Colin Doyle
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That is, as long as they weren't ad...ad...adj...adjudicated mentally defective. 
I fired a gun inside a bank
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CajunBass
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Ain't that the truth. About thirty years ago I had a stupid discharge in my house with a Colt 1911. I never heard the shot, nor did anyone else in the house. I was just standing there staring at the gun thinking "What in the HeXX just happened? HOLY SHEEP!!!
"I never found the bullet either. It went through a book case, and hit the metal frame around a sliding glass door and put a dent in it as big as my thumb. Never found even a piece of it. My MIL found the empty case in the dish rack a few days later.
I'll take a turn with that dunce cap when you're finished with it.
Actually, you did the same thing as that DEA idiot in FL who "is the only one professional.....".
Only he did it all by himself!
Lucky for you, nobody got hurt!
If you let a gun out of your hand, you have to start with the safety check all over again, meaning >>> take the magazine out first.
Also, never hand a gun with ammo over to someone to "show" the gun.
Always take the ammo out und keep it in your pocket until you take the gun back.
cambeul41
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At least you clean up after yourself.
Pevey
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Sounds like my brother's accident. He was checking out a friends Llama 380 in a pickup cab way out in the oilfields. Kaa-boom. He was startled and then noticed a small hole below his knee inside his left leg. Feeling no pain yet he checked the other side of his leg. A larger hole was in his pants above his ankle and he could feel his boot filling with blood. A long car ride later to the hospital he learned he was very lucky. According to Jerry, he was told the bullet passed between the bone and the main artery. If it had hit the bone he would not walk for a long time. If it hit the artery, he would have bled to death on the way.
He switched to long guns and gave up pistols. Has a nice collection of Winchesters with several SKS's.
He switched to long guns and gave up pistols. Has a nice collection of Winchesters with several SKS's.
1BLINDREF
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Good thing you are a good shot
TexKettering
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HeXeD775 said:
Hahahahahahahahahhahaha
doc540
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"Yeah, the loudest sound you'll ever hear is an unloaded gun firing."
Man, that ought'a be my sig line.
Man, that ought'a be my sig line.
CoRoMo
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Speaking of Texas
Northwest Texas... my dad's house... my oldest brother.
Brother going to the folks' house for the holidays.
Always carries his 1911 while traveling (from home in Nebraska).
Once he pulled into Dad's driveway, he began to unpack the truck for the weekend.
Told his girlfriend to grab the pistol and unload it so that no kids find it loaded.
She drops the magazine, but can't tell if there is one in the chamber.
She hands the 1911 to my brother who cocks it and fires a round into the lawn.
"It's unloaded now!"
Dad lives less than a mile from the town's police department, but hey, its Texas.
It didn't even bother the neighbors, much less bring the attention of the local authorities.
Northwest Texas... my dad's house... my oldest brother.
Brother going to the folks' house for the holidays.
Always carries his 1911 while traveling (from home in Nebraska).
Once he pulled into Dad's driveway, he began to unpack the truck for the weekend.
Told his girlfriend to grab the pistol and unload it so that no kids find it loaded.
She drops the magazine, but can't tell if there is one in the chamber.
She hands the 1911 to my brother who cocks it and fires a round into the lawn.
"It's unloaded now!"Dad lives less than a mile from the town's police department, but hey, its Texas.
It didn't even bother the neighbors, much less bring the attention of the local authorities.
230RN
2A was "political" when it was first adopted.
That was the Boulder National Bank who would give out "interest up front" in the form of a Weatherby Rifle for a CD of a certain amount. They even advertised it in the gun mags.
At one point, the bank was the biggest "supplier" of Weatherby Rifles in the nation.
It also, I am told, propelled the bank into the prominence it has. They also were one of the original sponsors of the "Bolder Boulder" 10K foot races. Actually ran in that once --'86 or 7, I forget which.
And yes, I punched a hole in a fine oak desk once with a moment of carelessness.
[PONTIFICATION]
Nowadays, if I may pontificate, I always check the magazine well as well.
[/PONTIFICATION]
I'm reminded of the one about private pilots, "There are only two kinds of pilots. Those who have made a wheels up landing, and those who will."
There are only two kinds of shooters. Those who have...
At one point, the bank was the biggest "supplier" of Weatherby Rifles in the nation.
It also, I am told, propelled the bank into the prominence it has. They also were one of the original sponsors of the "Bolder Boulder" 10K foot races. Actually ran in that once --'86 or 7, I forget which.
And yes, I punched a hole in a fine oak desk once with a moment of carelessness.
[PONTIFICATION]
Nowadays, if I may pontificate, I always check the magazine well as well.
[/PONTIFICATION]
I'm reminded of the one about private pilots, "There are only two kinds of pilots. Those who have made a wheels up landing, and those who will."
There are only two kinds of shooters. Those who have...
Nope.
The whole "NDs are inevitable" maxim is not only incorrect, but a great tool to use against legal and responsible gun ownership.
"Hmm.... If you gun owners are admitting that every one of you will inevitably someday negligently fire a bullet into who knows where, then aren't guns obviously too dangerous for the masses?"
(Yes, I know the maxim is actually meant to make you think about what you're doing, but it can be intentionally taken out of context.)
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i accidentally put a .22lr round thru a tv
it was a browning auto takedown .22
i racked the action a few times then look in and didnt c a bullet .....but apparently the spring got jammed on something inside then somehow a bullet went into the chamber and .......POW!!! but atleast it was an old tv that i was trashing
it was a browning auto takedown .22
i racked the action a few times then look in and didnt c a bullet .....but apparently the spring got jammed on something inside then somehow a bullet went into the chamber and .......POW!!! but atleast it was an old tv that i was trashing
1 old 0311
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Had a AD with a S&W .357 in a SMALL room. Ears rang for days, and scared the heck out of the dog.
Flyboy
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Given the schlock that they're putting on the idiot lantern these days, I think it was less of an accident and more of a Freudian slip.
S4Lee
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Not exactly a discharge, but it was bank-related:
When I was in college in upstate NY, I had a few roommates that were 'into' guns, and there was a fairly varied collection in our off-campus apartment. Well, one day, one of my roommates asks if I want to go shooting that afternoon. I say "Sure, but I have class." So, he says, "Fine. I need to buy ammo and drop off my girlfriend's car. Go to class and pick me up at my girlfriend's after class". Well, I go to his GF's after class, and wait, and he doesn't show. I call our appartment, and he's not there (this was before cell phones were common). I wait a little while, and then go back to our appartment, which was right on main street in a small college town, to see if he was there, which he wasn't.
2 hours later, he comes storming in. When I ask where he's been, he responds "In JAIL!". "For what?!??!", I ask. Well, it turns out that my roommate put his .357 in a shoulder holster under his denim jacket and went to the ATM at the bank 3 doors down (smack in the middle of town, at ~2pm)to get cash to go buy ammo. When he came out of the bank, the cops had Main Street shut down, and a crowd was forming. He walked over and joined the crowd, and asked what was going on. Someone in the crowd told him someone was robbing the bank, so he thought "Cool. I'll watch too.". The cops storm the bank, and a minute later come out scratching thier heads. One of them sees him standing in the crowd, and since he matches the decription of the guy someone called in as walking into the bank with a gun, they proceed to tackle him and drag him down to HQ, about a block away. I didn't know it at the time, but within the hour they had announced his name on the town radio station and campus radio stations as having been arrested for robbing the bank!
There was a big to-do w/ the the NRA and some of the state reps, but in the end, all charges were dropped. (He was a few years older than the rest of us, and had had a CCW since he used to work as a security guard, but had lost it and had just had it replaced with a standard pistol permit during spring break. A few days after the incident, he found his original CCW in his GF's couch.) He did, however, have to go back long after graduation to get his
.357 back...
When I was in college in upstate NY, I had a few roommates that were 'into' guns, and there was a fairly varied collection in our off-campus apartment. Well, one day, one of my roommates asks if I want to go shooting that afternoon. I say "Sure, but I have class." So, he says, "Fine. I need to buy ammo and drop off my girlfriend's car. Go to class and pick me up at my girlfriend's after class". Well, I go to his GF's after class, and wait, and he doesn't show. I call our appartment, and he's not there (this was before cell phones were common). I wait a little while, and then go back to our appartment, which was right on main street in a small college town, to see if he was there, which he wasn't.
2 hours later, he comes storming in. When I ask where he's been, he responds "In JAIL!". "For what?!??!", I ask. Well, it turns out that my roommate put his .357 in a shoulder holster under his denim jacket and went to the ATM at the bank 3 doors down (smack in the middle of town, at ~2pm)to get cash to go buy ammo. When he came out of the bank, the cops had Main Street shut down, and a crowd was forming. He walked over and joined the crowd, and asked what was going on. Someone in the crowd told him someone was robbing the bank, so he thought "Cool. I'll watch too.". The cops storm the bank, and a minute later come out scratching thier heads. One of them sees him standing in the crowd, and since he matches the decription of the guy someone called in as walking into the bank with a gun, they proceed to tackle him and drag him down to HQ, about a block away. I didn't know it at the time, but within the hour they had announced his name on the town radio station and campus radio stations as having been arrested for robbing the bank!
There was a big to-do w/ the the NRA and some of the state reps, but in the end, all charges were dropped. (He was a few years older than the rest of us, and had had a CCW since he used to work as a security guard, but had lost it and had just had it replaced with a standard pistol permit during spring break. A few days after the incident, he found his original CCW in his GF's couch.) He did, however, have to go back long after graduation to get his
.357 back...
CryingWolf
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhIJOVD8hwY
Yep, got it. At least you only took out the bad carpet this guy took out his foot.
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