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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