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Negligent Discharge
Here is a copy of my post from another forum, on this subject, in the hopes it may help you from becoming too complacent, thinking this will never happen to you.
"In 50+ years of handling many kinds of firearms, safely, you get pretty confident that this sort of incident will not happen to you. But it did.
Several years ago, I bought some .380 auto snap caps. They were reloads, without powder, and a hard, red silicon where the primer should be, and FMJ bullets. They looked real, except for the red primers, and I liked them for practice with the Lyserlite target, and to mix into the live ammo at the range to check for flinch when I squeezed the trigger.
In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. One day, with the laser stuffed in the muzzle, I chambered a live round, and checking to make sure the laser worked, I blew the laser insert to smithereens in the carpet by my foot.
No serious harm was done, except to my ego, because the gun was pointed in a safe direction. Those too real looking snap caps went into the garbage, after that.
Of course it was my fault. The how and why don't change that. Frankly, I don't know where the live round came from. Just the fact that it looked like one of the snap caps kept me from double checking. That's not an excuse, just a fact."
"In 50+ years of handling many kinds of firearms, safely, you get pretty confident that this sort of incident will not happen to you. But it did.
Several years ago, I bought some .380 auto snap caps. They were reloads, without powder, and a hard, red silicon where the primer should be, and FMJ bullets. They looked real, except for the red primers, and I liked them for practice with the Lyserlite target, and to mix into the live ammo at the range to check for flinch when I squeezed the trigger.
In retrospect, I should have seen it coming. One day, with the laser stuffed in the muzzle, I chambered a live round, and checking to make sure the laser worked, I blew the laser insert to smithereens in the carpet by my foot.
No serious harm was done, except to my ego, because the gun was pointed in a safe direction. Those too real looking snap caps went into the garbage, after that.
Of course it was my fault. The how and why don't change that. Frankly, I don't know where the live round came from. Just the fact that it looked like one of the snap caps kept me from double checking. That's not an excuse, just a fact."
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