Man shoots himself while cleaning gun

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Here's a Darwin honourable mention... Shouldn't you remove the clip when you clean a gun?
A Cape Town man accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun on Thursday morning, paramedics said.

"The man's panic-stricken wife explained that her husband was cleaning his gun at the time when she heard a shot," said ER24 spokeswoman Vanessa Jackson.

"She rushed to where she found her husband lying on the floor in a pool of blood."

Paramedics found the man, in his late 30s, with a wound to the left chest.

He was transported to Durbanville hospital where was in a stable condition. - Sapa
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Sadly it is not the first time someone gets shot while cleaning a gun. & sadly he will probably not be the last person :(
 
No he's just a really big idiot..... handling a loaded gun with the safety off.
You don't even handle a gun with a loaded clip in it. You always remove that too. And you make sure there isn't a round chambered.
 
Who the hell cleans a gun without triple checking whether its loaded? Gun permits should include a stupidity test.
 
HavocXphere said:
Who the hell cleans a gun without triple checking whether its loaded? Gun permits should include a stupidity test.
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Well the test (firearm competency exam or whatever) you write before you may get a license, apart from the shooting test (lol too) contains several bits and pieces..... safety of a fiream being a large part of that.... so we can safely assume he cheated on that part.
 
Lulz, who else would it be aimed at? Your first clue should be that he quoted you, unless of course you DO fall into the sub-100 category ...
 
Idiot!

I mean the sniper, not any of the posters. Like the cleaning kit instructions say 'You shouldn't have any ammo near you when you're cleaning your gun, after all, you're cleaning it, not shooting it'.

Off topic: anyone know who's got 9mm carry ammo. All the usual suspects have been out of stock for over a year.
 
Picture the scenario...

Domestic dispute, Wife gets the gun from the safe, pops a cap in his ass :), calls the paramedics and tells them 'He was cleaning his firearm when it just went off!'
 
Ricard said:
Picture the scenario...

Domestic dispute, Wife gets the gun from the safe, pops a cap in his ass :), calls the paramedics and tells them 'He was cleaning his firearm when it just went off!'
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Paramedics found the man, in his late 30s, with a wound to the left chest.
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;)
 
I don't own a firearm anymore, but the first and foremost rule when handling the weapon 'offline' is to put the ammo aside, anyone who does not apply even that most basic safety rule, should have their licence suspended.
 
Accidents happen. Those calling him an idiot, moron, stupid etc, better hope they don't have an accident themselves. Of course one should check that the weapon is not loaded etc, but anything can and does happen in life. That's why I don't like guns. If you have one, always triple check everything before handling.
 
You have to be double-stupid for this to happen, firstly not to check the gun is unloaded, and secondly to point it at yourself before you've taken it apart.

Which actually makes it sound unbelievable ... I wonder how many of these 'accidents while cleaning guns' are actually homicides, set up to look like accidents? Maybe the wife offed him.
 
Turtle said:
You have to be double-stupid for this to happen, firstly not to check the gun is unloaded, and secondly to point it at yourself before you've taken it apart.
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Correction, triple-stupid, because you have to pull the trigger too. Actually, it makes less sense the more I think about it.
 
Ronjay said:
Accidents happen. Those calling him an idiot, moron, stupid etc, better hope they don't have an accident themselves. Of course one should check that the weapon is not loaded etc, but anything can and does happen in life.
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No, accidents don't "just happen", what kind of nutty pseudo-religious tripe is that? A gun can't do anything by itself, it's an inanimate object (your fear is irrational, you are a hoplophobe) ... if you follow elementary safety rules, you will not have an accident. For this "accident" to have occurred (presuming it was even one, we're all assuming it was), this guy would've had to break not just one but multiple elementary safety rules, all of them quite obvious and commonsense. It's like car "accidents", 90% of them are not accidents, I actually wish they'd call them "purposes" not "accidents", because it's not an accident when you make a purposeful decision, on purpose, to break road safety rules and risk lives. Less than 5% of road accidents are caused by mechanical failures or problems with the road, the other 95% are caused by people deliberately engaging in illegal and risky behaviour on the road. If you on purpose take a gun and not check if it is loaded, and you on purpose point it towards yourself (in this case into his left chest, nogal --- almost impossible), and you on purpose pull the trigger, then which part of that, pray tell, is an "accident" in any meaningful sense of the word? Accident my ass, this is either a "purpose", or he was murdered and it was set up to look like an accident (probably more likely, in my opinion, at least statistically ... we don't have all the on-the-scene facts here). Or maybe it was a suicide set up to look like an accident, in order to let his family claim life insurance (such policies usually have a suicide exception clause, but if it was an "accident" then that wouldn't apply). There are numerous possibilities. But think about this, this guy had to turn the gun around to point it *into his left chest* AND then insert his finger behind the trigger and then PUSH the trigger (as the gun is now pointing towards himself). Just use your head, does that sound plausible, unless he was stoned out of his socket or something.

I've always found that people who like to state the phrase "accidents happen" are also the people who like to be absolved of the responsibility for the consequences of their own actions.

*Edit* Hmm: http://www.aaimedicine.org/journal-of-insurance-medicine/jim/2000/032-04-0266.pdf ... "a gun-cleaning ‘‘accident’’ is almost always an attempt to disguise a suicide"
 
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