Pistol under pillow shoots sleeping man

Washington Times ^ | apr. 3 | unknown

[dogbrain]

A man in Granite Falls, Wash., who slept with a pistol beneath his pillow woke up one morning last week to find the gun had gone off and shot him.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported Saturday that the man, who was not identified, went to bed Thursday night with a loaded .22-caliber revolved tucked under his pistol. Sometime during the night, the gun discharged and shot him in the chest, but he apparently didn't realize he was wounded until he awoke early Friday.

[Bob]

Because some of us enjoy putting 10 rounds through the same hole at 100 yards.

When I fire ten times and leave one hole, that's the story I use too. ;)

LOL. Me too. :=)

[Atlas Sneezed]

They fired many shots at the two bank robbers who were not wearing Kevlar vests but the weak .38 special rounds just pissed the guys off.

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There are many lessons to be drawn from that incident involving bankrobbers Platt and Matix (Google will provide details.)

The FBI spin was that they were "outgunned", like a poor carpenter blames his tools for his errors. In fact it was a major pooch screw tactically in too many ways to list. They mostly had 38s and 9mm pistols, but many had no backup gun, and no spare ammo for reloads. The agents initiated the incident, yet left their shotguns and kevlar in the cars unsecured. One agent left his backup gun on the car seat, and lost it when he bumped the perps' car. There was poor use of cover, and many misses. Some agents shot 29 rounds, and achieved only 1-2 hits each from short range. Injured agents were not practiced at one-handed shooting. One agent lost his eyeglasses, and was rendered blind (straps before a bust would make sense.) If the bad guys had a decent 308 instead of a 223, many more agents would have been killed, and the bad guys might have escaped alive.

[Atlas Sneezed]

I know the Berretta M9 has a larger capacity why why did it replace the much more powerful Colt .45 in the US Army?

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I recall that there was some political reason to make friends with Italy.

[HairOfTheDog]

with a loaded .22-caliber revolved tucked under his pistol.

I think the writer here was a drunk as the guy who slept through shooting himself in the chest.

[Condor51]

Ok, I just wasn't sure if you knew. Some of your other posts confused me a tad. No offense was meant at all. :-)

[mickeylee]

I seldom post, but I can't resist this one! My house was broken into, it was bad, and I will not go into detail. But, one night, I was sleeping with my 45 mag and pulled the trigger in my sleep! LOL!

( I know full well that this is not funny)

Fortunately, it just blew a whole in the wall and there were no neighbors in direct line of the shot. ...... Lesson learned, when under stress, do not sleep with your weapon.

[mickeylee]

whole=hole

[Shooter 2.5]

45 mag? What did you own, a Wildey or AMT?

[Petruchio]

Do you know that in the 'old west', the most popular caliber was actually the .44-40, not the 45 Colt. . . [BIG SNIP] . . . Oh and for what it's worth, the Winchester was NEVER chambered in .45 Colt, but mostly 44-40.

Bingo!

That way one only needed to carry one type of ammo to feed both his side arm and long arm.

[ought-six]

I always liked the Webley, at least from an historical perspective, although I've never fired one.

[AnAmericanMother]

It's a funny old piece. Like the .45 ACP, the recoil is more of a "push" than a "kick". Because the revolver's so heavy, it's very easy to control. Considering the short barrel, it's fairly accurate, especially at close range (out to say 10 yards). At anything over about 25 yards it's essentially useless, it's a big heavy lead pill and the only thing you can shoot at that distance is worms.

But the really fun thing about it is that for some reason (short cylinder, large gap at forcing cone, burning qualities of Unique) it shoots huge jets of fire from the muzzle and the front of the cylinder. It looks like you're holding a Roman candle - people will turn around and stare.

[DugwayDuke]

About 10 years ago there was a story of a fellow who went to sleep with his 22 revolver. Awakened in the middle of the night, he thought he saw an intruder. He pulled his revolver, took aim at the swaying shape, and promptly shot himself in the penis. His only comment following this incident was that he was glad he grabbed the 22 and not the 45. Evidently, the wound was not all that serious.

[dogbrain]

"...Evidently, the wound was not all that serious."

Evidently, he had been married for some years...