Just when I thought I had seen everything!
Word to the wise: pick your training school carefully.
It matters not if these guys are shooting blanks, this is just crazy, meaningless and counterproductive.
I long for the insight of the late Col. Jeff Cooper, known as the gun guru, about this video.
God protects sailors,small children and fools. What other explanation is possible for this idiocy?
AND Point it toward a safe backdrop or berm or equivalent. AND just be careful and treat a pistol with the respect all weapons require.
This story just cries out for more details. Electrical tape? Around the slide?? This kind of stuff gives negligent discharges a bad name.
Tantalizing Excerpt:
Man shoots self in leg with found gun.
Journal Gazette
A Fort Wayne man was taken to a hospital in serious condition late Thursday after he accidentally shot himself in the leg with a gun he said he found in his front yard, a report said.
Complete link:
journalgazette.net/article/20090228/LOCAL07/902289988/-1/LOCAL11</
Remember the TSA Holster Snafu? (Link here: johnjacobh.wordpress.com/2008/04/27/tsa-holster-snafu/)
It appears an investigation validates every complaint made over past few years. Go figure!
Tantalizing Excerpt:
SOURCE:Flight International
DHS watchdog confirms holster problems for armed pilots
By John Croft
Concerns voiced by federal flightdeck officers over poorly designed holsters for their hand guns have been validated in a recently issued report by the Department of Homeland Security’s office of inspector general (OIG).
“We examined the holster and observed that its design renders the weapon vulnerable to accidental discharges if improperly handled,” says the OIG. “In a darkened cockpit, under the stress of meeting the operational needs of the aircraft, a pilot could inadvertently discharge the weapon by failing to ensure it is properly seated in the holster, securing the trigger lock, and then pushing the weapon inward to secure the holster snap.”
Investigators also found that it was possible to fire the gun while inserting the hasp, or trigger lock, into an “incorrectly seated” weapon. “Using a scale, we determined that only 6-7lb [2.7-3.2kg] of lateral pressure on the padlock was sufficient to induce a discharge,” the report says.
Complete Link:
Clear the aisle, I will pile on this tale with everybody else.
Long ago and far away in the midst of a heated discussion I was emphatically told: “Just because it turned out the way you said it would does not mean you are right”.
Well, in the case of electronic keypads on gun safes it appears I am 100 Percent and TOTALLY correct because it turned out EXACTLY the way I said would AND in a high profile, high visibility way! Yes!
I NEVER thought an electronic BATTERY OPERATED device on something as critical as a gunsafe was anything close to a good idea and I have said so frequently, only to be branded a naysayer and gloom-meister.
Heck, I never thought it a good idea to put all your eggs (weapons) into one basket (gunsafe). If you need to bugout in a hurry the last thing you want to do is waste precious time horsing around with a finicky gunsafe lock.
So forgive me a hearty BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! when word of Mr. Bane’s travails with his Cannon Electronic Keypad Safe reached my neck of the woods. Really,BAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Excerpt of the gory BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! details:
Michael Bane said…
I’ve had and recommended Cannon Safes for the better part of a decade…I CAN NO LONGER DO SO!
In fact, I feel pretty foolish about this, since Cannon has always had a reputation as “good guys.”
It took multiple phone calls and emails to reach someone at Cannon — okay, it’s the holiday season, so some slack is due there. When I finally reach someone, I explain that I’d be happy to pay whatever was necessary to get this repaired, plus extra shipping, as not only my guns but year-end financials, business papers, etc., were in the safe……………………………………
So I’m going to get my safe drilled open, then at SHOT arrange to purchase a real safe from somebody like Ft. Knox. I’ll use the drilled Cannon for what it’s apparently designed for…storing power tools in the garage.
Believe me, I’m busy enough that I can do without all this crap, but the bottom line is that, hey, I can’t get to my guns, my financial records, my important business papers, etc. T&E projects that I had scheduled for earlier this week did not get done; unless I can resolder the circuit board today, they won’t get done until after SHOT. In short, I have incurred a real loss of work product.
And I will NOT ever own another electronic lock!!!!!
Link to Part I:
michaelbane.blogspot.com/2008/12/cannon-safe-failure.html
Link to Part II:
michaelbane.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-thoughts-on-cannon-safe-failure.html
From the FailBlog a short video about muzzle awareness and the four rules of gun safety.
Remember? Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on the target! Thank Heaven the negligent discharge did not hit a pedestrian passerby.
FailBlog link:
http://failblog.org/2008/11/12/taser-fail/
People call me superstitous, but I run a rod and patch through my rifle everytime I load it. The cleaning rod with patch attached is in the case next to the rifle to remind me. As much as humanly possible keep an eye on the muzzle. Do not lean the barrel against rough tree bark, lay the rifle on the ground or do any of a thousand things to introduce foreign material into the barrel.
It is difficult to understand all the circumstances here without some facts about the target composition and construction.
Ricochets can occur with almost any weapon under the right conditions.
I know of at least one case where an IDPA Range Officer was hit with a dime size disk (from a 110 grain .357 SJHP) in the throat because steel plates had been put too close to the firing lining.
And, of course, NEVER shoot bowling pins with .22 LR at twenty five yards. (or closer!)
You will poke your eye out!
This video has probably been around for some time.
Now that it is on Youtube it will no doubt reach a wider audience. As with all true art every viewer brings their own interpretation.
Personally I think it demonstrates a questionable and unnecessary training technique, probably counterproductive.
But I will cheerfully yield to any trainer who can demonstrate otherwise.
As for me, I figure someday most everyone will figure out weapons are not toys, not for relaxation or sport or entertainment, but tools to be treated with utmost respect and caution and have but one purpose: to harm someone before they can harm you.
Horse around with a real live Katana in that fashion and see what happens!
I said it before, I will say it again: There are days I wonder how the human race has survived for so many milliennia. Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you?
Complete link:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20080708/NEWS05/807080371/0/news07
Tantalizing excerpt:
A Potter Valley woman wounded herself and a man July 3 while attempting to kill mice with a .44-caliber Magnum revolver, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
The woman, 43, had drawn the gun from a holster under her left arm, intending to shoot mice scurrying across the floor of a small travel trailer on Highway 20 in Potter Valley, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
