Because he (rightly) instinctively ducked from a loaded gun?
It happened to me under much lesser circumstances. I got uptight about snowballs falling over in my car on passenger side floor, and knee-jerk reached over to right them. Thus turning the wheel of my parents’ car and ramming it into the next parked car.
Well, that makes it even more questionable. That would be quite a turn about, from pointing straight ahead to turnin and pointing at her head.
If you notice, all the recent gun “accidents” seem to hit the victim in the head, usually in the face. The other “accidents” all involved children. Studies show that this type of “accidents” , involving children, are not really accidents at all, but rather intentional acts of violence by children too young to fully understand the consequences.
A neighbor kid, who lived up the street from us, once took a broom stick and shoved it up his brother’s scrotum, when the poor kid was only four. That was called an accident, too.