2 hurt in accidental shooting at NC gun show - Page 3

A police chief says a big quarterly gun show at North Carolina's state fairgrounds is barring private gun sales after an accidental shooting injured three people.

State Fairgrounds Police Chief Joel Keith said a 12-gauge shotgun discharged Saturday while its owner removed it from its case for a retired sheriff's deputy to check. That was at a security entrance to the Dixie Gun and Knife Show, which draws thousands of people to the fairgrounds in Raleigh.

Keith says the officer didn't need treatment for his slight hand injury.

Keith says two bystanders were hit by shotgun pellets and taken to a hospital. They are 54-year-old Janet Hoover of Benson and 50-year-old Linwood Hester of Durham.

Shotgun owner Gary Lynn Wilson of Wilmington brought the weapon looking for a private buyer.

The accidental shooting was one of three that happened around the country Saturday.

In Indianapolis, police said a 54-year-old man was injured when he accidentally shot himself while leaving a gun show.

Emory L. Cozee was loading his .45 caliber semi-automatic when he shot himself in the hand as he was leaving the Indy 1500 Gun and Knife show at the state fairgrounds, state police said. Loaded personal weapons aren't allowed inside the show.

Cozee, of Indianapolis, was hospitalized for treatment. Police say the shooting was accidental and no charges will be filed.

And in Ohio, a gun dealer in Medina was checking out a semi-automatic handgun he had bought Saturday when he accidentally pulled the trigger, injuring his friend, police said. The gun's magazine had been removed from the firearm, but one round remained in the chamber, police said.

Police Chief Pat Berarducci said it appears the bullet ricocheted off the floor and struck the friend in the arm and leg. The man was taken by helicopter to a hospital 30 miles north in Cleveland, Berarducci said. His condition wasn't immediately known.

lol, what gets me is these gun shows don't want loaded guns in the show but people want them in schools, bars, churches and basically everywhere else, what a double standard and a joke. No loaded guns amongst some of the supposed more experienced users, LMFAOH.  Why don't they want loaded guns? Afraid of getting shot?  Oh the damn irony just keeps getting deeper and richer.


Yes, we are more likely to do a lot of things in life but the discussion isn't really about those things. Just more deflection.

Plenty of deflections in this thread....fog deaths, junk guns, accidental deaths in vehicles, predicting success selling at a gun show, the powerful insurance industry lobby (nothing about the NRA lobbyists), vehicle inspections, the cost of health insurance, lack of honest reporting by the media.......anything and everything but addressing the real issue of how to prevent inexperienced people from being able to buy a weapon beofore they are vetted or educated in the safe handling guns? Would anyone here have handed a loaded Uzi to a 6 year old kid or carried a loaded shotgun to a gun show?

Of course there are some irresponsible people who own guns.

There are people who put aluminum ladders up against electrical lines. Of course they are no longer with us, since you aren't allowed a Mulligan for that.

How to stop accidental shootings.
 
When I was in army basic training this is what was ingrained in your little skull:
 
Everyone was issued a rifle; it accompanied you almost everywhere you went. You called it your weapon; you could also call it your rifle. Here is what happened if you called it a gun. (There were all males then in basic training).
 
If you called it a gun you were immediately ordered to drop and do 50 pushups in front of everyone. The rest of the trainees were ordered to do the following while you did the pushups.
 
They had you thrust your weapon forward while singing “This is my weapon”
Next they had to sing, while pointing at their private parts (junk) “this is my gun”
Next they would thrust the rifle forward again singing “this is for shooting”
Then point back at their private parts singing “this is for fun”
This was rapidly repeated until the person finished the push ups.
So they made it a little funny game for everyone but the person doing the push ups.
 
Your gun was never loaded unless you were at the range to fire, or if you had guard duty. Three rounds are all you got for guard duty.
 
But here is the important part.
 
You had to ALWAYS treat that weapon as if it was loaded. You could NEVER NEVER NEVER point the weapon at anyone. So, if you were ordered to turn around and your rifle was in your hands and someone was next to you, if in turning the barrel of that rifle was momentarily pointed at someone, you were doing 50 push ups.
 
So when turning, the correct way was to point the rifle straight up or straight down as the barrel went by another person.
 
Moral of the story: If your WEAPON is never pointed at someone, you can’t have an accidental shooting. You can have an accidental discharge but not an accidental shooting.
 
 
 
 

Why don't gun shows want loaded guns but those same people want loaded guns everywhere else?

I'll venture to guess on that one:

Because at gun shows the weapons are going to be picked up and handled by people and they don't want an accident to happen. Some of the people browsing may be just as gun savy as you and never fired,  or handled a gun.

They don't leave the keys in cars at the dealership either. Do they?

I am talking personal guns. Did you read?  The article states - "Loaded personal weapons aren't allowed inside the show."  Now what?

And yes I leave my keys in my cars at home.  Although for the life of me I can't see why you said the dealership thing.

OFFICERS HAVE BEEN SHOT ON PROFESSIONAL POLICE SHOOTING RANGES ALSO.      SO SHIT HAPPENS. MURPHYS LAW OF THE HUMAN ELEMENT.

LOL, thanks for proving the point, J. LMAO