[mad_as_he$$]

""Unfortunately, if you do handle guns long enough, sooner or later you're gonna have one go off when you don't intend it to," Dave Shefe, an employee at Columbia's Powder Horn Guns and Sporting, said."

Bull$hit. I have been handling guns since I was 8 years old. I have NEVER had an AD. The closest I ever came was a Remington 700 BEFORE they acknowledged there was a problem the with safety. I cut it up and had it melted down.

[smokingfrog]

Just in case someone out there still has one of those Remingtons.

http://www.remington.com/safety/safety_center/safety_modification_program/

[mrmeyer]

Amen. The best safety is the thing between your ears. Never had an AD myself, and this story makes me wonder how folks end up also getting shot while cleaning their firearms. It’s just plain old carelessness.

[r9etb]

Bull$hit. I have been handling guns since I was 8 years old. I have NEVER had an AD. The closest I ever came was a Remington 700 BEFORE they acknowledged there was a problem the with safety. I cut it up and had it melted down.

Calm your jerking knee, sir. The sherriff went on to make the following, common-sense statement:

"It's all about basic gun handling and gun safety," Shefe said."

Surely you don't object to that...?

[bassfishing]

“Bull$hit. I have been handling guns since I was 8 years old. I have NEVER had an AD.”

It happened to me. My semi-auto Beretta 12 gauge jammed. I cleared the shell out of the chamber and when I let go of the chamber lever it snap close and discharged at the same time.

I had the gun pointed in the air and resting on my thigh. It felt like I got kicked by a donkey, and scared the hell out of me. I was 13 and hunting with my cousin who was 16.

Never let the barrel of your gun point at anyone no matter what.