Had a close call, and I can say I'm lucky.

[wristtwister]

Glad no one was hurt, but I've been shooting for about 50 years, and there are certain protocols that just don't get ignored... making sure the weapon is "clean" is one of them... no mag and nothing in the chamber for practice drills. If a mag is in the gun, then it is cleared first, and the mag re-inserted just before the exercise.

You were lucky... if for nothing more than the fact that no one was hurt and that you were actually attempting a legitimate exercise. I had a different experience today...

I work in a gun store, and one of the employees is a former city cop who's more smart ass than smart. He's constantly doing things to irritate everyone, and todays exercise in stupidity was to point a rifle at me and track me as I walked across the room.

I let him know in no uncertain terms that unless he wanted the rifle to become a suppository, he had better never do it again. Fast forward about an hour, and he made some snide comments about what he had done, and I told him very simply that if he pointed another firearm at me, he'd better be ready to get shot, because while he views his actions as "cute", I view it as a threat. He even went so far as to say that if I was going to take that attitude, he might just "load one up" to point at me next time...

He toned it down after that, and then left this afternoon with a "migraine"... so at least your problem was one of simply not applying a safety rule to your training... mine is getting more serious with the passage of time. I could have him arrested already for pointing a firearm at a person, but it happens inadvertently in the store quite often... even though we try to prevent it. This was deliberate, and heading toward some real consequences... whether someobody getting fired, arrested, or hurt.

Rule number 1 of firearms is "Keep all firearms pointed in a safe direction"... and at your fellow co-workers isn't that direction. Hopefully, this problem will get solved tomorrow, because if it happens again, I fear the consequences will be much more dire.

WT

 

[cactusgeorge]

Weapons discharge

I would prefer to call what happened with you and your weapon ....an ND negligent discharge...!!! Why because you were negligent in executing the proper gunhandling techniques to insure that your weapon was indeed empty. The pistol functioned exactly as it was designed. It did nothing wrong or improper. "Operator error"...agreed..?? Treat this experience as a "teachable moment" and you will become a safe and responsible gun owner with the advance of years. By the by, ALL of us (atleast the vast majority of us) here have had an ND or two in our times of handling and shooting firearms...!! Good luck with your future shooting events...

 

[gym]

Hi,
you want to get this corrected before starting work tomorrow. It sounds like some lines were crossed. I,( would not ignore it and wait for a convient time to bring it up). I would file a report with local law enforcement just in case he does to protect himself, "knowing the law", he knows the first one to get it on record has the edge, he may have done that already today. Unfortunatelly you can't trust people anymore unless you have some history together. Hopefully it will go away but things like this usually come back to haunt you. good luck. An watch yourself.
Bringing this to your boss just as a precaution isn't the worse thing in the world either. better safe than sorry, Yopu aren't "ratting on him you are preventing a possible catastrophic event. There are a lot of loose cannons out ther looking for someone with a fuse and a match. He needs some anger management and therapy. And sorry to say unless he mans up and apologises, he should not be handling guns.

 

[BeerSleeper]

It seems some bonehead decided that this particular model would be safer if the action didn't work without a mag in place...

I hate that. That is so stupid. I can't believe they make guns with that dangerous of a flaw. I nearly did that same thing the other day. I realized what I was doing when I picked up the mag, so then I unloaded the mag, and went on, all the while realizing the close call that was. The irony is that I think the intent was for this feature to be MORE safe, but it is LESS safe for this particular reason.