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Man taking trash to dumpster with gun slips, shoots and kills self accidentally, police say (www.ksat.com)

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A man taking his trash to an apartment dumpster was shot and killed after he slipped while walking and the gun he was carrying went off accidentally, according to San Antonio police.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That only works if the gun has one (a large minority of them don't)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wat? That's like a maliciously clever way to make people earn a Darwin Award.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Many modern guns have internal safeties that stop the gun going off from being dropped or what not, but have no external safety to prevent the trigger being pulled. Like Glocks.

They don't always work, though. Also older guns and revolvers don't have jack shit because they're either older than the safety lock or a safety lock wouldn't work anyway.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

And those old guns are pretty cool, too. You don't carry them tho. You put them in your collection.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

According to this article, the gun likely fired when dropped.