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Gosh....just like a real life Elmer Fudd cartoon! I've got a slightly "happier" story. It's about one of my younger brothers.

My younger brother used to have an AMD-65 (Hungarian AK-47) and he kept it next to the bed as his PDW for the house. Him and my sis-in-law run a business and the office is at the house, so he's there about half the time. He was there by himself and he was sorting through some paperwork on the bed and the AMD was there on the bed next to him. He wasn't paying particular attention and had just returned from being outside with the rifle. The safety was off, and there was a round in the chamber (you see this coming don't you!).

Anyway...he was reading something he was holding in his left hand, and trying to get the magazine out of the AMD with his right hand, and not giving it his full attention. He said all of the sudden there was the most amazing *BANG* he had ever heard in his life. The cat (sitting next to him on the bed) instantly went into anti-gravity mode and stuck to the ceiling and ran from the room via the ceiling, blazing a path to the bedroom door!

He said that there was propellant smoke hanging in the air, along with feathers (from the comforter), wood chips from the headboard, and concrete and plaster dust from the wall. His ears were ringing and he had JUST figured out what had happened when he realized that there was a NEW vehicle JUST opposite of the new hole in the headboard and wall. He ran to the window and couldn't see a hole in the vehicle, so he went outside and FORTUNATELY the round did NOT penetrate the outside wall!

He went back to the bedroom to survey the scene and discovered that he pretty much cut the feather comforter in half. Feathers were still coming down when he came back in the house. One pillow also had a hole in it, as did the headboard, and the wall. Now that he was PAYING ATTENTION, he removed the magazine, and unloaded the thing! Then he called me and told me what had just happened! After finding out that there was minimal damage and no personal injury I called him a dipshit and prepared him for what his wife was going to do when she got home!

Sure enough.... his wife got home and I got another call. She said that the NEXT day she would be hauling all of his weapons to my house to keep for awhile! I tried to convince her that a man who does something as stupid as he had just done would probably never do something like it again. She said, "HAVE YOU SEEN MY NEW COMFORTER?!"... she was MAD...plus she's a classic red head and doesn't just simply "calm down" quickly.

My brother was in the DOG HOUSE for about three days and then his wife calmed down. She called us and I gave her our "house rules" for firearms....which for MONTHS was stuck on their fridge and was visible when you walked in the front door!

My brother was fortunate. The cat hasn't been the same since though. :-)

...He wasn't paying particular attention and had just returned from being outside with the rifle. The safety was off, and there was a round in the chamber (you see this coming don't you!).

Years ago - '89 or so, IIRC, a secretary at my office asked me how she should go about selling some guns that had belonged to her father. Naturally, I felt obliged to help. :-)

I asked whether she knew what the makes and models were, but all she knew was that there were five long guns cased in her hall closet, where they'd been since her dad passed away years before. Her husband was clueless about guns, so I offered to have a look and bring the guns to a local gunshop to get an appraisal.

My instructions were simple: Don't touch the guns, just leave them in the cases and put them in your car trunk. Easy, right? Well, she showed up the next day and opened her trunk. As I moved the cases to my car, I noticed one of the cases had a bullet hole in the end. Poking my finger in the frayed puncture, I looked at her with an eyebrow raised.

She got a sheepish look on her face, then 'fessed-up. Fearing the guns would be dusty and unsightly, she decided to partially open the cases and wipe them off. That case held a Winchester 94, and somehow she managed to work the lever and then, when dusting, she hit the trigger.

Luckily, the bullet went through an outside wall in a direction that posed no danger to her neighbors. After her ears stopped ringing, she tried to conceal her little mistake by hanging a picture over the bullet hole.

She told me that her husband noticed the new picture and discovered the hole right away. She couldn't figure why he'd been suspicious of what was behind the picture, until I mentioned that he'd probably seen the bullet hole on the *outside* of that wall. "Ohhhh...", she replied.

*sigh*