[Vigilantcitizen]

Yes but the victim fell onto the fellow with the nail gun.

Yeah but, the trigger on the nail gun had to have been pressed each time. Nail guns are not machine guns.

[mylife]

Awww Jeeez!! I just posted the darn story, I dont want to have to explain the "bullet" theory. LOL

[antaresequity]

Yeah but, the trigger on the nail gun had to have been pressed each time. Nail guns are not machine guns.

You are wrong, nail guns are indeed fully automatic.

If the user is holding down the trigger...and the nose or discharge [muzzle] of the gun contacts or is depressed by the work surface, the gun will continue to fire until its empty.

Read my previous post.

[antaresequity]

Here is the excerpt from one of my nail gun manuals. This happens to be a Hitachi full headed framing nailer, but all them work the same [Senco,Bostich,Pasload...]

-snip-

(2) Continuous operation (push lever fire)

a) Pull the trigger with the Nailer off the workpiece

b)Depress the push lever against the workpiece to drive the nail [Push the nose down]

c)Move the nailer along the workpiece with a bouncing motion. Each depression of the puch lever will drive a nail.

A soon as the desired number of nails have been driven, remove the finger from the trigger.

-snip-

FWIW, I can recall several occasions when operating pneumatic nailers in tight spaces like joist bays or closets or the like, where I could barely fit the gun into the cavity, and upon firing the first shot, the subsequent bounce recoil bounce back turn the damn thing into tommy gun as it tried to empty its clips.

This guy could have got pinned against the scaffold, or the building, or under the guy after the fall, producing the same effect.