Shot In The Hand

[Disabled1]

My aunt in Central La. told me that she heard from a nurse up there that a guy came into her hospital about a month ago with a gunshot wound to his finger. He said the gun was a SD9VE.
I am going to call my aunt and see if she knows anything else.

 

[MCorps0311]

What happen?

 

[bigggbbruce]

It's not the guns fault for stupid people.

 

[Virginia John]

A fellow by me shot himself in the hand while cleaning his gun. It seems that he had a lot of oil on his hands and when he went to clear the next gun that he was going to clean his hand slipped off the slide and ended up in front of the muzzle and he must have had a finger on the trigger and the rest is history. I'll bet the next time he goes to clean a gun: 1. his hands will not be oily and 2. his gun will be empty and checked before entering the cleaning area.

 

[Kronos]

Hand or finger? at any rate people do dumb....stuff,so some nimble nuts shoots themselves I just yawn.

 

[OKFC05]

The only gunshot accident in Area 4 USPSA competition in recent memory was a match in LA where the shooter reached in front of his gun to open a door on a stage and nicked his thumb with a shot from a 1911.
Such a simple rule:
NEVER LET THE MUZZLE COVER ANYTHING YOU ARE NOT WILLING TO DESTROY

 

[ColoFirefighter]

I like to ensure that the weapon is clear before entering my cleaning area or cleaning operations. Though I double and triple check I don't want a mistake like that to happen to me. I have 3 little ones running around, and though they are usually not around when I clean, I don't want to risk any accident.

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[Inusuit]

I don't know the vintage, but there's a video floating around the internet of two guys at an indoor range. One repeatedly puts his hand in front of the muzzle apparently checking a laser sight. Yup, at one point he turns on the gun instead of the laser and shoots himself in the hand. We have safety rules for a reason.

 

[Arik]

I don't get the point of this post. So the guy shot himself! Stupid but it happens. If this is about one of those ...."if it had a safety this wouldn't have happened" then I suggest the OP look up videos on YouTube even, showing guys shooting themselves with 1911s. No amount of safeties is going to cure stupid

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[Heyman]

I don't know the vintage, but there's a video floating around the internet of two guys at an indoor range. One repeatedly puts his hand in front of the muzzle apparently checking a laser sight. Yup, at one point he turns on the gun instead of the laser and shoots himself in the hand. We have safety rules for a reason.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qVHexdOeN0[/ame]

 

[paragain]

Was shooting a USPSA match in the 90's near Statesville NC when a friend shooting some pepper poppers with his .45acp and had a bounce back that lodged in his liver. Rushed to local hospital with serious injury. Recovered after surgery and was back at the range in 45 days.

 

[Papa_D]

Here is one of a cop and a gun shop guy. Guy behind the counter hands customer a loaded gun. Neither do safety check.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-42zDWprVY[/ame]

 

[EBK]

What happen?

the person put their finger in front of the muzzle and pulled the trigger

 

[Kronos]

the person put their finger in front of the muzzle and pulled the trigger

I could see some goof doing a "press check" and putting a round through his finger......

 

[S&W Rover]

I don't think a SD9VE is any more or less prone to this sort of incident, which sounds like it was caused by operator error.

A gun with a "light" trigger -- whether a striker-fired pistol with modifications to lighten the factory trigger pull, or one made with a light trigger pull; or an pistol or revolver with a light SA trigger -- is probably a bit more prone to unintentional discharges than a handgun with a traditional heavy DA trigger. There are just more things that can trip the light trigger, so more chance of it happening by mistake. But that doesn't sound like what happened here.

The classic safety rules get forgotten sometimes -- like in this case -- but are worth repeating (from the "Gun Zone"):

 

[Kronos]

Personally I add the "deactivated" guns rule to the list as safe to inspect and point wherever,with a semi-auto like the SD9VE/SD9 et cetera that means mag out,slide locked back=gun cannot fire.

That's just me though,most gun types have a stroke when I say this

And since you have to squeeze the trigger on the SD and most striker pistols...more chances for folks to be fools.

 

[pittpa]

the person put their finger in front of the muzzle and pulled the trigger

The turban is passed... I had the same idea.

 

[ImprovedModel56Fan]

Here is one of a cop and a gun shop guy. Guy behind the counter hands customer a loaded gun. Neither do safety check.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-42zDWprVY

The fellow making this presentation described a practice in the hunter education course of his youth which he thought was commendable, but which I believe sets a bad example. He said that if anyone handed a student a gun without checking it first, and the student took the gun without making the first person check the gun first, he was out of the course, and had to wait for the next one to come around. Now, I can see the educational value here, but is this really what you or I want to do in our adulthood? If a person tries to hand me an unchecked gun, I am ordinarily going to accept it and then check it myself. Why? Because if he handed me a closed gun without checking it, I don't trust him to handle it safely in checking it. THAT is often when the "accident" happens.

 

[rwsmith]

You can't count on anything......

You can't count on anything except yourself. A problem I have with semi's compared to revolvers is there they are a LOT of different configurations especially if something is a little old and worn. An avid shooter/collector and high falutin' gun club member friend of mine worked a slide and had an AD or ND or whatever you want to call it. I should have pressed him for details, but that's all I know. I wasn't into semi's at all in those days. I want to run him down one day and get the whole story.

 

[Towns]

Was shooting a USPSA match in the 90's near Statesville NC when a friend shooting some pepper poppers with his .45acp and had a bounce back that lodged in his liver. Rushed to local hospital with serious injury. Recovered after surgery and was back at the range in 45 days.

I was going to hit the LIKE button on this one but just couldn't.
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