Fun With Guns: Lotsa Accidents Lately Edition
Wrong direction, dude. In Arizona, a correctional institution guard accidentally shot himself in the leg while at the damn firing range.
Again in Arizona, the mobile gun selling businesses is not working as well as expected.
A 17-year-old boy was hospitalized with a wound from a gun a person was trying to sell him when it discharged early Thursday morning, Phoenix police said.
The boy said someone on a bicycle rode up to up to him in the area of 43rd Street and Southern Avenue about 1 a.m. and tried to sell him the gun when it accidentally went off, police said.
And apparently, the gun selling business is not going well anywhere. I suspect that this guy was trying to demonstrate that his product works pretty damn well.
After questioning, police found that late Friday night in the 100 block of North Platt Street, the victim was showing his friends some guns he was hoping to sell.
And in a two-fer for the records book, in New Jersey two Port Authority police officers were cleaning their guns. One accidentally went off and shot both of them.
A Port Authority spokesman says an officer in the Port Authority’s Commercial Vehicle Inspection Unit was cleaning his weapon when it accidentally discharged.
The spokesman says the bullet went through the officer’s left hand and then struck a second officer who was nearby in the left thigh.
He says both men were taken to University Hospital in stable condition.
If someone comes up to you offering to sell you a gun, run. Write that down somewhere so you won’t forget.
Re. cleaning guns, I’m remembering from the army, they always made us take the bullets out first. They were very fussy about this.
1FreeDumb Enterprises, free to buy & sell while $t00pid. If the vender doesn’t kill them, the cops might when the purchase is connected to unsolved murders.
2Correct T.M., in the USAF we did the same you REMOVE bullets to clean gun…They were to stupid for the job!!!
3ANd the same applies to selling guns…remove the bullets, and as a customer, point a gun in my direction and I will take it away! Your to stupid to handle it!
If only Moron Insurance was available to these…morons.
4In a more perfect world, it would cover negligence, stupidity and all-round incompetence, but would also prevent said insured from ever handling a firearm again. Sadly, it’s a dream.
Y’all, anyone who rides up to you on a bike or in damn donkey cart and tries to sell you a weapon — loaded or unloaded — just understand that if this thing can’t be sold in a licensed gun shop, you run the risk of the damn thing blowing up in your hand the minute you squeeze the trigger. And really now, some dude who wants to sell you a gun on the street? Ever hear of door to door salesmen? Or a hood trying to get rid of a hot weapon? Seriously, would you buy that Rolex from the guy in the van in the alley?
5It’s the old “I’ll sell it this new camera (still in the box) to you for $20 because I think the cop saw me take it off the truck” trick.
Upon opening the box, one finds a rock which weighs about as mch as a camera.
“If you gift-wrap the trash, someone will take it.” Plus, if the gun works, and you pull out your wallet, the criminal may choose to keep the gun and take your wallet.
6“If you gift-wrap the trash, someone will take it” reminds me of several jokes about people grabbing away bags which were actually full of pet poop. Still, I’d rather be holding one of them than a gun.
I notice JJ is listing only the amused-snort kind of gun stories, not several recently in which people killed children or were killed by children, accidentally or otherwise. In nearly all cases, the presence of a gun raised a neutral or lousy situation to a homicide.
7Well, now that we can carry guns in all the parks for no apparent reason, the General Assembly might look a bit harder at ‘guns everywhere’, mainly in the hands of morons:
http://www.dnj.com/story/news/2015/03/31/mpd-woman-aims-gun-wall-shoots-neighbor/70744096/
8People hurt themselves with kitchen knives, stairs, lawn equipment and exercise equipment, furniture, pets and basically almost anything that exists in a household.
Why on earth would anyone think that it’s safe to have guns around?
9Eykis-First rule of gun safety specifically states you are to point weapon at a wall you don’t intend to eat and pull the trigger to see if the gun is unloaded.
Kismet says the bullet should have ricochetted off neigbor’s ankle and struck dumb woman in forehead reminding her she could have had a V-8
10Sheesh. I, who do not own a gun and plan never to, even know to take bullets out of guns to do stuff unless you are actually planning to shoot something or someone. Remember. Do you actually want to shoot that person? If you do, shoot to kill. Now, you still want to shoot him/her? Do it quick or he/she will shoot you first.
11These dumb asses were probably trying to play Gunfight at the OK Corral. Of course they don’t want to admit that, so the quote is always, “They were cleaning the gun.” Riiiiight. I believe that with all my heart.
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