Tradgedy in Scranton

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All the facts haven't been released yet, but a local gun dealer in Scranton was killed when a gun he was showing to a customer discharged. It was a .357. The article didn't specify what kind of gun it was, but I would assume it was a revolver due to caliber. He had a line of Taurus' in his case. The article also said that the gun was probably one of the shops guns. The man was 73. No one knows yet why the gun was loaded and again the assumption was that the gun was handed over butt first when it discharged. Not knowing all the facts, any gun owner knowledgeble in proper gun handling can make the kind of senario that could lead up to such an event. Personnaly, I've met the man a couple times. Seemed to be a very amiable sort of fellow. I feel sorry for all involed.
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Wow! Tragic yes, but I really don't understand. What kind of gun shop has loaded weapons in their displays? What kind of gun shop employee hands over guns without opening the action and both checking the chamber and showing the customer the chamber so they both know it is unloaded? I cannot conceive of any situation in any of my local gun stores where this kind of thing could happen - I've never seen any of the local shop employees not deliberately check that a weapon is clear before handing it to a customer. And most also re-check when I hand them back, before they put it back under glass - just SOP everywhere I shop.
 
If the situational facts are correct, it sounds like a brain fa*t. Sad it happened. Most gunshops check a gun to be unloaded before they hand it to you for inspection and I usually check again unless I personally see what they see when they check it.
 
There is an old saying. "Familiarity breeds contempt." Who among us hasn't caught ourself doing something with a gun (or a lawnmower for that matter) and all of a sudden realized "Whoa, I shouldn't be doing this!". A sad reminder that no matter how much we know about guns, it only takes one slip in thinking to turn things into tragedy. I feel bad for his family.
 
Dispite how safe people try to be and no matter how much experience they have, people still make mistakes.

At the local gun store the owner shot the manager's father-in-law in the face with a 9mm.
 
What kind of gun shop has loaded weapons in their displays?
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None that I know of. We don't know that it happened here, either.

What kind of gun shop employee hands over guns without opening the action and both checking the chamber and showing the customer the chamber so they both know it is unloaded?
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None that I know of. We don't know that it happened here, either.

I've never seen any of the local shop employees not deliberately check that a weapon is clear before handing it to a customer.
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Me either. From the information given, there's no way to tell what happened. For all we know, the customer could've brought his own round to "try it for fit" and then decided to try the trigger too.
 
I check it again even if I did see them check it.
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After my last range trip, I left the ammo at my office, and brought the guns to the shop... checked them all, and then found myself checking them AGAIN prior to cleaning.

It really wasnt that hard to check them.

Sad, but regretable story.
 
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