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

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Simple. A gun whose owner doesn't ~~honor~~ respect the safety.

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

Right. He probably wasn't too keen on upkeep and maintenance, treating it like a used Toyota Corolla.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There are guns with flaws that cause them to discharge when dropped, like the SIG P320, so it wasn't necessarily poor maintenance.

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

Yeah but why buy a gun with a known tendency of randomly going off?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Because you are personally unaware despite it being "known" publicly? That'd be my first guess.

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

Even the ones that don't have manual safeties still have automatic safeties these days.