Local news reports
A 4-year-old Alaska boy was shot in the leg Saturday when his mother's handgun fell out of its holster and fired.
Alaska State Troopers say they took a call on the incident near WaNN wsilla just before 11:30 a.m.
Medics were treating the boy when they arrived.
Troopers
say the family was leaving a pickup when the woman's .357-caliber
handgun fell out of its holster, struck the pavement on its hammer and
fired.
The shot hit the 4-year-old just above the knee.
The bullet went through the boy's leg and lodged in a building.
The boy was transported by helicopter to Anchorage for treatment.
No one has been charged.
"Troopers say the family was leaving a pickup when the woman's .357-caliber handgun fell out of its holster, struck the pavement on its hammer and fired."
ReplyDeleteSounds like someone was carrying a single action revolver with six rounds in it. The standard safety measure for these pistols is to keep the chamber under the hammer empty.
Yeah, that would be standard practice, except for people who read what some of you gun nuts say about imminent danger and seconds count. The seconds it takes to ratate that cylinder or the seconds it takes to open a gun safe are too much. You must be prepared to act IMMEDIATELY.
Delete"The seconds it takes to ratate that cylinder or the seconds it takes to open a gun safe are too much."
DeleteMike, with a single action pistol, you have to manually cock the hammer back before you can shoot. When you do that, the cylinder rotates automatically to put a loaded chamber under the hammer. That is the advantage of a double action revolver over a single action. The hammer cocks and cylinder rotates by just pulling the trigger. That and the transfer bar safety to prevent the hammer from striking the round if its dropped.
Yeah, that would be standard practice, except for people who read what some of you [self-defense advocates] say about imminent danger and seconds count. The seconds it takes to [rotate] that cylinder or the seconds it takes to open a gun safe are too much. You must be prepared to act IMMEDIATELY.
DeleteFor one, it doesn't take "seconds" to rotate the cylinder--ask Bob Munden. Secondly, I would suspect that most self-defense advocates would argue that a double-action revolver is a better self-defense choice than single-action. Not so much for the speed of getting it into operation, but because the safe practice with a single-action revolver requires giving up a round of capacity, and capacity is often precious in a lethal force situation.
Thanks for that fascinating video.
DeleteI get it... Like in the movies. The good cowboy hammering with his left hand while the right hand fires rounds into the bad cowboy. Single action revolver. Cool!
ReplyDeleteStandard safety procedure is not to carry a weapon. She could easily have killed her own child.
Dropped guns do not go off Mike. Another attempt from the news media to mislead the public.
ReplyDeleteIf the gun went off when dropped, it must have been an 1867 Dragoon, because the gun loons have told us modern guns cannot possibly go off when dropped.
ReplyDelete"If the gun went off when dropped, it must have been an 1867 Dragoon, because the gun loons have told us modern guns cannot possibly go off when dropped.".....Well one thing is for sure the Imaginary 1867 Dragoon you speak of Fredsamdra is drop safe because it never existed
DeleteAnd likely not in .357 mag either. Imagine the result in shooting a magnum round from a black powder arm. The word explosive comes to mind...
DeleteIt's been explained to Fredsamdrashellpeterjimamjohnstevin before that transfer bars really started to take off in the second have of the 20th century. Plus, there are modern replicas of single action revolvers, that I believe are not drop safe either.
DeleteYou are avoiding the issue, you gun loons have said modern guns cannot possibly go off when dropped. You have been proven wrong over, and over, and over again.
Delete"You are avoiding the issue, you gun loons have said modern guns cannot possibly go off when dropped."............I never said any such thing nor have I read anything on this blog from any commenter to that effect Fredsamdra and in fact I have given examples of firearms where this is possible as have others your continued attempts to assert that all gun owners said this or that is farcical. The Facts are that some guns can fire if dropped and with some it is an impossibility because of the way the gun is engineered its also a fact that human nature has people attempt to catch things they have dropped or have fallen and when that's done with a firearm it is possible to accidentally actuate the trigger which is what happens in a good number of these cases and sometimes people don't even realize that's what has happened because of the stress of the situation...I have seen this happen twice in my life....The incorrect statement you made about the 1867 Dragoon leads me to believe you have very little if any experience with firearms try taking a firearms safety or armorers course and ask lot of questions you may like it if you like mechanical things and you will certainly have a better understanding of what can and cannot happen
DeleteThen you missed it George, by the way, did I mention you? Thought not. They even went on about how modern guns are designed and tested to make sure they don't go off when dropped and even gave links to such evidence, but we keep reading they do. To bad you cannot read, try again.
DeleteI guess it would be safe to say SOME or MOST modern guns don't go off when dropped. But, as we all know, that's not exactly what we've heard around here.
DeleteI guess it would be safe to say SOME or MOST modern guns don't go off when dropped.
DeleteSo if guns are as prone to going off when dropped as some here would have us believe (to the point of declaring anyone, who drops a gun once, as "unfit" to own guns), it puzzles me that cops so often tell armed private citizens in tense situations to "drop the gun." Seems as if they would be playing with fire, does it not?
Mike for you being a member of the party that loves to claim it is about believing the science of anything you sure do like to claim your opinions as irrefutable fact without providing any scientific data to back up your claims...Why is that?.
Delete"it puzzles me that cops so often tell armed private citizens in tense situations to "drop the gun"
DeleteHow do you know cops really do that - other than movies and TV, I mean?
How do you know cops really do that - other than movies and TV, I mean?
DeleteOh, I dunno--does this YouTube video, that you posted, count as "TV"?