By one of the counter employees ...

While standing at the gun counter looking at (and trying to talk myself into buying one of those used French S&W Model 10 revolvers with fugly rubber grips)...one of the other counter guys was messing with some boxed Glocks...when BANG!
Apparently one of the Glocks (used) had a round in the chamber and the counter guy failed to check it and pressed the trigger...putting a round into the back wall. The guy helping me almost jumped over the counter and I almost shit my pants...the ND guy was screaming that he was just unboxing some used guns and one went off...he didn't pull the trigger ...

There were quite a few people in the store...maybe three, including me, at the counter...I'm just glad nobody was hit by this dumbass's failure...it all happened so fast...

I didn't buy the French S&W.

I hope the guy was fired.

Holy crap. I know, treat every gun as loaded, but who would have thought that box would have a loaded gun. Absolutely stupid for not verifying but I can see how it would happen.

I’ve been in a store when a gun was discharged. Some idiot went to take a shit and shot the floor.

My reaction was, “was that what I think it was”

You being right there, I would have been startled too.

Damn, a gun went off all by it self.

Well, he said he didn't touch the trigger.

Maybe twice. Person accepting the used gun should have cleared.....?

I sorta went off calling bullshit on the guy and the manager (I assume) before I left...the thing is...on the shooting range side, BUD's is overboard if anything, on safety (with so many tourist who visit the area who rent range time with various firearms)...

This is the first time I have ever experienced such a thing as this at any store.

Always the empty gun. Bisleyblackhawk, I'm glad you were not hurt.

Looks like he won’t be getting that regional manager promotion.

He should've been thinking about baseball.

A woman shot her husband at a local range about 5 years ago. She accidentally placed a Glock with a chambered round in the case. The case had a post through the trigger well and as she placed the weapon in the case it depressed the trigger discharging the round. It was all on camera, her hands no where near the trigger. The husband survived.

I kinda take this as an omen on the French Smith revolvers...this is the second time I have mulled over buying one as of late...actually they look somewhat "worn" on the outside, but feel perfect...I think that if the ND thing had not happened I would have bought one today...I do wonder who or what was on the other side of the wall opposite the gun counter and how close someone came to being injured or worse. I will never again take for granted that counter people know what they are doing...right now I'm really thinking about today...

On a better note...I did pick up a couple Opinel #8 knives from Smoky Mountain Knife Works for Christmas gifts as well as an air mattress for myself from the Coleman outlet next door to Bud's...

When I worked at a gun shop in my 20s, I checked every guns..especially trade in and shipped guns. It was religiously drilled into you.

A few years later, I had a guy bring in a few guns. When I went to ch3ck them, the guy made a comment. “Those aren’t loaded! I’d never bring in a loaded gun.” Guess what popped out when I pulled the bolt back? Yep. A live round.

Safety first...always!

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Originally posted by Beanhead:
When I worked at a gun shop in my 20s, I checked every guns..especially trade in and shipped guns. It was religiously drilled into you.

A few years later, I had a guy bring in a few guns. When I went to ch3ck them, the guy made a comment. “Those aren’t loaded! I’d never bring in a loaded gun.” Guess what popped out when I pulled the bolt back? Yep. A live round.

Safety first...always!

Yeah I once had someone hand me an unloaded shotgun that had a live round in the chamber.

Never take someone's word for it. Nope. Make that nope a double, with a nope chaser.

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Originally posted by Bisleyblackhawk:
I kinda take this as an omen on the French Smith revolvers...this is the second time I have mulled over buying one as of late...actually they look somewhat "worn" on the outside, but feel perfect...I think that if the ND thing had not happened I would have bought one today...I do wonder who or what was on the other side of the wall opposite the gun counter and how close someone came to being injured or worse. I will never again take for granted that counter people know what they are doing...right now I'm really thinking about today...

On a better note...I did pick up a couple Opinel #8 knives from Smoky Mountain Knife Works for Christmas gifts as well as an air mattress for myself from the Coleman outlet next door to Bud's...

I actually want one of those Smiths, specifically for wax bullet shooting. Been trying to talk myself out of it.

I help a friend out at his shop here and there. Lady and her daughter came in one day to sell a pistol her late husband had bought from the shop just before he passed. From the conversation between them and the shop owner neither the mother or her daughter knew anything about guns in general or this pistol specifically.

So the daughter said that she would go out and get it. I stopped her and said that I would help her. So we get out to the car and open the trunk. I reach in and take the gun as the daughter said it was not loaded.

Drop the magazine, fully loaded. Rack the slide, round ejects. The look on her face was of shock.

We then go back inside. Her late husband was retired LEO and had bought the pistol the day before he passed of a heart attack so went the story. I ask the lady if she wanted me to unload the magazine which she agreed to. About halfway through one of the rounds was loaded backwards!

Anytime I take a gun in for work, for trade or to show I clear the chamber. Even if I just had it out five minutes before, when it comes off the shelf or out of the showcase it's checked.

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Originally posted by Puckpilot78:
He should've been thinking about baseball.

Ha!

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Originally posted by TigerDore:
I hope the guy was fired.

No, the gun was fired.

Here is another story where the gun shop/range employee was working on the gun when it just went off. But this time, it killed a customer. The rifle bullet went through a wall and hit the customer in the head as he just arrived at the the range that morning.

https://www.click2houston.com/...tomer-in-parking-lot

I asked to see a Beretta Bobcat at a gun show many years ago, and when I hit the barrel latch was surprised to find a round in it. The mag was full as well. Evidently, he had taken it in trade earlier and never checked it. It could have been bad news if some newb had asked to see it before me and pulled the trigger.