How do you clean a loaded gun?

[Frank_N_Stein]

That was the question my wife asked me when I told her someone had shot themselves in the leg while cleaning their gun.

I went on a run this morning of a person shot. The caller told the 911 dispatcher that her boyfriend had accidentally shot himself in the leg while cleaning his pistol. When I arrived the BF was sitting on the living room floor with a nice 9mm sized hole in his left leg, just below his knee. The guy had a Hi-Point and had reassembled it after cleaning, and said that when he put the magazine in and racked the slide "it just went off." The guy was lucky it only hit him in the leg and not the junk or anywhere on the body of his infant daughter, who was sleeping in her baby swing about 4 feet away from where the bullet went through the guy and into the floor. The guy said he was being careful while handling his gun "because I made sure I didn't point it anywhere near her"...

 

[Fenway]

Put mag in and racked the slide..... gun goes off and it just so happens he is pointing it as his leg

 

[Suprtek]

"It just went off"

Riiiiiight. Isn't that what all those evil guns do when you least expect it?

And I always keep my finger right on the trigger while pointing the gun at myself when I pull back the slide, don't you?

 

[revsaxon]

Ive always wondered what happens after that point. Do they cops consficate the gun? Do you get it back later?

 

[Jack Ryan]

Ive always wondered what happens after that point. Do they cops consficate the gun? Do you get it back later?

Good question.

 

[Integraholic]

Well if it was a hi point I would probably believe it. Haha.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

Ive always wondered what happens after that point. Do they cops consficate the gun? Do you get it back later?

AFAIK the gun stayed at the house while the shootee went to the hospital.

 

[jbombelli]

I guess that's the risk you take when you buy a Hi Point. Not to be confused with a Hi Power.




If it wasn't a Hi Point, I don't think I'd believe that story.

 

[Tryin']

AFAIK the gun stayed at the house while the shootee went to the hospital.

Good to see that stupidity does not equal criminal, yet.

 

[E5RANGER375]

so many IDIOTS out there today, and its sad to see they are breading.

hi point?? hmmmmm, he must have been hitting the primer with a hammer. book em dano.

 

[Frank_N_Stein]

I guess that's the risk you take when you buy a Hi Point. Not to be confused with a Hi Power.




If it wasn't a Hi Point, I don't think I'd believe that story.

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...t_discharge_story_from_the_files_of_impd.html

Similar situation, but with an XD. It can happen with any gun, not just the "crappy" ones.

 

[Turn Key]

Stupid Should Hurt !


TK

 

[jbombelli]

https://www.indianagunowners.com/fo...t_discharge_story_from_the_files_of_impd.html

Similar situation, but with an XD. It can happen with any gun, not just the "crappy" ones.

I don't like XDs either!

 

[451_Detonics]

Ive always wondered what happens after that point. Do they cops consficate the gun? Do you get it back later?

No...you want to leave it there so the guy has another chance to win a Darwin Award and do his part to deepen the gene pool.

 

[phatgemi]

Ive always wondered what happens after that point. Do they cops consficate the gun? Do you get it back later?

I had a friend/coworker who had accidental discharge two weeks ago. Shot himself also in left leg. He required surgery and a rod now runs knee to ankle due to shattered tibia. The police DID NOT confiscate his .45.

 

[krn]

maybe he was a moron or maybe the gun did "just go off" either way he lives to clean his gun some more.

 

[hodgej1843]

WAS HE DRINKIN??I NNNEEEEEEVVVER EVEN BRING A FIREARM OUT WHEN MY DAUGHTER IS AROUND..

 

[VUPDblue]

He shoulda used those big ass pliers for something else.... everyone knows you're supposed to work on HiPoints with a hammer!

 

[loony1]

thank god for miracles

 

[HICKMAN]

so many IDIOTS out there today, and its sad to see they are breading.

yeah, and guess who the anti's all lump in with this guy?

ALL of us.