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SecularMotion

(7,981 posts)
Sat May 7, 2016, 06:11 AM May 2016

Employee of Roanoke gun store accidentally shoots herself

The accidental shooting happened around 11:50 a.m. at SafeSide Tactical on Shenandoah Avenue.

According to Roanoke police, the employee was handling her own personal gun when she accidentally shot herself in the leg.

She was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital with what is described as a non-life threatening injury.

No one was in the store at the time of the shooting. According to a news release from SafeSide Tactical, the store was closed for a private event.

http://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/Employee-of-Roanoke-gun-store-accidentally-shoots-herself-378429371.html
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Employee of Roanoke gun store accidentally shoots herself (Original Post) SecularMotion May 2016 OP
Another outstanding defensive gun use! Human101948 May 2016 #1
Glock leg...Good folks to deal with, I've bought some AR stuff there. ileus May 2016 #2
"I was not there." CompanyFirstSergeant May 2016 #3
Snap caps. beevul May 2016 #4
If only somebody in that store..... lastlib May 2016 #5
 

Human101948

(3,457 posts)
1. Another outstanding defensive gun use!
Sat May 7, 2016, 06:25 AM
May 2016

And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to go into hell.
--Matthew 5:29, 30

ileus

(15,396 posts)
2. Glock leg...Good folks to deal with, I've bought some AR stuff there.
Sat May 7, 2016, 07:32 AM
May 2016

I'm going the opposite direction today toward Bristol instead of Roanoke for a Baseball tournament or I'd stop in and buy my DW something for her AR.

Looks like it's plants and flowers from Lowes instead.



https://www.facebook.com/SafeSideTacticalRoanoke/photos/a.1570586769828525.1073741830.1563191237234745/1638294823057719/?type=3&theater

 

CompanyFirstSergeant

(1,558 posts)
3. "I was not there."
Sat May 7, 2016, 07:55 AM
May 2016

Is the first thing I say in these matters.

That being said, whenever I unholster my revolver, my thumb immediately goes to the cylinder release.

As the gun clears leather, the cylinder snaps open.

Turn the gun over, bullets fall out. Six bullets, six holes.

Now I have a really sexy* paperweight in my hands.


* I put that in there for Stoney

 

beevul

(12,194 posts)
4. Snap caps.
Sat May 7, 2016, 12:21 PM
May 2016

Although I don't know if I'd want one chambered while carrying (I don't carry).

I wouldn't own a glock.

lastlib

(24,928 posts)
5. If only somebody in that store.....
Sat May 7, 2016, 07:51 PM
May 2016

.....had had a gun, they could've stopped that poor woman from harming someone.......

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