i got the details of a range accident today, the difference is it is someonebody i know well, and live only a mile away from... the daughter of an auxilary policeman, and both parents have ccw permits.
her husband bought a new h&k (so quality isn't an issue), and was demonstrating it to his wife, who then shot it, in the transfer back to her husband she was shot accidentally. she almost bled out at the range before transport (life flight) arrived.
then two days after hearing about this i take my AR-15 out of the case cycle the action and out pops a live round. luckily i was obeying the other safety rules, safety always on, and always treat a gun as loaded, etc. but to this day i still can't recall how it made it all the way into my gun vault, spent 2 months there and then returned to the range w/ a round in it. it flat out scared the crap out of me when that round plinked out on the bench.
the moral of this story? mistakes/human error still happen no matter how careful we are, and it sure gave me a wake up call to always double check my firearms that i think are empty, i handled that gun gun several times between range sessions, including changing the scope. the biggest single difference is i was in a hurry when i left the range and did not clean the gun immediately, my wife was mad because dinner was on the table and i wasn't there as promised, and i knew she would be very unforgiving because she knew where i was, and had no legitimate excuse.
the same holds true about the range accident. the injured party had allot of respect and knowledge about guns, they had been in her home her whole life, but several errors were made that will forever change her families life.
just wanted to share this to maybe help someone else, when my first child was born to me at age 37, a similar post made me realize how unsafe my home was as far as children and guns. GOD bless and have a great day.
her husband bought a new h&k (so quality isn't an issue), and was demonstrating it to his wife, who then shot it, in the transfer back to her husband she was shot accidentally. she almost bled out at the range before transport (life flight) arrived.
then two days after hearing about this i take my AR-15 out of the case cycle the action and out pops a live round. luckily i was obeying the other safety rules, safety always on, and always treat a gun as loaded, etc. but to this day i still can't recall how it made it all the way into my gun vault, spent 2 months there and then returned to the range w/ a round in it. it flat out scared the crap out of me when that round plinked out on the bench.
the moral of this story? mistakes/human error still happen no matter how careful we are, and it sure gave me a wake up call to always double check my firearms that i think are empty, i handled that gun gun several times between range sessions, including changing the scope. the biggest single difference is i was in a hurry when i left the range and did not clean the gun immediately, my wife was mad because dinner was on the table and i wasn't there as promised, and i knew she would be very unforgiving because she knew where i was, and had no legitimate excuse.
the same holds true about the range accident. the injured party had allot of respect and knowledge about guns, they had been in her home her whole life, but several errors were made that will forever change her families life.
just wanted to share this to maybe help someone else, when my first child was born to me at age 37, a similar post made me realize how unsafe my home was as far as children and guns. GOD bless and have a great day.