Barney Fife strikes again

[Robert Scott]

https://news.yahoo.com/man-accidentally-fires-gun-hampton-011200476.html

[Merc]

That is why my hand gun of choice is a revolver.

[lyman]

never heard it in the show,, but there was a lot of comments,
police said he was very remorseful, apparently he had removed the mag, but did not have trigger discipline, (one comment made by LEO)

nothing hurt but the carpet in the lobby,

[Robert Scott]

never heard it in the show,, but there was a lot of comments,
police said he was very remorseful, apparently he had removed the mag, but did not have trigger discipline, (one comment made by LEO)

nothing hurt but the carpet in the lobby,

So you were at the Hampton show?

If it can happen to Barney it can happen to anyone...

[lyman]

I do every one,

one of the better shows in VA, (had a good weekend)

had a ND at the Nations Gun Show back in the fall, dude did not check his firearm, ,dropped a mag, and pulled the trigger by accident,
put a divot in the floor, and the ricochet cut a guy on the leg,

[Allen]

Miss that show. I still watch the old episodes but pretty much have every word memorized.

[Robert Scott]

I watch that show (2 eposides) on Me tv almost every night. My mother's family was from Statesville Nc, just south of mt. Airy. Mom had a teacher at Chapel Hill that taught Andy.
Dad went to school with Roman Gabriel at NC state , said he was a real womanizer...

[mtnboomer]

Actually, the reason Andy only gave Barney one bullet was because that's all he needed.

Despite the Fife character's hot-headedness, and nervous demeaner, he was supposed to be an Army-trained crack shot with a pistol.

Yeah, just some stupid Andy Griffith trivia.

[Allen]

Yeah, just some stupid Andy Griffith trivia.

OK, for trivia think about this:

Andy and Barney were sheriff and sheriff's deputy. This would have been for the whole county yet they seldom mention police work in other towns. They pretty much never left Mayberry.

The mayor was Andy's boss on the show. This is not the case in real life. The mayor is the boss of a town's police chief, not the county sheriff. I read just last year or so that was one of the things Andy Griffith hated about the show---he didn't want a boss and by rights didn't have one.

Mayberry had NO police department but having their own PO, bank and mayor it could be assumed Mayberry would have been an incorporated town (if real).

[dryheat]

'Inspectors' at the show shouldn't allow anyone in line to "mess" with the pistol. When Bubba shows up with a pistol on his belt that should be a little signal. Carefully hand it over to the inspector.

Who hasn't removed the magazine and then pulled the trigger? About a million people, me included, and my brother, and a friend of mine, and a buddy who is a safety instructor. That's just in my little world.
Revolvers aren't perfectly safe either. You've got six rds. in the cylinder. You cock the pistol. How do you letter hammer down without setting off a rd.? Very carefully. It's not like in the movies, like where what's his name got his training.

When I was a kid, Boy Scouts and high school kids managed to use firearms and not hurt any humans(mostly). Now, you can't draw a chalk picture of a gun and misaligned kids shoot little children because they are all twisted up from not playing outside enough.
Anyway, I've been witness to two(whatever that term is) shootings at a gunshow(Phoenix). Both resulted in an innocent person getting wounded. Really, it doesn't happen all that often.

[Art]

[QUOTE=dryheat;646750] Who hasn't removed the magazine and then pulled the trigger? About a million people, me included, and my brother, and a friend of mine, and a buddy who is a safety instructor. That's just in my little world. [QUOTE]

An inconvenient but true statement. This dangerous reversing of the unloading sequence (including extracting and ejecting the one in the barrel and then dropping the magazine) just takes one absent minded moment. It's also the rationale behind the magazine safety. I once saw a member of a US Army pistol team, obviously not a novice, crank one off into the dirt on the range after doing exactly what dryheat describes. He and "gunshow boy" were both following the most important rule: "Never point a firearm at something you aren't willing to destroy." That is something you are intending to shoot or, if not, is "expendable." I consider the baseboard a good choice when unloading if you're inside.

[QUOTE] Revolvers aren't perfectly safe either. You've got six rds. in the cylinder. You cock the pistol. How do you letter hammer down without setting off a rd.? Very carefully. It's not like in the movies, like where what's his name got his training. [QUOTE]

The LEO approved method back when almost all cops carried a "wheel gun" went like this: With an loaded cocked revolver in your right hand place your left thumb between the hammer and the frame,. With your left thumb in position press the trigger and and controlling the hammer with your right thumb lower it until it contacts your left thumbnail. Remove your left thumb and lower the hammer controlling it with your right thumb until it comes to the resting (uncocked) position.

It is also important to count your bullets in addition to checking your charge holes when you unload a revolver. A common cause of revolver "negligent discharges," especially with small frame revolvers, is having a live round catch on the grip or extractor button and drop back into the cylinder when it is closed after "unloading." Failing to count the rounds can make you truly an accident waiting to happen.

So revolvers aren't perfectly safe (nothing is) but they are safer.

[Allen]

I was watching "Blazing Saddles" the other night and noticed that every time a close up was shown of someone about to shoot their SA Colt the hammer was down.

Not that this show is known for realism and at least they didn't pull any Alec Baldwins.

[Art]

I was watching "Blazing Saddles" the other night and noticed that every time a close up was shown of someone about to shoot their SA Colt the hammer was down.

Not that this show is known for realism and at least they didn't pull any Alec Baldwins.

You'll notice this movie unreality a lot with single action auto loading pistols as well.

[Allen]

You'll notice this movie unreality a lot with single action auto loading pistols as well.

All Hollywood guns are auto loading and NEVER run out of ammo (unless they are scripted to do so).

Once upon a time decades ago I watched a "part" of a hokey Steven Segal movie where he held up 2 MP-5's and shot them while walking down a dark hallway to give him light like a torch. In reality he would have about 2 seconds (or less) of "not so bright" lighting.