According to this article there was a injury due to a loaded firearm at the gun show.

Police: Accidental shooting Saturday at Wilmington gun show - Wilmington News Journal - wnewsj.com

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Gunshow report

I went Saturday but apparently missed this!

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Wonder if that fella that didn't like to zip tie his guns showed up . . .

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I was there Saturday but left at noon.

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Wern't my fault, I have an alibi .
Blessings

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TEXAS, by GOD

Was at a show in OKC years ago when someone let one go at one of the tables. Oh man did it get quiet in there!

Small local gunshow here had a negligent discharge a year or two ago by the show promoter no less. A couple of minor injuries. He was carrying some kind of a 1911 with one in the chamber and it fell out his *** holster is what I heard.

Back in the early 1990s I was at a show in Colorado and some idiot let one go. No one was hurt but the funny thing was you could tell who all the Vets were, we were all down on the floor trying to figure out where it came from. Any negligent DC is not good. The best gun safety is the one between your ears.

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I was at the show Sunday Morning when an announcement was made requesting visitors be extra cautious, referring to the previous days event. But don't know any details of what happened. This kind of stupidity should earn a lifetime ban for the offender....

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glad I wasn't there, they'd blame me.................

I was close to home at the Berea gun show....good show, good crowd

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It's been awhile but there was a shot fired out of a tube fed .22 pump rifle that a couple of men I know fairly well were displaying on their table. The isles were crowded. They had the magazine follower assembly in a box under the table. The man who fired the shot into the ceiling scampered for the door never to be seen again. The table holders swear the rifle was empty. The show promoter believed them and came to the conclusion that it was deliberately done to create an unfavorable news story.

I don't recall if the plastic gun tie policy was in effect when it happened.

I suggest those of you who rent tables watch your guns closely.

Over the years I've been at 3 shows where NG's occurred. It does get quiet for a moment. The last NG I'm familiar with, I had just arrived and was in the parking lot when an ambulance showed up. I heard that someone had some minor injuries but luckily nothing serious in all my experiences.

We had one a few years ago at a large show in Des Moines. An older man had rented a table to sell off his guns. He must have gotten confused and put a round through his left hand when he dropped the hammer to show it was not loaded. The promoter was quite angry and banned him for life.

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Hello, the last 2 local central fl shows I attended there was a ad, three weeks ago and this weekend! No injuries but the guns that went off were on venders tables! Not from attendants. Luckily the AD weren't on the days I attended.

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It was Saturday. It seems like a person that was set up there had a 9mm in his brief case. What I heard was that he was talking about how safe the gun was.
When it went off, it got real quiet. Of course people started heading that way. Security was right on it.
It blew the tip of his finger off and hit his son in law in the upper leg.
The guy that fired the weapon was taken out with all his stuff.
That is all I know. Kind of scary.

Never know. I know of a fella that was showing his 1911 at a party. After he loaded it up some one asked how safe it was. He made sure the safety was on pulled the trigger pointed at his foot. Nothing happened. Then he took the safety off aimed at his foot and pulled the trigger. I met him a few weeks later and he was still on crutches. Didn't slow him up. Good IPSC and fine engraver.

I had a buddy who worked in our ships armory. Stick a loaded magazine in a 45 and ejects the mag and then proceeds to pull the trigger. BOOM.
Sifficed to say he was shocked by what happened. The overhead was about 8" of insulation and the deck above was armored steel. Guess they found that bullet during the scrapping after being decommissioned. Frank

What I heard basically agreed with what cobra44 reported. I was at my table in row Z when it happened. Yes, it got very quiet for a moment. Despite the rules a table holder had a loaded gun under the table and just had to show it to someone. Sometimes I am just amazed by people who don't seem to understand that those safety rules exist for a reason or that they somehow don't apply to them. When I was doing gun shows full time I was around several negligent discharges. In all but a couple cases it was caused by a table holder having a loaded gun and handling it during the show. Something that there is simply no good, valid reason to ever do.

Had a bad one happen yrs.ago.I just bought something from a young man.He was working the table with his grandfather.As I walked away I heard a round go off...saw the young man fall....I sprinted back paramedic got there before me. Ambulance took him away....asked Paramedic if kid was gonna make it....said he was bleeding from the mouth & didn't look good.Grandfather was cking a French MAB pistol...somehow when he pulled the slide back to ck.it...it had a round in the chamber & went off...shot the young man(his grandson) in the back.Kid didn't make it...I'll never forget it!It happened that fast!
Jim

I was at the Indy 1500 GS way back in the early 80s when a ND
happened. One of the dealers decided to demonstrate how a semi
auto could be prevented from firing by pushing on the muzzle and
unlocking the gun which would be unable to fire out of battery. He had
a prospective buyer for one of his pistols and I never really heard
exactly what he was trying to accomplish. So he chambered a round,
placed the muzzle against his palm, pushed and pulled the trigger.
Unfortunately the genius didn't realize that the gun, a 1934 Beretta
.380 is a straight blowback pistol. Bang! The whole place got real
quiet for a second and then a single voice rang out, "throw that
*** out". The dealer jumped up and ran to one of the concession
sites and they gave him a towel to wrap his hand. I was only about
30 ft away when it happened so I got a chance to gawk before the
area was taped off. Just a .380 through the palm but he was looking
very pale like he was going into shock. I heard later that he was
permantly banned.

At an OGCA show in Columbus back in the early 1970s a guy standing about one table away from me was shot and hit the floor, not fatal, but he was bleeding a lot. No idea of what the circumstances were, but the strangest thing was that I did not hear the shot. I just saw him fall. The noise level in the room was high, but it shouldn't have been enough to drown out the shot from maybe 10 feet away. I didn't stick around long.

We had one at our local show here a few years ago. Scared me spitless. Nobody hurt thank god and again it was a dealer. A .308!

I know for a fact that a top quality car stereo system cranked to ten while playing ZZ Top is not loud enough to drown out a .45 that's ND inside the car.

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back in the mid 1980's, we were set up at the gun show at the Columbia, Mo. Hilton... good friends who had a large gun shop near us, had 5 or 6 tables set up, & we had 1 table across from them in the hallway leading to the main room of the show...

Rick & Sam's shop was a large stocking Browning dealership, and they had out a large display of nearly every Browning plus a large amount of other good guns...

Early on the first morning of the show... 2 guys came up that didn't really seem to know guns & picked up a NIB Browning BT99 single barrel trap gun ( it was the first time it had ever been assembled since leaving the factory)... and were looking at it... they turned their backs to Rick & kept fooling with it... then set it down on a table far from him & scurried off without a word and left the show...

Almost immediately another guy comes up & makes a bee line for that shot gun... Because the actions of the first two guys had made him feel hinkey, Rick yelled at him to leave it alone & another customer standing there, made sure it was left alone til Rick got it... Sure enough the first two guys had loaded it...the 2nd guy took off before anyone could grab him.... Rick had the show people get Hilton to put an announcement over the PA system warning the other dealers about what had happened...

Columbia, Mo. was then & remains a large college town.... The University of Missouri's main campus is there, so is Stephens College & Columbia College... both of which were expensive private women's colleges back then... It was the bastion of left wing/anti-gun politics here in Missouri back then, and remains so to this day... anti-gunners were definitely trying to cause an incident that day...Some time back then St. Louis banned gun shows in their city, we sure wonder if that was the intent of those 3 men, to get gun shows banned in Columbia, Missouri & possibly the state...

Granted AD's /ND's (accidental/negligent discharges) can & do happen.... but some are done to hurt the pro firearms people.

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Some years ago a firearms instructor with the State Police demonstrated that if you push on the muzzle of a 1911, it will go out of battery and when you pull the trigger, nothing happens. Then he did it again, but this time just got his palm to the muzzle when his trigger finger twitched.
After he healed up, he was assigned to patrol on midnight shift. Don't think he ever got back to the range except for qualification shoots, and then he was a shooter, not an instructor.

I recall the gun shows in the large Cervanties Convention Center in downtown St Louis, but they were halted many years ago and set up across the river in Belleville. There was one case back in the 90's, in a very small gun show near where I live and I asked the dealer if I could look at the 30 Carbine he had in his rack and he said sure. Force of habit I pull the bolt back and out pops a live round. I then removed a full 15 round mag and ejected the one that fed in when I had dropped the bolt. I stuffed the rounds in the mag and asked the dealer to put it away and politely asked him to check all the rest of the guns on his table. He commented he had been coyote hunting, and guess he forgot to unload the rifle.

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I'm going tomorrow. Been present at 2 gun show "test firings." Last one was a "private sale guy" who dropped the hammer on a 1911 to make sure it was clear. Managed to wing 2 people with one bullet. Probably will be a mob scene with folks from 10,000 sq mi of Florida waving guns wildly, laughing maniacally, and yelling loudly. Can't wait. Joe

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I went to the Lexington, KY show instead. Now I'm glad I did. We've had some heated exchanges here in the past on the issue. Mostly gun rights idiots who feel they should have the right to do as they please. Most of us, gun show nuts, agree, but they need to put on their own shows that allow loaded guns. None of us with any sense at all want to be within miles of a show with loaded guns. If anyone wants to argue, we'd first suggest they attend a show put on by any promoter. Just step inside and watch all the attendees (nicest thing I can think of to call them). Watch the terrible muzzle skills they exhibit. Watch how many people get swept and covered by the muzzle of people they've never met. The worst being the one's who want to argue about "their" rights.

Tomorrow is the big show down in Louisville, National Gun Day. Bad weather predicted which normally means a packed show. For a bunch of dumb hillbillies, somehow we've managed to remain gunshot free for the 20+ years I've been attending. Errant gunshots usually aren't the fault of the promoter, but he gets blamed. Or at least he's the one who gets the financial penalty.

And I'm aware of many vendors who do carry in loaded weapons. They never handle or show their piece during the show, and for good reason. I even did it a few times in the past. But the big show isn't where you might get robbed and I've since aged and matured a good bit.

Yes, I've been at a show where we had an idiot fire a gun. He paid his admission and walked in. Just like everybody, he was asked if he had any guns and he replied "no". then he proceeded to walk down the front tables, asking each vendor if they wanted to buy a gun. The big guy at the end asked what he had, so the guy pulled out a cheap .25 auto, racked the slide and then ejected magazine. Then he pointed it at the floor and pulled the trigger. Of course even a cheapo will go off. And someone standing there disarmed the idiot. The bullet hit the floor and bounced up hitting the thigh of a girl who just bad luck had standing there. The biggest problem then was keeping her boy friend from beating the shooter to death. The bullet didn't penetrate her jeans or skin.

And the fallout was that I'll never attend another Bill Goodman show. He had the opportunity to prosecute, but it would have required him to remain in town for court on Monday. Guess that was too much bother and even more bad publicity. Not a real problem for me, but a guy's got to take a stand from time to time.

Yes, most discharges occur in guns owned by vendors. It might just be a numbers game, since most vendors bring in from dozens to hundreds of guns each. Visitors are often upright guys who stop at the inspection table and get their guns looked at and wire-tied. The problem children are the "rights" advocates who refuse to be bothered or feel its an infringement. Sometimes I think we should be allowed to shoot any that cause a problem. Your rights stop at my skin.

And I'll advance a theory that the most dangerous are the guys (girls can be guilty too) that want to buy a holster and then test fit their gun to it. I've noticed holster sellers are really alert and watch the "customers" who produce their own weapon. Red flags and alarms whenever a gun comes out without a tie wrap on it.

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