Letting your guard down... WW

[propellerhead]

I found this on another forum and figured it's worth sharing. This is not my story, fortunately.

An ND, or negligent discharge. Just when you though you were so good and proficient with handguns... BANG. Don't let your guard down on gun safety.

WW for gun shot wound pics.

http://dishhead.home.insightbb.com/leg.html

[JP135]

Wow. Good read. It's nice to see someone accept responsibility for their own actions for a change. It took balls to post that.

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I'm tempted to call it an "accidental discharge", but to me that inplies that the gun fired without the trigger being intentionally pulled. That doesn't apply in this case. I intentionally pulled the trigger, I just neglected to unload the gun first.

[AL P]

Can you imagine how bad that fucking hurts? I bet the next day was real fun.

[JJs89lx]

Damn..... Looks like he had some fun with that!

[FRANCISCO308]

:eek:

[srt-4_i_swear]

Thats why i figure you always always need to keep your guns loaded up until your going to disassemble them. Then you will certainly treat them as if they are loaded.

[01YZ2NV]

kinda like what happened to this guy,they said he was reloading his own ammo or something like that
http://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php?p=7767070&postcount=54

[mopar63]

Back in the early 90's I worked with a guy that was ex-army, and going to the police academy. He had cleaned his side arm after a trip to the range, loaded up the magazine chambered a round and promptly shot himself in the thigh. To this day he is still not sure exactly what happened.

[That_Is_My_El_Camino]

Thats why i figure you always always need to keep your guns loaded up until your going to disassemble them. Then you will certainly treat them as if they are loaded.That's why you're supposed to treat every gun like it's loaded until you check, double check, and double check again to make sure it isn't.

[That_Is_My_El_Camino]

kinda like what happened to this guy,they said he was reloading his own ammo or something like that
http://www.rx7club.com/showpost.php?p=7767070&postcount=54Ouch. Of course, the original thread on AR15.com says he was using factory Cor-bon ammo in a .460 S&W; I'm just now getting into it, but the early suggestion is that he had his thumb too close to the cylinder gap, and the tens of thousands of PSI of pressure coming out popped it off, not so much a weapon or ammunition malfunction. I followed a link in the AR15.com thread to a thread on TheHighRoad.org about the power of the blast out of the cylinder gap - enough to rupture the sandbags on both sides of the rest.

Just now getting into it, but it's interesting. And scary - I was thinking about getting one of these; I'll have to wait and see what the actual cause was.

[Fox466]

Have to come back to that.


Once a couple years back I had an accidental with a 9mm into the floor. Still don't know how the hell it went off, but it did.

[evil jose]

Holly shit :eek:

[GT Dan]

That sucks... He's lucky its only soft tissue damage and not bone damage... it looks like there are a few other things that he still has to deal with...

Just curious, did the police get involved with this? As in, give him a ticket or anything?

[66Deuce]

Good example of why I NEVER have ANY part of my body in front of the business end of a gun except a small part of my ass when it is secured in a holster.

[Sean88gt]

Guy has pubic hair on his legs. I always clear the gun before I put it down.

[Fox466]

Damn, the pics aren't working for me.


Years back, my father in law had a .45 stuffed in his waist band when it discharged. It literally put him in a body cast for a while as a result of the damage that it did. I'll have to quiz him later to get more of the specifics, but I do know for certain it damned near killed him...

[66Deuce]

Damn, the pics aren't working for me.


Years back, my father in law had a .45 stuffed in his waist band when it discharged. It literally put him in a body cast for a while as a result of the damage that it did. I'll have to quiz him later to get more of the specifics, but I do know for certain it damned near killed him...

Glock maybe?

[Fox466]

Glock maybe?


Pretty sure it was a Colt, as this was around 20 years ago. Forgot to ask him about it yesterday. :o

[Fox466]

Finally saw the pics as he moved the link and damn, I bet he doesn't do that again!

And with two pieces left in there he had better hope he doesn't die from lead poisoning!

[kayway]

Holy crap! That looks SO painful! Wow.

[jchadscud]

"Life sucks until you accidently shoot yourself in the leg. Then you realize life hadn't sucked as much as you thought it had."

Great quote.

[Fox466]

Asked my FIL about his discharge tonight, and the story goes like this:

He had it stuffed in his waist band as he was climbing out of a gulley when he slipped and it went off. It ended up going in the front, obliterating three inches of his thigh bone, and then going on out the back. Said he still has a knot on the exit wound today. Once he made it to the hospital they put him in traction for three months so as to grow the bone back, at which point they point they put him in a body cast for three more months! So he ended up in the hospital for six months as a result.

Damn! Doesn't that make you think twice...

[That_Is_My_El_Camino]

Asked my FIL about his discharge tonight, and the story goes like this:

He had it stuffed in his waist band as he was climbing out of a gulley when he slipped and it went off. It ended up going in the front, obliterating three inches of his thigh bone, and then going on out the back. Said he still has a knot on the exit wound today. Once he made it to the hospital they put him in traction for three months so as to grow the bone back, at which point they point they put him in a body cast for three more months! So he ended up in the hospital for six months as a result.

Damn! Doesn't that make you think twice...Not even a Glock can do that inside a properly-designed holster. ;)

[Fox466]

Lol. He said that he has never stuck another firearm into his waist band since that happened...