Man shoots self & wife in gun safety class

getitdone1 · Post by **getitdone1** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:06 pm

Just read where a guy in Virginia shot himself in the hand, bullet went through and into wifes leg--while gun safety instructor had stepped out of the room.

Moral of this story: "Keep your eyes wide open and be on guard when attending a gun safety meeting." Those people are there for a reason! (or two)

Don

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:39 pm

A perfect example of what happens when you decide to throw the rules out the window.

... and this guy apparently decided to throw all 4 of Col. Cooper's rules out at the same time.

Gun safety is, after all, for rookies.

1894c · Post by **1894c** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:41 pm

bet his wife is angry...yikes... :(

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 4:18 am

It all started with the instructor....why would He allow any live ammo in a class.

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Borregos · Post by **Borregos** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 5:44 am

.45colt wrote:It all started with the instructor....why would He allow any live ammo in a class. .

You got that right.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:55 am

Right...

It's always someone else's fault.

bdhold · Post by **bdhold** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:16 am

First, let me show you what not to do...

I wonder what the guy's final grade was in the class.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:29 am

FWiedner wrote:Right...

It's always someone else's fault.

+1

Post by **Hobie** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 8:37 am

FWiedner wrote:Right...

It's always someone else's fault.

+1

Do the instructors pat people down? Run them through a TSA metal detector?

smokenrust · Post by **smokenrust** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:26 am

well, that guy should know not to do that again ... but some never learn from their previous mistakes...

stretch · Post by **stretch** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:34 am

bet his wife is angry...yikes...

ya think?

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't live through that sort of mistake.

-Stretch

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:48 am

Nobody WE know would do anything dumb like that. . . .

.45colt · Post by **.45colt** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 2:05 pm

Hobie Wrote: "Do the instructors pat people down? Run them through a TSA metal detector?".................................
I don't know about that but when the wife and I took the CCW class last year the two Police Officers who were instructing the group of 18 checked the guns at the door and had large signs both outside the door and inside the room. they loudly repeated "NO AMMO IN HERE"............................. and I am glad they did as there were a few idiots in the group who had no common sense at all.

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Twodot · Post by **Twodot** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:25 pm

.45colt wrote:a few idiots in the group who had no common sense at all. .

Far too many.
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Griff · Post by **Griff** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 3:34 pm

A true object lesson in firearm safety. Betcha it made a bigger impact than any 10 films!

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:53 pm

There was when I was in High School (Rifle Club)at least 4 occasions within the 6 years (I know of) in which the ceiling tiles were shot.

I didn't do it either!

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 5:07 am

You can't protect people from themselves. You an be anally redundant about no ammo in the class room and there'll always be someone who thinks the rules don't apply to them and there ya go, someone loads a mag and forgets it's the one with the ammo in it and a ND happens.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:16 am

Sometimes I dry fire at the TV

I'll open it up and check even if I just looked five minutes ago...At my age, ya never know

sore shoulder · Post by **sore shoulder** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 11:17 am

I know that many tv's have been killed by empty guns. I myself murdered an innocent suitcase many years ago.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:31 pm

sore shoulder wrote:I know that many tv's have been killed by empty guns. I myself murdered an innocent suitcase many years ago.

When I was a teenager, I took out the screen to an old B&W tv in my room with a BB pistol. The glass cover that protected the CRT......Convinced my Mom that it must have got hot and cracked

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:42 pm

I recall many years ago, a fellow I knew in Sacramento, big time High Power shooter and pompous jerk, "dry firing" in his living room, shot the knob off the front door of the across-the-street neighbor.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Fri Apr 27, 2012 3:29 am

jnyork wrote:I recall many years ago, a fellow I knew in Sacramento, big time High Power shooter and pompous jerk, "dry firing" in his living room, shot the knob off the front door of the across-the-street neighbor.

Just glad he wasn't playing sniper!!

Last year when I went through a handgun instructor course one of the attendee's shot a hole through the wall in the hotel I was staying in. The bullet went through the wall and right over the neighbor's laptop monitor where the guy had just been sitting but got up to use the head. ND's happen and sometimes the damage is irreversible.

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