How is having a gun in the car the most fucked up thing that happened here?
He looks fucking braindead
That's not what he said, though. Obviously if you're going to carry a gun in your vehicle you should have it somewhere the three year old can't get it, I think that goes without saying. Unfortunately you don't need a CCW license to keep a gun in your vehicle. That seems like an easy solution.
According to the probable cause affidavit, the worker said Brazier
came out of the store and asked, “What’s going on?” and grabbed the
mother and asked her, “Did you shoot yourself?”
Sounds like one hell of an asshole shithead poo-brain to me.
Imagine leaving a firearm unattended in a vehicle with two children and a pregnant woman and not informing the pregnant woman "yo there's a fucking gun here dog, just saying, might wanna be sure it doesn't get popped off by one of these kids."
I am pretty sure that it's not allowed to leave a loaded gun without the safety on lying around like that
Pretty much no state has a law in regards to having a safety on. Federally it's illegal to leave a firearm within open access of a child. If I child wasn't present though what he did wouldn't have been breaking any laws.
In regards to having a loaded gun in the car it depends on the state. Some states don't have any laws on it, others require you to have a carry permit to just have it in the passenger compartment.
Regardless of your stance on guns, having a firearm that's got one in the chamber, regardless of other safety mechanisms, just tossing about in your car within easy reach of small children is absolutely negligent at best. Guy's a complete fucking moron and tbh deserves to be charged for this.
Manual safeties are also relatively rare for pistols.
I think he asked if she shot herself to make sure there is no active threat around, as in, a shooter.
This sounds like the plot of a Simpsons episode..
Seems both the mother and the unborn baby survived though. Very lucky.
Most semi-automatic pistols have some kind of external safety. The Glock is the only one that comes to mind that doesn't but I guess that is an entire series of pistols.
But yeah I mean a safety is pretty easy even for a toddler to use. If it were just in a place where the kid couldn't get to it, it would have been fine, but I could see some people deciding that if it's that difficult to reach, they would have a hard time getting to it if they needed it. Could have just put it in the glove compartment and locked it.
Personally if I did that I wouldn't keep a round in the chamber. Imagining that thing bumping around under a seat or something with a round sitting in the chamber, even if it has an internal safety that blocks the firing pin as most modern pistols do, would make me really nervous.
Not really.
XD's lack them, sigs usually lack them, The M&P series goes back and forth, Ruger goes back and forth, Walther generally lacks them, etc etc.
FN likes them and so does H&K, but those are almost exclusively high end guns.
I favor external safeties, because what fucking moron thought it would be a good idea to place a "safety" on the trigger. I don't even have a decent analogy to express how stupid that is.
I still wonder how there are so many accidents like these with kids involved.
Agree wholeheartedly, just never really noticed many pistols without external safeties, but then again I don't pay that much attention to modern, civilian market pistols. Pretty much all military semi-auto pistols throughout the 20'th century to today have some kind of external safety, I don't know why people think civilians should just rely on trigger discipline and drop safeties. Incredibly stupid. Makes sense for revolvers but not automatic pistols. I'm not a real big fan of the Glock for that reason, even though I own one and it's a good pistol otherwise. I'd never keep a round in the chamber in that thing because the trigger safety is a joke.
Because people don't teach their kids that they're dangerous and can kill people, and some people, like this idiot, keep them within reach of children with rounds in the chamber, I guess thinking they're not strong enough to work the trigger or something. Children are naturally curious so if they see something new or interesting they're going to want to play with it and a lot of people think that they can just not teach them what these things are and then hide them and there'll never be a problem, but shit happens and when the kid gets an opportunity to mess with this strange new object they'll often take it. These parents would be better to straight up tell the kid what these things are and how dangerous they are so that if someone slips up and the child has access to it, they know what they are and what they're getting into. It really demystifies guns if they're taught about them at an early age, not taking them out shooting mind you but teaching them what they are and what they do.
I've been around guns my entire life and I never once wanted to just pull one out and play around with it because my parents taught me about them and made it very clear that they were extremely dangerous and they kept them all out of reach in case my obstinate little ass decided to play with them anyway. I didn't want to, though, because they kind of scared the shit out of me from what my parents told me about them and watching my dad shoot them. I didn't get real interested in them until my late-ish teens, and my parents made me take a gun safety class.
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