SILVERDALE, Wash. (AP) — A gun went off inside a Kitsap County store after a man dropped it, but no one was injured.Hey, accidents happen, right?
The Kitsap Sun reports that a 58-year-old Poulsbo man told deputies he had removed the .38-caliber, two-shot Derringer pistol from a holster on his belt before he entered the Cost Plus World Market in Silverdale on Saturday afternoon.
He put the gun in a coat pocket, but when he was in the middle of the store, he bent over — and the pistol fell out and discharged.
Sheriff's spokesman Scott Wilson says there were about 35 customers and workers inside, and staff used the public address system to tell everyone to evacuate.
Only in an NRA World they can have much, much more dire consequences.
It's just the price we all have to pay for our well-regulated militia.
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Rick might be shocked that I would not oppose regulations that would require concealed carry firearms to be of designs proven to pass drop tests.
Nearly all modern firearms are designed with internal safeties that make it impossible for the gun to discharge from being dropped.
That said, the odds of dropping even an older gun, coupled with the odds of it actually going off, coupled with the odds of someone actually getting hit...probably about the same odds as getting struck by lightning?
But if it will make you feel better, I would not oppose that law.
As a side note, the pistol in the picture you use is from Bond Arms, and I'm fairly certain their guns have drop safeties (i.e. not all Derringer-style pistols are iffy when dropped). Arguably, you are unfairly defaming their product...unless you know for a fact it was a Bond Arms pistol.
"Many designs also required that the gun be half-cocked, for safety, to keep the hammer off the firing pin. If the gun was accidentally dropped, again, an accidental discharge was possible if the hammer was unseated.
So Bond designed a rebounding-and-locking hammer. When the gun is fired and the hammer hits the pin, it automatically jumps back into a half-cocked position and locks. The only way to fire the gun is by fully cocking the hammer, then squeezing the trigger."
http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/10716/bond-arms/
I'll grant you it is off topic, but go to the web site http://bondarms.com/bond-arms-inc and see the hard working Americans who create the product which picture you used without being certain it is even the correct brand.
Speaking of half-cocked -- is Jewish Marksman the same entity as Jewish Marksmanship?
He/she has gone by a number of different names here...but, yes, I believe so.
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