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Two people were hit with bullets Sunday during a gunfight re-enactment in the Old West town of Tombstone that was supposed to involve blanks. The Tombstone Marshal's Office said actor Tom Carter's guns fired live rounds, hitting a fellow member of the group.
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CBS Tuscon affiliate KOLD-TV, citing the Cochise County Sheriff's Office, reports Ken Curtis was struck in the upper-groin area. Curtis fell to the ground and was flown to a hospital in Tucson, where he underwent surgery to remove the bullet. Other rounds struck businesses and a female bystander. The sheriff's office told KOLD says the woman was hit by shrapnel and refused medical treatment.
KOLD says Carter arrived late and didn't have his gun properly inspected.
As a side note, historic as Old Tombstone is, I found it to be the biggest historical rip off I ever experienced. Every single building and site was a separate entrance fee. I felt totally soaked after visiting. Not that it wasn't interesting.
I always thought an unwritten rule to reenacting was to never actually aim your firearm at someone regardless of blanks or not. Always aim to miss.
Yea, aiming a real firearm at someone in a non defensive manner violates fundamental rules of firearm safety. I would have a hard time doing something like that.
I haven't been in years, but it was pretty much a tourist trap back then too. Oddly enough, I liked it anyway. Anywho, Tom Carter sure made a stupid mistake, really dumb.
I trained with blanks in law enforcement once where we would be firing at each other. We could not take any live ammunition to the range those days. Before we entered the training house, we had to hold the blanks that were issued in our palm and an empy magazine, and weapon with the slide to the rear in the other hand.
The blanks, the weapon and the magazine were then checked twice (once by the individual, once by a range safety instructor). I knew why then, know I really know why.
I trained with blanks in law enforcement once where we would be firing at each other. We could not take any live ammunition to the range those days. Before we entered the training house, we had to hold the blanks that were issued in our palm and an empy magazine, and weapon with the slide to the rear in the other hand.
The blanks, the weapon and the magazine were then checked twice (once by the individual, once by a range safety instructor). I knew why then, know I really know why.
Looking at another "friendly" through the site, and then firing the weapon was just eerie. As you mentioned, it violates every rule of weapons safety. I had to will myself to do it. Even after several cycles of training, I never really liked it.
Ironically, I had far less of a mental problem with friendlies firing their weapons at me. Who knows, maybe I should have kept an eye on the guys who seemed to be liking it a little too much .
Looking at another "friendly" through the site, and then firing the weapon was just eerie. As you mentioned, it violates every rule of weapons safety. I had to will myself to do it. Even after several cycles of training, I never really liked it.
Ironically, I had far less of a mental problem with friendlies firing their weapons at me. Who knows, maybe I shoould have kept an eye on the guys who seemed to be liking it a little too much.
Paintball would seem a more usable tool in this scenario. Heck even airsoft. No way I could take a firearm loaded with blanks and shoot at someone.
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