A woman was taken to Huntsville Hospital after accidentally shooting herself in the chest, Huntsville police report.
The victim told officers that she was retrieving a candle holder from the top shelf of a closet when she inadvertently knocked a 22-caliber revolver off the shelf. When the pistol struck the ground, it accidentally fired one shot, striking the woman in the chest, police said.
And as we've said before, revolvers with the firing pin built into the hammer are one of the exceptions. Of course, you like to pretend you've not heard this over and over because it's a lot easier to argue against a straw man than to make a real point.
ReplyDeleteI'm not pretending anything. I'm just posting stories about you responsible, law-abiding gun owners and the stupid shit you do.
DeleteActually, you tagged this as a supposed proof that modern guns do fire when dropped, not as an example of doing stupid shit.
DeleteThe article doesn't name the make and model of the firearm, but you insist on tagging this with "modern guns," confirming once again that deception is an essential element of pushing gun control.
ReplyDeleteMike, please watch this video on the subject. It is very informative and you should get the idea of what we've been talking about with "single action revolvers" and "transfer bars", etc. It’s a little long, but watch the whole thing. At the end he talks about how there are new guns that are identical replicas of old school single action guns. This isn’t common, but there is still an affinity for “cowboy guns”, just as there is for “muscle cars” and Model Ts.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldHPNnsp-cs
Thanks. I watched the whole thing and found it very interesting and informative. But, you're not trying to say that most of the stories we report about dropped gun discharges of revolvers with the old-type action, are you?
DeleteYeah, that's what I am saying, but it doesn't have to specifically be a single-action cowboy revolver. There are other non-drop safe gun designs too, like spur-trigger derringers. I have a bolt-action rifle that wasn't drop safe as well. That was because of mechanical defect though as the sear was worn. In this case, the gun is a .22 revolver and I'd put good money on it NOT having a transfer bar.
DeleteBut what are you saying? Are you saying these transfer bars don't work. Are you saying that many of these stories you post are drop safe gun designs that are failing?
TS, I find it hard to swallow that most of the dropped-gun stories we see involve these older type guns. I would guess there are more modern guns without that tricky transfer bar than you guys like to admit.
DeleteThe archives of this blog show you denied guns go off by just being dropped, and you never mentioned exceptions until the falsehood of your claim had been proven wrong.
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