Fun With Guns: Really? Unfortunate? Edition
Utah.
A 64 year old man accidentally shot himself in the abdomen while cleaning his Glock .45 caliber handgun, according to the Cache County Sheriff’s Office.
Michael Lee Lockhart told the police that he was cleaning his .45 caliber Glock. He reassembled it and loaded it with a full magazine but can’t for hell figure out why it hates him enough to shoot him in the damn stomach.
Here’s my favorite part:
Investigators won’t file any charges in the shooting, calling it an “unfortunate accident.”
Okay, I can go with the accident part. But unfortunate? Nah, not really. After all, he did shoot himself.
Too late to call it “evolution at work”, plus, he didn’t die.
1That’s not an accident. That’s a negligent discharge. People who keep a round in the chamber on a gun with a passive safety are stupid. Translation for the words “cleaning his gun” – “playing fast draw and posing in front of a mirror”.
2Remembering, for the nonce, that half the population is BELOW 100 IQ, it doesn’t surprise me that every day we hear of one of these “accidents.”
Guns can be very complicated pieces of machinery. Do YOU know exactly how an automatic pistol works?
3Stoopid damn guns!
4Stoopid damn guns. Mr Otvos, an automatic pistol works illegally in these here United States. Semi-autos, otoh work legally.
5I go with the negligence argument. What this country needs is moron insurance.
6smart dud
7Whoever manages to shoot themselves while playing with their toys should be congratulated and encouraged to do it a few more times, but only when they’re home alone. We need something to raise the average IQ in this country.
8The older you get the smarter you are supposed to get. Well, there’s always the odd man out.
9Yeah, this is the place where we shush up anybody who accidentally chants “Guns don’t kill people…,” right?
10Hate to point out that most of the self shooters are male. Y’all will notice I didn’t say man. My idea being that a real man is too intelligent to ‘clean his weapon whilst pointing at his anatomy. ‘ A male on the other hand seems to think with his testosterone on full. Bad mistake. And painful, too.
11Well… he was either aiming too high or too low, if you get my drift. I can’t decide.
12Yep, playing Wyatt Earp at the OK Corral. Dumb, stoopid, $#@&$#&* wingnuts think their macho is in their piss – tol.
13@Ormond Otvos
Yes sir, many patrons here do know pretty exactly how a semi-automatic handgun works.
In my time of carrying several of genius John Browning’s masterpieces I have found them, in the dark, to be simple to operate, simple to maintain, simple to repair, and breathtakingly effective in the very limited job Mr Browning designed them to do.
In the 1960s when I was an apprentice handgunner at home, one only rarely heard of negligent discharges. Sworn officers lost their jobs over such. Marines of the time suffered the same fate. My sainted father referred to their situation as “six six and a kick”. None in the enlisted community tolerated such negligence. My Coastie brother told the same story if a hypothetical guardsman had negligently discharged his weapon his CG career was effectively over. The enlisted grapevine would have spread the word by the end of the evening meal.
I still love to go to an outdoor range and turn a pile of cash into a couple of pounds of brass hulls, but even there one can observe a careless shooter from time to time, making the whole range experience less restful than it might otherwise have been.
14As to your criticism of the failure to file charges, a prosecutor would ask how do you get a wounded abdomen to testify against a stunted brain?
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