Posted on 03/13/2006 7:15:16 AM PST by On the Road to Serfdom
Police trying to piece together why a gun was stored in a family's couch and how it ended up in a three-year-old's hands.
According to police the boy found the gun in it's hiding place in the couch. When the boy's mother saw her son with the gun she took it from him, removed the clip, and put the gun back in the couch not knowing it was still loaded.
"The three year-old picked up the gun and fired it - there was a round still in the chamber - striking the mother in the knee," St. Paul Police Officer Pete Crum told 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS.
An ambulance took the 43-year-old woman took Regions Hospital where she's in fair condition. Investigators plan to forward the case to the Ramsey County Attorney's Office for possible child endangerment charges.
Officer Crum wants this case to serve as a reminder to other gun owners to always lock the slide back, open the chamber up and feel the chamber with their finger before they assume the gun is unloaded.
And she will probably put it BACK THERE or in another equally stupid place even after having been SHOT!
People are dumba$$es, particularly when it comes to gun safety.
Funneee!
And true!
"Another person killed by gun ignorance"
She died?
No,but there's a Darwin Award in the making if ever I saw one!
Ok, so what's a clip?
That sounds like an ammo guy trying to justify his expense report entry of "strippers fees".
Reminds me of my ex idiot brother in law.
On a visit, he gave my remote to my two year old nephew to play with.
This pissed me off, because it was my toy, not his to share.
Plus my nephew was smashing the buttons, emulating his dad and sending the TV into spasms of light and noise.
I told the idiot BIL that it was annoying, so he said, "I can fix that" and removed the batteries.
So now the two year old knows how to take my remote apart.
(The nephew is 22 now and actually turned out pretty good)
I would never give a three-year-old a semiautomatic for a toy. Their little hands aren't strong enough to rack the action back in a combat reload. You start them off with revolvers at that age, something with a nice easy trigger pull, maybe single-action only until their grip strengthens.
And no full auto before age seven. It'll give 'em something to look forward to.
Doubtful, though fanciful. If it was Stewie, Peter would have been the one to put it back in the sofa. Lois hides Stewie's guns on the top shelf in the kitchen cabinets.
True, but for them to use the correct terminology would indicate they've made a minimum effort to learn a bit about the subject.
Watch the brady freaks blame the gun for this one.
"We didn't even know the kid was Italian."
Nice one!
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