I don't know whether to laugh or cry about this.
This DEA guy is trying to show a class of students about gun safety and shoots his own foot.
The part that I thought was funny was him saying "I'm the only one in this room professional enough to carry a glock 40," BANG!!!
Then the other part I thought was sorta funny was later when the guy goes to show the class another gun, a kid in the back yells "PUT IT DOWN!"
I am very supportive of guns, but I can't believe that this guy wouldn't have thoroughly checked the weapon before even bringing it into that setting. That was clearly stupid!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhIJOVD8hwY&feature=rec-fresh

We laughed about that for a long time when it happened. That boy is clearly a democrat and about a third as bright as Hogan's goat.
It's wise to unload your weapon before playing big shot with it.

Good thing it was only his foot and not someone in the class. One of these days I'm going to take that class from someone I know and trust. Have already found that 'someone', and he's been gracious enough to oblige. I just need to do it.

I wonder if he would consider teaching a class.

All those interested in holding shooting classes should get together and do their thing. This is the time shooters wait all year for. It's not hot and it's not cold, just pleasant.
I will be burning powder very soon.
My wife is going to have to get in there and qualify.

We will be in the woods this afternoon.Almost time to blast bambi.

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Originally posted by Mikenphiladelphia:
We will be in the woods this afternoon.Almost time to blast bambi.

Those using sticks and strings could legally start shooting Bambi yesterday.

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Originally posted by Tuffnuut2crak:

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Originally posted by Mikenphiladelphia:
We will be in the woods this afternoon.Almost time to blast bambi.

Those using sticks and strings could legally start shooting Bambi yesterday.

I am one of them but my wife says I can`t take a 3yo with me so I have to wait till tomorrow.I paid the extra 5 bucks to shoot a xbow.I hope to fill the freezer before it gets cold.I have to bring kids to the state fair this weekend and next we have a wedding in La.

Good luck to you and your son.If yall get to wanting to shoot somewhere different let me know.We have room this year.

Thanks for the invite. Might check into that later. I have a bow, but haven't used it in probably 6 or 7 years. I wouldn't mind getting back into bowhunting, but I hardly have time for it. LOL

My dad has a lot of area to hunt down in the top half of Jasper county around Hero. We'll probably be hunting down there. My son will be 7 in November and my dad says he's gonna get my son to kill a deer this year. My daughter is 15 now and killed her first deer last year hunting with me. It was really the first year she's been. I was a pretty proud papa. LOL. She made a great shot about 100 yds away.

Originally posted by Uri:
All those interested in holding shooting classes should get together and do their thing. This is the time shooters wait all year for. It's not hot and it's not cold, just pleasant.
I will be burning powder very soon.
My wife is going to have to get in there and qualify.
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To teach or learn? If it's the latter, I'd have thought she'd be close to the original Annie Oakley.

My wife needs to brush up on shooting. You can lose muscle memory if you go too long without cuttin' paper.
I doubt that I can perform as usual since the hospital crowd did that number on my hands and arms. They say I have developed Parkinson's disease. I know that's a damned lie.
I wonder if I can even stop an intruder. I use to pick the button on his shirt I wanted.
Oh well, I can still train dogs.

Your aim may not be as perfect as it once was, but that doesn't mean you've forgotten technique. You can still teach.

Sounds like the hospital is finding something other than themselves to blame.

One time at a military firing range I won't specify, a screwball but potentially deadly problem with the M-16 popped specifically on the firing range--when everybody was doing their annual firing range shooting to qualify with the M-16 (in semi-auto; "accidentally" flip the lever over to fully automatic,kiss your strips good-bye.) In the prone position, the hot, right-side-ejecting shell casings flew over onto the adjacent prone shooter and flipped to rest in places where they painfully burned unprotected skin--between the temple pieces of eyeglasses and skin on the side of the head,where I got one, or down opened shirt collars, opened cuffs of shirt sleeves. Until plexiglas shields were installed at each shooting position on the firing line,when you went to qualify with the M-16 you had better have your shirt collar and sleeve cuffs buttoned and your fatigue cap turned around backward for the bill to keep hot shell casings off the back of your neck.

Before any of that was done, one man shooting in the prone position in a line of others shooting to qualify got a hot ejected casing down his colllar and jumped to his feet while everyone was firing. Before te range officer could give te order to cease firing, the man, still jumping about due to the hot shell casing burning him in his shirt, accidentally fired his downward-pointing M-16 went into the concrete between him and the next prone shooter, blew out a good-size chunk of concrete. I was glad that wasn't my day to go to the range and qualify and not that man's same day to go, either...

This sounds like it was made up, but "they" do say truth is stranger than fiction.

Anything is possible, even the idiocy of a range master.
I can't imagine a 55 to 69 gr. 5.56 moving much concrete, but I wasn't there.
Our firing range is as safe as we make it.
My ears ring 24/7 due to an incident involving an M-60.
I've had many hot cases in my shirt and I'll agree that it's not always a fun thing. That's how I learned to do the twist.

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Originally posted by Uri:
Anything is possible, even the idiocy of a range master.
I can't imagine a 55 to 69 gr. 5.56 moving much concrete, but I wasn't there.
Our firing range is as safe as we make it.
My ears ring 24/7 due to an incident involving an M-60.
I've had many hot cases in my shirt and I'll agree that it's not always a fun thing. That's how I learned to do the twist.

"Good-sized chunk" may have been a little overdescriptive, as I can sometime be. The hole shot on the concrete was approximately 1/2" in diamete X 1/2" deep--nothing to sneeze at. It was that incident that resulted in plexiglas ejected hot case barriers being promptly installed at each shooting position on the range.

Since I never went to Vietnam or the "big sand" country, I'm glad that I only fired at paper targets which never fired back and gave me plenty of time to reload or clear a jam.

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Thank GOD no one was in the path of that ricochet.