Negligent Discharge?

CHenry · Jul 15, 2014

Dukester said:
It kind of seems to me that you are trying to get your troll on......

No, not at all. In all seriousness, I would never pull my pistol from the safe where its sat for a year thinking it were unloaded and point and pull in the direction of my house or anything else that I valued.
If I wanted to practice dry fire I would certainly check the chamber and then do my dryfire outside aimed at the woods or something other than where my family was.

OKCShooter · Jul 15, 2014

The only "gun scare" I've had was when shooting suppressed. I was shooting through a box of Subsonic IMI 9mm and one round sounded even quieter than the others and I didn't hit my target.

Thank GOD that I didn't pull the trigger again without investigating, there was a bullet still in the barrel that was obviously not charged, guess the primer had just enough power to send it into the barrel.

I often think of what would have happened the next time I pulled the trigger - and it would have been a negligent discharge due to the fact that I would have know there was something "off" about the previous round.

120 Acres · Jul 15, 2014

AD once hunting. Got into my spot before the sun was up, loaded up and put the safety on. Or did I? I tested by lowering my rifle barrel and pulling the trigger (dumbass). I did not have the safety on.

Didnt need anymore coffee at that point.

Glocktogo · Jul 15, 2014

CHenry said:
No, not at all. In all seriousness, I would never pull my pistol from the safe where its sat for a year thinking it were unloaded and point and pull in the direction of my house or anything else that I valued.
If I wanted to practice dry fire I would certainly check the chamber and then do my dryfire outside aimed at the woods or something other than where my family was.

I misunderstood what you were stating then. I thought you meant dry fire was a bad idea altogether. I have a lot of guns in the safe, some loaded and some not. Except the rimfires, many of them may get dry fire time. If I'm changing carry guns or holsters, the gun gets drawn and dry fired before I go out the door. So yes, each gun gets unloaded or checked, then dry fired, then reloaded if for carry.

ruckerduck · Jul 15, 2014

CHenry said:
These stories of people actually pulling the trigger not expecting a bang...wow. what's the rule? Keep your finger off the trigger? I never dry fire a gun because to me its just a bad habit to start that could end poorly.

Hence the dumbass part.

AmmoSpydr · Jul 15, 2014

After extracting a jammed spent shell in my SKS, I chambered another round which did not seat properly. Instead of pulling the bolt back and releasing a new round ( like I did before when I had a non fully seating round), I gave the bolt handle a bit of a nudge and POWW!! At least I gun was pointing in a safe direction during the incident. I never "nudged" it again

Brandi · Jul 15, 2014

CHenry said:
Unless you blow a new window in your buddy because you were pointing it at him when the gun went off? yeah.

Huh?? Where did you get that from my post? What I'm saying is if your gun fires due to a defect in the gun it's not negligent, such as the recent issue with Remington 700's firing a round without the trigger being pulled. Obviously pointing a gun at anything you don't intend to shoot is negligent.

SeanO · Jul 15, 2014

AmmoSpydr said:
After extracting a jammed spent shell in my SKS, I chambered another round which did not seat properly. Instead of pulling the bolt back and releasing a new round ( like I did before when I had a non fully seating round), I gave the bolt handle a bit of a nudge and POWW!! At least I gun was pointing in a safe direction during the incident. I never "nudged" it again

Slam fire... Nice!

This is one reason I never kept my SkS chambered when it played my HD rifle.

SMS · Jul 15, 2014

Not yet.

Closest was intentionally discharging my rifle on the test fire range before receiving clearance from the TOC (but I wasn't the only one thankfully, lol)

p238shooter · Jul 16, 2014

BadgeBunny said:
I've been shot at but never hit ... It's a pretty sobering feeling to feel a bullet whiz past your head close enough to move your hair (I had "Farah Fassett" hair back then ... )

I've posted my story here about having .40 cal rounds in a .45 cal gun ... Do NOT pull boxes of ammo out of your range bag without putting on your reading glasses and taking a good look at what you are snagging ...

And I've torched off a shot a couple of different times when I would have sworn on a stack of Bibles the gun was outta rounds. Both times it was pointed downrange ... Even when I think my gun is empty I treat it like it's not ... I lost a classmate to a negligent discharge when I was in junior high school (middle school for you youngsters) ... I'll NEVER forget his parents at his funeral. His dad was the one responsible for what happened. Put what he thought was an unloaded shotgun in a box and wrapped it up for Ronnie's Christmas present. Ronnie's best friend pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. He bled out before the ambulance got there.

Honestly, I'm scared to death of guns. No, really ... it's why I will approach absolute strangers on a range and talk to them about what they are doing ... because God forbid I don't and they hurt themselves or someone else ... It's also why I was such a stickler for the rules when I worked at the range. I'm amazed at the number of folks who are the exact opposite.

Woa, what an experience, had a friend whos brother was similar to Ronnie. bad deal.

I started my daughter and both my grandsons out with pay attention to the end of the barrel. It does not matter if you think the gun is loaded, cocked, empty, off the gun, etc. The end of the barrel is where stuff happens. Do not be there or let anyone else be there, unless you would like to take a chance on them getting shot. I tried to emphasize on them, most likely more people (civilians) have gotten shot by "unloaded" firearms than loaded ones. If you are going to be in a position to be looking or pointed "down the barrel" be sure you are expecting to see your finger at the other end. Think about that in the back yard with your friends, at the range with others, or cleaning your guns. Like my mom said when my Dad gave me my First BB gun at age 7, "Do not shoot your eye out with that" I took that as my eye, or anyone elses eye.

Guns do not kill people, the end of the barrel after someone pulls the trigger does. Point it in the direction of the target, pull trigger, it will kill.

Many firearms are built different ways, but they all have a common safety. The TRIGGER. It is the same on all fire arms no matter all the other stuff, rack, slide, bolt, fork, ratchet, even on an aircraft little finger red sw on the stick after clicking a toggle switch. Pull the trigger, and stand back, stuff might happen in a milisecond.

The ultimate Safety.

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