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Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 4:03 pm
by philip964
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An unloaded gun.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 4:09 pm
by Itnkrman
You'd "think" this wouldn't be an issue.

I seriously hope I'm never wrong, but I think I'd wear a little of the slide metal off by checking and re-checking that the weapon was unloaded before it ever left my home. But then again, I swore I turned the back porch light off before bed last night too.... :banghead:

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 6:31 pm
by philip964
So will Bass Pro Shops be found liable, since they require the guns to be unloaded before being brought into the store?

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 6:40 pm
by suthdj
philip964 wrote:So will Bass Pro Shops be found liable, since they require the guns to be unloaded before being brought into the store?
It was unloaded outside the store, sadly it was unloaded into the owners own stomach.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 7:40 pm
by Excaliber
More details are needed here because it's hard to visualize how this could have been done accidentally.

Was he checking to see if it was unloaded by pointing it at his stomach and pulling the trigger?

Or was this an unsuccessful attempted suicide designed to look like an accident for insurance purposes?

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 8:22 pm
by MeMelYup
Bass Pro has nothing to do with it as he was taking it in to trade. It sounds like he grabbed the firearm by the barrel and dragged it toward himself, allowing something to flick the trigger. His bad. I was taught, when a young person, many many years ago, that you never drag a firearm towards yourself unless you wanted a bullet in the gut, and you never lean a firearm against a fence post when crossing a fence, or stepping through a fence, because you will shoot yourself.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2014 9:58 pm
by Excaliber
MeMelYup wrote:Bass Pro has nothing to do with it as he was taking it in to trade. It sounds like he grabbed the firearm by the barrel and dragged it toward himself, allowing something to flick the trigger. His bad. I was taught, when a young person, many many years ago, that you never drag a firearm towards yourself unless you wanted a bullet in the gut, and you never lean a firearm against a fence post when crossing a fence, or stepping through a fence, because you will shoot yourself.
Your analysis is a real good candidate for explaining what happened, particularly if it was a long gun.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 7:21 am
by Blindref757
Rule 1 :banghead:

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 10:15 am
by jmra
Thread title should read "Idiot injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shop"

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:53 pm
by Dadtodabone
darn shame

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:52 am
by bigity
A friend of my wife's husband just recovered from shooting himself while cleaning a gun.

We are all human I guess but I cannot even fathom how you don't check a gun is empty half a dozen times before you even sit down with your cleaning supplies. Or even move it from it's normal resting spot.

At least if it's not your EDC gun.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2015 11:58 am
by mojo84
philip964 wrote:So will Bass Pro Shops be found liable, since they require the guns to be unloaded before being brought into the store?

I'm not directing this at you or attacking you. This type of thought process is much of the problem with our legal system. There are many that would try to hold Bass Pro liable even though they have nothing to do with it.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 1:30 am
by HadEmAll
bigity wrote:A friend of my wife's husband .........
Your wife's husband?

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:40 am
by C-dub
HadEmAll wrote:
bigity wrote:A friend of my wife's husband .........
Your wife's husband?
Could be a sneaky way of saying, a friend of mine.

Re: Man injured by ND outside Bass Pro Shops

Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2015 7:43 am
by C-dub
I like how the article says the he believed it was unloaded rather than actually checking to see if it was unloaded.