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Three People Injured in Florida Gun Range Mishap
- Thread starter Reptile
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Amen.
Wow, that's like a whole other type of russian roulette!
dwarven1
Lonely Mountain Arms
Damn, I wish I had your crystal ball. That must be one hell of a ball to let you figure that out all by yourself just from the newspaper article.
I'm psychic
Theory = Guess. It's hard to imagine the process getting launched without the dude having some contact with the gun. Either he was on the trigger, or he did a fast rack of the slide before handing it off. The article DID say he loaded it. Maybe it was space aliens. In any case, it shouldn't have gone WFO.
Theory = Guess. It's hard to imagine the process getting launched without the dude having some contact with the gun. Either he was on the trigger, or he did a fast rack of the slide before handing it off. The article DID say he loaded it. Maybe it was space aliens. In any case, it shouldn't have gone WFO.
Jennings poor manufacture aside...my guess is someone, either the kid with the gun or someone prior to him, doing a little modification to try to get this POS to shoot full auto. Can understand poor manufacture accounting for a drop fire or slam fire, but shooting several shots in a row? My guess is an amateur modification gone very bad.
blindndead
NES Member
more fuel for there fire
Gun control (or lack thereof) takes on new meaning at Florida shooting range
October 5, 2009 | 11:47 am
Guns don't kill people; people kill people.
That has been a popular refrain among opponents of stricter gun control. Well, it turns out that guns -- all by themselves -- can at least injure people.
In a bizarre incident at a Lakeland, Fla., practice facility on Saturday, a 9-millimeter handgun began shooting on its own while spinning in circles. Three people were injured and one, a 29-year-old tourist visiting the range with a friend, was struck in the shoulder and throat and as of Sunday night remained hospitalized in stable condition.
Bullets started flying moments after Michael Thourot had fired and reloaded the weapon, and set it down for his wife to use.
Sherri Thourot was struck in the back of her right arm and the bullet exited in the biceps area. Her bone was shattered. Michael Thourot was struck in the left hand. Gary Flynn was the unlucky tourist.
Sherri Thourot told the St. Petersburg Times she first noticed that her husband had been hit. "But I couldn't tell how bad," she said. "Then I realized I had been hit. My hand was bent forward and I couldn't move my arm."
The husband and wife were test-firing their new weapon at Saddle Creek Shooting Range.
-- Pete Thomas
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/out...reof-takes-on-new-meaning-at-tampa-range.html
Gun control (or lack thereof) takes on new meaning at Florida shooting range
October 5, 2009 | 11:47 am
Guns don't kill people; people kill people.
That has been a popular refrain among opponents of stricter gun control. Well, it turns out that guns -- all by themselves -- can at least injure people.
In a bizarre incident at a Lakeland, Fla., practice facility on Saturday, a 9-millimeter handgun began shooting on its own while spinning in circles. Three people were injured and one, a 29-year-old tourist visiting the range with a friend, was struck in the shoulder and throat and as of Sunday night remained hospitalized in stable condition.
Bullets started flying moments after Michael Thourot had fired and reloaded the weapon, and set it down for his wife to use.
Sherri Thourot was struck in the back of her right arm and the bullet exited in the biceps area. Her bone was shattered. Michael Thourot was struck in the left hand. Gary Flynn was the unlucky tourist.
Sherri Thourot told the St. Petersburg Times she first noticed that her husband had been hit. "But I couldn't tell how bad," she said. "Then I realized I had been hit. My hand was bent forward and I couldn't move my arm."
The husband and wife were test-firing their new weapon at Saddle Creek Shooting Range.
-- Pete Thomas
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/out...reof-takes-on-new-meaning-at-tampa-range.html
dwarven1
Lonely Mountain Arms
I don't recall cars getting banned when they'd "run away" all by themselves. We just have to deal with that stupid brake interlock where we have to have our foot on the brakes when we shift into drive.
Ralph tried
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I just file this under "stuff happens" and the more familiar with firearms the every day "joe" is, the harder it will be for questionable handling to do result in a tragedy...
Probably REAL event as reported!!
I found this info posted on another forum w/o attribution, so a little Google search shows where it came from (ATFE & IL SP Lab) as follows:
http://www.firearmsid.com/Recalls/FA_Recalls 2.htm (about 1/3 of the way down the page)
I found this info posted on another forum w/o attribution, so a little Google search shows where it came from (ATFE & IL SP Lab) as follows:
http://www.firearmsid.com/Recalls/FA_Recalls 2.htm (about 1/3 of the way down the page)
jennings
was the jennings gun of choice for police some yrs ago as a backup.it may be junk to you but there were many guns made cheaper then jennings when I grew up.and very few had S&W or COLTS.and most were police.if you look at the design you will see it is copy of many euopean countries guns.
was the jennings gun of choice for police some yrs ago as a backup.it may be junk to you but there were many guns made cheaper then jennings when I grew up.and very few had S&W or COLTS.and most were police.if you look at the design you will see it is copy of many euopean countries guns.
Titan
Banned
Apparently Jennnings went out of business as a result of a liability judgement against them and became Jimenez Firearms in 2004. Jimenez began again to make the Jennings models with new labelling and model numbers.
Here's a comment about their 9mm...
Link to Jimenez (Jennings)
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Here's a comment about their 9mm...
Link to Jimenez (Jennings)
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