Please, please buy a holster!

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We have yet another victim of Gun Shoppe Commandoism. The Indianapolis Star today is reporting that a 23 year old man was involved in a single car mva in Brownsburg, Indiana (just west of Indianapolis). When his car left the road and smashed into a tree, the man's pistol flew from his pocket and fired; the bullet struck the man in the head.

Let's not read any more horror stories are we going to read where people are hurt and killed by this reckless disregard of proper carrying procedure. There have been far too many over the years.

Do not listen to the GSCs who say that sticking a pistol in your pocket is "all you need." If you spend hundreds of dollars for you pistol, spend the money for a good holster and good belt. Put your pistol in that holster.

A pistol is a snake, when you are carrying it about, you want it secured to your person. Please, please use a holster, the life you save may be your own.:)
 
MCgunner said:
What caused the gun to fire? Guns don't fire themselves. There has to be physics or something like an unsafe carry mode involved to cause a malfunction or the gun design is flawed, a broken part, or something.
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I would agree , maybe more to the story than we know at this point
 
ROTFLOL

Sorry for the guy, but that's just about the most hilarous gun mishap I've heard.

"Life is a story
told by an idiot."

+1 MCGunner

He probably did not have the safety on and a blowback action is easy to trigger with a sharp jolt. In any case, let's not also forget that he was hitting the tree, so he was probably a goner anyway.
 
I 3rd the call for shenanigans. I pocket carry small handguns (with a proper pocket holster) frequently. I can't begin to imagine the wreck that would cause the gun to fly out without killing the guy in the process (the wreck, that is...).

Maybe he shot himself while driving in some sort of weird suicide attempt.

Chris
 
Of course, we don't want the bad guys using holsters ... then stuff like this wouldn't happen:

By Tinuola Awopetu, Court TV
Fri Dec 9, 5:31 PM ET
(Court TV) — Police in Beaufort County, S.C., arrested a robber who dropped his gun at the scene of the crime and returned later to retrieve the weapon.

John Raheem Sweat, 22, allegedly held up a hotel's front desk clerk at gunpoint and fled with an undisclosed amount of cash. On his way to his getaway car, he inexplicably dropped his gun without realizing it.

Beaufort County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Debbie Szpanka said when Sweat discovered his gun was missing, he returned with his accomplice to the hotel's parking lot to retrieve the weapon. Sweat reportedly found the gun, but was trapped in the area because of police activity.

Deputies conducting a search of cars in the area approached Sweat's vehicle and found the gun in plain view on the car floor. Sweat and his accomplice, Colita Janai Murray, were arrested.

Sweat was charged with armed robbery and unlawful possession of a firearm. Murray, 25, received a drug possession charge for cocaine that was found on her during the search; she was released the next day.

Sweat is being held in the Beaufort County Detention Center on $15,000 bond.

Just re-read CAnnoneer's post again:[
ROTFLOL
Sorry for the guy, but that's just about the most hilarous gun mishap I've heard.
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Why on earth would anyone think someone dying like that is funny? Sometimes you guys make me wonder ...
 
When his car left the road and smashed into a tree, the man's pistol flew from his pocket and fired; the bullet struck the man in the head.
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While hard to believe you also have to think that if the impact could cause the handgun to fly out of the pocket then why couldn't it also come out of the holster.
 
Some pistols are known to have a tendency to self discharge if struck a blow on the hammer, if they have a round under the hammer. But (and a big on at that) the chance of the pistol being ejected from the persons pocket and hitting a hard object while pointing at the drivers head, would be about the same as hitting the mega millions lottery 3 times in a row. Does not add up to me:confused:
 
mtnbkr said:
I 3rd the call for shenanigans. I pocket carry small handguns (with a proper pocket holster) frequently. I can't begin to imagine the wreck that would cause the gun to fly out without killing the guy in the process (the wreck, that is...).

Maybe he shot himself while driving in some sort of weird suicide attempt.

Chris
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Yeah was the shot before or after the crash?
 
The only accident-related shooting I know of like this that WASN'T a suicide or homicide PRIOR to the crash involved the cooking off of a chambered handgun round in a post-crash fire. It was pretty easy to tell from the wound that it took place after everyone was dead and burning.

So either this handgun somehow managed to leap up, aim itself, and fire itself in mid-air at the man's head DURING the crash, or the man shot himself in the head while driving and crashed. If you pick the first option, I have a bridge to sell you for cheap.
 
Cosmoline said:
So either this handgun somehow managed to leap up, aim itself, and fire itself in mid-air at the man's head DURING the crash, or the man shot himself in the head while driving and crashed. If you pick the first option, I have a bridge to sell you for cheap.
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And if you pick the second option, then El T's PSA doesn't apply since it weren't the Gun Shoppe Commandos who are responsible for this man's death.

Chris
 
I still think "Mexican" carry has it's place. :neener:

I pocket carry a S&W 642 and I don't feel that it is any more dangerous that way than if it were in a holster. The slowness of the holster is more apt to get you killed than the gun flying around and shooting you.:rolleyes:

To each his own. We make our choices and we live with them or die with them. As long as everybody is okay with that, whats the problem? A few less people on earth is not going to matter. Some people die from this and some die from that. In the end, no big deal unless you know them.
 
albanian, it has been shown time and time again that "Mexican" carry endangers lives. From a 2 year old in TN being shot dead by "Mexican" carry to this event, "Mexican" carry allows the pistol to become a live snake apt to bite who it wishes, i.e. a loose cannon.

A holster is not slow. Sticking your heater in your pocket ensures that it can be caught on your pocket or knocked down the front of your pants like what happened to P.J. O'Rourke at his Baltimore commune in his hippie days or what happened to the FBI at the infamous 1986 Miami shootout (loose Mexican carried pistol resulted in agent being disarmed and bank robbers inflicting losses on feds).

This is not a matter of personal choice. Dangerous firearms practices endanger us all. "Mexican" carry endangers life and limb and the rights of others as reckless behavior is used as an excuse to restrict our civil right to carry weapons.

I will never favor any sort of legislation to require a use of a holster, but we as The High Road educate the gun culture as the the recklessness of this practice. Change the culture, change the world.:)
 
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