Posted on 06/14/2024 4:54:13 AM PDT by marktwain
On June 3rd, 2024, an anti-gun organization known as Humanium Metal was destroying firearms at a Maine police department at Old Orchard Beach. The firearms had been collected as part of a push by the disarmament group the Maine Gun Safety Coalition. In the process of destruction, one of the firearms discharged. Fortunately, only two cars were hit by the projectile. It does not appear any person was injured. From themainwire.com:
One of Maine’s primary gun control advocate groups, the Maine Gun Safety Coalition, oversaw a gun-giveback program on Saturday at local police departments throughout southern Maine.
Despite the focus on gun safety, contractors working with MGSC and the Old Orchard Beach Police Department failed to practice basic gun safety when they attempted to saw a loaded blackpowder rifle, which led to the negligent discharge of the firearm.
Luckily, instead of injuring any bystanders, the musket round instead damaged two vehicles.
The procedure to check a muzzleloader to see if it is loaded is simple. Determine if there is priming in the pan or a cap on the nipple(s) of the muzzleloader. If so, remove the priming and/or the cap(s). Take the ramrod or a similar rod and slide it down the barrel until it stops. Mark that location at the muzzle. Pull the rod out, then slide it along the barrel to see if there is a load in the chamber.
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You can’t make these things up.
“Gun control group lacks gun control experience”. fixed it.
Imagine if the gun control group had shot someone!
Sounds to me like the group Humanium Metal, which had the neglegent discharge, should seek out a publicity partnership with actor/producer Alec Baldwin...
They should’ve disarmed that F-15 before destroying it.
The three p’s folks: “Powder, patch and ball”. Also you might want to check the pan for priming powder, if it’s a flintlock, caplock, no problem.
Ummmm
lol. I was hoping a blackpowder shooter would catch that little misnomer. Evidently the gun safety commission didn’t.
Projectile?
What’s great is that they got that highly dangerous streetsweeper muzzleloader off the streets and out of the hands of children who might otherwise rod a liquor store.
What’s really great is that some guy offloaded his rusty old rifle and hopefully put the money toward ammo or a new gun.
“a loaded blackpowder rifle”
I’m so glad they got that assault rifle off the streets. No doubt it was one of those type of guns that can shoot a thousand rounds a second.
Fortunately and luckily...... not two words you should rely on when it comes to gun safety.
Ian Mc Cullom, of Forgotten Weapons, related the story of his negligent discharge. While visiting a museum, he was offered an opportunity to examine one of the display pieces, a M1895 Colt–Browning "potato digger" machine gun, chambered in 6mm Lee-Navy. The action was would not move, and being the kinda guy who knows how to clear stoppages in Spanish-American War era machine guns, he quickly cleared it, and pulled the trigger to verify it was functioning properly. Whereupon, the 6mm Lee-Navy cartridge he had just fed into the chamber, after decades, or generations, of being lodged on the bowels of the machine gun, fired.
There is good reason you ALAWYS treat a firearm as loaded, until you have personally verified it is not.
This was a "giveback". These were guns people gave to police, just to get rid of them.
A triumph of propaganda over self interest, if the guns were of any value.
Sometimes guns worth thousands of dollars are given away to police.
These people shouldn’t be anywhere near a firearm . What a bunch a retards.
Yep, I just looked up where the town is located. Typical down easter leftist area.
Course you can’t just throw away an old steel tube, you have to turn it in.
You once featured me in one of your articles when I turned in a fatally broken gun at a “buyback” for more that I actually paid for it.
Soaking the Breech of a questionable BP gun would be good....
Read that somwhere.
How do you unload a muzzle loader? Besides shooting it.
“Pull the Nipple!”
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