Eh - there could be story beyond what we know. This could have been an employee taking an x-mark triggered Remington 700 over to the clearing bucket right after a customer brought it in.

You have to handle and clear it some time, and while I agree that this is probably raw stupid, it could be diluted stupid. For example cabelas has a clearing counter with a bullet trap. But you have to pretty much point that gun at the customer service area to USE the clearing trap, which is mounted on the wall in a way you can't possibly insert a muzzle without directing the cuddly end of the gun towards the back office.

This is a common failure in businesses with "safe" gun practices...they have a clearing bucket but its mounted in a place where an ND while getting the gun there results in shit like this.