[OldMissileer]

Bad reporting.

How could the magazine be full? If the trigger was pulled and the round fired, the slide would have cycled another round into the chamber. Thus, the magazine would have one less round and the chamber would be loaded again.

Leftist reporters have no brains.

[marktwain]

Bad reporting. How could the magazine be full? If the trigger was pulled and the round fired, the slide would have cycled another round into the chamber. Thus, the magazine would have one less round and the chamber would be loaded again. Leftist reporters have no brains.

Yes, I saw that too. But they say they only found one casing at the scene.

A pretty nasty situation all the way around.

We are getting lots of speculation and info from the Martin side, almost no reporting on info from the Zimmerman side.

This could either be the police not willing to release Zimmerman's statements as they do an investigation, or the MSM simply not willing to give out Zimmerman's side, or there just being way more resources being focused to come up with alternate scenarios than what Zimmerman said.

I see almost no reporting of what Zimmerman said happened.

[ProfoundMan]

My question too. Cannot be right as described. Reports of the guy having a broken nose and scalp cuts requiring stitches indicate a righteous shoot but I’m not yet convinced.

The involvement of the civil rights community makes a fair trial pretty darn hard. How come they get unfettered access to the press while the defendant (to be) gets no such accomodation? Strikes me as racist. Tawana Brawley (sp?) anyone...

[Greysard]

If the trigger was pulled and the round fired, the slide would have cycled another round into the chamber.

That would be with a Kel Tec semi-auto. However, per the article, the handgun was "a Kel Tel 9 mm." Such a rare breed may be a lever action, for all I know :-)

In this case, however, the shooter had to make his weapon safe after the incident. This calls for unloading. This results in one extra round that is ejected. Where are you likely to put it if the round and the magazine are both on the ground in front of you?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

I caught that too.

[FedsRStealingOurCountryFromUs]

Isn’t it possible to chamber one round then insert a full magazine? Does this particular 9mm have a hair trigger? Could have been an accident but it sounds like he was in ‘hunter’s mode’.

[Smokin' Joe]

The only bullet missing was the one in the chamber, the source said.

I'm still trying to figure out this statement.

Bad reporting (bad writing) indeed.

[Dusty Road]

“How could the magazine be full? If the trigger was pulled and the round fired, the slide would have cycled another round into the chamber. Thus, the magazine would have one less round and the chamber would be loaded again.”

They did say it was a Keltec, not one of the most reliable brands on the market. They don’t even make good trotline weights.