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Title: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: Sgt Z Squad on April 24, 2009, 04:23:12 PM
Wonder if Australia will now outlaw nail guns? :P

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517699,00.html (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,517699,00.html)
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: ericire12 on April 24, 2009, 05:01:56 PM
Assault weapon
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: twyacht on April 24, 2009, 05:06:32 PM
its those 30rd. nail mags,.....

if they were only 10rd,....

poor guy,......
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: PegLeg45 on April 24, 2009, 05:31:46 PM
Yeah....poor guy is right......dayum....  :o
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: 1911 Junkie on April 24, 2009, 05:49:57 PM
I only counted 29. ::)
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: Texas_Bryan on April 24, 2009, 06:31:02 PM
'High power', hows that gun control working in Australia.  The anti will be calling for nail gun registration and restrictions now.  Hide you nail guns Phil.
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: twyacht on April 24, 2009, 07:12:56 PM
When the next poor "bloke" gets killed with a framing hammer,,,,permits for those will be required also...

Carpenters will than be put on a "list" as potential violent offenders,.....

Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: PegLeg45 on April 24, 2009, 07:38:38 PM
When the next poor "bloke" gets killed with a framing hammer,,,,permits for those will be required also...

Carpenters will than be put on a "list" as potential violent offenders,.....



Get caught with a saws-all and you could get a habitual violator charge...
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: TAB on April 24, 2009, 08:33:54 PM
its those 30rd. nail mags,.....

if they were only 10rd,....

poor guy,......



I've got a coil gun that holds 150... ubber deadly.  lots of guys have hurt themselfs( myself inculded) with nail guns.   nothing like pulling a nail from your finger with a pair of channel locks.  Wtap it in duct tape and get back to work.
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: ericire12 on April 24, 2009, 08:37:52 PM
http://www.downrange.tv/forum/index.php/topic,2529.msg27580.html#msg27580
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: twyacht on April 24, 2009, 09:24:40 PM


I've got a coil gun that holds 150... ubber deadly.  lots of guys have hurt themselfs( myself inculded) with nail guns.   nothing like pulling a nail from your finger with a pair of channel locks.  Wtap it in duct tape and get back to work.

Job Site First Aid is an amazing thing, I too have been there and done that.  As long as I can;t see bone or need stitches.

Napkins and Duct tape has gotten me through more than one slice, cut, scrape, puncture, tear, etc,...

It's those old fashioned Estwing hammer hits thumb thing that pisses me off. ::)
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: TAB on April 24, 2009, 09:43:31 PM
super glue also works great for razor cuts.  infact the ER/OR uses it( slightly diffrent form)  will even let you keep working when you do need stichs.  Always cracks me up when a home onwer sees me do something like  drill a smashed thumb or wrap a cut in duct tape...

Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: philw on April 25, 2009, 02:31:19 AM
yea   we  are waiting on a buy back on S/A Nail Guns 

and a baning on Nail guns that can hold more than 10 Nails at a time 

also I am expecting a special license for anyone that has a nail gun that uses size 6 or larger nails .  ::)


another thing is restrictions on hammers.  they will need to be stored in a safe that is locked  and if under 150kg's it must be bolted to the house

for those that have Nail Guns  they will need to be in an approved safe that is 6mm or thicker.   ;)

www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,25377582-5001021,00.html




Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: ellis4538 on April 25, 2009, 06:01:31 AM
He sure pissed someone off!!!!!!  Putting serial #'s on each nail would have prevented that!

Hurts to look at,

Richard
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: CJS3 on April 25, 2009, 06:45:29 PM

 Wtap it in duct tape and get back to work.

+1 been there,done that ::)
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: PegLeg45 on April 26, 2009, 04:56:26 PM


I've got a coil gun that holds 150... ubber deadly.  lots of guys have hurt themselfs( myself inculded) with nail guns.   nothing like pulling a nail from your finger with a pair of channel locks.  Wtap it in duct tape and get back to work.

+1 been there,done that ::)

Yep...+100 on that too.

And, I found that 'good' (3M) electrical tape works even better because it is more water proof and is more flexible. Paper towels on the cut and a layer of electrical tape and you're good as new.



(***side note: it don't work too well on open fractures though)
    ;)
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: TAB on April 26, 2009, 07:30:51 PM
Yep...+100 on that too.

And, I found that 'good' (3M) electrical tape works even better because it is more water proof and is more flexible. Paper towels on the cut and a layer of electrical tape and you're good as new.



(***side note: it don't work too well on open fractures though)
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Unless its off set, it just hurts like a SOB. 
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: jaybet on May 04, 2009, 12:56:55 PM
Back when I was a contractor I had gotten down to look at a problem with some floor framing on a remodel. One of my carpenters was on a step ladder with a framing gun. He started down the ladder and dropped the gun hand down to be safe....right onto the top of my head. Of course I dropped to my knees. After a minute I realized what had happened and remembered a picture of an xray of a guy with a 16d in his scull. I kept saying, "Did you have your finger on the trigger" and he kept saying no, but I had a mark on my head that could have very easily been the spot where a nail went in.

After a while we decided that I had just been hit on the head with a big metal object. Scary as hell though. The good news is that ALL that training (gun training for carpenter helpers) about keeping your finger off the trigger paid off BIG TIME for me.
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: blackwolfe on May 04, 2009, 01:12:52 PM
Back when I was a contractor I had gotten down to look at a problem with some floor framing on a remodel. One of my carpenters was on a step ladder with a framing gun. He started down the ladder and dropped the gun hand down to be safe....right onto the top of my head. Of course I dropped to my knees. After a minute I realized what had happened and remembered a picture of an xray of a guy with a 16d in his scull. I kept saying, "Did you have your finger on the trigger" and he kept saying no, but I had a mark on my head that could have very easily been the spot where a nail went in.

After a while we decided that I had just been hit on the head with a big metal object. Scary as hell though. The good news is that ALL that training (gun training for carpenter helpers) about keeping your finger off the trigger paid off BIG TIME for me.
I think I saw that same xray in Fine Homebuilding magazine.  Newby coming doen the ladder and bumbed the guy below in the head with the gun with his finger on the trigger.
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: tombogan03884 on May 04, 2009, 03:38:37 PM
One might be an accident, 30 is a message. ( "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" )
Title: Re: Man Dies After Being Shot 30 Times With Nail Gun
Post by: TAB on May 04, 2009, 05:09:26 PM
One might be an accident, 30 is a message. ( "you wouldn't like me when I'm angry" )


actually, alot of the older guns were not very safe,  its a very common prob to have the trigger fail so that the contact tip will make it go off.  They should work if you hold the trigger, every time you bump it they go bang.  Its also not uncommon for a well used framing gun to double. Its very common for a framing gun to go well into the 6 digets nails driven in a year.  Most guys are lucky to get 2 - 3 years out of a gun.