[Uriah_lost]

No matter how hard we try and train, AD’s do happen, even among people at this level. That’s why we hammer procedure into a new shooters head until they are sick of it.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I’m wondering, did he shoot more than once?

One gets hit in the face.

One gets hit in the leg.

What in the world?

[Recon Dad]

“It appears that at approximately 2.10pm (0410 AEST) there was an accidental discharge of a service issued weapon,

So we can now say “Guns kill people, not people kill people”?

[SauronOfMordor]

No matter how hard we try and train, AD’s do happen, even among people at this level.

My instructor drummed into me that there are almost no "Accidental Discharges". The vast majority are "Negligent Discharges". The only exception being a mechanical failure that caused the gun to fire without it being touched (which I've never heard of happening)

For a NG to occur with people injured, the gun owner had to have violated a safety rule