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Accidental Discharge by Gun Shop Customer Leaves One Man Dead

March 10, 2025July 9, 2024 by Doug Howlett

Chad Wainscott, a 50-year-old farmer and grandfather from Worthville, Kentucky, was fatally shot at a local gun store after a fellow customer accidentally discharged a firearm. The tragic incident, which occurred June 29, took place at Humphrey Double H Farms Enterprises Inc., according to a Kentucky State Police (KSP) news release. It was also 100 … Read more

Gun Safety: Are Negligent Discharges Inevitable?

March 5, 2025June 24, 2023 by Mike McDaniel

An “accidental discharge” is more accurately known as a negligent discharge (ND). One second you’re admiring a brilliantly designed and executed piece of wood (or plastic) and steel and the next…your ears are ringing, you’re blinking furiously, you smell smoke and the unmistakable odor of gunpowder. Your first conscious thought: “Oh sh!t!” If you’re … Read more

Guns For Beginners: Don’t Be ‘That Guy,’ Always Carry With a Holster

March 6, 2025October 7, 2021 by John Boch

Holsters offer a safe, effective and utilitarian manner with which to carry your guns. Leave the carry sans a holster to criminals, amateurs who don’t know any better and fools. Holsters protect your gun, aid in comfortable carriage and keep your firearm in a consistent position and location on your hip. A well-fitted holster will … Read more

NY Range Safety Officer Killed by Negligent Discharge During USPSA Competition

March 6, 2025November 8, 2020 by Dan Zimmerman

Update from Penfield gun club, Genesee Conservation League, where a man was killed in an accidental shooting today. Says the man was a certified range officer and was struck by accidental discharge from a competitor’s firearm. #roc @DandC pic.twitter.com/BeCNmZFMxi — Will Cleveland (@WillCleveland13) November 7, 2020 From the Associated Press: A 67-year-old man was killed … Read more

Negligent Discharges: Teaching New Shooters Trigger Discipline The Right Way

March 6, 2025September 28, 2020 by Jeff Gonzales

There are generally two kinds of gun owners: those who have fired a shot unintentionally and those who will. Another way to look at it is, play with fire long enough and you’ll eventually get burned. The first thing we have to understand is the definition of an unintentional — or negligent — discharge. The … Read more

VIDEO: Holstered Pistol Discharges… Negligent or Accident?

June 2, 2018 by Kat Ainsworth Stevens

This video was submitted anonymously by a reader in Nevada. It shows a firearm that had been holstered discharging when the carrier bent over to pick something up. We’re told that the gun in question was a GLOCK 43. The holster was a GCode INCOG. The bullet penetrated the carrier’s groin in a through-and-through wound … Read more

TTAG Irresponsible Owner of the Day (Russian Edition)

April 15, 2011 by ttag

Bond Girl Barbara (Mrs. Ringo Starr) Bach plays a Russian Agent in "The Spy Who Loved Me." — Barbara Bach. She's not really Russian. But it's Friday. Who cares?

Inexperienced shooter. Semi-automatic pistol. Lack of attentive instruction. What could go wrong? Well, let’s see. Aleksandra Voronkova, 33 and her boyfriend like to shoot at the Khishchnik Club and decided to invite friends from work to come out and shoot. Sounds okay, right? But said friends, or at least one of them, had no background in shooting. The new shooters received what appears to be a perfunctory safety briefing but no specific instruction on the particular weapon they were shooting. Whoops.

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