yep

Dom may have to find a new golfing buddy for awhile.

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This does sound stunningly similar to when the boy shot himself by accident in the same hand a few years ago.

Jose is a bit of a moron

LOL, Though, It is stunningly easy to make one little mistake and have something like this happen. He will be very lucky if he does not lose a finger in this deal.

BTW, Youngest son graduated from Air Force Boot Camp last week Friday. He survived barely missing out on an Honors graduation and actually gained two pounds. He is now in Biloxi, MS for his Tech Training. It is nice because he now can have his cell phone and actually call and talk to us. Only exception is during "Work/Training" which is perfectly acceptable.

Shooting yourself while cleaning a loaded weapon involves making a few mistakes. He's pretty fortunate it's just a finger. Tough way to learn but it could have been much worse.

Yikes. I hope it's not that easy to make this mistake. That's a scary thought.

I'm still trying to figure out how to hold my mace. I don't think I'm ready for a gun

Don't sweat the honors part. I was one of three in a class to get it, and it was a promotion from E-1 to E-2 which everyone else got a few months later anyway. In fact I don't think anyone else was eligible because of PT scores and rifle qualifications, a fourth person's Mom passed away and had to leave the class. It was never brought up again (but that was years ago and a different branch).

If his situation is anything like mine he's in a whole different world now. By now he's probably sneaking off post with his classmates and buying $10 glasses of water for strippers on the weekends.

He failed to maintain the barrel in a safe direction and clear the gun. There really isn't any excuse.

Is it difficult to a) remove all of the bullets, and b) point the gun away from you at all times? Assuming that a) is accomplished, b) is superfluous, right?

B is never superfluous. Muzzle awareness is easily the single biggest issue I see with people handling firearms, even with experienced and otherwise cautious people. It's the first rule of gun safety and your backup protection in case you make a mistake or some malfunction occurs. And everyone is going to make a mistake if you handle them long enough, just like you will driving a car or handling dangerous tools.

No need to be scared of them but you don't ever want to be 100% comfortable either. The hazard should always be somewhere in your mind if you're giving them the respect you should.

Dave - any update on the chick you were supposed to fire?

Correct. First rule, and most important one in gun handling and safety, is that the gun is always loaded. Even when you know it is not. And you never point a firearm at 'anything' (or in known harmless direction) unless you intent to shoot it.

Excellent idea. Nixon anointed Maryland Governor Spiro Agnew VP, perhaps Maryland's finest hour. It's crazy there's how there's so few Nixon statues around. Hell, Sam Houston has a 100 ft. statue in Huntsville I think.

See post 115.

A pandemonium of parrots LOL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...uns_in_English

Absolutely 100% true. My boy had been handling guns for many years before and very well knew all the safety things. we harp on it and check each other all the time. His biggest mistake was not paying attention to only what he was doing and certainly muzzle control. He was screwing around and "practicing" taking apart and putting it back together while watching TV. Yes, he was very lucky that it did not turn out worse and knows the lessons learned. We went over them a few times. ;-)

Guns are like a lot of things. They have to potential to be very dangerous if not used properly. If a person is safe and aware it shouldn't be a problem. But there are still times when things go wrong, thus that #1 rule of always make sure you know what it is pointing at and never at anything that could be harmed.

Absolutely. He was completely wrong and lucky it wasn't worse.

It is not difficult you just have to make sure to pay attention and cover all the steps every time. In my sons case he removed the magazine and didn't remember he had put one into the barrel. When you take the weapon apart you have to decock it and he did that by pulling the trigger. It was a very bad move

And I agree that B is never superfluous. Never ever have the barrel pointed at anything you do not want to destroy. It is hard sometimes but that should always be the goal no matter what.

true 100%

Oh ya, I am not at all worried about the honors thing. That is entirely him putting that pressure on himself and wanting to Aim High!

A crash of rhinoceroses. I like it.

It's missing a gang of nuns. If you went to catholic school you'd understand.

A drunkenship of cobblers. - I want to be a cobbler now.


A gang of nuns is great, but an army of frogs is my favourite.

What would be a collective terms for groups on 2+2?

A huggermugger of mods?
A soapbox of Politards?
A chattering of loungafari?
An imbecility of 4Lifers?

As I've learned from Scent of a Woman, it's easy to forget about the one round in the chamber.

I'm one of the few Texans who has never fired a gun. I'm very pro-gun tho. Shoot em if you got em, I often say.

In personal news, my one-time estranged brother is driving here from California to visit me. I started a Lounge thread about our conflicts a few years back.

I spotted that immediately and said so out loud. The rest of the theater wasn't really happy about that.