condolances to the family..

 

we should have a safety thread..

 

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2009 ... 44363.html?

title=Man+accidentally+shoots+daughter+during+gun+cleaning

When are people going to learn to CHECK THE DAMN GUN before doing something like that. Eject magazine, Clear the breach, it's not difficult. Unfortunately by the time these people learn this it's too late. :cry:

Yep, both adults, too. Since the last one happened by that cop in Weehawken I quadruple check

Unreal...you know, I blame both of them.

 

Police say 65-year-old Stephen Kupferberg was trying to help his daughter, 32-year-old Melissa Kupferberg, break down her gun for cleaning when it went off.

 

Of course I do not know any of the circumstances. But, if she handed it to her father to be cleaned she should have also cleared the weapon and locked the slide open with the mag released. After that, he should have racked the slide again, visually and physically inspected it also. Unless he just took it upon himself to clean it without her handing it to him in which case it would have been solely his fault. Either way it's a tragedy, and now some guy has a dead daughter because he was lazy and did not clear the weapon. Smarten up people!

 

I wonder if this was a glock or something similar where you need to pull the trigger to release the slide? I never pull the trigger when I'm cleaning a gun - unless that's the instance.

Glock 34. Which is kind of a weird gun to have unless you were already familiar with guns.

I guessed I should have read the article a little closer, instead of just the first sentence. :oops: