They Have “Gun Shows” in Idaho, Y’all.
Well, they call them “Gun Shows” but it appears to be more of a shoot-out than a gun show.
For the second time at the Expo Idaho Gun Show, innocent bystanders got shot. They guy who did the shooting last October finally got indicted this week.
Turner was working as a gun show vendor at Expo Idaho when the shooting happened the morning of Oct. 31. According to the Ada County Sheriff’s Office, Turner told deputies he was attaching a zip tie to the trigger assembly of a bolt-action rifle when the gun went off.
The bullet hit a 51-year-old man and a 64-year-old man in the leg. The 64-year-old went to the hospital, but was not seriously injured, the sheriff’s office said.
Most old farts around the beauty salon here just get together and play dominoes. In Idaho, they shoot each other “accidentally.”
You know, Idaho is a pretty big place with very few people. It seems to me that the odds of firing a gun and hitting somebody are pretty slim. Mostly you’d just hit empty space. Unless you’re at a gun show, then it’s katy-bar-the-door.
The accidental shooting came just two years after two people were hurt when a gun discharged at a 2013 gun show at Expo Idaho. One man injured in the 2013 shooting lost his vision in one eye.
So it’s a biannual thing, huh?