Who shot themselves?

[DD977GM2]

Funny thing is the "Cleaning Accidents" and most other Accidental Discharges can be prevented by one simple thing, KEEP YOUR FINGER OFF OF THE TRIGGER! Glad he is ok but its just another black eye on the shooting community.

I hate these news stories for the simple reason, the uninforms...those whovoted obummer, are the
ones who read this and honestly think ill on the firearm community and then actually
think that firearms can magically go bang with out a pull of the trigger and that
unloaded firearms kill people the same way, without any physical force applied ot the trigger.

Glad he is ok and will survive, but if he wouldnt have ahd his booger hooker
on the trigger, he wouldnt be in the predicament he is in.

[StagLefty]

Scofield says Harrison was attempting to put a .357-cailber revolver into a shoulder holster when the weapon discharged.

Apparently it was the weapon's fault and not his

[glenncal1]

.357 Revolver, there are really only 2 possibilities:

1. The revolver was cocked when he attempted to holster and something hit the trigger like his finger or outside possibility an edge of the holster. You don't carry revolvers "cocked and locked" 'cause there aint no lock.

2. Finger on the trigger while attempting to holster and maybe the act of pushing into the holster made his finger pull the trigger. Where I grew up you only put your finger on the trigger when you want the gun to go boom.

You get careless with a gun you get hurt or dead.

[Tinelement]

Ouchie!

Like how the news put it, "when the weapon discharged".
Like it did it it's self.

[aahorn]

i wonder if he's an instructor? i'd sign my wife up....

[alxone]

i wonder if he's an instructor? i'd sign my wife up....

wow

[Chad4000]

i wonder if he's an instructor? i'd sign my wife up....

LOL...

sorry.. thats a little funny at least lol

[Jer]

Scofield says Harrison was attempting to put a .357-cailber revolver into a shoulder holster when the weapon discharged.

Apparently it was the weapon's fault and not his

Good, I'm not the only one who saw this. Pisses me off when the media shifts blame away from the person directly responsible by clever choice in wording.

I try to avoid the nightly news as much as possible but managed to catch part of it the other night when they were talking about some lady who plowed her SUV into another car killing a family of five. The way they worded it it made it sound like the lady wasn't even in the SUV at the time:

"Jane Doe, who's SUV killed a family of 5, is visibly shaken by the incident'

Really?!? She's fucking alive and 5 innocent people aren't as a DIRECT result of her actions and you make it sound like SHE is the victim and that mean old SUV wiped that family out on it's own. The way the media chooses to present the 'facts' makes me want to punch baby kittens.

[Jer]

i wonder if he's an instructor? i'd sign my wife up....

You laugh but I watched a guy ND a .45 into his own leg a couple years ago in a 3-gun competition re-holstering during a transition. The guy happened to be an NRA certified instructor, local LEO w/SWAT designation, range owner, competition RO and all around bad ass who had been shooting and competing many years. The point is, no matter how much experience you have you're still 'playing' with a deadly weapon and a moment of carelessness can cost someone their life... regardless of how experienced you are.

[Fromk]

I hope the range wasn't knowingly letting him draw from a shoulder holster. Those things make me all kinds of nervous.