Gun Discharge at Ft Worth Gun Show

SaltyDog

SaltyDog

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I was at the Ft Worth Gun Show Saturday (12/27/08).

Apparently a vendor had inadvertantly placed his LOADED personal concelled carry weapon(.45auto)on the display table. A customer walking by picked it up for inspection and you guessed it, looked down the sights and pulled the trigger. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

KABOOM! The loud report of the .45 immediatly silenced the packed Will Rogers Auditorium. I was standing maybe 20ft from the incident. With a gun in my hand looking at it! I must have jumped 10" off the ground! The Police rushed in and were on the scene amazingly fast.

That place was full of people and I still dont know how any one was not injured? Apparently the bullet fired straight down into a concrete floor, shatter and fragmented into some cardboard boxes. How it did not richocet into someone was a miracle!

Many gun shows over the last 30yrs...that was a 1st and hopefully a last

The vendor was cited, expelled and reportedly hauled off to jail. It will likely cost him his CHL, maybe his FFL and certainly some cash. And he was lucky,

Friends I know its common sense, but just a reminder make it a habit to check a weapons breech FIRST THING, when picking it up or having it handed to you.
 
/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif kinda /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif but know one was hurt /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif

GJ
 
That's one of the first things you learn as a kid, is while inspecting a gun is to never ever place your finger on the trigger. No gun is an unloaded gun, that should be in your mind anyway. I taught my boys, grandson that before I would let them touch a BB gun. It will be bad for us on that one. Guns don't kill people, drugs and people do!!!!!

It is a blessing no one got hunt, and the guy will receive the right punishment for the dumb mistake he made, That I'm sure he want make again and the guy that pulled the trigger should get punished also for not checking to make sure the gun was unloaded. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
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What's the first thing we do when we pick up a firearm?



Apparently pull the hammer back, point it at the floor and pull the trigger /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smiliesmack.gif

Well, I'm just glad no one was hurt, let alone killed.

M
 
I was there on the 27th and it was shoulder to shoulder.. I'm glad I missed all the commotion..

It is AMAZING that the shooter was pointing the weapon at the floor. There are A LOT of people at those vendor tables pointing guns in every direction possible.


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Glad no one was hurt.
I took my wife to her first gun show a few years ago. She was very reluctant to go because there had been a ND at a previous show that made the news. Of course one of the first tables we walk by a guy picked up a 12 gauge pump and worked the action and a shell comes flying out landing at our feet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif
 
About 10 years ago there were some antis going to gun shows and loading ammo into the guns on display, this on the east coast. Most instances were caught but there were a couple ADs. No injuries but the holes in the roof were the most expensive to fix.

Jack
 
I was at a gun show about ten years ago and experienced the same thing.
You're right,,, It gets quiet in a hurry.
Glad no one was hurt.
 
Jack, I can attest to the truth of what you said.

In the early 1980's, I was helping a friend of mine (a vender) at the Houston Gun show (big for the time, with 2,000 tables). We found that anti-gun criminals were loading pistols, rifles and shotguns and then departing the scene (eagerly awaiting the carnage of their own creation). One shot was fired from a .22lr pistol (no damage done) and all venders and participants became very safe, times ten.

Those anti-gun people are some evil monsters, who will do anything to get their point across, including placing others safety in jeopardy.

Be well,

Karl in Phoenix
 
guy here in houston shot himself at a gunshow. it was in the wrist, disassembling a glock, and he never checked the gun at the front.
 
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Glad no one was hurt.
I took my wife to her first gun show a few years ago. She was very reluctant to go because there had been a ND at a previous show that made the news. Of course one of the first tables we walk by a guy picked up a 12 gauge pump and worked the action and a shell comes flying out landing at our feet. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/angry-smiley-055.gif



Right on with your description "ND".

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About 10 years ago there were some antis going to gun shows and loading ammo into the guns on display, this on the east coast. Most instances were caught but there were a couple ADs. No injuries but the holes in the roof were the most expensive to fix.



I respectfully disagree with the use of the description "AD". If you do what you ought, an "accidental discharge" can not occur unless you trip and drop the gun and it goes off. A "negligent discharge" occurs when someone violates multiple rules of gun safety. It does not happen any other way........

Furthermore, how did the "anti's" know how to load the weapons at all, much less which ammo to load them with? And where did they get it?

Inquiring minds want to know..........
 
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