skull.
I really realized how important it is to NEVER POINT A GUN AT A PERSON NO MATTER HOW SAFE YOU THINK IT IS - EVEN FOR ONE MOMENT - no matter where your hands are, no matter how far away from the trigger, no matter what you believe as far as its being loaded or not - NO MATTER WHAT!!!
I also was thinking of carrying my Glock unchambered and my revolvers with an empty chamber. Or selling them all. In short, I'm suddenly afraid of guns.
I think I'll go out and take a walk with one of my guns on the way it usually is (chambered). Get some confidence back.
Quite a freaky experience....
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