“I recall a story a freeper told where he was at his friend’s house trying out the new trigger in his friend’s handgun. They unloaded the weapon with the rounds sitting on the table. He squeezed off a few dry-fires at the water-cooler in the corner of the basement.
Then the friend’s wife called them up for dinner. The freeper went into the downstairs bathroom and when he came out, there was the gun and the rounds still out sitting on the table.
He picked up the gun to dry-fire at the cooler a couple more times before heading upstairs.
“BANG!”
At least it was just a water-cooler! For some odd reason his buddy had reloaded it with new rounds from the box, rather than just replacing the rounds he had taken out”
That story is mine but you got some of the details wrong. The main one is that there was no bang. I was pointing the gun at the water heater and had about 2# of pressure on The trigger but felt uncomfortable that I hadn’t checked that it was empty. The six rounds I saw my buddy remove we’re still on the table and I hadn’t been gone more than a minute. I was sure it was unloaded but decided to check anyway. I was stunned to find if had SIX LIVE ROUNDS. For some reason he had taken them from the box instead of putting in the ones from the table. This story is absolutely true and a good example of why you must always check any gun you pick up.