OOPS!
Jul 4, 2021 08:15:14 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Accidents happen every day, and you just have to take them in stride. It's good he had that permit. We can't just let any idiots carry guns around. Maybe his wife will get a gun now. 
Why not let idiots carry?, we elect idiots to run the country!! Well it seems like it.
Jul 4, 2021 08:18:38 #
sheldon minsky wrote:
Idiots? Cheap shot Jerry coming from the annoying garden gnome of the catskills. Have you ever heard of the 2A?
Are you trying to prove Jerry right?
Jul 4, 2021 08:20:48 #
nimbushopper wrote:
Guns just don't go off, the trigger has to be pulled! Also, leaving the chamber empty means that likely both hands will be needed to chamber a round and it takes more time. Micro seconds count when someone is trying to kill you.
In the 1950's -1960's there was a holster that allowed you to carry a 11911 colt with the slide held back and chamber empty, when you released the strap the slide raised the gun out of the holster and chambered a round. Sounded scary as hell to me
Jul 4, 2021 09:26:03 #
Schwabo wrote:
I do carry sometimes, but never with safety off or Hammer cocked.
You probably shouldn’t have said that you carry sometimes. I read in a gun magazine that if you shoot someone, a lawyer could bring up that sometime and use it against you; as in “Why did you carry the gun this time? We’re you expecting trouble? Why did you come here then? We’re you looking for trouble?”
It’s a much easier defense to say that I always carry, and let the lawyers prove otherwise.
Jul 4, 2021 09:48:19 #
sheldon minsky wrote:
Idiots? Cheap shot Jerry coming from the annoying garden gnome of the catskills. Have you ever heard of the 2A?
In reference to the latest gun buying frenzy people have purchased pistols that they don't know how to load them, nor what caliber the weapons uses, does one think these types are proficient enough to handle a weapon? What does the 2A have to do with it?
Jul 4, 2021 09:58:20 #
jerryc41 wrote:
Accidents happen every day, and you just have to take them in stride. It's good he had that permit. We can't just let any idiots carry guns around. Maybe his wife will get a gun now.
I wonder about the wife's "stride" after the shot!
Mark
Jul 4, 2021 09:59:55 #
Schwabo
Loc: Florida
nimbushopper wrote:
Guns just don't go off, the trigger has to be pulled! Also, leaving the chamber empty means that likely both hands will be needed to chamber a round and it takes more time. Micro seconds count when someone is trying to kill you.
Very true. But like TriX wrote, if practiced 2 handed drawing and chamber can be one motion.
Jul 4, 2021 10:12:12 #
Schwabo
Loc: Florida
andesbill wrote:
You probably shouldn’t have said that you carry sometimes. I read in a gun magazine that if you shoot someone, a lawyer could bring up that sometime and use it against you; as in “Why did you carry the gun this time? We’re you expecting trouble? Why did you come here then? We’re you looking for trouble?”
It’s a much easier defense to say that I always carry, and let the lawyers prove otherwise.
It’s a much easier defense to say that I always carry, and let the lawyers prove otherwise.
Very true, I did not think of that. I may have to change my ways.
Jul 4, 2021 10:40:59 #
JeffL
Loc: New Jersey
jerryc41 wrote:
Accidents happen every day, and you just have to take them in stride. It's good he had that permit. We can't just let any idiots carry guns around. Maybe his wife will get a gun now.
Yeah, they can have a shootout at the Cracker Barrel corral.
Jul 4, 2021 10:41:32 #
StanMac
Loc: Tennessee
jerryc41 wrote:
Accidents happen every day, and you just have to take them in stride. It's good he had that permit. We can't just let any idiots carry guns around. Maybe his wife will get a gun now.
Permitless carry is on the books in Tennessee. I’m sure we’ll see an uptick in stupid accidents like that one and unfortunately those with far worse outcomes. Law enforcement was universally opposed to the legislation for obvious reasons. They now have to assume anyone they encounter is armed.
Stan
Jul 4, 2021 11:13:22 #
sheldon minsky wrote:
Idiots? Cheap shot Jerry coming from the annoying garden gnome of the catskills. Have you ever heard of the 2A?
Speaking of cheap shots…..
Jul 4, 2021 11:36:24 #
Schwabo wrote:
Sorry Trio, I should also have mentioned that I carry my HK with chamber empty.
So do I
Jul 4, 2021 11:40:38 #
sheldon minsky wrote:
Idiots? Cheap shot Jerry coming from the annoying garden gnome of the catskills. Have you ever heard of the 2A?
Thank you 👍👍👍
That kind of nonsense is why I left Connecticut for the Ozarks nearly 25 yrs. ago.
Jul 4, 2021 11:53:42 #
Jul 4, 2021 12:36:09 #
I suspect that his CCW handgun was a Glock for the safety is a little lever in the trigger and there have been many accidental discharges when folks are putting them into the holster. Here's a video of a DEA Agent giving a firearm safety presentation at a school when he shots himself in the leg with a Glock 40. https://youtu.be/vfONckOPyaI
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.