Idiot Reenactor

[TomHynes]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...n/7694521.html

Sure, we have all done this but most of us stop when only one or two of the spectators have holes in them.

[meaty-btz]

Western style shooting will put out a whole cylinder of rounds before you can say whopse.

[Us3rName]

oh damn that sucks...

[Seesm]

How does one do this?? I mean was he THAT dumb?

[stix213]

How do you not know you have real ammo?

[Spaceghost]

He shot people and they they charged him with what?

[stix213]

He shot people and they they charged him with what?

Apparently he is a felon in addition to being an idiot (big surprise). So they are just going after illegal possession of a firearm by a felon, and not for anything related to his "accident."

[Uriah02]

Do stupid things win stupid prizes. I have a feeling he didn't check the cyclinder to see if there were blanks loaded...

[alfred1222]

How do you not know the difference between live rounds and blanks? did he not load his own gun

[CSACANNONEER]

How do you not know the difference between live rounds and blanks? did he not load his own gun

I've told more than one girl that I was shooting blanks so that no extra precautions needed to be taken. They never knew the difference.

[terrapinflyer25]

Wow. Thats a shame hope those people are ok. Be cool about firearm safety.

[brassburnz]

I was listening to the news in my car and it said the guy borrowed the guns and didn't know they were loaded with live rounds.

[stix213]

I've told more than one girl that I was shooting blanks so that no extra precautions needed to be taken. They never knew the difference.

I had to read that twice before I picked up on the context

I must be tired, end of the day.

[HCz]

Seems like the organizers who put the re-enactment together did not run a background check and had a lax system.

From 6/20

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/communities/article_30f5c188-9af4-11e0-8c9a-001cc4c03286.html

Ellis said the encounter seemed like an accident but that he was unnerved to learn of another incident in the same city and show in 2001.

[jamesob]

He was recreating and not reenacting