Do not try to catch a dropped gun
Joshua Rimene, 21, was taking a shotgun down from a cupboard at his Masterton home in December last year when he dropped the loaded weapon.
He managed to catch the gun as it fell, but simultaneously pulled the trigger.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:04 am
Its an old book now, but Mas Ayoob always recommended storing shotguns with the chamber empty because none of the models at the time of his combat shotgun book (Stressfire II Copyright 1992) had drop safeties in place.
While I’m skeptical of the series 70 1911 actually dropping the prerequisite height and landing exactly on the muzzle to discharge, a shotgun falling a distance and landing on the butt for a slam-fire doesn’t seem unreasonable.
I don’t know my shotgun mechanics well at all, so I don’t know the validity of this.
March 15th, 2012 at 10:42 am
The Judge ordered the shotgun destroyed. Haha, like a bad dog.
March 15th, 2012 at 2:13 pm
Who stores a shotgun in the cupboard anyways?
ps – Cross-bar safety is your friend.