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"The gun went off" with no provocation whatsoever. You can never domesticate a wild pistol. They revert to the wild on the spur of the moment. That's always how they explain it, anyway...
It quite often doesn't pay to be careless.
Of course, as with any mechanical contrivance, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that there was a mechanical malfunction that allowed the firearm to discharge unexpectedly.
A good example is the Remington Model 700 trigger assembly lawsuit.
IMO, BOTH the clerk AND the customer were stupidly careless!
It quite often doesn't pay to be careless.
Of course, as with any mechanical contrivance, it is not beyond the realm of possibility that there was a mechanical malfunction that allowed the firearm to discharge unexpectedly.
A good example is the Remington Model 700 trigger assembly lawsuit.
The Remington safety example is a bad design that should have been corrected decades before it was. Just the same, there is no excuse for a death from it, if the owner follows even basic firearms safety rules.
1) Never point the muzzle at anything you aren't willing to destroy
2) Every gun is always loaded
What is the VERY first thing you do when you pick up a firearm?
I'll bet there is at least a 50/50 chance that mr former policeman will remember that the next time he gets near a gun.
Finding is for the Defendant: Probably a poor idea to keep loaded guns in the display case, but that doesn't excuse the stupidity of the guy to whom they handed the gun.
I know from a friend of mine that the gun went off is possible. In this case it was a expensive 1911 that had a trigger job done on it. The trigger was set way to light, just the force of the slide bring a round into battery caused the gun to go off and expend a round. My friend was quite shocked, but glad it was pointing in a safe direction; that weapon went back to the gunsmith to undo that hair trigger; and take it back to a trigger that you have to pull to engage.
"The gun went off" with no provocation whatsoever. You can never domesticate a wild pistol. They revert to the wild on the spur of the moment. That's always how they explain it, anyway...
I know from a friend of mine that the gun went off is possible. In this case it was a expensive 1911 that had a trigger job done on it. The trigger was set way to light, just the force of the slide bring a round into battery caused the gun to go off and expend a round. My friend was quite shocked, but glad it was pointing in a safe direction; that weapon went back to the gunsmith to undo that hair trigger; and take it back to a trigger that you have to pull to engage.
Hammer followed the slide? The "gunsmith" was an idiot. Sounds like h:e filed the sear hooks, which is not necessary to do a good trigger. They used yo do it, all the time, but its a practice gone by the way, for obvious reasons. Mechanical failures do happen. That why another graven rule of safe gun handling is to NEVER rely on a safety device.
The biggest safety device, is YOU!!!. (Sigh) Human stupidity can always be counted on to make bad things happen. Which is an unwritten rule, but a good one to remember.
"The gun went off" with no provocation whatsoever. You can never domesticate a wild pistol. They revert to the wild on the spur of the moment. That's always how they explain it, anyway...
"The gun went off" with no provocation whatsoever. You can never domesticate a wild pistol. They revert to the wild on the spur of the moment. That's always how they explain it, anyway...
Without human intervention, the gun would have never fired.
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