[eastforker]

Also,it says the gun dicharged when the slide was released. Who the hell has thier finger on the trigger when you release a slide. This story is either written by someone that hasn't a clue or written by someone that knows most non-gun owners haven't a clue.

[Darksheare]

Or both?
The local reporters in New Jersey were all rooting for the PETA clowns who were planning on assaulting children who were going to participate in teh bearhunt, that is, until it became clear that most of the locals disagreed with the PETA clowns.
Printing time came around, and the articles were written more towards saying that threatening children was a no-no.
there were digs in there about dangerous guns and that the bears were being threatened from their 'homes' by the encroachment of MAN.
Nevermind that the bear hunt has been suspended a few times and at one point hunting the bear in New Jersey was illegal, even if it was swallowing your dog and chasing your kids.
(New Jersey has an over population of teh darn things actually.)

Point being that Anti-2nd Amendment types will skew anything to accomplish their goals.
I don't doubt that the writer was either ignorant of the trigger factoid, or willfully omitting it.