Not one of ours I hope.

[RickN]

Logan County Man shoots self while cleaning gun.



https://www.news9.com/story/656121d...identally-shooting-himself-while-cleaning-gun

 

[caliberbob]

I just don’t understand. Pull mags/clips out if applicable and then clear the chamber of any live round if applicable. This type of thing should not happen. So sad

 

[bigred1]

My wife told me about that....sad
She likes listening to the scanner.

 

[ClintC]

Sad to hear but last year my father in law almost shot his finger off due to holding the revolver like a semi auto. Some people just don’t think before they do or have never been affected by something like that. Let’s just say I still don’t think he learned his lesson. He just told me that he shot his 45 inside the house showing it off. WTF that was all I could think. not the first story I heard about some dumb ****.

 

[dennishoddy]

How does anyone clean any firearm without opening the chamber or rolling out the cylinder as the first order of business?
My heart goes out to the family.
There will be a thorough investigation I’m sure to see if any thing odd might be going on.
I say that because gun cleaning accidents sometimes are not accidental. I have personal knowledge of one. The party survived though.

 

[travisstorma]

I can never grasp the thought of how this can happen. I'm always a wimp I guess about handing my gun. I'm super careful when holstering (don't want something to get caught in trigger), and when I take it out to clean or handle outside of when it should be loaded, I drop mag and rack several times / look down barrel. Probably overkill but I don't ever want anything like this situation happening.

 

[2busy]

Keep your bugger picker off the bang switch .

 

[Gunbuffer]

Some of these gun cleaning accidents aren’t.
Just saying

 

[jakeman]

I just cannot imagine how anyone familiar with firearms would let this happen to them.

Tragic.

 

[1shott]

Bad deal.