LOL!!!!! I'd probably pee my pants if that happened in a firearm class!
Fortunately I had taken care of that 30 minutes earlier
.
Her right foot (the one she shot) was about 16" from my left foot at that moment (she was standing to my left). Just prior, I saw out of my peripheral vision the gun slip a little from her hand. When she grabbed at it, her finger was already inside the trigger guard and POP!
The first thing I did was check my own feet and lower extremities. As I was doing this, I heard her grumble "Ugh, I shot myself in the foot!"
I looked over and saw a tiny, .22 sized hole in her sneaker at a point right just behind the big toe and the one next do it.
It happened towards the end of a string of fire, so it wasn't immediately noticed by the safety officer and instructor. I turned my head back and made eye contact with the safety officer. I didn't have to say a word or make any gestures, the funny thing being his eyes went straight from mine to the hole in her shoe. With his saucer-sized eyes locked on that little hole, he grabbed the instructor from behind him and point out the "problem", and a cease fire was called.
Anyway, she was taken to the hospital where she was patched up. We didn't see her after that again, apparently the instructor's wife learned from her at the hospital that the embarrassment was far worse than the pain she felt (which took about 20 minutes to really become noticeable).
The irony was they had just 10 minutes earlier explained why they had banned shoulder holsters, based on a near miss a few years earlier. Apparently, the genius in question tried to fast draw his Sig. He succeeded in firing a shot under his arm. The instructor, who was standing 10 feet behind him, felt the round whiz a by his right ear
. He figured it probably missed him by an inch or two.