Lets be diligent with gun malfunctions!

[Member 24198]

Well hello there @sobo, I didn't realize that you were still here; you may go now.

 

[sobo]

...But I can't recall off the top of my head this happening to any modern semi-auto....I dunno, maybe the Sig P320? Or an old 1911?

 

[sobo]

Well hello there @sobo, I didn't realize that you were still here; you may go now.

 

[RVTECH]

Quite frankly I am surprised we don't hear about MORE gun negligence than we do, but maybe what does happen only gets publicized if a death (or possibly a major injury) is involved.

I mean with all the videos shown on YT of the dumb stuff people do with guns it's amazing not more are killed.

 

[sobo]

SIG has entered the chat.

 

[Koda]

Quite frankly I am surprised we don't hear about MORE gun negligence than we do, but maybe what does happen only gets publicized if a death (or possibly a major injury) is involved.

I mean with all the videos shown on YT of the dumb stuff people do with guns it's amazing not more are killed.

I find this interesting as well. Especially with the surge in new gun owners during Covid and the fact that most new handguns don't have external safeties and everyone seems to be encouraging storing guns loaded everything is just stacked up in favor of tragedy. But yet here we are its not prolific.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

I suppose that's a good point. It honestly didn't occur to me that Tarrant county had their very own Ducky or Quincy on staff. I thought the investigating officers or detectives would be the ones to determine HOW the victim sustained a fatal GSW to the head.
By the grace of God, this individual only killed himself, and not a bystander.

If my loved one died like that I sure would want them to try and figure out the "why" part

 

[Member 24198]

If my loved one died like that I sure would want them to try and figure out the "why" part

I'm pretty sure a bullet entered the brain, but I could be wrong. I'm an engineer damnit, not a doctor.

 

[sobo]

I'm pretty sure a bullet entered the brain, but I could be wrong. I'm an engineer damnit, not a doctor.

 

[thorborg]

mistakes made with firearms can easily be life altering.
The causes of mistakes / mishaps with firearms are many :
Andy

This is so true and why respecting even unloaded guns is a good Idea but not all gun deaths are relegated to the Darwin box.
Sometimes S7IT happens:
A well savvy trapper in the 1840's ducked downlow into some brush when he heard a small party of Indians trailing by, reaching as silently as he could for the end of his cocked caplock rifle, slowly pulling it towards him as not to alert the Indians, when a spur off the brush hooked on the trigger shooting himself dead.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

This is so true and why respecting even unloaded guns is a good Idea but not all gun deaths are relegated to the Darwin box.
Sometimes S7IT happens:
A well savvy trapper in the 1840's ducked downlow into some brush when he heard a small party of Indians trailing by, reaching as silently as he could for the end of his cocked caplock rifle, slowly pulling it towards him as not to alert the Indians, when a spur off the brush hooked on the trigger shooting himself dead.

You can also read similar accounts from the Oregon trail journals / narratives.

Someone reaching into the wagon...and pulling out a loaded and capped or primed firearm...and having the hammer or trigger catch on something.
I can understand having a loaded firearm in the wagon....but leaving it primed or capped...seems unwise.
Andy

 

[Koda]

Someone reaching into the wagon...and pulling out a loaded and capped or primed firearm...and having the hammer or trigger catch on something.
I can understand having a loaded firearm in the wagon....but leaving it primed or capped...seems unwise.

This same thing happens once a year with hunters with modern guns putting in and out of trucks. Some people insist they can treat their gun differently because "its unloaded"....

 

[Andy54Hawken]

This same thing happens once a year with hunters with modern guns putting in and out of trucks. Some people insist they can treat their gun differently because "its unloaded"....

Yeah.....don't do that....

In hunting camp....I will at times keep my muzzle loading rifle or fowler loaded....but not capped or primed.
When I do this...I will thread a strip of red cloth between the ramrod and barrel / stock , near the muzzle as a reminder of it being loaded.

In regards to taking a modern gun or a muzzle loader out of my truck...well I don't keep 'em loaded there....however...they are always treated as if they were.
Andy

 

[thorborg]

...but leaving it primed or capped...seems unwise.
Andy

By any modern standards, your dead right , but in 1840's Blackfoot Indian country, one might develop a different mind set.
For sure I would rather empty the chamber before crawling through a bob wire fence then rely on my moxie or even a safety for that mater.

 

[titsonritz]

Yeah these guys grabbing a barrel and pulling the muzzle towards themselves…