UF student dies in gun accident

[Sistema1927]

Even if I was to get distracted, I cannot fathom ever pointing the gun that I am cleaning at my head.

For example, both Kahrs and Glocks need to have the trigger pulled to disassemble. Even if I ever space out and don't clear the chamber first, the last place that my weapon will be pointing is at my head when I pull that trigger.

 

[svtruth]

SOP

I'm a relatively new shooter (<1 yr) and largely self taught.
My policy, like that of my LGS, is when you pick up a gun, clear it, when someone hands you a gun you have seen them just clear, clear it. Clearing means looking at the chamber/cylinder. When it is sitting on the bench, the action/cylinder is open. With the AK this means putting a pencil or the like in the ejection port.

 

[carebear]

svtruth,

Keep that policy and you'll live to be a relatively old shooter.

 

[c_yeager]

I'm starting to believe that it may have been an accident. The facts that the magazine was out and the TV on can both be significant.

I think its even more significant that his parents made this statement despite the fact that they werent actually there to see any of this.

 

[Jason M.]

Being around the people I am - that is, people in the young man's age group - I find the suicide story very likely. Oftentimes, it's not that they hate their parents or anyone around them. They hate themselves and themselves alone. I've known a few people who aren't the angry-at-the-world depressed person. They're the "I'm a complete failure to myself and others if everything's not perfect" depressed. They are well liked and excell at certain things (if not most things). They can't take it, but if they were to kill themselves, they would want it to effect others as little as possible.

Perhaps it's morbid to guess about this man's death. I don't know. It's sad he's gone.