Chad Olm- The Shooter.
Posted on 05/05/2014 11:32:22 AM PDT by PaulCruz2016
An 11-year-old New Jersey boy was shot dead over the weekend when his uncle was showing off a number of guns that he thought were unloaded, and pointed one with a laser sight at the child’s forehead.
The Pocono Record reported that State Police responded to reports of shots fired in a gated community in Delaware Township at around 5:35 p.m. on Saturday.
According to a police report, the 11-year-old child was visiting the home of his grandfather. The boy allegedly asked his uncle, 34-year-old Chad Olm, who lives in the basement, to see his gun collection.
Olm told police that he opened his security safe and began showing his weapons to the nephew, and his son, who was also present. He insisted that he did not keep the guns loaded.
After letting the boys handle three handguns — a .357 Magnum revolver, a .22 revolver and a 9 mm — he then pulled out a Glock 27 .40-caliber handgun that was equipped with a laser sight.
Olm stated that he did not check to see if there was a round in the chamber, but said that the handgun did not have a magazine in it. Olm said that he pointed the laser at the walls and ceiling. And then he pointed it at his nephew.
“Look, you have a red dot on your forehead,” Olm recalled one of the boys saying.
Olm said that when the nephew reached out for the gun, he pulled the trigger. A single bullet struck the child above the eye, causing him to start bleeding and fall over.
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Glock 27 .40-caliber........man that’s horrible.
Question:
When is it ever okay to point a gun at anybody?
Answer:
Only when you intend to kill that person.
At the very least...loser.Possibly even brain damaged or schizophrenic.
None whatsoever!
The damn loser ought to be treated to the same “accident” that his poor nephew was on the receiving end of.
Yet ammo for liberal gun-haters to use against us.
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My gun never crosses a plane with an inappropriate object in it’s direct line of fire. I have had guns pointed at me countless times in my life. Almost without exception when I raised the issue, it was dismissed by the person who made the infraction.
No gun is ever to be considered to be unloaded. You never point it at someone. You absolutely never point it at someone AND pull the trigger.
The damage that could be caused by not adhering to these policies would be more than I could bear. Therefore I avoid ever having to.
I’ve never liked the “the gun is always loaded” thing. Until you check it you assume it is loaded. THEN YOU CHECK IT!! Then you always TREAT it as if it was loaded.
A friend of a friend was showing off his fancy H&K bullpup years ago. I asked him to show me that it was unloaded. He argued that it WAS unloaded. I left - the guy had more money than brains.
Even with toy guns it took me awhile to get used to my boy when he was young playing with them and “shooting” people with it. We visited an old hunting buddy of mine and he told my son not to point the toy gun at him or anyone or he would take it away. I agreed with my friend and told my son. Yes - it did end up getting taken away for the day!
In the past four decades, I have never picked up a firearm without checking whether it was loaded (chamber included, of course!). Even after checking, I have never treated an “unloaded” firearm like it was unloaded. If one of my kids pulled a stunt with pointing an “empty” firearm at another person, they would never again touch a firearm until age 18, and even then never in my presence for life.
A common mistake is to eject a round with the magazine still in, then let the magazine drop. The ‘thinking’ is that the gun is now empty. Well, what actually happens is another round is loaded in the chamber.
ALWAYS drop the magazine first, THEN eject the round that is still in the chamber.
Kinda on the subject, it speaks to the everlasting ignorance of some people.
I have a German Shepherd Dog. I am always amazed when people walk up to us and ask “ does your dog bite? “ My standard answer is “ all dogs bite and this one is particularly proficient “.
GUNS ARE ALWAYS LOADED!
If the libtards needed a poster child for why people shouldn’t have guns, this would be the guy. I’m sure we haven’t heard the last of this.
Prayers for the child.
Out in the field the otherwise most conscientious people will allow their muzzle to point in your direction, especially when held over their shoulder walking across a field. Often these are the same folks who will remind me of safety precautions. It is always good to be reminded.
Hang the idiot....
There is no other word to attach to this but murder.
Sorry, but murder requires intent to kill (except the case of felony murder in which a participant in a crime resulting in death is charged with murder). Negligent homicide, probably.
“Olm stated that he did not check to see if there was a round in the chamber, but said that the handgun did not have a magazine in it. Olm said that he pointed the laser at the walls and ceiling. And then he pointed it at his nephew.”
The idiot, Mr Olm - not his gun, killed his nephew.
Sorry, but if one points a loaded weapon at an 11 year old child’s forehead and pulls the trigger, they are a murderer.
I agree, mentioning safe gun measures is a good idea. If done without someone being on the spot, they may be more receptive, recognizing in themselves the need for improvement.
I grew up in Missouri, spent time in Arkansas, and Texas.
When I would go out in the country with my trusty twenty-two or a shotgun, I would walk holding the gun with my hand over the trigger guard.
The gun was never pointed up. It was always pointed at the ground. I followed far enough behind the person in front of me that the gun would never be aimed at their feet, or in an angle that a round might ricochet off an object and hit them, at least as much as was humanly possible.
Even though the safety was on, I took no chance that a small branch would hit the trigger and fire the weapon by accident.
I took every precaution I could think of to prevent an accident.
Sometimes I see folks who take no precautions at all.
I’ve seen some folks wave high powered weapons across the field of a group of people, then within minutes attempt to correct someone else for something that wasn’t actually a problem.
It’s just strange the thinking of some folks.
The pointing of a weapon in the wrong direction is so deeply instilled within me, that when I went to a skeet range I was a very strange experience for me. The backdrop of the firing zone was an active freeway perhaps 300 yards perhaps a little more away.
It was so strange to be firing in that direction, even though the discharged amo would never reach the traffic.
Chad Olm- The Shooter.
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