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

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"The owner of the handgun, a 64-year-old man from Marysville, has been banned from any future gun shows at the center".

The guy brings a loaded gun into the show, and then after someone else has fired the weapon he fires it again? :uhoh:

I've never been to a gun show, and after reading about them on here I think I'll save my admission money and buy my jerky at the store and skip the chance to be shot by an idiot.
 
Every show I've attended had security checking weapons as they entered. There's more to this story.
 
Every show I've attended had security checking weapons as they entered. There's more to this story.
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Not every gun show in every state does things the same way. But, yes, there is more to the story. I'm assuming that the gun was on display for sale.
I doubt that they check all the vendors guns at gun shows.
 
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The gun shows they have here in Lake Havasu, all they do is have two guys sitting at a table by the entrance that say "Got any guns with you?" and if you say no, they don't contest your answer. Would be extremely easy to sneak a gun in if one wanted to.
Awful that this actually happened, but I think there's more to it than a reenactment of Three Stooges where he fires the gun and looks at it funny, then the other guy looks at the gun and does the same thing. It was probably a manual safety failure or something, though I don't understand why he didn't drop the magazine and clear it.
 
Every show I've attended had security checking weapons as they entered. There's more to this story.
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there's no more to the story. that gun show, like every other i've been to, doesn't frisk you. they simply ask you you hand over your guns so they can zip tie it.


things like this happen when imbeciles are afoot.
 
Security here at the gunshows I have attended are strict, the only thing missing is a cavity search.
 
In VA we have state police and county police at the front but they'll only check your firearm if you tell them you have it. I'm surprised this idiot set out a handgun on his table loaded. Most I've seen, even private dealers, keep the mag seperate from the firearm and have the action open... epic fail.
 
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Hard to believe two people could be so stupid!
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I could close my eyes and throw a handful of rocks and hit at least a half-dozen at any show I've ever attended. Some of 'em would be vendors.
 
this is like a triple fail...

FAIL....for having a loaded weapon at a gun show.

FAIL.....for pulling the trigger without checking if it was loaded.

FAIL.....for the owner firing a second shot, right after witnessing the first ND.

"Two women and a 10-year-old girl were hurt when they were struck by fragments from a gun that was fired during a gun show at the Gibraltar Trade Center in Mt. Clemens this afternoon."
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of course it had to be 2 women and a child.......what?....no nuns or crippled children around....

how come its never a drug dealer selling crack to kids .....or some terrorist trying to buy guns at those "gun show loopholes" that gets hit with a ND.
 
I could close my eyes and throw a handful of rocks and hit at least a half-dozen at any show I've ever attended. Some of 'em would be vendors.
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As sad as that statement is I've found the same to be true around here. I've talked to many folks at local shows and often wonder how some of them made it this far in life. Unfortunately the "best and brightest" doesn't describe 100% of people that share our hobby. I'm sure it's the same with any other hobby as well but the consequences for not using common sense can be more unforgiving in ours....... I hope these 2 learned a valuable lesson at least.
 
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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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of course it had to be 2 women and a child.......what?....no nuns or crippled children around....

how come its never a drug dealer selling crack to kids .....or some terrorist trying to buy guns at those "gun show loopholes" that gets hit with a ND.
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That has to be the funniest thing I've read today. But yes triple fail, even with guns on dealers tables, people that sell guns for a living, you should always clear/check they are unloaded before pointing at anyone/thing.

As far as security checking peoples guns, that's a joke,
"got any guns?"
"nope"
/walk right past
 
Sad incident but the gun dealer is at fault. you never know who (persons new to guns) will look at a vendors product and of course try it out (dry fire)especially when dealing with weapons. I'm glad all is well
 
2 shots fired at gun show

All gun shows we have here, there are 2 retired LEO's inspecting all guns taken into the show. The put a cable tie through the actions to make them safe.
 
Trashing gun shows over this is like saying because a plane crashes that air travel is inherently unsafe. No doubt stupidity abounded here but, given the vast number of people handling firearms at gun shows every day, I'd say the safety record is still pretty damn good. You're still more likely to be killed or injured in a traffic accident on the way to or from one.
 
The owner should have some charges against him as well. What ever happened to common sense? Check, double check...mag removed, slide locked back before it ever gets presented to another. Finger OFF the trigger! Yah, some charges need to be brought against the idiot!
 
I attended the very first gun show of my life yesterday and went back today. They did have police officers at the door asking if you were carrying and did search purses, backpacks and such. I did think about the fact that it was on more of an honor system.

What really concerned me and frankly ticked me off was this incident: I walked by a vendor's booth and he (the seller) was showing a rifle to a potential customer. A few seconds later I was standing maybe 20' away when the seller shouldered the rifle, pointed it directly at me and dry fired. I know he was just randomly sighting away and not putting me in the cross hairs on purpose but what was he thinking? My buddy that was with me saw it too and said "let's move on". I wonder if I should have said something to either that vendor or to someone in charge of the show?
 
Trashing gun shows over this is like saying because a plane crashes that air travel is inherently unsafe.
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I think we're all trashing the morons working/attending gunshows. We have lots of threads covering the shows themselves.
 
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.
 
This is my opinion, but safely ensuring a gun isn't loaded just doesn't seem to be that difficult. Someone wasn't paying attention, was lazy, whatever and as a result people were hurt. Thankfully, no one died-
 
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