How do people shoot themselves?

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Holster malfunctions and unsafe holster designs, such as the accidents with the Blackhawk Serpa holsters.
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Can you post some links to this? I own a Serpa, and always thought it was a rather safe design. If there is something to beware of, I'd definentlt like to know.

Most answers I agree with. The depression one gets me. I've always thought of it as a reason looking for something stupid to blame it on. Or a reason to sell mind altering drugs.

I've had a really sh!77y year and a half. There's nothing a good night on the town (or country in my case), with a great group of friends won't fix. That and knowing that those same friends and your family truly do care for you and your well being.

Wyman

ETA-And the accident thing/complacency I can't understand. I'm so paranoid, that if I'm going to practice trigger control/pull by dry-firing, I'll check the chamber a minimum of 5-8 times. I've even checked the chamber after I've dry-fired multiple times. And I won't use snap caps, just because I don't want anything to block my view of an empty chamber.
 
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shooting one self by accident

My neighbor and I were just talking about this last night.:)
shooting one self by accident

im not a shrink and dont play one on TV but shooting ones self
on purpose
there just nuts
accident shooting
Most I have heard about were Glock owners.:confused:
(not putting down glock:rolleyes:)
i dont have one but would buy one for the right price.;)

I have 2 XD's,:neener: about the same safeties.

Every time I holster my weapon that thought comes to mind about people shooting themselves.:eek:

I just make it a point to not let my finger anywhere near the bang switch.:uhoh:

So far it has work out, I have not shot myself.:rolleyes:
 
one dude was trying to strip his when it went through his leg, the other dude was gripping it with his finger on the trigger and blew his hand 3 new holes
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For those of you that were in the military in the 50's the pictures of the wounds remind me of those terrible training films we had to watch showing the effects of VD and what it did to the body.
 
I can tell you how one idiot almost did it yesterday. Some goof-ball showing off his newly purchased handgun at the range to his wife/girlfriend. Acting all macho and showing her how he would quickdraw to save his life. The handgun just barely cleared his waistband holster when he let er rip.

Same dummy at the same session stepped in front of the firing line when the range was hot. He also was shooting while walking backwards from the shooting line, zinging bullets right past his wife's / girlfriend's head.
 
I can tell you how one idiot almost did it yesterday. Some goof-ball showing off his newly purchased handgun at the range to his wife/girlfriend. Acting all macho and showing her how he would quickdraw to save his life. The handgun just barely cleared his waistband holster when he let er rip.

Same dummy at the same session stepped in front of the firing line when the range was hot. He also was shooting while walking backwards from the shooting line, zinging bullets right past his wife's / girlfriend's head.
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I sure hope you called him on it. That guy is dangerous.
 
There is the ever-popular stuff-the-Glock-in-the-waistband-of-your-sweatpants move.
 
Here we had a hunter use is shotgun as a walking stick trying to step over something-Stick or something hit the trigger [must not have been on safe eather] and blew a hole in his chest under the armpit==No fixing that one !!!
 
I think that in 99.999% of the cases of accidental self shooting, the individual would eagerly bet you $1,000,000, right before the accident, that their chamber was empty.
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I think so as well. If it is empty, they get a million bucks. If it isn't, they don't have to pay.:D
 
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Not sure why but... I like it. :)
 

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It has been said that to shoot yourself or anyone, other than deliberately, requires violating at least two of the four rules. I have yet to encounter a report of a shooting where this was not so.
 
Many "accidental" shootings are disguised suicides or attempted suicides. Insurance will pay out to family for an accident, but often pays out less or not at all for suicide.
 
How people shoot themselves?
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I'm pretty sure it involves somehow pointing a gun at themselves either intentionally or unintentionally and pulling the trigger, or some fluke way of causing a round to discharge.

I could visually demonstrate it for you, but you'd have to pay my hospital bill and a $10,000,000 check would be nice too.

Kidding aside, I know a guy who shot his finger off while "cleaning his gun". He got medical disability and was able to retire from his job as a physician. Personally, I think he planned the whole thing. Give up a finger in exchange for a lifetime of six-figure income for no work? I'd take that deal too.
 
The same way they shoot other people, only with the business end of the firearm pointed in the opposite direction.

Keep the booger hook off the bang switch and there won't be a problem.
 
Dropping a gun probably causes some instances.
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There were some reports of the Ruger MKII's potentially going off if you dropped them just right.

My solution: stop eating your buttered popcorn around your firearms.


Haven't dropped a gun yet and I plan to keep it that way.


Posted by: Hostile Amish
Seriously, this is a stupid topic.
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:scrutiny:
I don't think it is possible for discussions on firearm safety to be stupid.

Certainly mundane or repetitive, but I can't make the jump to stupid.
 
" This is a Glock 40... 50 cent, too short, all carried Glock 40's. Now I am the only person in this room professional enough to carry this gun..."
 
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Dropping a gun probably causes some instances.
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I suppose, if someone tried to catch the gun before it hit the ground, they could accidentally grab the trigger.
 
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