““Cleaning the gun:” what they say when they shoot themselves while being a jackass.”
Dittos. Just what I always think of these stories.
(I count myself lucky not to have been justly punished for my long history of jack-assery.)
““Cleaning the gun:” what they say when they shoot themselves while being a jackass.”
Yep. In “ye olden days” a lot of suicides were also falsely reported as “gun cleaning accidents” on death certificates to defraud the life insurance company. But the insurance companies eventually got pissed off enough to crack down on it, so it doesn’t happen much anymore.