Stupid moves with a Gun

I have heard to never put a cut off finger directly on ice, it should, instead be kept from getting wet but do keep it cold.
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When my middle finger on the right hand was cut off, well almost cut off it was hangig by a small piece of skin, I wrapped up my hand and went to the hospital. They re attached it and I have it today altho it doesnt work right.
 
Entering a secure facility one time I spotted a bullet hole in the guard shack - the crater in the bullet-proof glass was facing out. :p
 
Blew a hole in my bedroom wall,,,

I was 11 and had a 30-40 Krag,,,

I was jacking ammo through it so I could watch it fly across the room,,,

I slammed one round home and BOOM,,,

I have never played with a gun since then,,,
Not even once.
 
The worst I ever did was doing the "hot-case dance" with my finger still in the trigger guard. It was with my Ruger Mark II, and an empty case ejected from the gun, bounced off the wall separating the lanes, and landed in my shirt collar on the side of my neck. After I shook the case out with my right hand (I'm a lefty), I realized that my left index finger was still on the trigger, and the muzzle was pointed at the ground about 2 feet in front of me. I don't know how I managed not to squeeze off another shot while getting rid of the hot case on my neck -- the trigger on the Ruger Mark II is single-action and pretty light.

I've tried to make taking my finger out of the trigger guard a reflexive action even if a hot case lands on my skin, and I think I've been pretty successful with that. Just yesterday, a hot case from my Ruger Mark II did the same bounce off the wall to the right of me, but managed to land *inside* my shooting glasses, resting on the lower eyelid of my left eye. Obviously, my right hand shot right up to my face and ripped the glasses off. I was happy to discover that first, I wasn't blind and only had a minor burn on my eyelid, and second, my left index finger was reflexively extended along the outside of the trigger guard, and third, the gun was still pointed downrange at the target.
 
thats horrible..I bet you thats one of the cops that does not like CCW because we are not "professional" enough. I also think a cop should not look like a thug so maybe a hair cut might be in order.

I saw a lady looking at a revolver at a gun shop. The sales person did a saftey check and handed her the gun. She pulled the trigger with it pointed right at him!!

Another time a friend of mine, one of the few that knows I carry a pistol, was talking to his girlfriend about getting a gun so he asked if she could see mine. Me and him had made an assumption that she knew what she was doing. I cleared the gun and made sure it was empty and handed it to her. She pointed it at him telling him he should have done something for her in a joking manner. I had to give her a lecture.

Lessons learned
-before handing a gun to someone ask if they have experience.
-make sure all guns are loaded b/c there are stupid people that will accidently shoot you.
 
I also think a cop should not look like a thug so maybe a hair cut might be in order.
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Got a problem with long hair?
One of the best cops at the local PD had long hair and sleeve tattoos...

I hope to be in Law Enforcement eventually... I have long hair...

That aside, I took my friend, cousin, and her husband shooting one day. I gave my safety lesson, made sure they understood, and tried to manage the ammunition so the math added up and I knew how many rounds were loaded. While I was loading the .22 magazine my friend stop firing the shotgun and I stopped to look at him. I was behind him and he lowered the muzzle thinking the safety was on he pulled the trigger. 12 gauge, took the stock right in the gut and almost blew his toe off. Then we went home to my place, I had checked the guns before we got in the car. I checked them as soon as we got into the house. The idiot friend picked up the shotgun, racked it and pointed it at my cousins husband. I proceeded to take it from him and lock it away with the rest, I didn't NEED to say anything...:rolleyes:
 
I was cleaning my S&W Model 36 after I got off duty one morning. I discovered that you can cock the hammer with the cylinder open by pushing back on the cylinder latch. I proceeded to clean the gun then reloaded it, closed the cylinder and wiped it down. Then I noticed that the gun was still cocked. I put it down for awhile , took a break and slowly lowered the hammer. First and last time I ever did that.
 
Long - - - long time ago, I was a youngster visiting my grandparents. Grandad was a gun collector. (his Collection would make all of us drool and dribble)
Well, as a curious child, I was investigating everywhere. In the upper drawer of Grandads dresser, (I had to stand on a chair to get this high) I discovered a long barreled nickel plated S&W revolver in .32 long. I was used to handling all the firearms in the house, all unloaded of course. Not this one. I was marvelling on this revolver, cocked it and then looked at the front of the cylinder, down the barrel. Saw the faces of bullets. I had an epiphany. Gently turned the revolver away from my face, gently un-cocked it, and reverently replaced it in his drawer.
This lesson has served me well in the many years since.

Roger
 
When I was 10 my father took me out hunting with a neighbor of ours. I'd bought my own 22 that year and my old man had me bring it and a host of other 22s we had. After a morning and afternoon of uneventful deer hunting, we decided to do a little plinking. Dad had a single action 22 revolver and decided to let me shoot it, I'd never gotten to shoot a handgun before.

Well, I put six rounds down range and with a big grin on my face I turned around - gun still in hand and pointed in front, right at our neighbor Steve. Well, Steve throws his hands up, dad steps to the side of me, pushes the gun toward the ground and backhands me hard enough that I couldn't feel the left side of my face for a few minutes. Later on that day, I apologized to our neighbor and he said to me "It's OK, I wish your old man didn't hit you like that." I never did get mad at him for hitting me, I told Steve "It's what I deserved" and I knew it the second I did it.

The lesson I learned is no matter how excited you get (happy, scared or otherwise), you have to maintain muzzle discipline. Of course, at the time all I knew was never point a gun at someone.
 
If you handle weapons enough you will make a mistake. You may not realize it but I'd bet most of us have done something unsafe with a weapon. Don't think you're immune, you are not.

A mistake I made was with my new Colt 1911. I was showing my wife how safe it was with the hammer at half cock and pulled the trigger. There is a hole in the wall and I still hear (note; a 45 in a house makes a loud bang) that sound as a reminder of how many mistakes I made in that short period of time. Lessons learned and not repeated. It take due diligence to keep you and those around you safe with firearms.
 
When my girlfriend was in highschool her mom kept a couple of S&W .357's from when she was a cop in a breifcase. One day when a few people were over and her mom was out, she took them out to show people. She pointed the gun right at her best friend's face with her finger on the trigger. She assured her friend that the gun was unloaded, but never pulled the trigger. Later on, she opened the cylinder of the gun and 6 .357 wadcutters from the 70's were snuggly loaded into it. All I could think was "thank god for double action's pull weight and length."

It's shame we broke up before I got into shooting, would have been fun to futz around with those.
 
That video never gets old. As many times as I have seen it, my heart misses a beat every time the stupid gun goes bang! You see I had a few accidental Bangs at the range but always with the gun pointed down range. :eek:

Ok, so you see when he says, "bring that other gun..." you can hear kids protesting telling him, "Put it down!". Right, they don't want to be shot after that pathetic demo. Lesson learned. If you look, the slide is locked back, but it looks like the almost certainly loaded magazine is still in the gun, so even though he thinks the gun is unloaded, when he drops the slide, it chambers a round. Unfortunately he had his bugger picker in the trigger guard and BANG! Unforgettable. No better reminder for the 4 rules than this.
 
I have a new one... I was driving my father to walmart to buy groceries and he has this western themed murder mystery thing going on soon, so he needed a cap gun. We got one and as we were getting to the freeway he tries to fire it at me and messes it up. Just as we get on the freeway he has fixed it and he decides to discharge it in the car... -_-

He isn't even 45...
 
Here's the stupid move I myself made almost 9 years ago.

I hadn't long been 21, and bought my first "real" pistol. A XD-9.

Got home from the gun range with it, and was "playing" with it.

Started to disasemble the gun. Checked for empty chamber, and got distracted. Ended up putting the mag back in the gun, locked the slide back, flipped the takedown lever, let the slide foward, and pulled the trigger to release the slide...with the pistol pointed at my left arm.

Shot myself between my wrist and elbow, and bullet exited one inch below my elbow.

It was probably the most scary thing that I'd ever done. What looked like a gallon of blood came out, police came, wife freaking out, etc etc. Wife was so freaked she was useless. Bandaged my arm by myself while she was hysterical, before the cops or ambulance came.

That will NEVER happen again.

FWIW, getting shot in the arm with a 9mm 115 gr, FMJ, felt like getting hit with a 20 pound sledge hammer. It also looked that way as well. Arm was black and blue for a week after.
 
The one that always amazes me are the guys who put their shotguns in the truck or car with the muzzle pointed at the passenger compartment of the vehicle.
I get the heebie-jeebies and refuse to ride in a vehicle if the guns are carried that way. Put them crosswise.

Anyway, I think it comes from reading about a guy who pulled a loaded shotgun towards him by the muzzle and the trigger caught something and the gun fired. He took a full blast into his groin area.

Very rarely can I remember ever having a loaded long gun in my vehicle. I might have a round in the tube or magazine, but never in the chamber.

Two other cases I can think of off the top of my head:

I was sitting in my dorm room with the window open, working on a paper when I heard a "pop" and then a guy starts yelling "Tebo! Tebo, I shot myself. Tebo" Apparently, the guy was waiting for his buddy to come out and was playing with the gun inside the car, when it went off.

The other one was on Judge Judy (OK, I admit it, I like her attitude :)) when a guy from Kansas was shot in his own vehicle by his friend. Apparently, he had been at the range and claims he put the pistols in his car trunk. He picked up his friend and showed him the pistols he bought earlier that day. He claimed his friend took at least one of the guns from the trunk of the car and entered the passenger compartment with it. While examining the gun, his passenger accidentally fired it.

I have only been shot once (and that might have been a ricochet) and I know I do not want to go through that again. It was painful and although I did not find it funny, it provided hours of mirth to the other guys on the squad. (Although the location of my would was really the subject of the humor as opposed to the actual incident in which it happened. Another inch or so and I would be loging in as Auntie Buck.)

How many of us have had a gun handed to them that was never checked to see if it had been cleared?
 
How many of us have had a gun handed to them that was never checked to see if it had been cleared?
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Before I was ever really into guns I was at home and heard a "friend" (it was my at one point in time step-sisters boyfriend) pull up and he came up the stairs to knock. I opened the door and he said "Hey, you busy today?" I asked why. He pulled a 9mm Beretta from the front of his belt, under his shirt. I did my best to stay away from the muzzle, but luckily he knew better. He asked if I wanted to see it. Now being 15 and him being 17, I knew this wasn't legal in the slightest. I put on gloves, he handed it to me and I dropped the mag into my other hand before pulling the slide back enough to see it was loaded. Apparently I knew better than he did. I eased the slide back forward and slid the magazine in. Checking to make sure the safety was on I handed it back to him and asked that he never brings a loaded gun to my house again. I wish I could say I cringed at watching him stuff it back into the front of his pants, but then he wouldn't have gotten my ex step-sister pregnant... He came by to ask if I wanted to go shooting, I declined...
 
I accidentally let a .44 magnum slug fly over my city. The berm in the old shooting spot was probably 20 feet high. But I was trying out a new revolver in single action mode and wasn't expecting such a light pull. I was checking the local paper for a month hoping I wasn't going to have to fess up for breaking someone's window, or even worse, injuring someone.

That was many years ago, learned a lot since then. Now I make sure the gun's on target before putting the finger in the trigger guard, especially in single action mode :eek:.
 
I don't know if you would call this stupid, but I got myself good last night! I have a 1911. I've had it several weeks, and two or three times a week, I disassemble and reassemble it, to familiarize myself with the procedure. It was unloaded, magazine removed. As I was reassembling it, I looked away. I was putting the recoil spring plug on, and it started to slip through my oily fingers. I was using the guide rod to hold it in place and it popped out just enough to scrape a chunk o'meat from my knuckle.

It is still bleeding.

My lesson learned here is that even without a bullet in the weapon, a gun is still dangerous.
 
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