On Friday, around 9 p.m., police say Michael Wanko, 43, and Michele Wanko, 42, were “casually drinking” vodka and lemonade together inside their home on West Roland Road in Parkside, Penn. Around 3:30 a.m., police say the couple went into their basement so that Michael could show his wife how to use a semiautomatic pistol. The couple went into a work room where several weapons were kept inside a safe.

Okay, call me crazy but nobody “casually” drinks vodka and lemonade.  Ever.  Especially at 3:30 a.m.  If you’re 40-something and drinking vodka at 3:30 am then you’re either in the Kremlin expecting to be ousted from power, you’ve just robbed a convenience store, or you’re plotting to kill something.

The story goes that this guy had a safe of guns and was going to show his wife how to use them at 3:30 am, drunk, in the basement.  Just was he was teaching her how to take the magazine out and pull back the slide, which would be Fun With Guns activity #1, and she filled him with more lead than a sinker factory.

[She] picked up another gun and pulled the slide back, just as her husband had instructed her.

“When she let go of the slide, the weapon went off,” said Chief Egan.

There are life lessons to be learned here:  When you’re trying to get your story in an afternoon made for tv movie on the Oprah channel, make sure to forget to tell the police that the first Fun With Guns lesson is to never point them at anybody.

Thanks to Carl for the heads up.