When I used too work on an ambulance I responded to a guy that had been drinking. He left his gun in his car while he was drinking (good idea #1), when he was done drinking he decided he had too much to drink and shouldnt drive (good idea #2). He then went out to his car to get his .357 and when he holstered it, it discharged. Round entered his thigh just below barrel and traveled though his knee and exited out his ankle blowing it to shreds.
This ones kinda funny i guess smart moves until the end....oh the safety brief that would follow that haha
I did that with my XD45 the day I brought it home:0 Holed the floor and the basement ceiling pretty durn good!Back when after I got my first pistol, an XD9, got ready to clean it after a few range trips. Got my clearing sequence wrong... racked slide, dropped mag... OOOPS!
Well, to take down the XD, you gotta pull the trigger before removing the slide.
Thankfully the other 3 laws saved my hide. Pistol pointed in a safe direction with nothing beyond the unintended target.
Pulled the trigger to remove the slide as the pistol was pointed down to my right at our kitchen table. Surprised the **** out of me & the kids sitting watchin tv. The 124 gr Winchester Ranger T-Series +P bullet traveled through our sliding glass porch door & into our swimming pool as evidenced by the hole in the winter pool cover.
One thing that caught my attention after cleaning my drawers though is that the 'bang' didn't seem all that loud in the confines of our house. Thought it would have been more deafening.
Needless to say, I thanked the GOOD LORD above that I wasn't doing something stupid(er) before pulling the trigger and it reinforced the fact that the FOUR laws are life savers, even if an idiot like me has a brain fart and disobeys one of them while obeying the other three.
Selling them when I shouldn't have.