It's every upstanding person's worst nightmare. A gang of thieves target you and your family for harassment because of your faith. Police can't be there 24/7 so you do what you can to keep your family safe, which includes patrolling your property with a loaded firearm. This was the predicament a retired Pastor in Ghana found himself in on April 28, 2021. While Pastor … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Teen Shoots Friend
It’s a story we’ve all heard a dozen times if we’ve heard it once. “I found the gun in the park. When I picked it up, it just went off.” And some poor schmuck gets hit with a bullet. If they're lucky, they survive, as is the case in this story. Jalen Fayne, 18, appeared in court in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on April 15, 2021, to face a single charge of injury by negligent … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Two Teen Montreal Morons Apprehended
Montreal's two-day negligent discharge shooting spree left a lot of people terrified but thankfully nobody was injured or killed. On April 21, 2021, Montreal Police received calls about gunshots near the Town of Mount Royal. That evening two Montreal teenagers aged 14 and 16 were arrested and charged for their reckless shooting spree after they were spotted driving down … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Man Shoots Himself with Stolen Handgun During Traffic Stop
One stolen handgun, one police traffic stop and one scared criminal attempting to hide the stolen handgun. Who could possibly foresee a negligent discharge in such a situation? On Friday, April 16, 2021, members of the Decatur Police Department pulled over a vehicle for a 'routine' traffic stop. “As officers approached they heard a firearm discharge from inside the … [Read more...]
Loaded Firearms and Children Don’t Mix
On April 27, 2021, a 5-year-old boy in Elkhart, Indiana, found a loaded gun in his home in the Four Seasons Mobile Home Park. The boy picked up the loaded gun and, while playing with it, managed to shoot himself in the chest. He was rushed to South Bend Memorial Hospital in critical condition, then flown to The Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis where doctors … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge costs 16-year-old his life
When common sense and firearm safety rules are ignored a negligent discharge can happen and, when it does, people die. A 16-year-old Houston boy is the latest casualty of the Negligent Discharge Games after he and three teenage friends played with a loaded handgun and the firearm 'went off'. The handgun didn't 'just go off' of course. One of the four teenagers pulled the … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharges Land Cristian Gutierrez in Jail
Some people are simply too stupid to possess firearms. I would definitely add 37-year-old Cristian Gutierrez to that category after his asinine negligent discharge shooting spree at 3:54am Friday morning, April 16, 2021. Bakersfield Police Department officers responded to Panorama Drive near Loma Linda Drive after they received a call about a person prowling outside a … [Read more...]
“I accidentally shot my wife in the head… almost a dozen times”
Shortly before midnight on June 23, 2020, Keven Scott Olejniczak, 57, got into a drunken argument with his wife, 49-year-old Angela R. Quintero Olejniczak, over a car. As they struggled, one of them held a loaded 9mm handgun and "the gun just went off." Repeatedly. This was no accident, nor was it a negligent discharge. News reports vary on how many times Keven … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: North Carolina Man Shoots Himself in the Crotch
On April 9, 2021, a 46-year-old man's negligent discharge caused him to shoot himself in the crotch while shopping at a Food Lion store in Salisbury, North Carolina. “I turn around to see him grab his crotch and run to the front of the store,” one witness said. “Scared the crap out of me and some other shoppers.” The brief WBTV news report did not say how badly the man … [Read more...]
No Attempted Murder Charge for 17-year-old who shot 14-year-old Alyssa Driscoll in the head
On February 12, 2021, 14-year-old Alyssa Driscoll was shot in the head inside a Toronto apartment but the 17-year-old who shot her will not face charges for attempted murder. An ambulance rushed the girl to hospital where doctors struggled to save her life. She is now in stable condition, but suffered a life-altering brain injury. Brandon Driscoll, Alyssa's father, said … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge Injures 11-Year-Old Girl
In the early morning hours of April 9, 2021, a moron with a stolen handgun shot his friend's sister in the leg. While playing the big-shot, a 20-year-old moron suffered a negligent discharge his stolen handgun, The bullet travelled through the floor downstairs into the living-room and struck the 11-year-old girl in the leg. Thankfully, the injury to the girl were not … [Read more...]
Moscow Police Teach Firearms Safety to Those Charged with Negligent Discharge of a Firearm
The Moscow (Idaho) Police Department is teaching firearm safety courses to people charged with negligent discharge of a firearm inside the Moscow city limits. Those who successfully pass the firearm safety course may have their charges dropped or reduced, depending on the nature of their specific case. “This is just one that we can work with people here in our own … [Read more...]
Darwin Award Winner Shoots Off His Own Testicles
If you don’t want to shoot off your testicles, pay attention to the four cardinal rules of firearm safety: Rule #1: Treat every firearm as loaded until you prove otherwise. Rule #2: Keep your firearm pointed in the safest possible direction at all times. Rule #3: Keep your finger off the trigger and out of the trigger guard until you are ready to shoot. Rule #4: … [Read more...]
Edmonton Police Officer will not face charges for Negligent Discharge
[Updated 2021-01-14 17:30 with Alberta Crown Prosecution Service statement] On June 7, 2019, an officer with the Edmonton Police Service committed a negligent discharge of their service pistol at the William Nixon Training Centre but will not face criminal charges. Crown prosecutors decided not to lay charges against the Edmonton police officer because it was not in the … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: RCMP Refuses to File Charges
On Wednesday, May 13, 2020, some moron apparently fired a dozen or more shots into the air. Those bullets landed on six homes in the Forest Heights area of Edmonton, Alberta. Negligent discharge of a firearm doesn’t even begin to describe this stupidity. “My daughter woke up and she is playing in her room and she is sitting on the floor, and looked up and there is a hole … [Read more...]
Centerton Police Officer Blake Almond and Someone’s Negligent Discharge
Safe storage laws have their place - especially when children are in the home. On January 20, 2020, in Centerton City, Arkansas, an unidentified person fired Officer Blake Almond’s service pistol, sending a bullet out of his home and through three walls of his neighbour’s home. The neighbour immediately called police to report the crime. Neighbour: “a bullet just shot … [Read more...]
Officer Down: Calgary Police Service Constable Darren Beatty
In an age where politicians and gun control advocates, no matter how well intentioned, insist only the police and military should have guns, we must acknowledge the fact these brave men and women are still mere mortals – just like the rest of us. They are not endowed with any magical properties, nor are they somehow “better” than anyone else. Yet no matter how experienced or … [Read more...]
St. Louis Cop Nathaniel Hendren’s Penchant for Russian Roulette Kills Fellow Cop Katlyn Alix
Occasionally, people who should know better do really stupid things. Those stupid things can leave a person dead, as they did in the early morning hours of January 24, 2019. St. Louis Police Department officers Nathaniel Hendren and Katlyn Alix played a game of Russian Roulette at Hendren’s home. Katlyn Alix lost. On February 28, 2020, Nathaniel Hendren pleaded guilty … [Read more...]
RCMP and Fredericton Police: Accidental or Negligent Discharge of a Firearm?
When accurately describing unintended firearm discharges, accidental covers the smallest number of incidents. An equipment failure causing a firearm to discharge is accidental. A poorly designed or poorly constructed firearm that fires when bumped (somewhere other than the trigger) is also accidental. If your finger, body part or part of your gear touch the trigger and … [Read more...]
Zurlon Tipton and Gun Safety’s Basic Yet Very Hard Lessons
There is no middle ground when it comes to handling firearms. You either do it properly or terrible things happen. Basic gun safety means following some very simple rules. Break those rules and bad things happen. Sometimes those bad things even happen to you. That's precisely the case with former Indianapolis Colts running back Zurlon Tipton, who managed to kill himself … [Read more...]
Former NFA President James Murray Hinter dodges the bullet again
James Murray, as he calls himself today, is the former President of Canada's National Firearms Association (NFA) when he called himself James Murray Hinter. He currently resides in Thunder Bay and a couple of years ago he found himself, once again, in legal hot water over guns. In pleading guilty in Ontario Superior Court to charges of unauthorized possession of a firearm … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Miami-Dade Police Officer’s Failure to Follow Safe Gun Handling Rules
I'm sure it's every cop's worst nightmare. Handling a firearm and it "just goes off". Except that's not what happens. A firearm doesn't "just go off". Someone puts their finger on the trigger and pulls it. Then the gun "just goes off" precisely as it is designed to do. When this happens unexpectedly it is called a negligent discharge. Someone was negligent in their attention … [Read more...]
Former NFA President Jim Hinter Surfaces At Last… with more criminal charges
It took almost 10 years, but now there is an explanation for former National Firearms Association President Jim Hinter's disappearance from the world. Turns out Jim Hinter didn't disappear at all; he simply decided using his first and last name might cause him problems, given the allegedly criminal nature of his demise from the NFA. Hinter is currently listed as the … [Read more...]
With Concealed Carry Comes Personal Responsibility
A frightening story from Belize reinforces the responsibility we gun owners have when carrying our firearms legally, no matter where we are. A man was in Brown Sugar Mall, a crowded area called “Tourism Village”, when felt the need to adjust his pants. Perhaps they were too baggy; perhaps his belt was too loose? Whatever the reason this man committed the heinous error of … [Read more...]
Rookie Ottawa Constable claims she was shot, sparks massive manhunt, but did she really shoot herself?
A Gantineau, Quebec, police constable, apparently raiding a Saturday night bush party outside Ottawa, managed to get herself shot instead. The only question remaining now is this: Who shot her? The rookie constable with just 3 years on the job called for backup after the gunshot and, while she never made any mention of shooting herself in that call for backup, didn’t set … [Read more...]
Oscar Pistorius and Home Security by Frank Hilliard
Whatever else you can say for Oscar Pistorius, his explanation of how he killed Reeva Steenkamp is bizarre and illogical. No responsible gun owner would shoot through a door at an unknown target. That, however, is not what Canadian homeowners needs to take away from this tragedy. Have a look at the living arrangements in the National Post diagram I've linked to. You can … [Read more...]
Gun Safety Rules must be followed if you don’t want to shoot your penis off
While some people insist on calling this sort of thing an "accidental discharge" I prefer the vastly more accurate term "negligent discharge". It was no accident that an unnamed man in Birmingham, Alabama, shot himself in the penis on June 12, 2012 and was taken to Royal Oak Beaumont Hospital. It was because he was negligent and refused to follow the very simplest of … [Read more...]
DEA Agent Lee Paige loses case centering around his shooting himself during a gun safety demonstration
Lee Paige, the DEA's poster-boy for how NOT to handle a firearm, is apparently still a Drug Enfrocement Agency (DEA) special agent stationed in Orlando, Florida, according to a report found online. You may recall the 2004 video of DEA Special Agent Lee Paige shooting himself in the leg mere seconds after claiming “I'm the only one in this room professional enough, that I … [Read more...]
Firearm Safety Advisory: You’re NOT one of the Sons of Anarchy…
Chandler, Arizona: On August 2nd, Joshua Seto failed the Stupid Test. Many people who fail the Stupid Test never get a second chance to get it right. Seto is a very lucky man and he is lucky to be alive. Firearms can be dangerous, especially when they are not treated with the respect they deserve. Joshua Seto learned this the hard way when he managed to shoot himself in … [Read more...]
Jose Guerena, murdered by Pima County SWAT Team, honoured by Oath Keepers on Memorial Day
For anyone not familiar with the horrific story of Jose Guerena, the former US Marine gunned down by the Pima County SWAT Team, here is a brief recap. Jose Guerena is a a decorated US Marine. He served two tours in Iraq and faced all kinds of dangers during both tours. After leaving the Marine Corps he got a job at a local mine near Tucson to support his wife and young … [Read more...]