So my wife had a ND....of the worst kind.

Ouch! Sorry to hear of the mishap. Praying for complete and speedy recovery.

Wow, glad she's ok. I'm just waiting for my first ND, because I haven't had one yet, and I know I never will. From what I've read on THR, thats what every shooter says until they have a ND.

Glad to hear she is going to be OK

I just laughed out loud at the "keep the booger picker off the trigger" comment.

I commend your bravery and honesty in sharing this.

hey, stuff happens. be glad it wasn't a mossberg 500. ask me about my headboard.....

Let me first say I'm extremely glad your wife is ok. Sore leg beats the alternative. Unfortunately these this do happen. It seems like the PD were pretty respectful, but one bit I didn't like was the plug by the PD for gun locks and how they could have prevented this incident. :banghead: No lock will prevent a momentary lapse. Anyway, glad things are going to turn out ok for everyone.

So how long has your wife been a DEA agent?
Honestly I am glad she was not hurt worse. You MUST train yourself (and your wife) to keep muzzle pointed AWAY from yourself/others you care for.

Booger picker off of the bang switch goes a long way towards safety!

I hope your wife has a speedy recovery. Thankfully it was nothing worse.

Also, thank you for sharing. As embarassing as it can be, it serves as a reminder to the rest of us to be careful. It's easy to get lax with familarity.

.38 revolver
Beretta DA-SA auto
Sigma mushy pull.

Three different action types might be two too many for a non enthusiast to keep track of. It is one more than I try to keep track of at any given time. I think she should specialize; pick one action type, stick with it, and leave the others to you.

After this experience, I'd seriously recommend she go with a revolver, not a .380. Keep it simple. Nuff said.

Did she rack the slide with her finger in the trigger guard or stick it in there after chambering a round?

Sounds like a classic case of picking up a pistol with your finger on the trigger. One of the first things suggested to me when I bought my first gun was to put it on the couch next to me, unloaded, and pick it up and put it down about a thousand times with my finger off the trigger as I watched TV for a couple of nights.

It worked. Never put my finger on a trigger by accident after that.

Sounds like your wife might want to try it.

My brother almost did the same thing. He racked the slide on my .40 which chambered a round. I was in the room at the time so I was able to tell him, "You just chambered a round" and he unloaded it and put it away.

One of our TH members has a sight for AD/ND stories at:

www.negligentdischarge.com

He's posting my story over there and there are lots of other stories well worth looking at there. You could post this AD there as well.

She wants to sell the gun because she thinks it is jinxed.

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I know people say that kind of thing jokingly, but you may want to work with her to get rid of that type of thinking.

Reasons to sell the gun
-It reminds her of an unpleasant accident (logical)
-it may be jinxed (not logical; how could a gun magically affect her concentration and cause her to shoot her own leg?)

Reasons to keep the gun (bear with me)
-It will remind her not to make the same mistake! Seriously, do you think she would ever be careless with that same gun again??

It's natural for the mind to look for, and sometimes settle on, external causes...but there is only one variable here that mattered, and that was her safety protocol.

It seems like a terrible reason to sell a gun if nothing else has changed. Plus, she needs to take full, 100% responsibility for this one in order to avoid future accidents/negligent incidents.

I am very glad she's okay though.

I am a 1911 user and skilled in the use of it but I have seen 3 ND's, 2 with 1911's and one with a 22 pistol in stress situations. This is precisely why my personal bedside gun is a revolver because I don't expect to be fully up to speed if I am roused out of a sleep late at night. Every single discharge was done by people who knew better and ordinarily were competent gun handlers. Stress makes everybody do things or not do things they would ordinarily do. It happens, its not a weakness its just reaction to how your body reacts to adrenaline and stress. Nobody knows till they are at the party. A different gun that one is more comfortable with may help with a different frame of mind and that might help in a stress situation. Anything that works is good.

Glad to hear she is on the mend.

I'll give you the go ahead on the pics, just keep them in thumbnail sizes using the attachment feature available in the advanced posting mode so members can decide if they want to view them full size or not.

Scary topic so it was nice to read she was lucky and everything was ok.
Good luck selling a Sigma, let alone a jinxed one that doesn't stop a leg at point blank.

I'm glad she's alright. This certainly wasn't of "the worst kind". Be grateful for that!

Glad she is ok!! Make sure she knows it was her fault and not the fault of a "jinxed" gun!!

Hope she gets well soon. One of my good friend's rommates ND'ed his leg in a BAD way... his leg swole to the point that they had to split the skin open in several places to avoid tearing... he had to carry a vaccum pump in a backpack to keep fluids from building up.

Glad she made out!

I, too, am glad she's OK! I'm also glad there weren't hollowpoints in the gun!

You won't miss the Sigma, I hear they have awful triggers anyway.

Another reminder to always check the gun to know it's condition. Or to be more specific to the rule, "treat every gun as if it's loaded."

I'm glad she's okay, and I hope she's learned from this. Always rack the slide several times and visually check for ammo.

Glad she's OK. Thanks for sharing this humbling incident as a lesson for all.