GlowinPontiac
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The kind where she shot herself in the leg with a .40 S&W Sigma.
After hearing some strange noises outside and having a few random cars pull up the driveway then back down i had been keeping in on the table next to the bed with a loaded mag but none in the chamber. This was nothing new as i usually keep my snubnose .38 out and she keeps her beretta out and ready as well.
Turns out she picked up the gun while i was out in the driveway working on my car and was looking it over and she racked the slide then pulled the trigger sending a flat nosed FMJ through her leg a few inches below the knee.
All i heard outside was a "pop" and her yelling "OUCH" then a few seconds later her screaming for me to get inside right now. she was able to walk down the stairs on her own and was taken to the hospital and released 2 hours later. The bulled missed the bone and any blood vessels. Threre was almost no blood at all.She is doing fine now and will be going back to work in a few days but will be using crutches.
She knows all about gun safety and usually is the one lecturing me about it! Just goes to show you that one single second of carelesness can lead to something very bad happening. Thank god the bullet did not hit anything vital as a few mm in any direction and it could have shattered bone or severed a major blood vessel.
The police have the gun now but said i can come down and claim it in a day or two and they were very professional and did not lecture us on how guns are bad or that we should not have them. As the officer handed me her beretta to put in the gun cabinet he acutally commented on how nice my collection of guns was and that he would like to buy a few new ones sometime soon.
I'm going to go down to the station friday to get the sigma back and then at my wifes request it is being sold ASAP so she can buy the .380 she saw at the gunshop.
(If its ok with the mods and noone has any objections i can post pictures of the entry/exit wounds if anyone is interested in seeing what kind of damage an accident like this can cause)
on a side note when the police secured the gun i told them of the beretta and my .38 that were upstairs loaded....they unloaded the beretta but did not even notice the .38 was loaded until the asked me to take it downstairs and put it in the cabinet. He told me he unloaded it but his eyes just about popped out of his head when i swung out the cylinder to show him 5 live rounds in there!
After hearing some strange noises outside and having a few random cars pull up the driveway then back down i had been keeping in on the table next to the bed with a loaded mag but none in the chamber. This was nothing new as i usually keep my snubnose .38 out and she keeps her beretta out and ready as well.
Turns out she picked up the gun while i was out in the driveway working on my car and was looking it over and she racked the slide then pulled the trigger sending a flat nosed FMJ through her leg a few inches below the knee.
All i heard outside was a "pop" and her yelling "OUCH" then a few seconds later her screaming for me to get inside right now. she was able to walk down the stairs on her own and was taken to the hospital and released 2 hours later. The bulled missed the bone and any blood vessels. Threre was almost no blood at all.She is doing fine now and will be going back to work in a few days but will be using crutches.
She knows all about gun safety and usually is the one lecturing me about it! Just goes to show you that one single second of carelesness can lead to something very bad happening. Thank god the bullet did not hit anything vital as a few mm in any direction and it could have shattered bone or severed a major blood vessel.
The police have the gun now but said i can come down and claim it in a day or two and they were very professional and did not lecture us on how guns are bad or that we should not have them. As the officer handed me her beretta to put in the gun cabinet he acutally commented on how nice my collection of guns was and that he would like to buy a few new ones sometime soon.
I'm going to go down to the station friday to get the sigma back and then at my wifes request it is being sold ASAP so she can buy the .380 she saw at the gunshop.
(If its ok with the mods and noone has any objections i can post pictures of the entry/exit wounds if anyone is interested in seeing what kind of damage an accident like this can cause)
on a side note when the police secured the gun i told them of the beretta and my .38 that were upstairs loaded....they unloaded the beretta but did not even notice the .38 was loaded until the asked me to take it downstairs and put it in the cabinet. He told me he unloaded it but his eyes just about popped out of his head when i swung out the cylinder to show him 5 live rounds in there!
