https://videos.gunfreezone.net/videos/watch/380fca22-f3bf-4bd1-b300-b2f37ff55796
And a news article about it.
A woman was fatally shot and a man was wounded when a handgun accidentally went off at an indoor firing range in Rancho Cucamonga, police said Thursday.
Police responded to the gun range along the 9000 block of 9th Street about 5:55 p.m. Saturday.
A man and woman were each found suffering from a gunshot wound, and they were taken to a hospital, police said in a news release.
Tatianna Holt, 36 of Compton, was pronounced dead at the hospital, while Cory Carmichael, 34 of Claremont, was treated and later released, police said.
Woman fatally shot, man wounded when handgun accidentally goes off at Rancho Cucamonga indoor range
I know I come across as a huge asshole when it comes to safety at a range. And I have expressed before, I don’t care about your feelings being hurt but I care about people bleeding and dying because Gun Safety was not observed.
You feelings will eventually heal. Getting you or a loved one out of a coffin is way beyond my abilities. Stay alive to be pissed at me, I can take it.
You know what? I’ll just repeat what I said over at Firehand’s place regarding range safety:
“There is no such thing as ‘excessive language’ when you are responsible for range safety. I’d rather the air itself smoke with profanities rather than deal with an ND.”
And I stand by that. Hurt feelings are better than a gunshot wound any day of the week.
I see the media is blaming the gun as usual, instead of the idiot failing to safely handle the gun.
One of the nice things about living in the country is that I have my own range. I am a harda$$ when it comes to range safety. I even kicked my boss off my range because he had a beer at the barbecue we were having before he came to the tables. A “no no” at my place. Get hosed afterwards all you want, not a drop before. He was pissed but later apologized. People handle different amounts of booze differently, so it stays away here until your ammo is in the backstop.
IIRC, guns mostly don’t go off (except the rare mechanical failure). ;~) Looks more like a finger where it didn’t belong.
Except for sufficiently ancient revolvers dropped on the hammer. Although in that case you can still argue it’s a negligent discharge, the negligence being the violation of the rule not to have a round under the hammer.
“An investigation revealed that the shooting occurred while Carmichael was clearing a handgun. Authorities described it as accidental.”
You hear this over and over: “It went off while I was cleaning it.” Anyone who knows guns know you can’t clean a gun with a round in the chamber. They won’t admit they were fooling around with it and something – probably a finger – pulled the trigger. I wish the media would put the blame where it belongs.
Your quote says “clearing” the gun, not “cleaning”. Is that your typo or the original text copy and pasted? Because an ND while clearing a gun is different from one while cleaning a gun.
Now that the video finally plays, it’s obvious that he was CLEARING the gun, not cleaning it. The quote is correct. He was trying to pull the slide back to clear a round from the chamber, maybe a jam. He apparently isn’t experienced (what a shock) and can’t get enough force on the slide to pull it back, so the idiot flips it around, muzzle facing the woman, and pushes the slide open instead. I think he tries to lock the slide back, but it doesn’t engage, and slips forwards and chambers another round, and he probably has his finger on the trigger, so it goes off when it goes into battery, and shoots the woman.
I remember letting a new shooter use my pistol once, while I stood right beside her (and behind) and watched everything she did. I wanted to let her rack the slide after I loaded a new mag, because it’s fun. But she just couldn’t get herself to do it, and I had to do it for her. I am sure she had enough strength, I ust htink that new shooters aren’t confident enough to use the firm force needed to operate it.It takes some practice (in retrospect, I’ll take more time next time to let the person cycle the gun and dry fire it before hand, unloaded, but we hadn’t really planned on her shooting this time). I think this guy is firing a pistol for the first time in his life, or at least firing THIS pistol for the first time, and that’s why he did such a stupid thing, He wanted to catch the round when it came out, so he didn’t want to cycle the slide and pop it on the floor, so he tried to soft cycle it with his hand over the ejection port. Which is fine, if you do it with the muzzle pointed the right way.