Shame about the cop. Still I thought the same thing; “...he must not have been around guns much...” .
People that respect gun safety don’t go about bragging and showing off — especially at a party.
My own house rule is no gun handling after any amount of
hooch is consumed.
My neighbor accidentally let go a round from his rifle last year. I was just 20 feet away.
He was checking the chamber to see if it was loaded — by pulling the TRIGGER !
That stuff freaks me out. My mom was a Yankee farm girl....and was taught to shoot at age nine. I still have her Remington 22 which is at the top of my “prized possessions”. Now that she is gone...that little rifle is absolutely priceless to me. I would walk away from my damned house before I handed that rifle over to anyone.