A GIANT Economy-sized OOps!

[IWAC]

Talking to my son-in-law's neighbor, who has a Vortex disributorship this afternooon. He attended a Gunshow this week-end, and was present the following.

A fellow approached a vendor, and started asking questions about concealed carry. He asked "What do you carry?" whereupon, the vendor drew his personal weapon, ejected the magazine, and handed it to the potential customer. (Anybody care to guess were this is going?):banghead:
Right! The customer pointed the gun at the floor and pulled the trigger! The chambered round fired, the bullet hit the concrete floor, went between two bystanders, and through a wall. Injuring two people slightly. THANK you, Lord!

What is rule 1? Seems like neither of the participants had ever heard of it. Any gun is ALWAYS loaded!

It could have been much worse, but, it just strengthened my wife's anti-gun attitude. (She has a valid reason for it, and it's not me!)

So, check, double check, and be careful who you let handle your deadly weapon. You could avoid the unthinkable!

Actually, I hope they both get banned from gun shows for...like 47 years!

 

[LoneGoose]

IWAC, thanks for that story. It perfectly shows us all how quickly things can go bad when we don't think twice.

THR rocks.

 

[shootniron]

I don't believe that...

 

[VoodooMountain]

Stupid vendor and trusting kid.

Always...ALWAYS check to see if firearm is safe.

It's so simple but people become complacent and worst of all it is more fodder for the anti gunners.

 

[Walkalong]

Back to back people who did not check the weapon fully. At least he aimed it at the floor, and then got lucky.

 

[gto.kroh]

I don't believe that...

Neither do I. Every gun show I go to requires open actions and a zip tie through the action. Including the vendors. Only loaded weapons on site are L.E.O

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[JTHunter]

*face palm* Good grief!

 

[Good Ol' Boy]

Guys, it sounds like the vendor unholstered his own weapon, not grabbed something off his table.

Regardless, basic 101 safety checks were obviously ignored.

I've gotten some strange looks when someone wants to handle a firearm of mine and I drop the mag and lock the slide back catching the round in the chamber. I'm not handing anyone a fully loaded pistol "just to check out".

 

[buck460XVR]

Only thing worse than an idiot with a gun, is two idiots with a gun.

 

[JohnKSa]

Carry guns are not for show and tell.

If you are going to carry a gun for show and tell, take the firing pin out of it.

If you are going to carry a gun for self-defense, don't use it for show and tell.

 

[shootniron]

Guys, it sounds like the vendor unholstered his own weapon, not grabbed something off his table.

I understood that...and I still don't believe this happened.

 

[kitsapshooter]

Since a location is lacking there is no way to verify the accuracy of the story. But around here that would get a vendor banned for life.

 

[RX-79G]

I witnessed the exact same thing happen once at a gun show 16 years ago. But in that case a bystander was hit in the arm. The police arrested the gun dealer who didn't clear his pistol before handing it to the customer who fired it.

 

[nipprdog]

I understood that...and I still don't believe this happened

It happens, here's an example;

http://www.good4utah.com/news/top-stories/accidental-shooting-at-gun-show-injuries-two

 

[jmr40]

A dad killed his teenage son doing exactly the same thing at a gun show in Atlanta a few years ago.

 

[X-Rap]

Yeah it happens more than one wants to believe.
To many fools want to either show off their carry piece or try a holster.
Personally I can only think of a few reasons my gun would come out.

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[MedWheeler]

Only thing worse than an idiot with a gun, is two idiots with a gun.

At least they didn't each have a gun..!

Oh, and it's quite easy for anyone, vendor or guest, to be in a gun show with a loaded weapon. I've never seen a metal detector at one.

 

[45_auto]

Oh, and it's quite easy for anyone, vendor or guest, to be in a gun show with a loaded weapon. I've never seen a metal detector at one.

You're obviously more technically oriented than i am. How in the world would a metal detector prevent or detect loaded weapons at a gun show? Aren't most guns metal? Wouldn't it detect EVERY gun there whether it was loaded or not?

I understood that...and I still don't believe this happened.

It happens at least several times every year at a gunshow somewhere in the country. The funny thing is that it always happens to the people who don't believe that it could happen, or believe that it couldn't happen to them. Since you're posting on an internet forum, it's really hard to believe that you don't have access to the internet and Google:

http://fox13now.com/2016/09/25/two-...s-after-gun-discharges-inside-sandy-gun-show/

https://thinkprogress.org/for-the-sixth-time-in-one-week-man-shot-at-gun-show-5ba96b2a8621

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/01/aut...eople-accidentally-got-shot-at-ohio-gun-show/

http://gunvictimsaction.org/news/shot-at-a-gun-show-it-happened-to-seven-people-since-last-year/

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/201...t-at-gun-shows-in-north-carolina-ohio-indiana

This guy has a whole web page documenting hundreds of gun show accidents:

https://www.pinterest.com/david6212/gun-show-accidents/

 

[sota]

why are people letting other people handle their CCW? I'm all for talking to people about stuff, but once it goes on in the holster and on my belt in the morning that gun doesn't leave the holster UNLESS it's going to be used with extreme prejudice against some bad actor. If you're someplace, like a vendor at a show, and you expect the conversation to come up and you want to "show off" your favorite blaster, bring a copy and KEEP IT UNLOADED.

just my internet $0.02

 

[Tirod]

Best justification for mandatory magazine disconnects I've heard this week.

 

[Acera]

Neither do I. Every gun show I go to requires open actions and a zip tie through the action. Including the vendors. Only loaded weapons on site are L.E.O

And you believe that is what happens 100% of the time at 100% of the gunshows? LOL.

I was at the GHBA Houston show yesterday and know for a fact that not all the patrons concealed weapons were checked and/or strapped..............






.

 

[jmorris]

Best justification for mandatory magazine disconnects I've heard this week.

Then again magazine dissconnects my have lead an idiot into thinking a firearm is safe as long as you eject the magazine....

 

[Havok7416]

Some of the shows I have attended in Ohio require an inspection of the gun but do not lock the action in any way. I asked them about this and they said they did it on purpose, although I'm not sure why.

 

[GBExpat]

nipprdog and 45_auto ...

shootniron did not suggest that it never happens, he just indicated that he did not believe that this story is true.

 

[IWAC]

Check post # 14...That's where it happened! Apparently, my friend didn't see the aftermath, with two people slightly injured. What I don't understand is HOW anyone could zip tie a 1911 without noticing a loaded magazine. The tie has to go down through the magazine well, or the barrel/ slide. In either case, the magazine would have been easily observed. Both had their heads in a dark, unsanitary place!