A fatherly chat is in order here.

[DaMadman]

Originally posted by fabsroman
Speaking of stupid, I did one heck of a dumb thing yesterday. As Billy knows, I have been having trouble with my 10/22 misfiring a lot. Well, after running through one of the clips, I locked the bolt back and looked down the barrel, and it never occurred to me to check the chamber to see if one of those unfired rounds got hung up in there. Haven't had any real problems with hangups, but I don't want to first one to result in my being shot in the head. Usually, I always check the chamber before putting the gun down after a session, just didn't do it this time. I guess this is how accidents happen. We just have to try real hard to limit the number of mistakes we make so that the accidents are a lot less likely to happen.

If that was my kid that put the shell in that gun, he wouldn't be able to sit for a week, and I agree that the idiot that pulled the trigger should get an adult butt kicking.

Fabs I agree with everything you just said and was talking to my wife and son about the redundacy of safe gun handling rules.

If you break one and most of the time two safety rules even in the event of a mishap nobody will get hurt.

A lot of rules got broken in order for those two people to get his with shot pellets.

Didn't treat the gun as a loaded weapon. didn't double check the chamber, didn't have the gun pointed in a safe direction and didn't follow the rule about never pointing AIMING a gun and pulling the trigger at anything you don't wish to destroy.

If any ONE of those rules had been followed then even if the gun went off as it did then nobody would have been with with the shot pellets.

If he treated it as a loadded gun he would have had it pointed in a safe direction, if he had checked the chamber he would have known there was a shell in it... and on and on...

The redundancy in safe gun handling rules is there for a reason. It's because people are just that People, we are human and make mistakes. If that guy had only heeded one safety rule the injuries would have been avoided