- I will never understand this. Clear the weapon before you fiddle with it.
Posted on 12/17/2015 9:47:50 AM PST by iowamark
Burlington, Iowa - Des Moines County Sheriff Mike Johnstone accidentally shot himself in the hand.
On Wednesday, December 16th, Sheriff Johnstone suffered a gunshot wound to his left hand while cleaning his personally-owned handgun at his home.
Sheriff Johnstone was taken to Great River Medical Center Emergency Room for treatment of his non-life threatening injury. He will be transferred to another medical facility where he can be treated by a surgeon who specializes in hand injuries.
When I went to Boot Camp even before I used a weapon for the first time in my life I knew that.
Looks like a picture of Russian soldiers cleaning their weapons. I’m not sure about the AK, but I am about the U.S. M-1 and M-14 rifles and the M-1A, the civilian version of the M-14, all of which I have used in and out of the Army. That’s the approved way to check the bore of any of those U S rifles for obstructions and cleanliness AFTER the user has personally unloaded and cleared the weapon, because the rear of the receiver blocks direct observation of the bore from the breach, thereby requiring inspection to be done from the muzzle. OTOH the M-16 family of rifles all break open at the breach, allowing bore inspection from the breach.
Not very common but it has been known to hppen
Just because some one received the training doesn’t mean they took it to heart.
Ain’tcha spose’ta UNLOAD ‘em first?
“...riverrunner...”
True that...
Somewhere, Gunny Ermey is turning purple right about now...
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