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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klxPyme4dqQ Pity the poor fourth rule of gun safety: Identify your target, and what is behind it. That's gun guru Jeff Cooper's terminology, and it lacks any of the clarity of gun safety's...

Have you ever checked the chamber of an empty gun and found a round in the chamber? I have, and it shocked the hell out of me. I have no idea how that bullet...

Yesterday, a police officer's firearm was cleared of blowing a three-year-old boy's thumb to smithereens. Today, we learn that a cop's gun was pronounced guilty of shooting a suspected drug dealer. Which really isn't a big...

Here's an update on TTAG's Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day for August 24 from charlotte.news14.com. Police say no charges will be filed against a Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer who's gun was involved in an accidental...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUmkusy5-yI It's hard to know where to start with this one. We could start at the end (1:35), with an assortment of rifles lying on the ground pointing in the general direction of the area...

"A Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department officer is on paid leave after his 3-year-old stepson found his gun in the back of the family car and shot himself in the thumb in Gastonia," charlotteobserver.com reports. "The...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSVCzHmoc8Q I've stated my basic position on loaning firearms to anyone, ever. Don't do it. Now let's look at letting a novice break their ballistic cherry with your gun. Don't do that either . ....

It is my firm belief that whoever is in possession of a firearm "owns" that gun. It doesn't matter who owns the gun legally. If you have it, it's yours. The rule applies the...

"A 6-year-old boy is in critical condition after accidentally shooting himself in the face, Mason County Sheriff's deputies said." And so begins yet another tale of a negligent discharge resulting in a serious injury to...

Nothing focuses your powers of observation more than being around firearms. When there's a deadly weapon or forty in a room with multiple strangers milling around, you tend to get pretty good at sizing...

"Details about what happened to two boys found shot to death with their father's handgun trickled out as sheriff's deputies tried to piece together the evidence," contracostatimes.com reports. "San Bernardino County sheriff's Sgt. Frank...

"A wedding photographer in Sicily was accidentally killed when he asked the prospective bride and groom to pose for a picture using hunting rifles as props - and one of them went off," reports nydailynews.com....