2 charged with accidentally shooting woman with machine gun

The Montana Daily Inter Lake [Kalispell, MT] ^ | Monday June 30, 2003 | staff report

[CdMGuy]

Well, no wonder they shot this woman - she had a machine gun, and on a tractor, no less. LOL

[appalachian_dweller]

>> Well, no wonder they shot this woman - she had a machine gun, and on a tractor, no less <<

Good one!!! ROTFL!

[frodolives]

Hey, this here's in Montana! Probably not the first time she's taken fire. Oh, what do they call a pretty girl in Montana?

A visitor

What time is it in Montana whan all the sheep face the same direction?

Mountain' time.

[Henrietta]

"Careless firearms handling is a good enough reason for a Negligent Homicide charge, as far as I'm concerned."

Yeah, if the victim actually DIES. She didn't; merely wounded.

But if you ask me, these kids were criminally negligent, and should be charged accordingly. What the hell were they doing out there, without adult supervision? If you're old enough to shoot a gun, you're old enough to be held responsible for your actions. Punish them.

[Henrietta]

"You wouldn't shoot my wife, accidentally or intentionally, without paying a steep price."

Unfortunately, these things are always left up for the courts to decide...

[Jeff Gordon]

The right to keep and bear arms does not automatically confer intelligence upon those who take advantage of the right. Stupid people often hurt innocent people. Sometimes they hurt people with guns.

It is not the gun. It is the stupid people, Stupid!

[ought-six]

Again, they are not the Mini-14s that are on the market. Once they were altered to another configuration, they ceased being Mini-14s (like you point out, they have all new nomenclature and thus are not Mini-14s). In any event, I'd like to have one of the AC's, but that's not going to happen with the anti-gun folks that are sitting on the bench.

[Chuckster]

Amazing; and you live in California too. Did this happen in recent years or was this a long time ago.

Well, who knows? Perhaps there is some hope left after all.

[gcruse]

So you'd go beat up a couple of kids for accidentally shooting your wife? Heh. They'd do more to you than they will the kids.

[thatsnotnice]

I once bought a used Savage 22 semi auto and the first time I tried to fire it, the weapon fired eight rounds full auto and then jammed.

Ha. Yes. A cousin had a Ruger 10/22 that he’d converted like that. He’d filed down something.

Once you pulled the trigger, it’d fire until it ran out of ammo, jammed, or until you grabbed the bolt.

I fired it one time (I was fully aware of how it would “hang”) and as I rotated it to try and grab the bolt, a cartridge was ejected down the neck of my shirt somehow. It was hot and got lodged between me and the waistband of my pants. I thought I’d somehow managed to shoot myself (ricochet or something) in the bladder area.

Years later it’s sort of funny, but at the time it scared the crap out of me.

Like the Old Man said – it’s a good way to mess up a perfectly good little rifle.

[Oztrich Boy]

but its still only a .223

No it wasn't

the .233-caliber Ruger mini-14

I'll bet finding ammo for it is a real pain :^)

[Blood of Tyrants]

Actually, they were manufactured to be select fire. If they ever have another amnesty period for registering FA or if they declare the NFA unconstitutional (as it is) I plan on making a couple of my rifles select fire.

[FreedomCalls]

You'll shoot your eye out, kid.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"the .233-caliber Ruger mini-14

I'll bet finding ammo for it is a real pain :^)"

You can use .223, but they are a little loose going down the barrel, so you give up some accuracy. ;-)

[boxerblues]

sorry typo...hubby had one of these (233)for a while not as hard to find ammo as you think.

[Travis McGee]

We don't know from the article, but I'm guessing she was struck by a tumbling "spent round" at very long range.

In this case, we may be talking about only a flesh wound similar to a sling shot.

[mbynack]

It's been thirty years since I owned that rifle. I had forgotten that the only way it would stop firing was if it jammed our ran out of ammo.

[PatrioticAmerican]

Probably. The article was written to simply bash guns and gun owners as careless rednecks.

[Redbob]

OK, here's your expression of sympathy:
"Poor poor woman!"

There - feel any better?

[Dadofmany]

You are right, lately it has gotten pompus around here. What is happening? How bout some prayers and be glad the woman aint dead.