ND with injury by traveling hunter at airport
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This. I also never understood what makes an airport somehow a sacred place where weapons are more strictly forbidden than a school (metal detectors, body scanners, handjobs, etc). Sure, airplanes have been targeted a couple times, and you're in tight confines for hours with hundreds of complete strangers... but the same goes for restaurants, or Walmart for that matter.
PrairieCajun
Ima let dat pass dis time
I have never had an ND nor do I know anyone personally that has. Sucks, but I had a CCW instructor tell my entire class that if you handle handguns that "you will" have an ND and I just don't believe it. I believe most gun owners never experience a neg discharge. Tell me if I'm an over safe idiot or if the rest of the gun world agrees with the former.
ABC26 interviewed some randoms in the airport.
http://www.abc26.com/videobeta/81fe...Airport-Injures-A-United-Ticket-Counter-Emplo
"Everybody has first amendment rights."
At least they titled him a traveler and not a Louisiana Native 
We are all held responsible for stuff like this. This is not the first time that something like this has happened in a US Airport, either.
Let's wait for Zelenka to get the real details before we go ballistic.
Meantime, We are responsible for our own actions and negligence.
Let's wait for Zelenka to get the real details before we go ballistic.
Meantime, We are responsible for our own actions and negligence.
Anyone can have an ND. I know plenty of cops, SWAT guys, and more than a few federal agents that have had NDs. Much like this guy they were very familiar with weapons, and familiarity CAN breed a loss of appreciation of the danger and a lack of respect for the weapon.
I think your CCW instructor said it that way because obviously anyone can have an ND and if you forget that, you will have an ND.
He is a good friend of my FIL and I also know him pretty well. Pretty strong hunting and gun activist. I got some details tonight:
He was leaving for an African safari and had the rifle in a soft case inside of a locked hard case. He believed it to be unloaded. He was asked by UA employee to remove it completely and "demonstrate" that it was unloaded. Not sure exactly what he did to show this...I was told (before seeing the thread or pictures) that he pointed it downward and said "of course it is unloaded". I can only assume that he pulled the trigger. Accidents happen, but this shouldn't have.
I've been told that he is mortified and embarrassed that he could have done such a thing. The FIL followed it with the safety speech, that sometimes the extractors don't remove the casing and that the barrel should be visibly inspected.
Called a few friends in the area who also know him and they were shocked that it was him.
He was leaving for an African safari and had the rifle in a soft case inside of a locked hard case. He believed it to be unloaded. He was asked by UA employee to remove it completely and "demonstrate" that it was unloaded. Not sure exactly what he did to show this...I was told (before seeing the thread or pictures) that he pointed it downward and said "of course it is unloaded". I can only assume that he pulled the trigger. Accidents happen, but this shouldn't have.
I've been told that he is mortified and embarrassed that he could have done such a thing. The FIL followed it with the safety speech, that sometimes the extractors don't remove the casing and that the barrel should be visibly inspected.
Called a few friends in the area who also know him and they were shocked that it was him.
^^This^^
Sarcasm overload.
Yep, I guess my Sarcasm Detector© was broken.
I think what your CCW instructor was trying to teach was that it can happen to anyone, and it WILL happen if you become complacent. If you accept the fact that even you, or me, or any "over safe idot" can have a ND, then you might stay on your toes and never become complacent.
