A judge lie? Surprise, surprise.
whatever happened to the old adage “never point a gun at anything you are not willing to destroy”? Sorry - but irresponsibility is irresponsibility. He had better get on his knees and thank God Almighty that nobody was home next door to get injured or killed!f
The way I see it - he earned his infamy and financial cost. It’s stuff like his actions (accidental or not) that lead to ever-more restrictions on the rest of us.
I think dry firing a gun in an apartment is not something somebody should do.
Part of my reasoning is that I had a .45 pistol go off one day inside my Suburban driving down a street in Galveston, Texas.
A couple facts are: 1. to this day we have no idea what happened 2. no one was hurt
We can only speculate that it was a bad primer maybe or some jolt occurred triggering the firing pin. Whatever, just sitting in its normal spot between my driver seat and the console it went off with no one having touched it. Thankfully, it was pointed downward.
For 25 years since, I NEVER keep a round in the chamber unless I am actually about to shoot it.
It’s hard to have a dry fire incident with a revolver. Either he wasn’t paying attention or he was drunk. I guess he could have just hated his wallpaper...
The better question is: Why is an Illinois judge — who is surely bringing down north of 100K — living in an apartment with paper-thin walls?
I had a dry fire accident with my Ruger Security Six .357.
158gr Federal hollow points.
Went through the wall, ricocheted off the street out front and lodged in the neighbors tree across the street.
It totally freaked me out, even made me a little gun shy.
Gratefully, nobody was hurt and property damage was limited to my stucco on the outside.
WOW! My ears are still ringing and it was a few years back.
Reminds me of my x-brohter-in-law from 48 years ago when he was piddling around with my .38, I placed out after someone tried to break in several days before.
He cocked it, then when he tried to lower the hammer his thumb slipped. BANG! He shot a chest of drawers.
My big problem with this story is that the judge didn’t step up to the plate and come clean. Because of that, all we can do is speculate how it happened.
COVERUP BS story originated from progvert in rag parading “progressive” perverted causes.
Maybe just me, but don’t practice dry-firing in an apartment. Go to a range to practice.
Everyone knows about assuming that a gun is loaded but to take it one step further...
Never Ever have Ammunition in the same room you are cleaning a gun.
“Dry fire accidents, while rare, tend to happen to those who are proficient in firearms use.”
If it is loaded it is not a dry fire ...
Not a dry fire accident - negligent discharge. Dry fire training involves an unloaded weapon or one with inert “snap caps” in it. Obviously the judge failed to properly set up his weapon for that training.
Drunk again.
He was just taking an office pop.
Those practices included the following (from memory):
1 - Have a dedicated portable target which is only taken out for dry-firing and is stored away from the dry-firing location when not in use. Use no other target for dry-firing.
2 - Unload the firearm BEFORE putting the dry-fire target into the place where it is to be used.
3 - When done dry-firing put the dry-firing target into its storage location.
4 - Only reload the firearm AFTER the dry-firing target has been put into its storage location.
Evidently there had been some dry-firing incidents in nearby hotels and the implementation of this policy was to address that problem.
“Distractions” kill people.
The rule in my house is that you check if a gun is loaded every time you pick it up or if it is out of your sight. If I want to look at a gun I will check it, if my daughter is sitting next to me and wants to see it, I hand it to her and she checks it, just to be sure. There are no exceptions. Checking a gun is quick, simple and cheap. An unintended discharge can be a disaster.
No liquor was spilled or transsexual hookers injured during the incident...
NO ONE should write anything to do with firearms unless they become a certified firearms instructor to learn WTF they’re talking about.