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Man Shoots Own Hand While Cleaning His Gun
Josey1
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Man Shoots Own Hand While Cleaning His Gun
April 14, 2002
LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP
A Lower Milford Township man shot himself in the hand Saturday night while cleaning his handgun, according to Lower Milford Township police.
Police Chief Jeffrey Tapler said Mark Zweifel, 37, of 2878 Church View Road was cleaning a Colt loaded with a .45-caliber round when the gun fired and the round shot through his hand and into the wall.
Zweifel had taken the clip out and believed the gun was not loaded, Tapler said.
''This is a reminder that you have to have zero tolerance when working with guns. You have to make sure it's unloaded. Even when you think you've checked, check again,'' Tapler said.
Zweifel was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, where he was treated and released, according to a nursing supervisor.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5shothandapr14.story
"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
April 14, 2002
LOWER MILFORD TOWNSHIP
A Lower Milford Township man shot himself in the hand Saturday night while cleaning his handgun, according to Lower Milford Township police.
Police Chief Jeffrey Tapler said Mark Zweifel, 37, of 2878 Church View Road was cleaning a Colt loaded with a .45-caliber round when the gun fired and the round shot through his hand and into the wall.
Zweifel had taken the clip out and believed the gun was not loaded, Tapler said.
''This is a reminder that you have to have zero tolerance when working with guns. You have to make sure it's unloaded. Even when you think you've checked, check again,'' Tapler said.
Zweifel was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital, Salisbury Township, where he was treated and released, according to a nursing supervisor.
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-5shothandapr14.story
"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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"We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*
**Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"
It's about time you offered to buy his gun.
There is absolutely NO reason for that to have happened.
Anytime you touch a gun you do the 'Two Step'. Even if you leave the room for moment after it's been cleared, or someone else clears it for you, do it every time you touch it.
1. Drop the Mag
2. Rack the slide to make sure the chamber is empty.
Do it every time, and you'll never have an accidental discharge as a result of user error.
Don't worry about the bullet with your name on it, worry about the fragmentation grenade addressed 'To Occupant'.
Send his name into the Darwin award people. Somebody that dumb should not be allowed to breed!!
Quod principi placuit legis habet vigorem.Semper Fidelis
You forgot to say, drop the clip, rack the slide every time, and then ACT LIKE IT'S STILL LOADED ANYWAY and ALWAYS POINT THE MUZZLE IN A SAFE DIRECTION. Treat an empty barrel as loaded and you'll have just one more layer of safety. About the only time I point a barrel at anything it might destroy is when the barrel is entirely separate from the gun and I'm looking down the barrel to see that it's clean after using the brush, fluid and wipes. Or when I've checked a gun thoroughly and am looking at the quality of the bore at a gun show, with a light at the other end.
Other than that, for me, an empty gun is still loaded. Even one I just checked. The muzzle never gets pointed at anything I don't want hurt. Just a habit that may train my fine motor skills not to let me down some day.
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"We become what we habitually do. If we act rightly, we become upright men. If we habitually act wrongly, or weakly, we become weak and corrupt" - *ARISTOTLE*
**Like Grandad used to say--"It'll feel better when it quits hurtin"