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Canseco shoots off finger cleaning gun

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Big toe hand?
 
I call bullshit.

He was probably wild-west swinging his gun around, it got loose in the air, he tried to grab it with both hands, and that's when he shot off his finger.

Because 'who doesn't unload a gun before cleaning it'? Nobody. The first step is always to remove the mag and any bullet that was chambered, before you disassemble it.

Yeah, I suspect that some accidents attributed to "cleaning" are actually caused by something else.

Fern

I totally agree that it's most likely bullshit but glocks are somewhat set up for this kind of error, as you have to pull the trigger to decock and allow disassembly. Many stories of idiots ejecting the mag and failing to cycle the chambered round out prior to pulling the trigger, and often the weak hand is in front of the muzzle to complete the takedown assembly. It takes a lot of stupid to shoot yourself in the hand tho.
 
I totally agree that it's most likely bullshit but glocks are somewhat set up for this kind of error, as you have to pull the trigger to decock and allow disassembly. Many stories of idiots ejecting the mag and failing to cycle the chambered round out prior to pulling the trigger, and often the weak hand is in front of the muzzle to complete the takedown assembly. It takes a lot of stupid to shoot yourself in the hand tho.

a glock has never gone bang without a bullet in the chamber

that's user error, not glock setting you up to shoot yourself :ninja:
 
I totally agree that it's most likely bullshit but glocks are somewhat set up for this kind of error, as you have to pull the trigger to decock and allow disassembly. Many stories of idiots ejecting the mag and failing to cycle the chambered round out prior to pulling the trigger, and often the weak hand is in front of the muzzle to complete the takedown assembly. It takes a lot of stupid to shoot yourself in the hand tho.

You drop the magazine then pull the slide to check for rounds in the chamber. It's simple stuff that people get complacent about. I'll never understand how you can shoot yourself or someone else that you didn't intend on shooting.
 
Just goes to show that some people should not be allowed to own a firearm....

Unfortunately there is no reliable test for this that doesn't involve bodily injury or worse until after they already own it.


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