Posted on 08/17/2021 1:58:41 PM PDT by simpson96
That’s what I’ve been thinking. How would a toddler know to even point a gun, much less even know to hold it right?
The time it takes to chamber a round is well worth the safety an empty chamber provides imho. Especially if the firearm is unattended.
In order for this to have happened, there had to be a chambered round. No toddler can chamber a round on their own.
I never understood the chambered round mentality for home defense. A chambered round should only be when hunting or expecting immediate contact. And the gun should be in your hands not lying aaround.
Common sense.
My dad was a US Army veteran, Korea.
He gave me a .22 rifle when I was 8. He trapped a rabbit and told me to shoot it. I did. He then explained that dead is dead. Good training.
I still have that rifle.
jumping to conclusions without knowing all of the facts is stupid...
don’t be stupid...
Check the kid for powder burns and injuries from limp wrist firing. I also wonder how a kid could pick up a gun and manage to wrap their tiny hand around the grip and reach the trigger.
please read post #25...
Zoom Calls.
Toobin rubbing one out.
Toddler taking one out.
Bizzarro.
I’m thinking it will was a .22.
Who leaves loaded weapons in reach of a child?
If it's a Colt Combat Commander Lightweight that was chambered and hammer back and safety off, then, yeah, a toddler could fire it.
I'd have to know more facts about it before concluding what happened.
Hun residue tests can clear it up.
Was the toddler wearing a mask or not?
Atilla be guilty!
My father put a Remington model 514 Targetmaster in my hands, taught me military firearm safety and told me I couldn’t hunt until I could hit a .22 cartridge box 10 shots out of 10.
I started to hunt with a .410 my grandmother loaned us when I was almost 9. By then I also knew how to clean and oil all 3, his Winchester model 12, the 22 and the 410 I used. That was my job, every time we came home.
Didn’t have my own .22 rifle till I bought it myself about 1978, Marlin 39a lever action.
My step father sent it to a gunsmith in Beaumont, while I was out of town, didn’t fix the problem and swapped my stock, the one he put on didn’t fit the way Marlin fits their stocks. I finally got sick of it and sold it 25 years ago, just wasn’t my rifle any more and I didn’t like it. I fixed it, $5 part and 10 minutes work. Including time to tear it down and give it a lube job too.
Just got a Marlin 925 bolt action last January, most accurate .22 I’ve ever had the pleasure of shooting. 2 inch groups all day...then again, the lever action 39a never missed anything bigger than a tennis ball...open sights only on that one, have a scope on the 925. See thru mounts, good either way.
4-5 lbs pull. Easy.
I’m sure my younger son could have fired one of my pistols when he was a toddler. I kept them locked up.
Loaded gun, safety off and not stored away safely. Strike three she’s out. So unnecessary.
No, but a boyfriend can.
I do that with Hallmark movies; I’ll bet they end up together.
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