The real hero is the loss prevention employee who dived for the gun and knocked it down.
Nothing says ‘overwhelming brainpower’ like turning shoplifting into attempted murder.
Especially of a cop, because rightly or wrongly, our justice system just will NOT let violence against a cop go.
Oklahoma woman holding baby shot and killed by man shooting targets two blocks away.
When told that his shooting might have caused the woman’s death, Adams became “became visibly upset and began to cry,” according to the affidavit. A deputy told him that “there was nothing behind his property to stop any bullets from traveling beyond his property and hurting someone."
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/us/oklahoma-target-practice-christmas-shooting-hnk
That idiot violated one of Jeff Cooper’s four safety rules: Know what your target is, and what’s behind it.
Does anyone need some guy named Jeff Cooper to realize that?
I’m pretty sure that my grandpap predated this Cooper fella, and he had the same rules.
Well, regardless of the origination of the saying (which probably predates firearms, and likely involves some version of a friend getting a fire-hardened wood spear in the tuchus or worse), it’s a perfect fit for the thread. Stupid, stupid gun news from someone who should have known better.
The numbnuts pulling a gun on a cop, that was more calculated evil AND stupidity - you went in for a crime, you brought a gun, PAUSE, What did you THINK would happen dumbass?!?!
..the gracious provision of God’s protection.
According to thei official statement.
(Next police bumper sticker: God is my bullet-proof vest.)
It certainly isn’t good police work.How can you miss a gun that large in any pat down? Why even bother if you’re not going to check?
30+ years ago, my wife was checking the mail when a broad point arrow embedded itself into the mailbox post. Some teens came strolling up looking for the errant arrow - they had been target shooting in their backyard and one got away from them. They were suitably abashed and yelled at. Never found another arrow, presumably they learned their lesson.
No matter how obvious something may seem, there’s always someone who doesn’t see it.
If competency was a requirement, the gun industry would go bankrupt.
Look how badly many people drive.
Yeah, so someone has to write it down in one place. The story of every safety warning, because a lot of people need to be told what they should have known.
When I’m in the mood for some morbid news I lurk on fark.com. Usually at least half the stories on Main could be posted either here or in the Stupid MFs thread. I’ve refrained to do so until now, but with this one I just can’t help it.
Driver shoots self, hits pedestrian on Detroit’s west side before crashing, dying
Pedestrian expected to survive
The story says police think the driver shot himself by accident.
Safety tip: hand on the wheel, not the trigger.
Richmond, Va., police executed a search warrant after social media video and the city’s ShotSpotter technology led officers to a home where a man was filmed firing celebratory gunshots on New Year’s Eve. Sources say William McGriff has been charged with possession of a gun by a convicted felon and reckless use of a firearm.
Apparently no injuries reported.
Everything else about this video notwithstanding, check out the professional shotgun handling around 1:20 in.
I’m not American, but I do come from a country that went through an insurrection.
I am a white Zimbabwean, and I was only 5 at the time, but my Dad taught me how to disable the FN-AL and the Uzi he typically carried in our car (every white male over 18 was subject to conscription at the time)
My dad was a sharp-shooter in his time in the boy scouts, but utterly uninterested in using his talents in the war.
He only carried the weapons because he was a) required to as he has in active service (back line, he was color blind) , and b) we occasionally traveled in convoys… Which was kind of cool for a 4 year old boy. I got to see all this military stuff.
I had no idea what it meant. But I know how to drop a mag and clear the chamber even more than 40 years later.
Is that actually a shotgun? Because just after he tossed the tear gas cannister (or whatever it was), I was alarmed to see that he fired it, seemingly randomly into a crowd. Could it have had non-lethal rounds?
I remember being in a meeting with two of my dear colleagues, both refugee doctors. I made a remark about Kalashnikov, who had just died. They shared a glance, and simultaneously went through the motions of putting an imaginary AK-47 together and getting it fire ready. As it turned out, I was the only woman at the table who didn’t receive this training in primary school. One was from the former USSR, the other from Somalia. Both had fled violence.
They could both do it within a minute, thirty years after.They shared that they were happy for me that I grew up in an environment where this wasn’t necessary, and I agreed. Although developments make me wonder how long that will be the case (I’m in Western Europe).
Maybe pepper balls? Too small for beanbag rounds, I think.
Nonetheless, did he not have a sling for it?