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ND at Billings Gun show--2 hurt

discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
edited November 2016 in General Discussion
this isn't good. a vendor's bolt action rifle discharged at todays gun show in Billings Montana

http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/vendor-s-gun-fires-at-gun-show-hits-man-in/article_d9d98b29-2c13-5dfe-8d1c-c419c6b52b7b.html

editted to reflect it was a negligent discharge, not an accidental one
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This was not an AD,...it was a ND. Most so called 'accidents' are not.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    this is true.... the article did not state AD that was my add om. i will change it so its correct
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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wasn't trying to nitpick your thread, but when gun owners like this one make us all look bad, I think we should call them out for what they are,...irresponsible idiots.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
    Wasn't trying to nitpick your thread, but when gun owners like this one make us all look bad, I think we should call them out for what they are,...irresponsible idiots.



    +1



    big reason i do not go to them anymore, too many yahoos coming out of the woodwork, increases the odds
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  • cercer Member Posts: 826 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    What the heck did some idot have a loaded gun at a gun show? I don't call that an accident
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  • montanajoemontanajoe Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 60,159 ******
    edited November -1
    [:(][:(][V][V]
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  • Laredo LeftyLaredo Lefty Member Posts: 13,451 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That vendor should not be allowed back.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    While I agree with the use of the term ND, I have to lay part of the blame on the show sponsor for not having security check in for the firearms. I know absolutely that the primary responsibility is on the exhibitor but there sure should have been some sort of table check before the show opened. There is simply no excuse for this to have happened. Hell, they check every firearm at SHOT Show before the open and it's huge!

    Best.
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    agree, the way the article reads is that they had signs for no loaded guns allowed, but nothing that actually checked all guns at entry.
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  • chollagardenschollagardens Member Posts: 4,614 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    nononsense posted............Hell, they check every firearm at SHOT Show before the open and it's huge!

    I have heard that the firing pins are removed at the Shot Show.
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  • OakieOakie Member Posts: 40,521 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by Marc1301
    Wasn't trying to nitpick your thread, but when gun owners like this one make us all look bad, I think we should call them out for what they are,...irresponsible idiots.

    +1,000,000,000. This happened two years ago at Split Rock Lodge gun show in PA. Not an accident, an idiot with a gun. Yes Marc, they make us all look bad. Oakie
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  • dakotashooter2dakotashooter2 Member Posts: 6,186
    edited November -1
    I still like to verify a gun is empty myself. Even if a vendor checks it in front of me I still check it myself. Just a habit I have gotten into. It drives me nuts when some vendors zip tie their actions shut cause I can't verify that the gun is empty.
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  • Big Sky RedneckBig Sky Redneck Member Posts: 19,752 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dakotashooter2
    I still like to verify a gun is empty myself. Even if a vendor checks it in front of me I still check it myself. Just a habit I have gotten into. It drives me nuts when some vendors zip tie their actions shut cause I can't verify that the gun is empty.


    I open the action and check every single gun I pick up at a show or in a store.

    Now if you are at my house be very aware that 99% of the guns here are loaded. Yes they are away from the youngins but I keep them loaded with the actions on longguns partialy open.
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  • Aztngundoc22Aztngundoc22 Member Posts: 2,314 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    OK :

    As stated before :

    NO Such thing as a A/D !!! Just idiots with guns !!!!
    Somebody broke at least One of the Basic Gun Rules !!!!!!

    Last time I was @ a show where this happened : we was setting up on Friday eve. a 'dealer' on the othe side of the show fired off a round from an AR : it hit the top of the wall across the room : He was instructed to pack up & leave : was banned from the show and when the cops got there : he left in cuffs !!!!


    Thanks !!!
    The more people I meet : The more I like my Dog :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:


    I Grew Old Too Fast (And Smart Too damn Slow !!!) !!! :o :?
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  • fordsixfordsix Member Posts: 8,554 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    it is a weird silence that falls over the crowd when a firearm goes off in a GS,,i was 20 feet from a feller who got it in the shoulder from a 32 pistol
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,124 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Five or six years ago, I took a couple of AR's to a gun show to sell/trade. The genius at the door ran a ziptie through the magwell and out the ejection port in front of the locked open bolt. Two hours later, a "dealer/vendor" was "inspecting" the carbine and managed to get the bolt to slam closed past the ziptie. The crowd around said "dealer" fell to the floor like wheat in front of the sickle. I just stood there pointing at the guy across the table while he turned crimson and bashfully handed the AR back to me.
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  • nononsensenononsense Member Posts: 10,928 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    chollagardens,

    quote:Originally posted by chollagardens
    nononsense posted............Hell, they check every firearm at SHOT Show before the open and it's huge!

    I have heard that the firing pins are removed at the Shot Show.


    Some of the manufacturers might remove the firing pins but most of us just grind the tip off so that there is zero protrusion. Most of the show goers like to run the bolts and pull the trigger...

    Best.
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