2 shots accidentally fired at Mt. Clemens gun show; 3 hurt

I agree the owner should be charged. If he had a CHL it should be revoked for a long time if not forever.
If you want to know if I would take away his 2A rights to carry, the answer is "YES" I would.

Jerry

WHAT? THAT WAS LOADED!?! Give me that! See? Its not unloaded, watch, I'll prove it." *BANG!*

Honestly, how did he actually fire a second round, is he really that stupid?

I agree with everything Jerry stated. Not only was the owner stupid but incidents like this sets our sport back with all the publicity. These shows do have great records but each incident negates most of that record politicly.

Joe Demko said:

Gun shows...where else can you go to risk getting shot while examining tables full of grot? It's like a flea market, only more XXTREME!!!!!!!!11!
The ultimate gun show death would be to get killed with an AD by a fat, neck-bearded guy wearing a Glock cap and a black tee-shirt with a picture of a wolf mating with an eagle on it...and then you bleed out all over your black tee-shirt with a picture of an eagle mating with a wolf on it and cough your half chewed jerky out into your neck beard and your friends cover your face with a Glock cap until the meat wagon comes to take you away.

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As I was reading this, I was trying to visualize it happening!

Somehow, I have a mental block about visualizing the whole scenario.

LOL

AD is not a matter of if but when and how.
What it seems very grave here is that this happens at a gun show where every firearm is supposed to go through inspection.

This incident is the kinda stuff that makes SB quiver with toe-curling enjoyment. The vendor needs be punished, and rather harshly, imho. For a variety of reasons. Basically? He needs to take one 'for the team', before these shows go the way of the dodo. The rest of us should not be punished for the ******-canoery of this moron......

I was in a big box outdoor gear store on Saturday lloking at pocket guns. The employee working with me wanted me to feel the trigger pull on a gun I was looking at. He popped in a couple of snap caps and I pointed it towards the rack of rifles behind the counter but had to lower the weapon three times as another employee walked back and forth in front of the gun. I seemed to be the only one that was skitish.

Last weekend I tried a rental Sig. When I brought it back into the store, the salesman and I were comparing several guns including the one I was just on the range with. I opened the action and handed it to him and said "verify", He looked at me like I was crazy.

3 simple rules -

Don't point a weapon at anything you don't want to destroy.

There is no such thing as an unloaded firearm.

It takes two people to verify a weapon is not loaded.

Pretty simple rules.

It happened a few months ago in Bloomington (?) IL, and a .223 round from a Mini 14 seriously injured one guy and two others had more minor injuries.

I carried a Yugo Mauser into a flea market's very small gun show in Memphis weeks ago.

Coming into a secondary entrance inside the gun area, which is a separate room from the flea market hall, the guy did not check the rifle (he only wanted my $7) and the guys at the main entrance ignored the rifle as I carried it to look at a few tables, then I decided to go show them the rifle.

The bolt was left partially open in case somebody were to notice.

What I would like to know is how often loaded firearms actually make it into the show.

Of course, we will never know this, but I suspect it "happens all the time" and that negligent discharges are a very very small fraction of the loaded weapons that make it to the table at gun shows.

Not sure whether that makes me feel good or bad.

Ignition Override said:

It happened a few months ago in Bloomington (?) IL, and a .223 round from a Mini 14 seriously injured one guy and two others had more minor injuries.

I carried a Yugo Mauser into a flea market's very small gun show in Memphis weeks ago.
Coming into a secondary entrance inside a separate room from the flea market hall, the guy did not check the rifle (he only wanted my $7) and the guys at the main entrance ignored the rifle as I carried it to look at a few tables, then I decided to go show them the rifle.

The bolt was left partially open in case somebody were to notice.

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Yep, it was Bloomington, IL. I showed up just after it happened. The vendor is being charged, last I heard. What irked me the most was the reporting that the gun "went off" - guns don't just "go off" - triggers get pulled which fires a weapon.

The morning of the AD, the Bloomington gun show had people walking around with zip ties wrapped around triggerguards. Not actually preventing anything functioning. No guns from vendors were zip tied. The next day, every single weapon was zip tied to prevent functioning. There is no ordinance to force such a thing, but everyone complied.

Friendly said:

One would think this must be a "SET-UP" to make gun-carrying people look bad. I mean, how badly must one be to have all that happen, watch the gun shoot, then shoot it himself!

UNBELIEVABLE is the only word I can think of!

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This sentiment was echoed in people chatting after the Bloomington, IL event. I highly doubt anyone short of being totally crazy would do something like this.

Maybe people who are focused so much on safety with guns can't fathom someone being so negligent, so the thought it that it must have been an intentional thing, I don't know.

But you'd really have to be nuts to do something like that.

Holy Crap! My Dad and Nephew were talking about going to that show, but ended up going to the Sandusky tractor show instead. I'm glad they did, now!

the thing that struck me as odd was that the owner ALSO fired off a round? seriously?

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No, this can not (obviously) be repeated too often.




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Anyone still unclear on the concept?



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At the gun show I attended this past weekend that signs were posted all over the place, even laying on tables on top of firearms that stated in bold, large letters:

ABSOLUTELY NO DRY FIRING!

For whatever that's worth.