How dumb can that be.

I personally believe that firearm safety is not given enough importance in some areas.

Not sure if this is an issue in the US. I know of people who keep loaded rifles in their gun cabinets. Why? I can understand a loaded pistol for home defense. But why keep loaded hunting guns in the cabinet or vehicle?

Why does one keep a loaded & cocked gun in a vehicle. Here in NZ it is illegal. If a cop checked my car and found a loaded gun I could be in real serious trouble.

Muzzle down or you don't get in my vehicle.
I don't care if it is unloaded and bolt is out.

Had an '06 go off between my head and the other guys.
Smoked us both. I was 15, ears ringing and 80% loss of hearing in the ear since.

Hell of a price to pay for some asshole's stupidity.

George

How stupid can one get? There are no limits.

I know an ear, nose and throat surgeon that lost fingers in a pickup on a deer hunt in Utah to a loaded rifle in the cab.
Frightening, horrifying and terrible.
I just could not forgive myself, I'd never get over hurting someone with my negligence.
Take a moment, stop talking, think about what you are doing.

His explanation makes me wonder about the whole story.

But it is not the first time I have heard about a dog stepping on or jumping on a loaded shotgun causing them to discharge and shoot someone.

By the story it sounds like he had his loaded shotgun laying on the bed facing forward.

Strange to say the least.

A lot of states allow empty chamber loaded magazine in vehicles.

99 percent of LEO's carry their long guns in that configuration.

Unintentional discharges are rare.

When they do happen it is because someone did something stupide.

Please be care full and safe.

and now i know why NY we can't even legally lean a loaded firearm against a vehicle.

not something i ever did but just thought of it as an odd rule in the books

the stupid part comes in from whomever wrote that.
the dogs were in the back of the truck.
the gun was in the back seat pointing up.
the bullet is lodged in his lung.
come on..

according to the facts as written it isn't even possible for any of this to have happened.
UNLESS ol Gilligan there was using slugs to hunt rabbits.
the dog opened the door to the back seat of the truck and flipped the gun around on the seat and then pulled the trigger.

I know this ain't even remotely possible especially since my shot gun is sitting in the back seat of my truck right now pointing upwards.
neither of my idiot dogs can open the door nor flip the gun around and point it at the drivers seat.
there ain't enough room for that to physically happen.

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Originally posted by Scott King:
I know an ear, nose and throat surgeon that lost fingers in a pickup on a deer hunt in Utah to a loaded rifle in the cab.
Frightening, horrifying and terrible.
I just could not forgive myself, I'd never get over hurting someone with my negligence.
Take a moment, stop talking, think about what you are doing.

my original back dr. in the 80s hobby was big game hunting. africa, all north america. was getting out of his truck in new mexico to scope a mountain side and pulled his rifle out by the bbl that was lying on the seat and the seat belt buckle caught on the trigger and shot him in the stomach. he was carrying the damn rifle loaded and off safe.