Tombstone reenactment with LIVE rounds !!!

[Evil Dog]

Oh wow, this is NOT good !!! Evidently one of the participants in a Tombstone, Az reenactment shooting violated every gun safety rule there is when he failed to make absolutely certain he was loaded with blanks rather than LIVE rounds.

Here's a link to the story...... 2 shot during Old West gunfight re-enactment in Tombstone | Fox News

 

[rwsmith]

Got in a hurry.....

Something tells me that if these guys were made to shoot blank-only guns about half of them wouldn't volunteer to do these shows.

 

[tops]

They were trying to make it look real. Larry

 

[Ranger514]

Same thing happened during an old west reenactment in Hill City, SD a couple of years ago. In that case,the idiot responsible was prohibited from possessing firearms. He wounded a bystander in the arm during the reenactment.

 

[Big Cholla]

Many years ago, I took my wife and MIL to Tombstone to do the 'tourist' thing. When the street shootout re-enactment started, I immediately recognized a guy from So. Nevada that i had been in on two of his arrests. I relocated my wife and MIL out to the fringes of the crowd and kept my eyes on the guy. I must admit, he really looked the part of one of Ike Clanton's Cowboys. Nothing happened and we left. I have no idea how long this particular actual bad guy got to play a pretend bad guy. ....

 

[the ringo kid]

Oh wow, this is NOT good !!! Evidently one of the participants in a Tombstone, Az reenactment shooting violated every gun safety rule there is when he failed to make absolutely certain he was loaded with blanks rather than LIVE rounds.

Here's a link to the story...... 2 shot during Old West gunfight re-enactment in Tombstone | Fox News

Yeah, I simply couldn't believe my ears when I read that.

 

[DWalt]

Obviously bait for a trainload of trial lawyers.

 

[jimmyj]

Gunshot Victim: Ken Curtis ???? (was this an actor/singer from TV's Gun Smoke series)

 

[old bear]

Oh wow, this is NOT good !!! Evidently one of the participants in a Tombstone, Az reenactment shooting violated every gun safety rule there is when he failed to make absolutely certain he was loaded with blanks rather than LIVE rounds.

Here's a link to the story...... 2 shot during Old West gunfight re-enactment in Tombstone | Fox News

Someones attorney is already grinning from ear to ear, and some insurance adjuster is in tears.

Ya Can't Fix Stupid.

 

[Chuck24]

Was it an Earp or a Clanton?

 

[Inusuit]

A group does these gunfight reenactments in Cheyenne during the annual Frontier Days debacle. I've seen them in other places, like Jackson WY. Such foolishness makes me crazy. I refuse to watch. The Cheyenne group does a gun safety lecture before each performance and then blasts an aluminum can to show that even blanks can be dangerous. Tourists apparently love it.

 

[federali]

Getting Too Comfortable With Guns

These kinds of mishaps often involve experienced gun users. We're all human and we all screw up on occasion. In my opinion, someone should inspect the ammunition just before the act rather than trust each individual actor.

Bruce Lee died under different circumstances but it also involved a blank cartridge. had someone been in charge of the guns and had done his job properly, Lee would be alive today.

I'm thankful that no one lost his life as a result of this accident with the OK Corral re-enactors.

 

[S42N8]

These kinds of mishaps often involve experienced gun users. We're all human and we all screw up on occasion. In my opinion, someone should inspect the ammunition just before the act rather than trust each individual actor.

Bruce Lee died under different circumstances but it also involved a blank cartridge. had someone been in charge of the guns and had done his job properly, Lee would be alive today.

I'm thankful that no one lost his life as a result of this accident with the OK Corral re-enactors.

You did mean Brandon Lee, right? Bruce Lee died of cerebral edema; Brandon died from a blank round fired from a revolver with a squib bullet lodged in the barrel...least wise, that's what it says on Wikipedia. I am glad the reenactment actors survived.

 

[Bat Guano]

Same thing happened during an old west reenactment in Hill City, SD a couple of years ago. In that case,the idiot responsible was prohibited from possessing firearms. He wounded a bystander in the arm during the reenactment.

"Unprecedented" my foot.

Guns. People. Murphy.

 

[ladder13]

Good thing it didn't happen when we were in Deadwood SD last summer.

 

[pharmer]

I suspect someone other than the shooter loaded the gun. Loading a 250 gr "cowboy" cartridge will feel much different (heavier) than a blank. Hard to picture someone "mistakenly" loading 6 live lead cartridges into a S/A revolver. Joe

 

[Coldshooter]

How long before a reality or pseudo history show has an episode on ghosts of Tombstone and works this event in?

 

[Mule Packer]

Sorry, gang. I don't care which scenario folks decide to go with, the shooter gets no sympathy from me.

Having taught Hunter Safety for 28 years, there's absolutely no excuse whatsoever for not knowing what kind of ammo is in your firearm.

If, by some obscure chance, he had someone else load the gun for him, that's still his fault for not checking what the other guy loaded. Personally, I wouldn't trust anyone to load my firearm. But just assuming he did, he still should've checked the rounds.

As federali suggested, it's probably not a bad idea to have some designated individual check everyone's loads. That way, the buck is resting directly on one person's shoulders and not giving way to various individuals saying, "But I thought Larry was supposed to check those loads....or was it someone else?"

Anyway, bottom line is that it should've never happened in the first place.

Like Old Bear said, someone's attorney is grinning ear to ear. I think we're going to see some serious money changing hands pretty quick.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

I have seen those dressed up- gunned up guys at Tombstone.
Some of them work for the privately owned OK Corral attraction and show.
They mostly stand out in front of the OK entrance.
The others hang around other places.
I have chatted with them but never actually asked what they did or who pays them.
They seem to be wanna be gunfighters.

 

[fordson]

This was just plain dumb.
I would venture to bet that the majority of us here, in our own careers in LE, First Reponders, and Military, have had to use equipment of one kind or another that we had to check out before use. I had a crew chief that would pre-flight my aircraft. I, and every Aviator I knew, would do thier own follow up pre-flight after the crew chief. Not because I didn't trust him (he was Great), but because it was My aircraft and I was ultimately responsible. The same goes for using a firearm.