A firearm safety lesson ended up with two people shot. Not The Onion

[Siwsan]

Two people hurt after gun jammed, then went off

An apparent firearms safety session went awry over the weekend and left a man and woman with gunshot wounds.

Deputies from the Saginaw County Sheriff’s Office were called to the 19000 block of Brady Road in Chapin Township about 4:10 p.m. on Feb. 23.

When deputies arrived, they said they found two people with gunshot wounds - a 47-year-old Midland man and a 23-year-old woman from Saginaw.

"He had been shot in the left hand and it was a through the hand and out the arm situation," Saginaw County Sheriff William Federspiel said. "She had gunshot fragment wounds in the stomach area."

Investigators said the 47-year-old man was teaching the woman and another man firearm safety when the firearm the woman was using became jammed. The instructor went to clear the jam, and the firearm went off. The bullet hit the instructor in the left hand and fragmented, those fragments then hit the woman in the stomach.

https://www.wnem.com/news/two-people-hurt-after-gun-jammed-then-went-off/article_79913138-5694-11ea-bf5c-fbd96c6dac1c.html

[mitch96]

1. The stupid runs deep in this one..

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[NutmegYankee]

4. I'm partial to the musical version.

[Totally Tunsie]

6. LOL - Much better!

[Crunchy Frog]

2. Probably best to learn firearm safety before trying to teach it.

[safeinOhio]

3. Talked to a guy at a flea market in Adrian Mi. a few years ago.

Old guy had a cast on his left hand, he explained he shot himself while cleaning his semi-auto hand gun. Then he told me he has been a NRA firearms safety instructor for 36 years.

[NutmegYankee]

5. It's complacency.

They get careless or stop doing the checks because "it can't happen to them, they are too well trained".

[sir pball]

8. I'm not entirely sure that's what happened here

The woman holding the gun could likely have been pulling the trigger constantly, it's not an uncommon reaction to a jam/misfire that I've seen in neophytes more than once. It's why I always stand behind and to the right, and immediately grab their wrist and keep the weapon pointed in a safe direction before anything else.

[ManiacJoe]

7. The Four Rules of Firearm Safety.

Violate one of them, and you will scare some people.
Violate two or more, and people will probably get shot.