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Toddler accidentally shoots Hayden Walmart shopper (Killed his mother)
KREM ^

Posted on 12/30/2014 12:52:36 PM PST by sunmars

HAYDEN, Idaho—Employees evacuated the Hayden Walmart on Tuesday following a shooting inside the store.

Authorities on the scene around 11:15 a.m. described the shooting as "accidental."

A woman was shopping with four kids, when one of the kids reached into her purse and accidentally discharged the weapon, according to Kootenai County Sheriff's Deputies at the scene.

The gunshot killed the 29-year-old woman. Deputies on scene said the child who accidentally fired the handgun was about 2-years-old.

Deputies said the woman and children were in the back of the store near the electronics area when it happened. Deputies said the woman was in town for holidays and is not from the area.

Video surveillance in the store, along with eye witness testimony helped deputies determine that this was an accident.

Authorities said the woman did have a concealed weapons permit.

The store is currently closed.

(Excerpt) Read more at krem.com ...


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To: sunmars

What a shame. Surely the gun must have had a safety that wasn’t on? I feel terrible for that child. He or she will grow up knowing they killed their mother even though they were just a toddler & didn’t know what they were doing. Heavy load for anyone.


21 posted on 12/30/2014 1:10:01 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Bogey78O

yup.


22 posted on 12/30/2014 1:10:11 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: MrB

you are making a baseless assumption that the gun was in a holster in the purse.


23 posted on 12/30/2014 1:11:09 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Yes, and a purse snatcher hits, and you lost your gun. Its a convenient temptation, but not the best carry option.


24 posted on 12/30/2014 1:11:42 PM PST by DesertRhino (I was standing with a rifle, waiting for soviet paratroopers, but communists just ran for office.)
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To: JenB

If someone gets your purse before you can react, or gets it away from you, there goes the gun.


25 posted on 12/30/2014 1:12:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Lazamataz
Glock, probably. I usually stay at Condition 3, not 4, with a Glock. Only takes a quick rack to make it Condition 4.

You mean Condition 0, not 4.

Pistol conditions:

Condition 4: Chamber empty, empty magazine, hammer down.
Condition 3: Chamber empty, full magazine in place, hammer down.
Condition 2: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer down.
Condition 1: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety on.
Condition 0: A round chambered, full magazine in place, hammer cocked, safety off.
Since a clock has no external safety, chambering a round brings it from condition 3 to 0.
26 posted on 12/30/2014 1:12:37 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.b>)
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To: JenB

If someone gets your purse before you can react, or gets it away from you, there goes the gun.


27 posted on 12/30/2014 1:12:59 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: leapfrog0202

Glocks don’t have safeties.


28 posted on 12/30/2014 1:13:06 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Ueriah

you don’t leave a loaded firearm near a 2 year old.....

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Totally agree. The woman probably thought whe was being safe in protecting her kids against any harm that might come.

Fortunately - the kid didn’t shoot himself, the other children in his family or a stranger. Just his mother.

Sad that anyone was shot, but if someone had to be shot - she was the natural choice.


29 posted on 12/30/2014 1:13:23 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: Lazamataz

Me too. Same reason.


30 posted on 12/30/2014 1:13:38 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: Secret Agent Man

If not, she might as well have said “Johnny, get my gun out of my purse”.


31 posted on 12/30/2014 1:14:12 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: PapaBear3625

Is there like a condition 1.5 where you’ve got everything in Condition 2 but hammer is down and safety is on.


32 posted on 12/30/2014 1:15:03 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: PapaBear3625

“clock” should have been “Glock”


33 posted on 12/30/2014 1:15:50 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.b>)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Very sad, but totally avoidable.

Yup. The Second Amendment comes with an unspoken rider that you have to use your brain.


34 posted on 12/30/2014 1:16:00 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: MrB

Regardless, if a child can get to a gun inside a purse and fire it, it wasn’t secured.


35 posted on 12/30/2014 1:18:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
If someone gets your purse before you can react, or gets it away from you, there goes the gun.

Very true. Am aware of that, which is why I cross-carry my purse and its strap is reinforced with piano wire by the makers. Other constraints mean that 95% of the time, it's purse carry or no carry for me and a purse gun is better than no gun at all.

36 posted on 12/30/2014 1:19:00 PM PST by JenB
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To: Lazamataz; Secret Agent Man; DJ Taylor

A Kahr PM45 has no safety. Intended for CC quick reaction.
One shot from a .45 and you are usually toast.


37 posted on 12/30/2014 1:20:03 PM PST by TaMoDee (Go Pack Go! The Pack is back in 2014!)
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To: Usagi_yo
"Yes, don’t keep a round chambered"

As it happens, immediately following three of the several Glock accidental discharges I've observed, the shooter said, "But..but...but, I never keep a round in the chamber."

38 posted on 12/30/2014 1:20:18 PM PST by DJ Taylor (Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
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To: Secret Agent Man
Is there like a condition 1.5 where you’ve got everything in Condition 2 but hammer is down and safety is on.

Jeff Cooper's "conditions" were primarily meant to apply to 1911-style pistols. In a 1911, if the hammer is down, the pistol won't fire, so there is no need for the safety to be on.

I guess you could keep a 1911 in "1.5", so that one would have to flip the safety AND cock the hammer, to increase child safety, but in that case you should go with condition 3, since racking the slide would be faster than flipping safety plus cocking hammer, plus racking the slide requires more strength than a 2 year old has.

39 posted on 12/30/2014 1:23:02 PM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.b>)
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To: Usagi_yo
Aside from striker fired handguns, some semi-automatics like Sig Sauer and Heckler & Koch have a double action/single action trigger system.

SIG P226

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U32Hqp9QEjo

40 posted on 12/30/2014 1:24:16 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common anymore.)
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