Shall we talk about NDs?
This weekend was the big Cal Expo gunshow in Sacramento. Today was opening day and plenty of people showed up. My friends and I were waiting in line for the doors to open.
By the main entrance was a table with about 5 officers checking guns and applying zip ties to actions. Normal procedure as far as I know. Posted signs all over the place saying "No loaded firearms in the show."
After we spent all our money (about 2 hours...lol), two friends and I step outside the main entrance to wait for another friend. While waiting, we're going through each others bags, checking out the new toys, when one of the guys and myself notice a guy standing by himself. Both of us take note, not because he looked like a threat, because he looked pre-occupied. His left arm was in a sling.
At this point he's about 15 feet behind and facing us and people are entering and exiting the show off to the other side of us.
BOOM!
I crouch trying to figure out what's going on and everyone starts looking around. I spy the pre-occupied guy looking at the ground then looking at his leg, calf, foot....then look up like nothing happened.
Of course, here comes the officers, about 4 in all rushing out to figure out what happened.
Turns out that Mr. Pre-Occupied had a loaded mini Glock (26 or 27, we thought 26 due to the report) in a holster on his right side. There was also a nice and shiny badge right in front of that holster.
The cops pull him off to the back of the building and disarm him, unload the weapon and start chewing his...well, ya know.
The story is that he had a zip-tie around his gun (I'm not sure where or why it was loaded and zip-tied) and that he went to cut it off with a pocketknife. I don't know if he hit the trigger with the knife or if something else occured.
There was a nice little 1/2 inch hole in the blacktop and the slug somehow entered the show. It was located just inside the main doors behind a vendors table. Nice.
I'm not sure what happened to the shooter, but I'm pretty sure he's having a bad day.
Needless to say, we left right after that.
The other friend we were waiting on was inside the show when the incident occured and said they whole place got dead quiet for a few seconds trying to figure out 5 W's. He also said it was loud as hell. Oh, I know, I was standing right next to him.
Ed
This weekend was the big Cal Expo gunshow in Sacramento. Today was opening day and plenty of people showed up. My friends and I were waiting in line for the doors to open.
By the main entrance was a table with about 5 officers checking guns and applying zip ties to actions. Normal procedure as far as I know. Posted signs all over the place saying "No loaded firearms in the show."
After we spent all our money (about 2 hours...lol), two friends and I step outside the main entrance to wait for another friend. While waiting, we're going through each others bags, checking out the new toys, when one of the guys and myself notice a guy standing by himself. Both of us take note, not because he looked like a threat, because he looked pre-occupied. His left arm was in a sling.
At this point he's about 15 feet behind and facing us and people are entering and exiting the show off to the other side of us.
BOOM!
I crouch trying to figure out what's going on and everyone starts looking around. I spy the pre-occupied guy looking at the ground then looking at his leg, calf, foot....then look up like nothing happened.
Of course, here comes the officers, about 4 in all rushing out to figure out what happened.
Turns out that Mr. Pre-Occupied had a loaded mini Glock (26 or 27, we thought 26 due to the report) in a holster on his right side. There was also a nice and shiny badge right in front of that holster.
The cops pull him off to the back of the building and disarm him, unload the weapon and start chewing his...well, ya know.
The story is that he had a zip-tie around his gun (I'm not sure where or why it was loaded and zip-tied) and that he went to cut it off with a pocketknife. I don't know if he hit the trigger with the knife or if something else occured.
There was a nice little 1/2 inch hole in the blacktop and the slug somehow entered the show. It was located just inside the main doors behind a vendors table. Nice.
I'm not sure what happened to the shooter, but I'm pretty sure he's having a bad day.
Needless to say, we left right after that.
The other friend we were waiting on was inside the show when the incident occured and said they whole place got dead quiet for a few seconds trying to figure out 5 W's. He also said it was loud as hell. Oh, I know, I was standing right next to him.
Ed