Wife drops gun in McDonald's, husband shot

[Robb]

Wife drops gun in Bend McDonald's, husband shot

BEND, Ore. — A Bend woman accidentally shot her husband when her Derringer fell out of her pocket, hit the floor and fired.

KTVZ reports it happened Thursday at a McDonald's restaurant, and about 15 other customers who were inside at the time were startled by the gunfire.

Lt. Chris Carney says 47-year-old Richard Lee Cooper and 48-year-old Barbara Annette Masters were in the dining area when she leaned forward and the gun hit the floor. The impact caused the .22-caliber gun to fire, hitting Cooper in the abdomen. He was taken to St. Charles-Bend hospital in serious condition.

Masters was cited on assault and reckless endangering charges and released.

No comment necessary (facepalm).

[elleng]

1. What could POSSIBLY go wrong???

[RC]

2. What!!?! No return fire?

[TheCowsCameHome]

3. Super-sized idiots.

[Historic NY]

34. W/ tiny POS guns...

[gordianot]

4. Darn don't you just hate it when that happens?

How embarrassing and it was just a meager 22 to boot. Yep you're going to shoot your eye out. Don"t take your guns to town.

[jmg257]

5. More armed dumb-asses in action. nt

[PDJane]

6. Why in HELL do people carry these things without a holster?

If I were going to carry, I would not put the damn thing in a pocket!

[Arkansas Granny]

7. And I'll bet that up until the moment that the bullet left the barrel of the gun,

she considered herself to be a responsible gun owner.

[PD Turk]

8. Carrying a pistol requires care

Carrying an antique like this one requires even more care and caution. What a dumbass.

[kestrel91316]

9. This NEVER would have happened if everyone in that McDonalds had been armed.

[pinboy3niner]

12. THEIR dropped guns could have returned fire on the 1st or 2nd bounce

[benld74]

10. Take ME to McDonald's on MY BIRTHDAY?! We'll see about that,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,!!!!

[Elwood P Dowd]

11. That Derringer was trained and paid to do that by Obama.

It's all part of his communist, fascist, leftest, Islamic plan, to take away our guns and put all the white people in FEMA camps.

[OldDem2012]

13. That'll teach him to try to snatch her fries! nt.

[libtodeath]

14. But but but according to the NRA everyone should carry a gun and we all will be safe.

[NCTraveler]

15. Down here in Florida we have a saying for this....

If you can't keep it in your pants, keep it in the family.

[ZombieHorde]

27. Ha! Good one. nt

[Canuckistanian]

42. Hahaha

Ayup. Sounds like Florida.

[Dr Fate]

16. If only a good-guy with a gun had been there to stop her....

...this tradgedy would have been avoided.

[OregonBlue]

17. Given that it was McDonald's, it could easily have been a child. Will it never end.

[Blaukraut]

18. Good thing the husband got shot and not some innocent bystander

It could just as easily have been a child.

[Taverner]

19. Yeah, guns keep you safe alright

[libodem]

20. If ya play with fire...

Facepalm is right.

[oneshooter]

21. No holster, safety off, BIG FAIL!

[Ilsa]

22. Thank goddess it didn't hit a child on the big playset.

This business of toting guns around like a lipstick or pocketknife is ridiculously dangerous.

[marmar]

23. Darwin's Nightmare

nt

[seabeyond]

24. this is what pisses me off with all the guns in public. what about our right not getting shot cause

someone drops their damn gun.

[toddwv]

25. If he was carrying a gun,

this never would have happened because more guns = better!

[Common Sense Party]

26. "That's what you get for not taking me to Red Lobster, ya cheap bastid!"

[rdharma]

28. No comment necessary (facepalm).

Actually, this calls for a DOUBLE FACEPALM!

[samsingh]

29. maybe if he had a gun he could have shot her

sarcasm off

gun owning morons

[one_voice]

30. Freakin' dumbass.

[alcibiades_mystery]

31. Thaaaaaat's a shame

...

[Kalidurga]

32. Well at least she was charged.

I wonder if the insurance is going to pay that bill though. Do they pay out for stuff that is totally avoidable?

[NBachers]

33. Let's think about all the money, people, and resources it takes to respond to this dumb behavior

"No one's entitled to gubmint-run health care exsept fer me when I need it!"

[think]

35. FWIW

I hope the husband & his wife are ok.

[cbrer]

36. Accidentally?! nt

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. WTF. Are these guns that dangerous? Is there no way to lock them

so if they are dropped they won't go off?

[DFW]

38. Ya see? THIS is why the NRA wants EVERYONE to have a gun.

If the husband had had a gun in HIS pocket, then when he was hit, he could have dropped HIS gun on the floor and shot his wife right back.

[orleans]

39. omg! i'd recommend your post if i could

actually there were a couple on this thread that i would recommend.
thanks for the nearly four a.m. lol.

[DFW]

40. Full disclosure: it was nearly 10 AM here (CET) when I wrote it

I'm not always very coherent at 4 AM

[Downtown Hound]

41. Impossible! Obviously a conspiracy made up by anti-gun commies

to discredit law abiding gun owners. Everybody knows that concealed weapons carriers are totally responsible and we have nothing to fear from them.