Dumbest thing you have DONE with a gun.

[PhilB]

I've had some good laughs reading all these posts and don't feel nearly so bad telling my dumbest stunt pulled with a gun.
About 35yrs ago my wife and I went to a family dinner at her Uncle's home. The dinner was kind of a going away party for some relatives from Arizona. I took a half dozen handguns and a couple rifles cause her Uncle, both his sons and his son-in-law were all avid shooters too. After a great meal all the men went out back and had a ball shooting. My wife and her cousin came out of the house and announced that it was time for the relatives to go to the airport in Indy. I was informed that I was going and that her cousin's husband would drive. Loaded all my guns into my car and locked it up and off we went to the airport. The trip was uneventful, we arrived at the airport parked the car and were escorting the relatives to their gate(you could do that back then). We got in line to go thru the metal detector and everybody was chatting away without a care in the world. We finally got to the front of the line and the lady ahead of me walked thru the detector. When it went off, I realized that I still had a cocked and locked .380 in my waistband holster. I turned to the fella behind me that drove and told him I needed to go to the car right away. Of course he wanted to know why. I told him to give me the da*m keys I need to go to the car right now. Finally he turned over the keys and I hastly exited to the parking lot and put my pistol under the seat. I couldn't believe I'd completely forgotten about having my .380 with me. Even that long ago it was a no-no to take a loaded gun into an airport. I don't know what would have happened if the lady in front of me hadn't set that detector off before I walked thru it. I suppose I would be out of federal prison by now.

 

[baldguy637]

#1 Tore down my NAA Mini Revolver, big hands and TINY parts dont like to cooperate.

#2 Figured i'd clean my 10/22 on the porch one day. As i took the action out of the stock, a pin from the trigger group fell out and went between the boards on the porch and into the darkness below. My wife came home onlt to find me tearing the boards out so i could try to find it. I found it about 20 minutes later

 

[H&R12G]

Well, let's see...

1. Sold my Shotguns

2. Ever tme I get a gun, I have to take it apart, not sure why I do it I just have to. But, Usually it's easy to take them apart and I never bother to learn how to put it back together. Well, I DID learn after messing with it for a few minutes, or hours. depending on what it was.

3. I didn't ask for permission when I bought my Mosin.

 

[nova512]

sold my mint m1 garand and colt anaconda,god! was i dumb.oh yea i shot my tv with my anaconda,not on purpose lol.

 

[Farmerjon]

Back in the mid 60's my older brother let me shoot his lever action Daisy on one condition. I had to shoot it when it would shoot most powerful, you know, when you leave the lever forward! Pull that trigger and that lever slams against the stock!! yep, fingers curled around the stock!!! My fingers ache thinking of that!!

 

[derrickgoins]

Took my M&P apart to install the Apex DCAEK and did the one thing they tell you 10 times to make sure you avoid - took the sear out to install the sear block and the spring went flying out in to without me noticing. Took me almost an hour to find it.

 

[turkeydeer]

Open my safe while my wife was looking.

 

[Johnny C]

Back in 87 I had bought my first colt 1911, but i didnt have a permit at the time. On the news I saw that Atlanta was having an increase in crime, and since i was going there the next morning, I decided to take my new pistol with me....just for protection. Not having a holster, I noticed that it fit nicely into the door handle. so there it sat cocked and locked, but up as I got pulled over for speeding right outside of Atlanta. here comes the motorcycle cop, giving me the "boy" treatment, as he is leaning over me in my convertable. At that moment I remembered my loaded pistol about 2 feet below his head where he could see it ! I made sure both my hands were on the wheel at 12:00. How he didnt see my pistol I'll never know but I sure was was craping my pants!

90 or so I was going to my family reunion in Ohio. Now there was always shootin at the reunion and my cousin and I had been in an arms race since we were young-uns. Of course it started with BB guns, went to .22 pellet guns and when we came of age it escelated from there. Well I hadnt been to a reunion for a few years and my cousin called me and asked if I was bring a shooting iron...so I knew it was on! Not being too privy on the laws at the time, especially in Ohio, I just stacked about 20 guns and a dozen cases of ammo in the back of my hatchback and drove to Springfield Ohio. When I got to the reunion I tell my cus...look-ee here and open the hatch. He about crapped and said...you cant transport guns like that in Ohio! Good thing I didnt get pulled over for speeding again

 

[pinshooter45]

Ok I guess I tell my stupid stories too

Once when I returne from the range with my son and my brother. we were in the house and for some reason that I don't remeber my son wanted a demonstration of firing two single actions "Cowboy style" So I picked up my unloaded single six,and my brother Loaded single action .22 and pointed both at a nearby wall and put one through the wall and nearly killing my refrigerator. I also let the hammer slip on my 1911 and put on in my carpeted living room floor. Never did find the hole in the carpet but I can feel the slug in the hard wood floor underneath. Sometimes I think maybe I'm dead and don't know it!

 

[Silvertree]

I forgot to empty the shells out of my shotgun when I was a teenager after hunting pheasants. I worked the action and shouldered the weapon in the house. Luckily I was pointing in a safe direction and I heard something wasn't right. But I felt like a world class *******. Glad my father didn't find out. :-D

 

[abrumlev]

Well it wasn't really dumb but damn was I embarassed.

I was shooting at an indoor range and it had angle iron protecting the clips holding the paper targets up. I was aiming at a smaller bullseye in the upper corner. Well, I jerked it a bit upwards while pulling the trigger and the bullet hit the angle iron and shot straight up into the ceiling, knocking a flourescent light bulb loose. All of a sudden the light bulb fell straight to the ground and shattered. The whole range stop firing for about 5 seconds, then started shooting again. I had a very red face and took a 5 minute break to make sure no one was gonna yell at me haha

 

[thoffman]

shot and killed my friends wall

 

[jonny4523]

I can't think of anything too dumb that I've done. I can think of something gun related. We used to have a school sponsored gun club where we also had our own reloading room in the attached single-car garage of the public safety building (where all the security guards are). There were probably 4 or 5 of us in there working on different things in this small room. One of us was reloading on an auto-indexing rockchucker with a piggy back. He short stroked the press and brought a fresh primer (no powder yet) down on one of the positioning pins. Needless to say, it just about split all of our ear drums and we had all of the security guards rushing in thinking someone just got shot. We all laughed afterwards. Could have been scarier if it was a different stage in the reloading process.

 

[Cpt Caveman]

Every time I sell a gun, I regret it. Does that count?

 

[DogBurton]

Back in the mid 60's my older brother let me shoot his lever action Daisy on one condition. I had to shoot it when it would shoot most powerful, you know, when you leave the lever forward! Pull that trigger and that lever slams against the stock!! yep, fingers curled around the stock!!! My fingers ache thinking of that!!

Forgot about that one. Yep - that brings back painful memories, and I did that more than once.

 

[csaws]

Ok, I'll fess up while turkey hunting with my FIL last spring I shot a turkey and it didn't die so I went up and shot it again after which it still didn't die, so I beat the crap out of it's head with the butt of my still loaded undated shot gun. I realized about "swing"
two what I was doing and quickly stopped

 

[E5RANGER375]

YEARS ago, i almost put a hole in my couch with a glock. to this day, i still dont know how it didnt go off when i squeezed the trigger?

I was still in high school.

 

[pharmboy]

I will start. Today, I had to answer the call of nature. Hate public bathrooms, but I had no choice, know what I mean?

So I stand up, hike up my pants. just about as they get near my waist..

Well, let's just say the Bersa does NOT fire when dropped a couple feet onto tile

The same cannot be said of some other pocket-sized semiautos...I had an uncle who shot himself in the buttocks that way once.

 

[paddling_man]

Dumbest thing you have DONE with a gun.

I have believed it was the "last gun I would ever need to buy."


I'm older and wiser now. At least a little...

 

[bumpy]

I read the Smith Model 63-3 has a stiff trigger, so I went to the gun safe to get one of mine out and compare it to my 34-1. As I "carefully" dropped the hammer, restraining it with my thumb, I shot the bedroom humidifier center mass. The trigger is a little stiff, but the gun shoots pretty straight. I don't check loaded guns for the action feel anymore. My wife insists.