Posts Tagged ‘negligent discharge’
6 Required Behaviors To Stop Negligent Discharges – Follow These Like It’s Religion
A few years ago I worked on and our company published a significant research study of 300 Negligent Discharges. We loed at publicly available news stories occurring over a 24-month period in which a gun went off unintentionally. When we published the results of that survey we included information about injuries vs death, locations, children,…
Read MoreThe Anatomy of a Negligent Discharge
The vast majority of gun owners are responsible and safety conscious. No gun owner wants to fire a round unintentionally. That’s the reason it’s called an unintentional discharge. However, when we lo at any instance of an unintended discharge, we’ll find avoidable errors. Such is the case with a story I saw posted on a…
Read MoreWhy I Hate Off Body Carry
I’m sure I’ll be ruffling up some feathers on this one, but I’m going to take a stance and point out something that I think is really stupid. Before I move on, I just want to say that I know there is a time and place for off-body carry for certain people who need to…
Read MoreTwo Gun Stories We Can Learn From
Sometimes we see news stories that highlight what not to do when you’re a gun owner or carrier of a concealed gun. It’s always a ight, or not depending on your outlo on life, when two stories fly across my desk on the same day. Please know that whenever I cover stories like this it’s…
Read MoreEpisode 416: Getting Back to the Range After a Break
Riley Bowman and Matthew Maruster talk about how to get back to the shooting range after you’ve had a dry spell like Coronavirus. How to stay sharp, what to do to warmup, maybe what drills and skills to use and work on that are likely to have perished, and . Tune in!
Read MoreWoman’s Death Ruled Accident After Negligent Discharge
Pendleton, SC — A boyfriend and two of his friends were handling several of their guns when one gun “went off” striking a woman, killing her. Investigators found Betty Spado, 20, dead in the apartment building at around 8pm, Thursday after the reports of a shooting came in. According to the Anderson County coroner, Spado died…
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