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Decatur gun dealers' stupid gun show accident
Josey1
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Decatur gun dealer,
stepson wounded in
gun show accident
FLORENCE (AP) -- A Decatur gun dealer and his stepson were wounded in an accidental shooting that scared dozens of people browsing weapons at a Florence gun and knife show.
Terry Joe Runager had just sold an AK-47 rifle to a customer Saturday and had reached for his personal handgun from a side holster when it fired, hitting Runager in the hand and his stepson in the leg, police said.
Runager, 51, of Decatur, a registered dealer at the Florence Conference Center show, was treated and released from Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital along with his 25-year-old stepson, Keith Stanley.
Runager refused to comment on the incident.
The shooting not only scared dozens of people looking at guns but cast a shadow over gun shows, said Mark Peeples, who brought his son and another boy to the show.
Peeples said the gunshot silenced the banquet room as people figured out the direction of the gunfire.
The silence didn't last long with a woman near Runager crying out loud, "Oh my God, Terry shot himself."
"He wasn't paying attention," Peeples said.
Rule No. 1 printed in a large sign near a registration table reads, "No loaded firearms at any time except by full-time law enforcement officials."
Safety rules also were printed on two sides of a piece of paper given to dealers. Warnings reminding people not to dry fire any guns were printed on cards left at each vendor's table.
Brent Oliver, coordinating the show for his firm, Killen-based Valley Productions Inc., told the TimesDaily in Florence that his company would consider civil or criminal action against Runager.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/020624/accident.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
stepson wounded in
gun show accident
FLORENCE (AP) -- A Decatur gun dealer and his stepson were wounded in an accidental shooting that scared dozens of people browsing weapons at a Florence gun and knife show.
Terry Joe Runager had just sold an AK-47 rifle to a customer Saturday and had reached for his personal handgun from a side holster when it fired, hitting Runager in the hand and his stepson in the leg, police said.
Runager, 51, of Decatur, a registered dealer at the Florence Conference Center show, was treated and released from Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital along with his 25-year-old stepson, Keith Stanley.
Runager refused to comment on the incident.
The shooting not only scared dozens of people looking at guns but cast a shadow over gun shows, said Mark Peeples, who brought his son and another boy to the show.
Peeples said the gunshot silenced the banquet room as people figured out the direction of the gunfire.
The silence didn't last long with a woman near Runager crying out loud, "Oh my God, Terry shot himself."
"He wasn't paying attention," Peeples said.
Rule No. 1 printed in a large sign near a registration table reads, "No loaded firearms at any time except by full-time law enforcement officials."
Safety rules also were printed on two sides of a piece of paper given to dealers. Warnings reminding people not to dry fire any guns were printed on cards left at each vendor's table.
Brent Oliver, coordinating the show for his firm, Killen-based Valley Productions Inc., told the TimesDaily in Florence that his company would consider civil or criminal action against Runager.
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/020624/accident.shtml
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....
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"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
When Clinton left office they gave him a 21 gun salute. Its a damn shame they all missed....