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Pasco County Florida. Man at Publix supermarket shoots himself. Not a whole lot of details. Hmmm We all expect that at Wal-Mart but Publix is a lil bit better customer base . Just saying Oh yeah the news rag here had to play gun just went off card too.

Man shot inside Publix, gun fired from wife's purse after it fell off counter
No criminal charges are expected. Deputies found a bullet hole in the woman's purse.
Author: 10News Staff
Published: 11:01 AM EDT May 6, 2019
Updated: 11:41 AM EDT May 6, 2019
LAND O' LAKES, Fla. — Criminal charges are not expected to be filed after a man was accidentally shot at a grocery store Sunday, according to the Pasco County Sheriff's Office.

Deputies said a 69-year-old man was wounded after a handgun discharged inside the Publix store at 2121 Collier Parkway.

Investigators said the man's 67-year-old wife was standing at a cash register, checking out. Her purse fell on the counter to the ground and it appears the gun fired when the purse fell to the ground. A bullet hit the man's lower right shin.

A bullet hole was found in the side of the woman's purse. She is a concealed carry permit holder and carries a handgun in her purse, according to the sheriff's office.
 
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Unfortunately, the Tampa Bay Times is a bias newspaper. They seem to pry on articles of a gun discharging or some other firearm tragedy without the full news story. As far as the good armed Samaritan coming to the rescue saving a life of a citizen or law enforcement officer is almost never published. I have submitted many letters to the editor regarding negative press releases by one or more of their news staff writers but to no avail.


Nick
 
hobby-gunsmith said:
Unfortunately, the Tampa Bay Times is a bias newspaper. They seem to pry on articles of a gun discharging or some other firearm tragedy without the full news story. As far as the good armed Samaritan coming to the rescue saving a life of a citizen or law enforcement officer is almost never published. I have submitted many letters to the editor regarding negative press releases by one or more of their news staff writers but to no avail.


Nick
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Thanks Nick for fighting the fight. Central is same way and will spew out that stuff in a blink
 
Same thing in Baton Rouge and New Orleans , LA. papers , it's always the gun discharges...no one ever pulls the trigger...the gun just shoots all by itself...Blame the gun , the gun is bad...gets hammered into people's minds every day . And that's wrong .

Several years ago I was doing jury duty on a murder trial , we were sequestered because it involved the death penalty.
My Dad kept the news paper accounts of the proceedings, big case in BR , after reading the articles I told Dad this paper makes it seem like the guy was an innocent victim and railroaded into a guilty verdict.
I was on the jury, saw every bit of evidence and heard all the witnesses testimonies ...the guy was as guilty as sin of murder #1.
My Dad looked at me and said don't ever believe what you read in the newspaper...they have their agendas.
I wasn't sure what he meant then...but I know now...the papers distort the truth . That old man was a lot smarter than I gave him credit for...he knew the score !
Gary
 
That could have ended badly! Derringers are a bad idea for many reasons. Horrible sights, must be cocked for each shot, hard to control because of the small grip with little to hold on to, generally horrible triggers and only two rounds. I have never understood why someone carries one instead of a small semi auto or a J frame with more rounds and easier to manipulate. Just my humble opinion. Wonder how it discharged with the hammer down. I would think that most of them if not all have some sort of hammer drop safety but I might be wrong.
 
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The old Remington double derringer is a risky business. It is heavy in the butt so when dropped tends to land muzzles up. The action pins are thin, the hammer heavy, the spring strong; it is quite possible to bend or shear a pin to let the hammer hit the firing pin.

The modern versions have manual safeties that should protect against drop... if you use them.
There is a generation of closer copies that do not; my Great Western did not. I didn't use it for anything but CAS, either.
 
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I had a Davis .32 chrome plated derringer I bought new in about 1990 for a little over 40 bucks. I carried it unloaded in my Van with 5 rounds because I could hide it in a certain spot that was so small nobody would ever find it. One night I had a blow out on the highway coming back from Tulsa about midnight and I was changing the tire and a car pulled up an stopped about 20 yards behind me. I thought they were going to help but they just sat there while I was changing the flat and after a while I got a little nervous and pulled the gun out, and loaded it and put it in my pocket. I started walking back to the car to see what they were doing and the car quickly sped away. The gun had a cross bolt safety that I didn't engage and I thought about if something would have hit the hammer while I was lying on the concrete, the gun might have gone off. Anyway it was too cheezy of a gun to bet my life on so I sold it to a guy who offered me twice what I paid for it.
 
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An elderly woman at a nearby range dropped an NAA revolver with the hammer out of the safety notch which fired and struck her in the upper thigh.
 
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