Christian Lehl, 21, was babysitting his nieces and nephews, when he took out a loaded handgun and showed it to an 18-year-old friend. The handgun 'just went off' aka a negligent discharge, and the bullet buried itself in the arm of one of Lehl's 12-year-old nieces in another room. Thankfully, the young girl is expected to make a full recovery. Wichita Police arrested … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Gentry Police Officers Save Man’s Life
Two Gentry Police officers are credited with saving the life of a man who managed to unintentionally shoot himself in the leg. The unidentified man carried a loaded firearm in his pocket (never a good idea) and due to his negligence, shot himself and severed an artery in his leg. Gentry Police Officers Matthew Easter and Tyler Kell responded to the 911 call and discovered … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: 2-year-old boy kills himself with father’s gun
If you own a firearm, making sure unauthorized people can't access that firearm is your number one responsibility - especially if you have small children. Vincent Shelby learned this lesson in the most excruciating way on June 2, 2021, when his 2-year-old son found his loaded handgun near the television and shot himself in the head with it. Joliet Police Department officers … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Illinois Man Kills Girlfriend While Posing With Handgun
21-year-old A’Meyah T. Brewton died when her boyfriend, 20-year-old Isaiah Cole shot her in the head while the couple posed for selfies in front of a mirror on September 13, 2020. Assistant State’s Attorney Robert Money said Cole was high on marijuana when he racked the slide to eject the round from the chamber, removed the magazine from his pistol and then re-inserted the … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: 6-year-old Jadaine Miller killed in Jamaica
A 15-year-old boy, a loaded and illegal handgun and 'play time'. What could possibly go wrong? Everything. On Monday, May 17, 2021, 6-year-old Jadaine Miller was killed while his 15-year-old relative played with an illegal handgun. When the handgun 'went off' a single bullet caught the boy in the neck, mortally wounding him. Jadaine Miller was pronounced dead on … [Read more...]
Pennsylvania : 13-year-old boy murders 12-year-old sister
On March 19, 2021, in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 13-year-old Jah’sir Vasquez pointed a loaded handgun at his 12-year-old sister Jasiyah and pulled the trigger. "Mom, Jah shot me!" Jasiyah screamed before falling to the ground, a single gunshot wound to her chest. How did this 13-year-old get his hands on a loaded handgun? His mother, Daisy Vasquez, asked him to … [Read more...]
Negligent Discharge: Felon Shoots Himself in the Hand, Claims He Was Carjacked
Bad things can happen while carelessly playing with a loaded handgun. And when you're a convicted felon illegally possessing that loaded handgun, well, fear is a pretty normal emotion to feel when you shoot yourself in the hand and you stand there watching the hole in your hand bleed all over the floor. This is the stuff projectile vomiting is made of, especially when you … [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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
When is Police Brutality NOT Police Brutality? When the Judge Says So…
RCMP Constable Andy Yung is a real piece of work. And by that I mean he is the type of man we really don't want patrolling our streets armed with a badge, a gun and the power to do as he pleases. He first hit my radar a few years ago when in a drunken fit he fired his service pistol through the ceiling of his hotel room. At the time he was one of a supposedly select group … [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...]
Canada’s Two-Tier Justice System is Alive and Well… One Law for the RCMP, Another for the Rest of Us
Gotta love Canada. The land where RCMP constables commit crimes with impunity, crimes that would garner any mere citizen with a lengthy prison sentence. Take, as today's example, the case of RCMP Constable Andy Yung. For his crime, firing his service pistol and launching a round through the ceiling into the room above him while he was providing security at the 2008 … [Read more...]
Cops shooting cops… just NOT a good idea
News coming out of Columbus, Ohio is not very good. Sgt. Michael Mourne was shot by fellow officer Stephen Lazar as the team was exiting their vehicle to serve a search warrant. The admonition “Keep your finger OFF the trigger until you are ready to shoot” is one that I drilled into then heads of my firearms students so often they get sick of hearing it. There’s a reason … [Read more...]
There’s a reason WHY we say “Be Sure of your Target”!
One of the primary rules of shooting is to be sure of your target (what you’re shooting at) and beyond. It’s so you KNOW what it is that you’re about to send hot lead into! Apparently someone missed their “Firearms Training 101”. In a bizarre story coming out of Africa, a young female member of the Youth Corps was shot by the Headmaster of the Mbube Comprehensive … [Read more...]
Just tell the truth, painful as it might be, okay?
Telling the truth isn't always easy. Sometimes it's downright hard, actually. Especially when you've screwed up, and screwed up really bad. You know, like shooting yourself in your bullet-proof vest because you were stupid enough to point your loaded firearm at your own body and pull the trigger. That's what [allegedly] happened to (soon-to-be former?) Los Angeles … [Read more...]