These were also my first thoughts....but this video makes it seem a little more plausible:Excaliber wrote:I'm with you on this.Charles L. Cotton wrote:This is really tragic, but . . .
A .500 S&W is a revolver --- she fires first round and the recoil both raises her arms and quite probably rotates her wrists also. I have two problems with this explanation. First, the .500 S&W has a long barrel and I can't see it pointing at her head at maximum recoil; it should be over her head. More importantly, I would be more than a little surprised to see her pull a double action trigger the 2nd time while the gun was in recoil or the upper-most recoil position.
I'm not saying it couldn't happen, but it'd take a lot, I mean a lot, of evidence for me to be convinced.
Chas.
I suppose it's remotely possible that the violence of the recoil combined with a twisting of the arms could possibly result in the trigger being pulled by the recoil itself with the finger in the trigger guard, but that would be a really far out freak accident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8NDGxzl ... verified=1
Edited to add:
On another site a commenter claimed to be a member of the range where this incident happened. According to his comment, the family has video of the accident that was given to LE.