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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: seuss on October 16, 2009, 03:29:21 PM
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This is something I Posted in another forum,and thought it would be appropriate as my first post here.
Yesterday(9/12/09) was life changing for me. I was standing in the kitchen unloading the dishwasher after a great afternoon of target practice when BOOM!, my friend had an AD/ND. He broke all the rules gun owners should live by. He put a 9mm magtech hollow point through his hand. We took him to the hospital and I was in such a hurry I left my license at home. So I dropped him at the ER and went back home to get it. When I got home we found the bullet and it had buried itself in the back of the cabinet door inches from where I was standing. (He was on the other side of the bar at the dining room table) This was a real eye opener to the REAL destructive capabilities of a firearm. I am very, very thankful that God was looking out for me (as well as my negligent friend) and no one was fatally injured. Firearm ownership is a very serious responsibility and should not be taken lightly. I really hate he had to learn a lesson the hard way but if you follow the three rules of firearms this will never happen. Lucky for him it was a flesh wound and he'll still be able to use is hand. The rules of my household have forever changed. It'll be just like competition, before you enter you must show clear and drop the hammer (or striker or however you would like to say it). To all of my fellow gun nuts, please be safe and remember to handle your firearms in a responsible manner.
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That's going to leave a mark .
Thank you for the vivid reminder of why safety is so important.
Drop by the New member thread and introduce yourself. ;D
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WOW!
First of all, I am glad no one was killed, and that the injuries will be able to be recovered from.
Thanks for posting, seuss..........things like this need to be shared from time to time....to remind folks that negligence, carelessness, and complacency can maim and/or kill.
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Seuss,
You need smarter friends.
Sorry to hear about your friends pain and the damage he caused to your property.
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luckily there was only a little damage to some drywall
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Safety is the number one rule to be learned and reviewed. Too bad some reviews need to be graphic.
Thankful everyone is ok and that a lesson has been learned.
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Ouch!!!
Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Cooper's Four Rules of Gun Safety
1. All firearms are always loaded.
2. Always keep a firearm pointed in a safe direction.
3. Keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot.
4. Always be sure of your target and know what is behind it along the bullet's trajectory.
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Thanks for the post. Tough lesson to learn.
Just curious, what type of firearm was involved?
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:o ops
that is not good,
hope he gets better mate
and a massive reminder / and I hope a wake up call for people to remember double check everything.
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Good thing it wasn't a more powerful caliber. Thanks for sharing the pics and story with us seuss.
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•Incoming fire has the right of way
•Friendly fire - isn't.
•Placing a gun back in a holster with your finger on the trigger will cause you to walk with a limp.
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Keep your booger hook OFF the bang switch.
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All firearms are loaded even if they are unloaded. I hope your friend keeps the use of his hand. And thank god no one else was injured
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Hell of a first post.....
My brother in law shot himself in the hand once with a 9mm.... it was a long painful recovery for him.
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Hell of a first post.....
My brother in law shot himself in the hand once with a 9mm.... it was a long painful recovery for him.
Once would be enough for me too. ;)
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Hello seuss, critical reminder, and a tough lesson.
EVERY firearm is loaded!!
Hope your friend heals with little permanent damage.
Make him fix your cabinet, when he can...
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The wound makes me think he was racking the slide. Know how it happened? What kind of gun was it?
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Also a Previous post on the high road:
The gun was a S&W Sigma 9mm. Luckily for him its was only a flesh wound. The bullet didn't hit any bones or nerves. I'm not 100% sure but ill give you my opinion. Hes shot plenty of my guns but is a relatively new first time owner. He asked me if he could use my supplies to clean his weapon and of course i said yes. Moments later is when the AD/ND happened. So i Take is he was just negligent on clearing the gun before he began to break it down. Although I'm not sure why it was loaded to begin with. i guess you could call it on of those mysterious "shot myself while cleaning my gun" stories LOL. I believe that's why Springfield changed the XDm to be able to field strip without having to pull the trigger before dis-assembly.
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I bet he jacked the round out of the chamber , He may have diligently checked that the chamber was empty, let the slide forward and then took the magazine out of his "empty" gun.
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yep
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Hows he doing ?
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Keep your booger hook OFF the bang switch is correct. The one rule of my house is no one touches my guns without my inspection. I pull the mags out or swing out the cylinder, i then rack the slide at least 3 times to make sure its clear and then i hand it to someone. My gramps had a friend shot himself i the knee with an M&P. The poor guy messed up his leg for life, i guess 1960's medical techniques weren't able to fix it like they could today.
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I bet he jacked the round out of the chamber , He may have diligently checked that the chamber was empty, let the slide forward and then took the magazine out of his "empty" gun.
+1 I don't know what will be worse, the paperwork, or the healing. Both will take as long.