Negligent Discharges: My own personal confesion.

[Will Carry]

What I am about to tell you has never been told before. The statute of limitations has run out so I can tell it without fear. When I was in college in 1977 I was an idiot. I lived in East Nashville on Holly Street in a house that was built in 1907. I used to look in the picture mirror in our bedroom and practice racking my Remington 870. I was practicing racking 5 rounds, then reloading a shell as fast as I could. Nothing wrong with practicing...right? Well I racked out 5 rounds and loaded a shell pretty darned fast, so I put the shotgun down and went about my day. After a while I returned to the bedroom and saw the 870 laying there and thought. How fast can you rack out 5 rounds? So I picked up the shotgun, pointed it at myself (in the mirror), dry fired it "click", racked it and BANG! Blew the mirror to smithereens. I forgot I had loaded one shell into the tube before I layed it down. I did not think it was funny at the time. I cleaned up the broken glass, patched the plaster wall, hung up an old painting that has in the closet and when my yound wife got home I said, "Honey, that there mirror on the wall broke and I put up grandma's old picture in it's place." I got away with it, but I was lucky. So when I go and say there is no such thing as an accidental discharge, it's from personal experiance.

[Ebow1]

I know someone who lives on Holly Street now.

[kb4ns]

I know someone who lives on Holly Street now.

Hmmm. Do they have holes in their wall?

WillCarry, it's good that you're man enough to talk about this. This is something that happens to many gun owners at some point. It underscores the need to ALWAYS keep the barrel pointed in a safe direction. I've been lucky and (so-far) have never had a negligent discharge. I did come extremely close one time and it definitely would have ended painfully for me. I was "young & dumb" at the time and made a promise to myself that I would never goof off in a similar manner again.

[Volzfan]

Anyone who says they will never have an ND is a fool. I try to keep that picture of the guys foot that he shot a 45 thru fresh in my mind. OUCH!!

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

I've had an "Accidental Discharge." I can say this, because it wasn't with a firearm.

[kb4ns]

I've had an "Accidental Discharge." I can say this, because it wasn't with a firearm.

Did she give you a second chance?

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Did she give you a second chance?

Bahahahaha

[Rightwinger]

I've had an "Accidental Discharge." I can say this, because it wasn't with a firearm.

You did get tested afterward right?

[kb4ns]

You did get tested afterward right?

Well, he did have a chat with his doctor. But that was only after wasting hundreds of dollars on products he saw advertised on the internet and late-night TV by "Smiling Bob"...

[monkeylizard]

The statute of limitations has run out so I can tell it without fear.

There is no statute of limitations on lying to your wife. Just hope she doesn't see this.

[Guest super99gm]

I shot a hole in the wall while wiping off my Buckmark. Luckily I live in a log house and it didn't go through. Sure was a wake up call for me on gun safety.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Honestly, I haven't shot anything in my apartment yet. IDK, hopefully it will never happen, but it IS always locked and cocked. So, hopefully it never goes off and no one ever comes in that's unfriendly.

[Guest mikedwood]

Use to know this guy in Gatlinburg that would shoot his cabin wall with a .22 while drunk. Wasn't a friend and it was 30 years ago but there were hundreds of holes in his cabin walls from .22's.

As far as saftey, you can never be to safe. I always triple check mine before I mess with them.

Except one time about a month ago I started to change the grips on one and realized I hadn't cleared it. Sure enough it was a loaded disaster waiting to happen.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Use to know this guy in Gatlinburg that would shoot his cabin wall with a .22 while drunk. Wasn't a friend and it was 30 years ago but there were hundreds of holes in his cabin walls from .22's.

As far as saftey, you can never be to safe. I always triple check mine before I mess with them.

Except one time about a month ago I started to change the grips on one and realized I hadn't cleared it. Sure enough it was a loaded disaster waiting to happen.

I triple check... but there was this once....

[daddyo]

When I was in elementary school, my dad kept all of his shotguns and rifles in an unlocked wooden cabinet in the family room. My brother and I were home one winter day with the housekeeper, and, out of boredom, I decided to get out one of the 12 gauges. We had been taught to never point a weapon at anyone, so while pointing it toward the ceiling, I dry fired it. Nothing. Pumped the fore end, then pulled the trigger again. BOOM!!! Blew out several acoustical tiles and part of the roof. As it had been snowing, water began pouring in, so I ran to the kitchen and started pulling out pots and pans. Long story short, both my mom and dad were extremely angry but relieved that it didn't end in tragedy. After he got the roof and ceiling repaired, Dad ran a chain through the trigger guards of all the long guns and locked the cabinet.

Wasn't funny then, but he does enjoy telling others that story now.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

When I was in elementary school, my dad kept all of his shotguns and rifles in an unlocked wooden cabinet in the family room. My brother and I were home one winter day with the housekeeper, and, out of boredom, I decided to get out one of the 12 gauges. We had been taught to never point a weapon at anyone, so while pointing it toward the ceiling, I dry fired it. Nothing. Pumped the fore end, then pulled the trigger again. BOOM!!! Blew out several acoustical tiles and part of the roof. As it had been snowing, water began pouring in, so I ran to the kitchen and started pulling out pots and pans. Long story short, both my mom and dad were extremely angry but relieved that it didn't end in tragedy. After he got the roof and ceiling repaired, Dad ran a chain through the trigger guards of all the long guns and locked the cabinet.

Wasn't funny then, but he does enjoy telling others that story now.

That's a story that, if you tell, he get's angry about it, but he can tell it all day long and laugh for hours. I have one of those stories, but it's not a gun accident.

[Guest db99wj]

When I was a kid, around 4or 5, I picked up the loaded pellet gun in the corner of my grandfathers kitchen, pointed it at the little small black and white TV and shot Jimmy Dundee because he was whipping Jerry Lawler. It was a good shot, center mass of the tv, my parents got to buy a new one, my grandfather had a funny story. Is it an AD or ND if it was intentional?

But anyway, serious story to take note of, takes a lot of guts to admit it. We ALL can take something away from it.

[Mike.357]

just stick to the four rules and things will end well.

You can even break ONE of the four, just not more than one at a time.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

Four Rules? Am I missing something here, Mike?

[9teeneleven]

There is a .380 sized dent in the back of my safe to remind me. Missed the barrel of my mosin by about an inch. I ran downstairs yelling to my wife that I was ok. She didn't even realize what had happened.

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

There is a .380 sized dent in the back of my safe to remind me. Missed the barrel of my mosin by about an inch. I ran downstairs yelling to my wife that I was ok. She didn't even realize what had happened.

Haha... "BANG!".... Things Fall... You run downstairs, "Honey, I'm okay, I'm okay."

Your wife, "What? I thought you were napping."

[Mike.357]

Four Rules? Am I missing something here, Mike?

four rules of gun safety.

Keep the finger off the trigger,

Treat the gun as if it is always loaded

Always point the gun in a safe direction

never aim at something you do not want to destroy.

Or words to that effect.

Break any one rule only and there should be no major catastrophe.

[daddyo]

four rules of gun safety.

Keep the finger off the trigger,

Treat the gun as if it is always loaded

Always point the gun in a safe direction

never aim at something you do not want to destroy.

Or words to that effect.

Break any one rule only and there should be no major catastrophe.

Do you feel the same way when some idiot sweeps you with the muzzle while you are looking at a gun show or in a gun shop?

[Guest Glock23ForMe]

In the statement above, "He" isn't the one breaking the rules then. Its some other idiot, and he shouldn't feel safe.

[Mike.357]

Do you feel the same way when some idiot sweeps you with the muzzle while you are looking at a gun show or in a gun shop?

someone doing that is breaking more than one rule.

see rules 3 and 4

And I am not overly concerned with being swept at a gun show or the rare visit to a gun store.