Gun Safety Instructor Shoots Student In Ohio
Source: Huffington Post
LANCASTER, Ohio -- Police say an instructor at a central Ohio gun safety class has accidentally shot a student.
Terry J. Dunlap Sr. was demonstrating a handgun at a training facility on Saturday when he fired a bullet that ricocheted off a desk and into the right arm of 26-year-old Michael Piemonte.
The student says the .38-caliber bullet hit him between his elbow and armpit. He says many of the students in the class were nurses who helped stabilize him before he was transported to a Columbus hospital.
Piemonte tells the newspaper it appears Dunlap didn't know the gun was loaded. Dunlap hasn't responded to requests for comment.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/12/gun-safety-shooting_n_3745989.html
Leave It To The Experts.
Bay Boy
(1,689 posts)is unloaded it's OK to wave it around.
Waving it around and occasionally pulling the trigger is OK too.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)Evasporque
(2,133 posts)Mohr gunhz 4 mohronz
Maeve
(42,282 posts)Should he have been taking the class instead of teaching it? Inquiring minds....
Just Saying
(1,799 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)And even then you treat the weapon as loaded. A weapon's single purpose for being is to kill living things. Always treat them with that in mind.
burnodo
(2,017 posts)Botany
(70,501 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)The other two? It would be smart to assume they're also loaded.
I'd probably be a little nervous taking that photo ...
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Isn't that gun safety 101? Even the guy teaching gun safety forgot this simple rule. And now the NRA wants to lift the ban selling guns to our youth? Oh that'll work out well.
marble falls
(57,080 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)They find a good excuse to offer.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)No RKBA supporter would ever make excuses for someone who 'thought' a gun was unloaded.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)it was a mistake and go back to promoting more guns in more places because "certified" trainer was just an outlier, so it doesn't count.
What EXACTLY is your point? Nobody I know would defend this firearms instructor. He effed up. He has no excuse for what happened. Who is going to defend him?
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)you are wrong, no one for the responsible use of fire arms will just call it a mistake. He broke several of the most fundamental rules and I think should be charged under any appropriate laws and lose his status as a fire arms instructor. So far I have not seen any on the pro RKBA side say anything different.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)make mistakes, then blow them off like it's no big deal. Then, you go right back to promoting more guns in more places, as if it didn't even happen. This "certified" gun nut is just like all the rest - they think they are "responsible" and safe, right up until they aren't. I'm sure Zimmerman felt the same way as this guy, you, Jenoch, and every other so-called gun enthusiast who feels the need to walk around in public with a gun, or accumulate a cache at home.
tumtum
(438 posts)so what? As long as I'm safe with them, keep them locked up when not in use, why should you or anyone else care?
What business is it of yours or anyone's what I have or what I carry?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)the "certified" instructor supposedly teaching gun safety. And we haven't even talked about when one is too old to drive, practice surgery, pilot an aircraft. . . . . . Or own guns. How's about folks on medications that alter judgement, like Zimmerman or maybe this guy?
tumtum
(438 posts)I still have my pilots license, fixed and rotary wing, I'm still in execellent health and I'll continue to carry a firearm and collect them until I no longer can.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)others may be impacted by medications (even allergy pills); illness like a stroke; anxiety; dementia; callousness; distraction; sudden onset of stupidity; etc. And few of them will recognize it beforehand.
tumtum
(438 posts)but most won't. As a licensed pilot, I am bound by law and regulations to report to the FAA what meds I take, so far, no problem.
As a firearms collector, I know when I get to the point of senility, I've told my kids to come and remove the firearms from my home and inform the Sheriff of the county I live in, (Maricopa County, Joe Arpiao) to have my CCW revoked.
Is that good enough for you?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ain't a war zone.
tumtum
(438 posts)Thanks for informing me if that, without you telling me this, I never would have figured it out.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)He was an asshole for not checking the weapon to see if it was loaded.
Now, I'll go back to promoting more guns in more places.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)by his babies/guns.
tumtum
(438 posts)I also get that you and I will NEVER agree on the firearm issue.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)tumtum
(438 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)tumtum
(438 posts)I see no problem with allowing private citizens being allowed to carry a concealed weapon as long as they get the proper training and as far as accumulating more than a few firearms? What business is it of yours? Or anyone else's for that matter?
Bandit
(21,475 posts)I was with the 227th AHB for a while
First tour, flew a UH-1B Huey, went back to the world for a year and qualified on the AH-1 Cobra, deployed back to VN and flew CGS for Army, Marines and Navy Seabees.
Bandit
(21,475 posts)I was a gunner on a slick with the 227th and then extended for another tour with the 281st AHC and was a crew chief on gunship.
tumtum
(438 posts)loved you guys in the slicks flying air cover keeping myself, my peter, and my gunner safe from the VC while the dust off came in to extract us from a very bad sit.
Thank you from one VN. vet. to another.
Glad you made it home safe brother.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Ok, thanks, got it. *cough*
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's funny.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)as the gun crowd "certified instructors/mentors" prefer to call it.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)You are full of shit. I never once showed any support for Zimmerman. I posted manhy times that Zimmerman was wrong and that he should have only been armed with a cell phone and pepper spray for self-defense. I know I will regret this response to you as well. Since you have so much time on your hands these last couple of years, you have really gone off the deep end.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Yes I think it's funny! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Now if it was a 16 year old shot dead by an over zealous neighborhood watching thug I'd not think it was funny. That would be a tragedy and murder.
A gun instructor who doesn't know what he's doing?
That's funny.
I bet he still got paid.
There were a number of nurses in the class. Wtf? Was it a convention?
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)ET Awful
(24,753 posts)so it's highly unlikely the fragment would have ended up in his arm.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I got hood training. Been shot at in drive bys. Missed us by a mile, they hadn't taken any classes. Watched someone get shot in the face. He lived, the guy hadnt taken his classes.Stepdad shot himself in the head in my house. He went to those classes, he's dead. The blood never came out. My cousin was shot three times in the chest by his schizophrenic best friend. He lived. The guy had no classes.
I don't want to be a trained killer.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)Yes I would have laughed. Ironically and with relief that I was still alive. Then when I sued the Nutty Gunner that shot me, I'd laugh all the way to the bank! Ha ha ha ha ha! Money money money money! Money! Money money money money! Money!
The way you make bets I'd love to play poker with you. You're a bad better.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Ill take that bet. I laughed through labor too. I a laugher, sourpuss.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)FYI, in colloquial English, it means 'I am sure'.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I know English. And Spanish in a way.
If you are sure about that, you're surely wrong! If I got shot in the arm, I'd be glad it wasn't my head. Then I'd laugh.
Just like I am, once again, laughing at this idiot of a gun instructor.
What a loser! Shoot a student in a gun safety class? Ha ha!
I threw away the bullets to my two guns and I still check them as soon as I pick them up. Just in case the bullets magically reappear and I have to throw the bullets away again.
I do that cause have children and children have been shooting each other a lot lately. They usually die.
This guy lived. Therefore I will laugh.
If you don't like it, sorry for ya.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)in your house, unless you had it and it was locked up. You seem to understand better than the firearms instructor that all guns are always loaded.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)I'm safety obsessed. I live in Alaska and I don't know anyone who doesn't have a gun. They open carry out here and all guns are loaded. We have bears that live here in the city and moose walking down the roads. If a moose comes charging at you ready to jump, you'd better have bullets in your gun. Or else.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)living in your city, you might want to get a bigger gun......and some ammunition.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)For the most part. I did see a few at the ramada limited downtown one day but I stayed inside.
For moose. They go wherever they want. I've seen one get hit by a truck near the Taco Bell on northern lights boulevard and the police shot it several times with their service pistols it started kicking at them. Those don't work apparently. Some guy got out of his truck with a hunting rifle and put it out of its misery.
With neighbors like these I never need to do my own shooting. Just holler, somebody's coming to help you.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)had 9mm or .40SW and wouldn't slow down a moose with ease.
The moose got back up and started kicking. That guy with the rifle may have saved their lives.
Me and the wife have considered moving there, what city would you recommend moving to?
We've watched that show, Buying Alaska, and we're really enamored with the beauty of Alaska.
I'm a licensed pilot, fixed and rotary wing, is there a need for people such as me?
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)So you have to fly supplies out there from anchorage. They make good money and work too hard. We have about 300,000 people here and we are awesome. Good hunting, great fishing, huge parks of a size I'd never seen before. The summer is mild and the sun doesn't go down till late at night so we barbecue at night. The fall is crisp and cool and the first snow comes in October. We have lakes and rivers and glaciers. If you drive down the old Seward hwy towards girdwood you can sometimes see the beluga whales out in the sound. The winter is cold. Like Dante's Cocytus. But I love it. It like you can feel the earth hibernating. We have hilltop ski area and you can go out to Alyeska to ski if you want.
Spring is breakup time gotta go to army navy and get yer boots cause its muddy.
We have everything in anchorage that you will need. And the best pot. If you like.
But it's a red state, never forget that. We open carry but not to intimidate people. Its for hunting. Period. But I hate the Govornor Sean Parnell with a purple passion. We need your vote.
If you want good salmon, halibut, or Alaska king crab you'll find it here. Reindeer sausage, moose sausage and caribou meat are really big here.
I like it here and I'm from Los Angeles. I'll never move back
tumtum
(438 posts)She's a country girl by birth, she desperately wants to get away from the city, we live in Buckeye, AZ, and we're looking to move to a more remote area.
I prefer helicopters, that's what I mainly flew during my career in the Army.
Anchorage sounds great, we're going to start looking for houses today with the goal of moving there in Oct.-Dec..
Any good companies you would recommend for helicopter service?
Once again, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
I know this sound silly, but we're also big fans of Ice Road Truckers, I also have a CDL, what are the prospects of maybe a part time job driving a semi? And, how accurate is the show?
.
bravenak
(34,648 posts)It's pretty accurate. That's how it is up here. You must have studded tires from oct to apr by law. If you have a CDL you can get a job on the north slope and see for yourself.
Helicopter jobs try this link. http://flyalaska.com/jobs.html
CDL try this. http://cdl.jobs.net/jobs/alaska.aspx
If you want to make good money with the CDL try the companies that say Prudoe Bay, they are usually 6 weeks on 6 weeks off, 12 hour days 7 days a week when your on overtime after 40 hours.
If you're ex military try my old job at Trailboss Enterprises. He's always looking for good ex military for project managers and such.
Ice services is a good company. My husband went for five weeks and came back with about 15 grand. And that's on the lower end of the pay scale. http://iceservices.net/
Try CH2M Hill http://www.careers.ch2m.com/worldwide/en/
As long as your not a felon you will have a job before you get here.
And some of the nicer homes in Oceanview where I used to live have airplanes in the yard. You could do that.
Don't move to fairview. Or mountain view. Or spenard. These are the 'bad' areas. Compared to L.A. its like a fairy tale, but there are a lot of addicts over here.
Try Muldoon, Dimond, Oceanview, or somewhere on the west side. Jewell lake is a nice area too.
I hope this helps. I should get into real estate.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,013 posts)Well, seems odd, but for the one student pretty lucky!
tblue
(16,350 posts)To have medical people on site for these classes. Oh my gosh! What an idjit!!!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Decided to take a class. ERs tend to be dangerous places, and LEOs are usually there. Armed.
spin
(17,493 posts)I knew a nurse once who was interested in getting a carry permit as the hospital she worked at was in a very dangerous area of the city.
TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Lugal Zaggesi
(366 posts)Gun safety classes usually lose a few every month - just another reason gun-lovers are so religious.
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)supposed to keep us safe, why aren't we safe ?
In theory . . (ahem) we ought to be the safest country in the world, right?
The gun nuts don't see the irony.
Welcome to DU, FairWinds!
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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Hope the instructor loses his licence to teach,
and also does NOT get re-elected . . .
from a related link:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/08/12/concealed-carry-accidental-shooting.html
/snip/
Dunlap, 73, also is a long-time Violet Township trustee who is running for re-election in November.
/snip/
I am thankful that it only ended up being in my arm, and didnt hit my wife or individuals sitting at the desk behind me, he said.
Piemonte said he is studying for his teaching degree at Ohio State Universitys Newark campus, and plans to teach elementary school. He said he and his wife, who already has her teaching degree, decided to apply for concealed-carry permits for their own general safety and not specifically for classroom safety.
More at link:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/public/2013/08/12/concealed-carry-accidental-shooting.html
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I recently took a firearm safety course here in Ontario.
One of the MOST important lessons was to double check the firearm for ammunition.
Also, to never store a firearm loaded.
Sad though, that teachers, as well as others feel the need to carry for their own safety, but that is the USA.
Dis be Canada, no need here.
CC
7962
(11,841 posts)What an idiot. You dont pick up a gun without checking it. Hell, I live alone and theres no way anyone but me could load my gun. But every time I pick it up I check the chamber.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)dementia is going to strike.
I am usually good about remembering things but if when standing in one place, if I take the twist tie off a loaf of bread, it takes me 5 minutes to find it again. Almost every time!
Botany
(70,501 posts)Makes me proud to be from Ohio.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)telclaven
(235 posts)Odd comment Hoyt.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)telclaven
(235 posts)Blue and white stripped shirt, top middle.
White shirt and chamoflauged pants, top right.
But hey, sorry to ruin a good poutrage. No hard feelings?
rdharma
(6,057 posts)"Terry also teaches in the law enforcement training program through the Eastland Career Center, recertifies law enforcement officials in Firearms Certification, and schedules and instructs many local Conceal Carry certification classes. He also does consultation with Ohios Supreme Court Systems on their security measures and practices. Terry maintains his status as a Peace Office with the Harrisburg Police Department."
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)I'm not!
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Hell no! He shot a student!
BTW - He's a Republican Township Trustee.
Botany
(70,501 posts)Full Name: Terry J. Dunlap, Sr.
Office: Trustee (Violet Township, OH) - At-Large Vice Chair
rdharma
(6,057 posts)And this "Violet Township Trustee" (Terry Dunlap) is in a legal dispute with his cousin because he wants to get his property zoned for use as a gun range. Cousin/neighbor doesn't want to live next to a shooting range.
SCVDem
(5,103 posts)concealed carry at playgrounds and taverns.
He would toss all his credentials down to make his point.
This needs to stop!
struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)Snake Plissken
(4,103 posts)The room did not mean the minimum guns per square foot requirement to be considered safe
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Hahahahahaha... What a dumbass!
I have guns, and I'm not anti gun, though I approve of registration and waiting periods, but with that disclaimer I have to say this is the most ridiculous thing I've heard all day. What kind of "expert" handles a firearm as if it "isn't loaded"?
When someone signs up for one of these stupid CCW classes they have to assume some level of competency. Walking in and seeing Barney Fife sniffing as he hangs his thumbs on his gunbelt is unacceptable.
On the other hand, the students learned three important lessons today:
1. Always assume a gun is loaded because it can freakin' kill people.
2. The class was a scam and they should have the right to sue whoever sponsored it.
3. Don't be that guy.
I have friends who carry. They asked me the same thing when I tell them it's a stupid idea: "What are you going to do when someone sticks a gun in your face and demands your wallet?". I tell them: "The same thing you'll do... hand it over".
rdharma
(6,057 posts)Oh, sheet! It just keeps getting better!
Sponsored by the "Central Ohio Coonhunters Association"!
JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)I'm not gonna touch that one, but thanx for looking it up.
I doubt I see eye to eye with anyone in that room, so I don't mind a good chuckle at their idiotic expense.
PD Turk
(1,289 posts)Brickbat
(19,339 posts)What a dumbass
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)more before being allowed near one.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)after the Wild West days ended.
I'm sure there's plenty of historical data. You, there! Looking for a book project? Write about this, the reasons why, the benefits to society, the relative peace in the usa from 1920-1990!
Get to it. We should all be writing books.
happyslug
(14,779 posts)Now, if you mean PISTOLS, that is a different subject. In the period from the Civil War to the 1960s, guns sales went up, but the ratio of pistols to rifles was 1 in 10 (i..e for every 10 rifles sold, one pistol was sold).
That changed starting in the 1960s. Right now, 40% of all gun sales are pistols.
In the days when the West was young, the weapon of choice was still the muzzle loader (and I am talking the post Civil War West). It was reliable and cheap. This was the case till the 1880s, when most of them finally reached the end of their life span and were replaced by breech-loaders and repeaters.
Annie Oakley used her deceased father's muzzle loader right after the Civil War, when she became know as a crack shot. When she married and went on the show circuit she obtain breech-loaders and repeaters (Her favorite weapon was a 22) but many old farmers retain their breech-loaders till after 1900 (many were still being made of local gun smiths till the 1960s, ball and powder was much cheaper then brass cartridges).
Side note: While local gun smiths made muzzle loaders till the 1960s, more and more such production ended after 1900, just few survived till the 1960s, to catch the start of the modern Muzzle loading shooting that started about then.
If you see photos of cowboys with pistols on them, most were "fakes". i.e. the guns were props provided by the photographers, for the cowboys rarely owned a weapon (and then most likely a shotgun or rifle rather then a pistol). The cowboys, read the dime novels of the time period (or if they could not read and write, had them read to them, group readings were quite common at that time period) and read that they were "Armed to the teeth" and wanted their pictures to show them "armed to the teeth". After the photo was taken, they went home (after returning the pistols used in the photo to the photographer), after taking care of their saddle (which, on average, only lasted 18 months of hard use) they horses (Most needed shod and extra shoes to be made for the trip home), jeans (most cowboys were down to rags by the time they hit the "Cow town" , shirts and boots. In simple terms, pistols were available in cow towns, but cowboys rarely, if ever had one. The Town Marshall would have a pistol, but that would be about all.
By the time cowboys purchased what they needed to go home AND what they needed back home, they did not have money for weapons. If a weapon was needed, they would purchased one, but almost always a rifle or shotgun. These two types of weapons were very useful on the trail, unlike a pistol which was just extra weight. A Bowie knife or tomahawk was often preferred to a pistol, for these could be used for other purposes, unlike a pistol.
If you read the actual reports of the cattle drives, Native Americans were almost never an issue. This was true even as the first cattle drive drove through Comanche territories to the rail heads in Kansas. During the same time period of the cattle drives, the Comanches were at war with the US. How did Chisum and the rest of the cattle barons get through the Comanches lands without extensive losses? The easy way, Chisum and the rest paid for the right to go through untouched. No gun fight, just hard untraceable cash (Quanah Parker knew the value of Cash, after he signed a peace treaty, he demand $1 a head for any cattle crossing his lands. That appears to have been the going rate even BEFORE he signed a peace treaty).
In the famous shoot out in the OK Corral, three of the "Cowboys" i.e. Clantons and their allies, did not have a pistol on them, and two of the three that were killed appears to have been killed, after firing their pistols and going for their rifles. The third person Killed had had a pistol earlier in the day, but did not have it at the time of the shoot out. Please note this was a group KNOWN to carry pistols do to their criminal nature, and at least 2/5 of them did not have a pistol that day.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfight_at_the_O.K._Corral#Rural_Cowboys_vs._Tombstone_interests
Remember most people out west lived on the farm, i.e in the country NOT in the towns and cities. Even as late as 1910, the US as a whole had more people living in Rural Areas then Urban Areas (the 1920 US Census is the first Census when that is NOT the situation). In rural areas, the range of a pistol is so short as to be useless when compared to a Rifle or even a shotgun. Thus most people in rural areas did NOT carry pistols (A Bowie knife was considered almost as good among people who did participate in pistol gun fights, in fact in the sand bar duel, which is the days before revolvers, pistols were present, but so were Bowie knives).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbar_Fight
We get our impression of massive use of pistols in the West from Movies, Books and TV stories. Pistols were known, but no one had them. My father told me when he was a teenager being impressed when the local sheriff showed up to arrest someone and was armed with a pistol. He had used shotguns and rifles, but that was the first time he saw a pistol other then in the movies (and that was in the 1930s).
In the Broughton School Shooting in Allegheny County in 1928, none of the striking white coal miners are reported to have had pistols as they defended the school (The only school in the coal fields of Western Pennsylvania that stayed open to children of striking coal miners during that strike, all other school would take in only children on miners NOT on strike).
On the other hand, the African American coal miners had been given pistols by the Coal and Iron Police to "Protect themselves" from the striking miners. The African American claimed they only returned fire on the school, after the strikers fire first. The Strikers report they only return fire. Several bullets were found in the School. My problem was the distance from the School and the railroad tracks is to far for pistols to be effective. At the same time the Miners had no real reason to shoot the African American Coal miners. The distance was well with the range of the rifles the strikers had and thus had the coal miners opened fire, all of the strike breaking African Americans would have been killed. My suspicion is that the Coal and Iron police set up the African Americans, gave them pistols to give them the impression they could protect themselves (but in reality could not) and then went on the hillside behind the railroad tracks and opened fire with rifles, On being fire upon the Strikers would see the strike breaking African Americans, and assumed they were firing on the strikers, and then the strikers fire on the African Americans. I suspect the Coal and Iron Police were hoping the Strikers would kill the African Americans so they could bring murder charges on the Strikers. i.e. the ineffectiveness of pistols in an non-urban area would lead to the African American trying to stand their ground instead of running for cover. The Coal and Iron police were known to set up strikers including framing them when possible and other times, out right murdering strikers.
Now, we have well known pistol experts at that time period, Sargent York of WWI fame was a dead shot with a pistol as well as a rifle. His exploit in shooting several charging Germans with his 1911 45 caliber pistol was considered remarkable (so remarkable that when his story was made into a movie in 1939, he was shown doing it with his Springfield not his 1911, to make it more believable to the audience).
Just before WWII, my father was on detached duty from his called up National Guard unit with a Captain of Russian descent (who he called the "Russian Captain", a well known way to describe someone in that time period). The Captain was known to snap shot crows out of trees with his 45 1911 (i.e. pull the pistol out of the holster, take quick aim and shoot).
I mention these two shooters, for they were the exceptions to the general rule of most people being bad or worse shots with pistols. The US Calvary was the only organisation that took the time to train people on how to shoot with pistols (and after WWI, they was 26 regiments of Calvary, including the Philippine Scouts who were based in the Philippines and made up of of citizens of the Philippines, thus no more the 25,000 men in the US was getting adequate training on pistols at that time period).
For this reason most police departments used 38 Specials for it is the most powerful revolver one can fire adequately with minimal training (the 9mm Parabellum has the same reputation when it comes to automatics). Neither were know to be as accurate as the 45 auto, but then you did not need the training to fire them adequately, unlike the 45 which people have to live with the weapon to shoot accurately.
Yes, I am going into details, some of which is unneeded, but the point I am trying to make is first our impression as to pistols and the west is more a product of TV, Movies and books then reality. Second, there was NO decline in fire arm use after the west was settles, for most use was rifles and shotguns NOT pistols and then to shoot game or pests, not people.
Pistols tended to be marketed to urban residents and police departments NOT rural areas. When you dealt with outlaws from the rural areas, they first choice of weapons were rifles (Bonnie and Clyde like the Browning Automatic Rifle NOT pistols for example). John Dillinger (whose first place to rob was local police departments for sub machine guns, rifles and pistols, then he rob a bank) also seems to have preferred rifles and shotguns. Even The Chicago gangsters of the 1920s, their first choice was shotguns (and the Thompson Sub Machine Gun) over pistols and this given Dillinger's preference for close quick in and out operations where pistols would be better the rifles (through less effective then shotguns or sub machine guns).
Just pointing out, there was no drop off in firearms after the settlement of the west, firearm sales have always been overwhelmingly Rifles and Shotguns not pistols till the 1970s. The most popular firearm after 1894, was the Winchester model 1894, and would remain the most popular rifle sold in the US till at least the 1980s (it was light and effective on deer and smaller animals). It is only as the US became more and more urban did the sales of Pistols start to climb in relations to rifles and shotguns, and then only from the 1960s onward. The US has more pistols per person today then we had in the late 1800s, and given the effectiveness of Pistols (Short range) is a questionable "improvement" over the late 1800s.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)jasond54231
(51 posts)Absolutely mind boggling. Hopefully he'll be relieved of his duties ASAP.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)agenda, you're good to go spread the gun BS.
mwrguy
(3,245 posts)die by the gun
cancer, take your pick
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)A ricochet would seem to require more skill. Just wondering.
bucolic_frolic
(43,148 posts)Thanks for taking one for the team."
"Don't mention it. Always wanted to know about gun safety."
Javaman
(62,521 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Put in the Gungeon or Bansalot.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,868 posts)My favorite thing in life are "oops" moments.
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telclaven
(235 posts)Unless completely disassembled, and even then I'd be cautious.