ND at Tulsa Arms Show

Let’s see…

Rule One - All guns are always loaded. (Oopsie!)

Rule Two - Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. (Check!)

Rule Three - Keep your finger off the trigger until your sights are on target. (Check!)

Rule Four - Be sure of your target. Know what it is, what is in line with it, and what is behind it. Never shoot anything you have not positively identified. (Check!)

Three out of four ain’t bad, right? Just kidding. At least the gun was pointed in a “safe” direction and no one was injured. I’m inclined to blame the vendor more than the customer, although they should have checked if it was loaded first.

This doesn’t help gun owners image one bit, and judging from the comments on the story below, there’s a lot of people who ignorantly, or knowingly, perpetuate the dumb hick gun owner stereotype.

We can do better than this guys!

Gun accidentally fired at Tulsa Arms Show

A gun was accidentally fired during the Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show at Expo Square Friday after a vendor allowed a patron to pull its trigger, police said.

No one was injured in the incident.

Tulsa County Sheriff’s Capt. Bill Bass said the accidental weapons discharge occurred at 6:30 p.m. after a gun dealer allowed a potential buyer to hoist a .40 caliber handgun from a display table.

The bullet hit the ceiling, Bass said.

Joe Wanenmacher, the gun show’s manager, said the handgun was improperly tied to a plastic strip, which would have rendered the gun unable to fire, and that the gun dealer and potential buyer were supposed to double-check that the gun was unloaded.

Wanenmacher said the gun dealer was expelled from the show for at least one year.

“This is (yet) another case when the exhibitor didn’t follow the safety rules,” Wanenmacher said.

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RIP Charlton Heston

From the Los Angeles Times:

Charlton Heston, the Oscar-winning actor who achieved stardom playing larger-than-life figures including Moses, Michelangelo and Andrew Jackson and went on to become an unapologetic gun advocate and darling of conservative causes, has died. He was 84.

Heston died Saturday at his Beverly Hills home, said family spokesman Bill Powers. In 2002, he had been diagnosed with symptoms similar to those of Alzheimer’s disease.

With a booming baritone voice, the tall, ruggedly handsome actor delivered his signature role as the prophet Moses in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 Biblical extravaganza “The Ten Commandments,” raising a rod over his head as God miraculously parts the Red Sea.

Heston won the Academy Award for best actor in another religious blockbuster in 1959’s “Ben-Hur,” racing four white horses at top speed in one of the cinema’s legendary action sequences: the 15-minute chariot race in which his character, a proud and noble Jew, competes against his childhood Roman friend.

Heston stunned the entertainment world in August 2002 when he made a poignant and moving videotaped address announcing his illness.

Late in life, Heston’s stature as a political firebrand overshadowed his acting. He became demonized by gun-control advocates and liberal Hollywood when he became president of the National Rifle Assn. in 1998.

Heston answered his critics in a now-famous pose that mimicked Moses’ parting of the Red Sea. But instead of a rod, Heston raised a flintlock over his head and challenged his detractors to pry the rifle “from my cold, dead hands.”

Read the whole thing at the link above.

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