Rule, err, not sure
Man shoots self in the head with a Hummer mounted Gatling gun.
Update: folks at subguns.com say police list it as a shooting death. So, I doubt the guy shot himself.
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September 13th, 2007 at 9:54 am
“FRONT TOWARDS ENEMY”? I know, I know, this is nothing to laugh about.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:04 am
I’ll take a wild guess – rules 1 and 2.
September 13th, 2007 at 10:11 am
“EVERY GUN IS LOADED”
I gotta say, I would not have presumed that someone would leave a loaded MiniGun unattended…
September 13th, 2007 at 10:12 am
how??? It’s not physically possible to shoot yourself with that long of a barrel, is it??
September 13th, 2007 at 11:35 am
If it was fired for a time and then stopped, it may very well have cooked a round off.
The guy could also have *possibly* manually rotated the barrel, depends on teh engineering.
September 13th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
Unattended loaded gun. He might have played with it or he might simply have been downwind when someone else touched it or it cooked a round off.
September 13th, 2007 at 2:55 pm
I agree with the others – it had to be a gun left with at least one round loaded that was thought to be unloaded. Thus a Rule 1 violation.
Whether it cooked off, he managed to rotate the barrel and that triggered it, or someone else thought it was unloaded, it’s all still “Rule 1”
September 13th, 2007 at 4:09 pm
Wasn’t a rule 1 violation, or at least not just one. He may well have thought or recognized that it could have been loaded, as could have all the folk in the area, and still gotten hurt.
The reason he got hurt was quite simple case of rule 3 : Never let the muzzle cover anything you are not willing to destroy. Sticking your head (something you don’t want to blow away) in front of the barrel of any gun is inherently unsafe until rule 1 is assured.
September 19th, 2007 at 8:58 pm
The article (or perhaps an updated one) says they were manually rotating the barrel while peering down the business end with a flashlight. Tragic though it is, that’s operator error.
When you rotate the barrel it puts a round into battery and fires just like it’s supposed to. They apparently thought that since it wasn’t hooked up to the power source it couldn’t fire.
In short, they didn’t realize that the firing pin is mechanical, not electrical.