Dyer County, Tenn. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched Wednesday to a local gun shop after an employee accidentally shot himself in the hand, the Dyersburg State Gazette reported.
Jimmie Anderson, the owner of Old South Trading Co., told deputies that a customer had brought in a 9mm handgun for repairs. He said the firearm discharged into the left hand of the 69-year-old employee who handled it.
The customer told deputies that apparently one round was left in the chamber of the gun even though he said he had unloaded the magazine. The employee was transported to a county hospital for treatment, according to the Gazette.
Well, obviously the answer to this is that we need more guns.
Seriously, what kind of gun owner would empty the magazine, except for one round? What kind of gun store employee wouldn’t ensure that the safety was on before handling another person’s weapon?
The only thing that can stop a bad gun store idiot is a good gun store idiot. Which was which is hard to say in this story.
Gun Safety 102: First Aid
Bad hand with a gun, good hand, yada yada yada…
A typical one.
If people were smart, if people didn’t fuck up, if people didn’t get careless, guns would be fine (except for the flip out massacres). But people are imperfect.
And when there is an error, it is too easily fatal to anyone in the line of fire.
And TPM, show a little care in your clipart. Unless, of course, it was a 9mm revolver that had its “magazine removed” but “one in the chamber”.