TheDisturbed1
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This guy is LUCKY
http://newsminer.com/2007/03/24/6115/
http://newsminer.com/2007/03/24/6115/
Fairbanks Daily News Miner said:A soldier accidentally fired his .45-caliber handgun inside the Regency Fairbanks Hotel on Friday, injuring himself and sending the round through three adjoining hotel rooms.
Fairbanks police were called to the hotel at about 11 a.m. Friday to investigate and determined that a Fort Wainwright soldier living at the hotel had been handling his personal .45-caliber handgun when it fired.
The round grazed the soldier’s arm and traveled through seven walls. A man was sleeping in one of the adjoining rooms, and a hotel housekeeper was in another when the round passed through the walls. No one but the soldier was injured.
Police ruled the incident an accident.
The soldier, whose name police are not releasing, received a laceration to his arm and was transported to Bassett Army Community Hospital for treatment, according to police.
A few hundred Fort Wainwright soldiers are living at local hotels that have contracts with the Army until more housing units become available on post. A manager at the Regency said the hotel is housing about 50 soldiers. The manager, who did not want to be named, said the hotel has a policy against having loaded firearms in the hotel, but she said the soldier will likely be allowed to continue his stay.
The handgun was owned by the soldier and was not an Army-issued weapon, according to police. Soldiers are not allowed to have service weapons off post or in their personal vehicles or residences, according to Army regulations.
Fairbanks Police Sgt. Eric Jewkes said a .45-caliber is one of the larger kinds of handguns and that most are semiautomatic. The same kind of firearm is standard issue for Fairbanks Police officers.
A report was still being drawn up by officers, Jewkes said, and it had not yet been determined if the case would be forwarded to the district attorney on any charges. Jewkes said similar cases of accidental shootings have resulted in misdemeanor reckless endangerment charges for the gun owners.