Investigators conducted an analysis of the gun and found that there were worn joints and the trigger control was not functioning properly. [More]
Who?
So that’s what those “new facts” were!
[Via Geordan]
Notes from the Resistance
Charges have been dropped against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of his Western movie “Rust” after “new facts” surfaced in recent days, officials said Thursday. [More]
Thank goodness! Now he can get back to lecturing the rest of us on “commonsense gun safety laws”!
In the absence of evidence showing deliberate misbehavior on the part of the armorer, would it be out of line to wonder how much those “new facts” cost?
[Via several of you]
A Newport News grand jury has indicted the mother of the 6-year-old who shot his first grade teacher at Richneck Elementary in January. Deja Taylor has been charged with felony child neglect and misdemeanor recklessly leaving a loaded firearm so as to endanger a child. [More]
Good. Just as if she’d left anything else a child could hurt himself or others with in easy reach.
Stupid ****s like her are the reason the grabbers push “lock up your safety” diktats on the rest of us.
Any bets she’s not a Democrat?
[Via Mack H]
Engel said that Malone was right-handed and as the officer smashed the victim’s vehicle window with the baton in his right hand, the firearm in his left hand discharged with a bullet striking Poulin. “There was no intention to pull the trigger,” Engel said. [More]
Is “the firearm… discharged” anything like “the gun went off“?
Funny… every time I’ve practiced weak hand shooting it hasn’t made me forget Cooper’s Rules. Then again, I’ve never had the professional training to assess a situation dangerous enough to draw a gun on a suspect with that hand, either.
[Via smitty]
This may explain why “FEMALE FIREARMS INSTRUCTORS, QUALITY PRODUCTS FOR WOMEN [are] IN DEMAND MORE THAN EVER“: Possibly because when they go to the same range with their criminal boyfriends, disaster ensues.
[Via Remarks]
Impressive, how he managed to achieve the same results with less professional training.
[Via WiscoDave]
The daughter of a Southwest Side alderman was shot in the leg last week during a concealed carry class taught by her father — the same alderman who shot himself in the hand last October. [More]
I wonder if Lori will finally call…?
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Authorities said Lopez left a loaded .45 pistol in his living room when he went to bed. The following morning, officials said the 6-year-old boy found the gun and began playing with it when it went off, killing him. [More]
Tragic. Outrageous. If he’s an otherwise decent human being, he’ll suffer hell on earth for the rest of his life.
And it’s so unnecessary. We raised two boys. Rational coexistence simply isn’t that hard to attain.
[Via bondmen]
A Homeland Security agent and his friend were accidentally shot at a wine tasting in Florida when his gun fell to the ground, according to police. [More]
I need to up my training. Not being a professional, my wife and I have been going to a wine-tasting fundraiser for a group we support for many years now, and I haven’t even come close to shooting myself, let alone her along with me.
One question though: Is that what I think it is?

Anybody know if off-duty “Only Ones” are exempt?
[Via Remarks]
Police: 10-year-old son of Miami-Dade Corrections officer fatally shot at NE Miami-Dade apartment … “We have to be responsible, and again, go back to education and go back to gun safety, because it’s a great responsibility to have a firearm”… [More]
So what’s this?

[Via Steve T]
Sansom Park officer shot during active shooter training at elementary school … the third party provider supplied the equipment used and that there was no plan for there to be any live fire training. [More]
I wondered where Hannah Gutierrez Reed landed after her Rust gig folded…
[Via Michael G]
They say two instructors were doing a demonstration and one shot the other in the chest. [More]
I find it instructive that their first reaction was to run over “to the civilian side of the range.”
[Via Hammer Down Outdoors]
New Mexico district attorney may charge Alec Baldwin in ‘Rust’ shooting [More]
On the bright side, that’ll give Alec someone else to blame!