Got made the worst way possible (Ever happened to you?)

[P95Carry]

GunGeek ...... fear not .... you are not the only one to screw up!! As you are fairly new here (welcome BTW! ) .. go look at my story ...

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?threadid=42599

That too for me was a salutary experience ... and I tell it against myself, maybe cos it might help someone else avoid the same. This too was IN PUBLIC in my case! As it happens ...... no biggie I am glad to say.

Yours was at least in ''private'' circles but I can see why it affected you as it did. That is maybe one reason why, as TonyB mentions .... keep on the person is still by far the way to go IMO.

Even so - other day .. I had been to bathroom, and as is my habit ... taken out snub to relieve weight on downed pants. After ''business'' was complete .. went back to office without checking ... piece was recovered and delivered from bathroom floor to self by wife soon after!!! Kids are growed up and firearms literate so .. I know I have less to worry about than a house full of ''tinies'' ..... nonetheless it was a stupid oversight ... and makes me more dilligent even than before ...... just as I check my fly - check that gun is where it should be.. always.

My excuse for this last blooper ..? ..... not fully awake first thing in day ... but that was no excuse.

 

[voilsb]

Back in May ... if you wanna read all the gay jokes I got to endure, feel free to check out the thread at AR-15.com: my CCW got "spotted" today ...

names are changed to protect those involved (yeah, I just felt like saying that. but I respect their privacy, so I'm doing it anyway)

I was at a church barbecue this afternoon having myself a good time.

along comes this really good friend ("Bob") of mine who starts giving me a backrub while I'm talking to a third (and mutual) friend ("Frank"). somewhere along the lines Bob bumps into something hard around the 4 o'clock toward my lower back. he ignores it. he continues the backrub.

he bumps it again, so he checks it out (by feel). then he asks me (playfully) "is this your gun?" and I respond "yup" and then he says "okay" and finishes the backrub.

while finishing the backrub and the three of us continue talking he's comments to Frank "so I'm rubbing his back and I bump into his gun" and Frank just kinda smiles.

then Bob says to me "so do you have it so you can shoot those crows?" (there are about a dozen crows being generally annoying right now trying to scare a hawk away from "their" territory) and I say "no, not really. more to take out a bad guy who decides he wants to hurt me or someone around me. basically one of those things you hope you never have to use" and he says "ah, cool" and we move on to a different topic.

later I invited Bob shooting with a fourth friend and I for Saturday, and he got a huge grin on his face (he loves shooting).


I'm glad most of my friends aren't liberals. they would have freaked out in that situation.

 

[Standing Wolf]

Personally, there's no way I'd ever consider letting anyone else hold, have, borrow, or possess my carry gun.

There are plenty of worse things you could have done, and things seem to have worked out all right, but putting a loaded gun in the hands of a non-shooter without lots of preliminary instruction isn't my idea of the course of wisdom.

 

[Sharpie1]

TIBERIUS

My Kel-Tec P32 has no slide lock.

Yours might.

TD

 

[GunGeek]

P95Carry Said: GunGeek ...... fear not .... you are not the only one to screw up!! As you are fairly new here (welcome BTW! ) .. go look at my story ...

New? um may I point out I've been a member a month longer then you have.... check the year... thats 2002. I'm an old carry over from when TFL closed shop... just haven't been very active here.

But thanks for the welcome.

(Edit) Just was thinking, didn't THR open in Dec 2002? So since I was here since the begining I'd like to welcome you! ... Sorry it took so long.

 

[admar2]

definitely not the worst thing that could've happened. and I'm sure its not the first time it has happened to anybody. lesson learned hopefully.


my only criticism would be that you should have regained possession of your firearm immediately. however, all's well that ends well in this case.

 

[P95Carry]

GunGeek Sir .... my bad!!! Humble apologies ... I sorta half saw the post count and looked no further ....

Thx for your welcome!!

I wished only to be polite and ensure people feel both welcome and at home.

 

[JShirley]

For the record,

The P-32 has an internal slide lock.

The P-3AT does not.

The P-3AT weighs a smidgen more, and its dimensions are slightly larger. You have to look closely to tell the difference, and you'll only see it if you ID the script on the side, or look at the barrel diameter. You will probably be able to use the same leather holster for your P-3AT as your P-32, but kydex may not work.

The P-3AT, like most KT products, is intrinsically accurate, but you, like me, will probably not be able to typically use its potential accuracy without an extremely careful and slow trigger squeeze.

(I have hit a 1" target at 20 feet with a KT. I have hit small targets- 2 lb propane bottles, 20 oz bottles, etc- at between 20 and 30 yards with single shots from KT's...but not rapidly.)

 

[GunGeek]

P95Carry,

It's the friendly people like you that are the reason I came to TFL and here in the first place so no reason to apoligize... when I read your post I just started laughing so I thought I'd share the humor.

 

[P95Carry]

Thx GunGeek ... just so long as I didn't offend! I too can see the humor side of it!!

Regards.

 

[Sharpie1]

The P-32 has an internal slide lock. The P-3AT does not.

I stand corrected.

TD

 

[gunsmith]

heh,you think thats bad!

I invited this girl over(23yrs old)
and had my old Raven .25acp on the bedstand,yes the famous
model Raven .25acp-same model that the 13yrold brat in Florida used to kill his teacher with "I pointed it at him and it went off" (as if!)
anyway (even though I had told her a dozen times never to point a gun at anyone),I turned around to get a book and heard her ask

Is this loaded?
...And she is pointing it at me with her finger on the trigger!!
I got out of the way quick like and said yes...please put it back
I am so glad that even though it is a cheap gun that
it does not just "go off"