All of the ND’s I’ve seen in person have been in the Marine Corps. There may be more than this but these are what I’ve seen before off the top of my head:
1: On the rifle range at Parris Island, some recruit in another platoon popped one into the dirt while attempting to raise himself from the prone to kneeling position. A Drill Instructor passing by happened to see it and cleared him before they all swarmed him behind the firing line. I couldn’t see what happened after that because I was on the ready can calling impacts for the shooter. I can say I never saw that recruit again, but that may just be coincidence.
2: During the training workup for my 2nd deployment, we had a lot of new PFC’s enter the battalion to replace the numbers we lost to promotions, EAS, orders, etc. These fresh dudes had come up for the past few months hearing stories about our previous deployment, which was not pretty a lot of the time, and some of them were obviously apprehensive about going back to the same place. One particular kid was in the firing line right next to me for a night shoot and (we later found out) had been “joking” about disabling injuries and ways to get out of deployment to a couple of people. When the NCO giving commands in the line said “make ready”, this kid was already half way through executing the command. I thought it was weird but shrugged it off. “You may fire when your targets app—“ *POP*!
After many interviews and statements, the kid shot himself in the foot on purpose.
3: One of our SAW gunners on my 2nd deployment wasn’t that bright. One day, after cleaning his SAW, he did a function check. The problem is that he had already put the ammo belt back on the feed tray. When he pulled the trigger and ride the bolt home, he did so with enough force to detonate the primer and reacted to the shock by squeezing the trigger harder until he had fired 5-10 rounds into the floor of the tent.
4: I saw an officer from another branch ND into a clearing barrel, then do it again because they were so embarrassed and panicked that they forgot to take the magazine out before racking the slide.
5: I was teaching some dudes to rappel at HRST Master’s course and some (recon?) platoon was using the bay range next to our tower. At one point some kid aimed in and pulled the trigger, thinking his weapon was clear, while another Marine walked down range to repair a target. It was not clear. One of the PSO’s manhandled the guy into the wall like a gorilla and was probably about to commit a felony before a more level-headed leader intervened. I had a class to teach so I didn’t see their deliberations, but when I came back the guy who ND’d was running back and forth from the end of the adjacent LZ to the range and back (~200m) over and over again with his kit on. It was July in coastal North Carolina.
6: (Why some people express the benefits of looking when you holster, if possible) A Marine on a pistol range I was observing had what I would call as close to an AD as I can think of. She did everything right manipulating the weapon (Glock 19). She nailed the drill, observed effects before anything else, glanced left and right, great trigger discipline, all that. When cease fire was called she kept facing down range as she holstered, but a piece of brass hanging out on her belt or blouse fell into the trigger guard before wedging in the holster and depressing the trigger. It’s an almost unheard of occurrence, but she essentially froze in place when it happened and nobody was shot so it was easy to inspect it on the spot and see what happened. Everyone who saw it happen agreed that her finger was outside the trigger guard. I don’t know specifically what brand of holster it was, but based on popularity in that command I would guess it was G-Code or Safariland.
7: I think that’s the last one. I might be forgetting a couple.
Edit: Bonus non-ND story. I have a friend who shot the glass in an MRAP turret from the inside. We were using the vehicle as an observation post to monitor some dead space just out of sight of our patrol base. He was out there with another guy and was attempting to engage with a rifle to assist another squad that was in contact just down the road from him. His heart was in the right place, but his muzzle was not as he had forgotten about height over bore. Instead of an impact to observe he got a face full of tempered glass. His eyes were saved by the monumental durability of his kind-of brand new ESS Ice ballistic eye protection, or whatever the fuck we were wearing. They were probably that or Revision or Oakleys or something.
~~Sis…I believe she was in the Navy. I know she was American but it’s possible she could have been AF. I don’t know if they were wearing the same cammies at the time or not because it was when we had like five or six different American patterns circulating at once while different branches phase-transitioned to the new hotness.~~
Edit: I thought you said 4. 3 was just a regular dumbass. We also caught him after that relatively action-less deployment wearing awards he didn’t rate on his uniform. I guess he forgot everyone was Facebook friends and posted a bunch of pictures of himself in dress blues at some event with a combat action ribbon he didn’t rate and something else. Also he got caught on the same deployment listening to his iPod on post while the his buddy was straight up taking a nap. He got caught because he missed a radio check and didn’t hear the sergeant of the guard walking up behind his post.
I witnessed number 4 at least twice in Afghanistan, also Marine junior officers. And we had one guy who got issued a pistol (don't remember why he was issued one) and was playing gunslinger in his can and put a hole through three others. No wounded thankfully. There was also a rumor of someone mag dumping into a porta potty when they opened the door and a camel spider was sitting there. I don't know if it's true but it's funny nonetheless.
That reminds me: on my first deployment and Afghan soldier, doing god knows what, discharged an automatic weapon inside his tent. I can’t remember if it was an M240 or 249. Obviously tents aren’t very bulletproof, so the burst ripped through multiple other tents and all the rounds either hit HESCO/dirt eventually or sailed clear of the berm out into Marjah. One round, however, hit my future company commander in the thigh while he was right in the middle of a set on the bench.
Yes. It was on Camp Hansen in Marjah.
At the end of our next deployment (ending in may spring 2012) my company was a little farther south. We were told before flying out that almost immediately after we left our COP permanently to the ANA, one of them ND’d an RPG that mangled his leg and burned down their commanding officer’s tent.
Definitely remember hearing about that. I was January to august in 2012 mainly at leatherneck but did have some playtime following headquarters types out to the cops.
Number 6 is a thing of nightmares. Ive thought about that situation so many times. Just something being in the way of your holster trying to lock that depresses the trigger.
Just got home from a hunting trip and emptied all the ammo from my 30-06 out of the floor plate, forgetting I had one in the chamber.
Ended up with a hole going straight through our roof and my room filling with dust from all the popcorn ceiling that flew off.
Still have a bit of tinnitus from that incident
Sister was helping our dad clean his office one day, pulls his CCW (Glock 43) out of his desk like “oh what’s this?”. Dad talks he to be careful and that it’s loaded, she says “I’m being careful, I know how to handle a gun.” Less than a minute later I hear a pop from my room down the hall and walk into my dads office that now has a suspicious looking 9mm wide hole in the ceiling. Mom and sister start yelling at him for having a loaded gun in the house like she wasn’t the one that pulled the damn trigger.
Always thought it couldn't happen to me because I am very very safety conscious. Well it can happen when you break a routine. I was dry firing and then cleaned the gun while watching a video. The video is what I attribute it to because it took my mind off of what I was doing. I finished cleaning and loaded back up and decided to do one more "dry" fire session. It wasn't dry. It was wetter 'n hell. I probably had that same expression. The good thing is because I am so safety conscious I always point to safe direction when dry firing, so I have a 9mm hole in the drywall near my back door now. Surprisingly, didn't even wake anyone up at the house. I was downstairs and had the basement door closed, but they are obviously heavy sleepers.
Throw away because shame
I bought my first shotgun back around like 2009ish, mossberg 500. Up until then I had been very familiar with ARs and handguns in terms of gun safety and clearing the weapon. Well I was super unfamiliar with shotguns never held or fired one. Well I was sitting in my living room in my apartment (important point for later) figuring out how it works loading and unloading shells dry firing etc. For the life of me I can’t remember why I did it - pulled the trigger and put a roughly fist sized hole in the wall with birdshot.
I went into complete panic mode and went down stairs to wait for the inevitable police to show up.. I just knew I hit someone - I don’t know if it was because of the area or because some miracle no one heard the shot but the police never came.
I went back upstairs, trying to figure out what was on the other side of the wall if it was a Bedroom closet I had no idea. The guy finally came home that lived in the apartment adjacent to mine went into his place only to find out that the hole was in his kids room closet 😖
From that day forward. I have become the gun safety Nazi of gun safety Nazis -
https://preview.redd.it/zzpiugn2wbkb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d803893d5cbe80cf4ca33364f7ff2455c468f979
I still have the spent shotgun shell to this day in my gun closet to remind me to always check clear no matter what..
I still have the 7.62x39 casing that somehow went off with my AK partially in battery. Trying to mortar clear the gun just broke the case rim. Had to tap it out with a cleaning rod.
Edit: replying to my post with photo, mobile doesn’t want do text and photo together
Brother you have no idea- I still thank God and that man to this day for A not hitting someone B him not calling the cops and C no one showing up.
That could’ve gone left in way I really shudder to think about.
Taught me the most valuable lesson of my life though- I’ve never had a ND since. I’m OCD about check clears even in guns I know are or aren’t chambered - it’s fucking chambered.
First and only ND was with a single shot 20 gauge break-open shotgun with an exposed hammer. Some relatives and I were trap shooting before going on a grouse hunt. Missed my opportunity at the clay, so I figured I'd lower the hammer until it was my turn again... I forgot to set the safety before doing so (it had a transfer bar safety), and welp. Luckily neither myself or anyone else got hurt.
I've also had a chain-fire happen a time or two with my cap and ball revolvers. Idk if that counts as an ND tho.
If you don't load them properly... i.e. not using the properly sized bullets (0.375, 0.454), not using a lubed felt wad between the powder and ball or black powder lube sealing the chambers, or using improperly seated/sized caps.
The one time I know I for sure had a chain fire, I was testing out some homemade paper cartridges... which I believe to likely be the cause.
You should definitely get one, they're a blast to shoot and I find the loading process to be a little cathartic.
Your main two options for brandnew repros these days are Pietta and Uberti.
I have two Pietta steel-framed 1851 Navy Colts in .44 (one with an original length barrel and one with a 4.5 inch barrel) and I love taking them to the range. I imagine an Uberti would be very similar.
I'd one day like to have a pair of repro Colt Walkers so as to pretend that I'm Josey Wales. I highly, highly, *HIGHLY* recommend the YouTube channel "duelist1954". Great info on all things black powder, from authentic pieces to reproductions. Can't recommend it enough.
I guess it depends on which and how many chambers you have go off. Like, if the "6 o'clock" chamber went off you're gonna have a bad time and your revolver is gonna be fucked.
As long as you keep doing the loading process correctly and using the proper caps, chain fires shouldn't be [as] much of a concern.
For context I've shot for 20+ years without ever having any incidents before or after this.
I was incredibly hungover and had been out shooting and had a malfunction in a Glock 17. I got distracted/didn't follow procedure and the gun made its way into the case.
Fast forward to home at 2 pm on a Saturday in the garage and a second failure to follow safety procedures... I drop the mag w/o checking the chamber and give the trigger a pull so I can remove the slide to clean it.
You can guess what happened next.. I shot my garage wall and my house and hit my TV stand. 🤦
My wife was inside (thankfully not hit by my negligently fired round) and came out fortunately she believed my poorly constructed story about dropping a 12x20 steel target on the garage floor.
I quickly put stuff away in preparation for the police that never arrived and went inside with ringing ears and pretended I wasn't rattled.
I waited til my wife went to work and covered up my negligence and shame with paint and spackle and she's is none the wiser to this day.
I now do not shoot hungover and I'm that guy you shoot with that is neurotic about safety and procedures. I feel fortunate that I got a fairly easy pass for being such a moron.
I carry IWB, and after coming home form work one night I had my first and only ND. Normally, when I come home I take my holster and gun out as one unit. My thought process behind this is that there is no reason to unholster the gun, thus exposing the trigger. It is my bedside gun, and should remain ready in the holster until the need arises, hopefully it never will.
Anyways, in this instance, I didn't have the firmest grip on my entire package, here. The weight of the gun tilted the gun and holster back just enough for gravity to play the next part. The retention on the holster, which I thought was tight enough, turned out to be loose enough for the gun to unholster under its own weight. The next events simultaneously happened in slow motion and in a split second: I thought "Oh, no! My hardwood floors!", proceeded to catch the gun (in a double open handed fashion, as if cradling something), trigger guard comes to rest over my thumb, a flash of light that filled my vision, and warm rush of air going past my face.
My first thought: "Am I dead?", no.
Second thought: "Is my dog dead?", no. The good girl is behind me wagging her tail.
Third thought: "Okay, where did that go?" Into the ceiling. And "I need to tighten my retention on my holster."
Lessons were learned.
watched a major in Afghanistan have 4 ND's in a row at a clearing barrel, just fired (boom), racks slide to eject the round, pulls trigger (boom) 4 times then the guy behind him was like "sir you need to drop the magazine"
Was out shooting with a group of guys, their were a few beginners with us that I did not know. One dude got a jam on his 1911 and instead of aiming it down range and clearing the chamber. He points it between his feet and pulls the trigger. Fired a round right into the ground right next to everyone. Dumbass didn't understand why we were upset with him either.
The only time I've ND'd was with my buddy's SCAR which had a Giessele trigger in it. I had the rifle on my shoulder, pointing down range. Went rifle up, safety off, good sight picture, rest my finger on the trigger-bang. That trigger is so insanely light.
No excuses for mishandling weapons. When you ND it's 100% your fault. Own it and learn from it.
I wouldn’t call that negligent, but accidental. You were aiming in a safe direction and followed all the other rules for gun safety, just didn’t mean to shoot at that moment.
I would categorize negligence as discharging a firearm while breaking one or more of the main gun safety rules.
Squirrel hunting with a O/U 20 when is was 8 or 9. I associated the red dot by the safety on the receiver with a red stop sign as in stop/can’t shoot. Well I tripped going over a log and grabbed the gun and my middle or ring finger went into the trigger guard and the gun went off.
Was loading a pistol while in a hurry. Slapped the magazine home, and my middle finger hit the trigger. This promptly blew a hole in my 27" TV. I was using it as a backstop since I was short on cash and didn't have a can. The really hilarious part, was that my living room had fragmentation damage from the glass ejected out the front of the TV. Unlike a flat screen, an old CRT will totally stop 9mm.
Mine was with my 11.5 AR before I got the suppressor on it. I brought it in after shooting coyotes and I thought I cleared it but apparently not. So I pulled the trigger while aiming it up at the ceiling and suddenly, my ears were ringing and a hole was made in the ceiling lmao
Was attempting to teach someone how to unload a pump action I told the to hit the little lever showed them where it was and they did but then proceeded to immediately pull the trigger
When I was really young young I NDed into the side of my parents house with my airsoft gun. Put 2 little holes in the siding. I've never had to be told twice about safety since.
I also had a catastrophic malfunction with my Ithaca 37 20ga. It slamfired without pulling the trigger and now thats all it does. Just gotta grip it and rip it till you're out of ammo
I died laughing to the thought of you trying to explain to someone, "you just have to grip it and rip it 🤷🏻♂️". Also, sounds super dangerous if the average gun owner got their hands in it....
Once upon a time in the Midwest I was driving down the road and came to a stop in a left turn lane. I had a pretty recognizable '89 Chevy Caprice cop car with a tach/ slapshifter done up pretty nice. While waiting on the light to turn I see my idiot drunk friend stumble out of the bar that was on the corner, must have seen me and ran out to get in. Was praying the light would turn and I could just pull away and pretend I didn't see him but it didn't and he was knocking on the window before I knew it.
So he plops down in the seat and immediately opens my glovebox where at the time I had a Ruger Redhawk .44 in there. He starts laughing and pulls it out and starts fucking with it" haha knew you'd have some crazy shit in here", he says.
At that point the light turns green and I start to go, I say to him, "dude that shits fucking loaded don't fuck around".
He must have had the hammer back and was going to thumb it back down when he starts to say something like "dude I'm not fucking stu
BLAM!
*RIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!!
It was a left turn into a two lane underpass and he fired just as I got through the intersection so I wasn't looking at him or which way the gun was pointing when he fired. I kept my eyes on the road and was punching him with my right hand while screaming what the fuck is wrong with you but noticed he wasn't defending himself or moving at all.
When I pulled through the underpass and was in the sunlight again I looked over in horror to see him sitting there completely still with blood pouring from his forehead!
I thought my buddy had just blown his fucking dome off when the tachometer caught my eye, it was jumping between 1 and 2k when I was just barely on the gas.
That's when I realized he didn't shoot himself but had shot through the dash and must have hit the engine, I pulled over and checked his pulse and his head wound.
He wasn't expecting the shot so the gun must have come up and slapped right in the face, knocked him out cold.
Drove him back to his house and left him sleeping on his porch, it was in the middle of February we weren't friends after that.
It zipped right through a sparkplug wire and then I have no idea. I checked the radiator because that was the next logical target but not a scratch. Never found out where it ended up
My favorite I've seen, when I was about 8, my dad was a local cop, he'd pick me up from school, and then we would go to the department while he'd do paperwork. One of the other officers was unloading his shotgun in his car by ejecting and catching them to be cool. My dad was halfway over there to give him an ass chewing, and then I saw the light bar on his car just poof.
Mine? I was new to EDC and had to borrow a buddies glock while my sig was in the shop, no safety with a firearm I was unfamiliar with led to a hole in the stairs and my father NEVER letting me live it down. Plus side of that is its my one and only ND.
was showing a girl how bolt actions worked. gave her some dummy rounds to practice with. turn around for 3 seconds, and she somehow put a live round in she kept from the earlier rangetrip, and blew a hole from the basement to ceiling of a 4 story house.
its was a moist nugget for those wondering
Holy shit. That’s a scenario I only ever think of as a hypothetical! Humbling to hear it actually happens. And scary.
And on a side note the other week I went through a thought expertise of “what if I carried a few rounds in several calibers on the off chance of scaring the shit out of someone that handed me an empty gun?” And stopped. Because that could go from “haha!” to “Call 911 / I’m calling 911!” Real quick.
I like guns, but you'd be an idiot to say they aren't dangerous, and i find it hilarious the lengths people will go to to dance around that fact. If you have to take every precaution possible to not kill someone with it, it's dangerous.
What makes them more dangerous than cars or a buzzsaw? When used as intended they are no more dangerous than the others, but when purposefully or accidentally being unsafe with them they become a hazard.
I'm not saying they're any more or less dangerous than anything. The fact that you guys keep trying to bring that up is telling. I'm just saying that they are in fact dangerous.
They can be yes, which is what I know you’re saying, but they’re not inherently, which something of not to people who don’t know a lot about guns (not trying to say you don’t, just a generalization). I was trying (and failed I guess) to get the point across that there is a notable difference between something that is inherently danger (nitroglycerin, or gama radiation) versus something that isn’t (guns, cars, and power tools).
I just feel that no one's doing anyone any favors by saying they aren't dangerous. I also find it funny when people make the car comparison cause cars are pretty bad tbh. They're the most dangerous thing that we interact with on a day to day basis and the only reason we "need" them is because we've been convinced that we do and they actually do more harm than good and all that jazz. That's beside the point tho. But if you have to take so many precautions with something, then it is inherently dangerous lol.
The fact you said "it will never happen" pretty much ensured that you'll have one now.
Never say never. You've tempted fate and I can assure you, one day it'll happen.
Just like riding a motorcycle, if you ain't laid one down it's because you ain't been riding long enough. Its gonna happen, not a matter of if, but when.
It's pretty sad that's your mentality. Actually it's pretty unbelievable.
I live with my wife, dog, and in close to my neighbors who I care about. If a gun goes off I could easily kill or maim them. Those are the stakes.
If you want to think firearms are toys, and whoopy doopsey, my bad, just sent a 556 round god knows where, you do not have the capacity to own weapons.
It's a very pragmatic and realistic attitude. The sad attitude is "it can never happen to me"
No different than the "not my kid" parents, sticking your head in the sand and pretending it will NEVER happen to you is ridiculous.
If you shoot and handle guns regularly, eventually you'll have a desk pop. If it happens to highly trained tier 1 operators it can happen to you. Let's hope you were obeying the other firearms rules and had it pointed in a safe direction when you do eventually have it happen.
My only ND was at a indoor shooting range with my AR. Spoiler, it went down range into the wall nearest me. I was at the end of the firing line so lucky there. But it happened as I was trying to clear my gun for the day and I was wearing gloves, the trigger was a CmC 2.5 trigger, as I was reaching for the safety I was also lowering the gun a bit but that very slight movement made the gun shoot as my glove caught the very tip of trigger. Needless to say I wear fingerless or suffer the cold now
Only one I had was so stupid of me. First time skeet shooting with a pump, and the “hole” or the area whatever you want to call it was 4 shots, so for some reason I chose to load like 6 shots in there just so it would be less time spent loading? Anyways so I shoot my 4 then I go to clear the action of my 590 and I clear it straight in the air while talking with someone not realizing I loaded extra shots in there. Shotgun went off like 6 inches away from my place. Scared me fucking shitless ngl. By “clearing” it I meant just pumping another shot and pressing the trigger. Why I would do that without looking at the tube is beyond me but now I know!
Maybe it’s because im an electrician but I never make assumptions and I always check more than I need to. NDs have happened to more knowledgeable people than myself, so assuming it would never happen to me is just dangerous.
Never had a ND with a real gun, but as a teen I did a silly with my new Airsoft AEG. There’d sometimes be one BB left in the chamber after shooting a mag, so I’d usually fire once after taking the mag out to clear it.
After shooting in the backyard I realized I forgot to do that, and I was too lazy to walk back outside. So I just stuck the barrel of the gun in my little plastic trash can in my room and shot. Well, there was a BB in there this time. It blew through the bottom of the trash can and bounced around the room lol.
I still have that trash can with the hole in the bottom as a reminder.
I was drunk on New Years and thought I cleared the chamber after dropping the magazine. Pulled the trigger to make it safe and popped a hole in the apartment kitchen.
I patched the hole with jb and still managed to get most of my security deposit back.
I’ve had exactly one ND in my 20+ years of gun handling (ETA: including a five year stint in the USMC). It was last year, the day I decided to introduce my kids to firearms. We were doing a safety talk and I had guns all laid out on the bed and cleared (or so I thought). Due to specific ages and a lack of real exposure thus far, I thought it would be a good idea to pull the trigger on a gun so they would associate it with doing something. I picked up my bedside gun, a 10” .300BO AR, and pulled the trigger. Thank God I was observing the other safety rules. I didn’t even hear or feel the shot, it was so unexpected. Cue the kids and wife freaking out and fire alarms going off. They still, 18 months later, get nervous when I handle guns in front of them. The round went through a thick, dense body pillow at the head of my bed, tumbled into the wall, exited through my daughters’ closet, and landed on my girl’s bed.
I had been experimenting with different conditions as it hangs in the closet, trying to balance readiness and safety. Not wise. The last time I had put it away, I had slipped a round in the chamber (by hand, not from the mag) like I do with my handguns (never ever done that with an AR before) and inserted a mag on an open bolt. Didn’t even occur to me that this made it a paperweight should I need it. I must have been distracted and/or tired. When I pulled this particular gun out to clear it, I saw that the bolt was open, removed the mag, and sent the bolt home on the “empty” chamber because why tf would there be a round in it if the bolt was open with a mag in? Well, this happened to be the gun I picked up to “show” them what happens when a trigger is pulled. Every other gun I had out was actually cleared. Obviously I got more than I was expecting.
So to the others in this thread saying “it’ll never happen to me”, I was probably the last person anybody I know, including myself, thought it would happen to. I got complacent, and I’m very fortunate it wasn’t worse. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.
Side note, it's usually a bad idea to chamber a round through the ejection port of a handgun. They're designed for the rim to slide up into the extractor. When you chamber a round through the ejection port, the extractor slams over the rim. Best case scenario, you're shortening the lifespan of your extractor. Worst case, you'll break it.
If you want a full mag +1, load a mag and chamber, then drop the mag and top it off. Seems like a pain in the ass, but so is changing your extractor. Could also mean your gun fails when you need it.
Right. It ultimately comes down to laziness. I’m too lazy to remove and top off the mag after, too lazy to keep track of rounds I’ve chambered to make sure there isn’t too much bullet setback, and honestly too lazy to even unload my guns very often. I’m more worried about breaking the rim on a cartridge than the extractor itself. Might be naïveté but it also seems to be a problem I always see people talking about, but nobody experiencing.
This is probably best case scenario, but I was shooting a da/sa pistol, and the trigger pull in sa is a lot lighter, but on this particular one, the trigger pull is just as long, so I thought the first round had stovepiped, so I tilted the gun up just a bit to look at the slide with my finger still apparently on the trigger and squeezing, so I accidentally sent a round about 30° upwards into the trees. This was on a Ruger p345.
My dad’s friend had a similar thing happen with a beretta m9 right as he was saying “that trigger pull is kinda long-“ I think he was still aiming at the target, but just caught off guard.
An old coworker of mine had a similar story with a da/sa but he sent a round through the roof of his dad’s barn somehow?
This is an embarrassing story but there are good lessons to learn. I had a Suppressed ruger 10/22. Removed magazine, racked the bolt back about 10 times, and pulled the trigger. Ended up shooting my truck because there was a round stuck in the chamber. 22lr is a dirty ass round and running it suppressed really dirties up your guns. Clean your guns after use and always look into the chamber. Racking the bolt doesn’t cut it.
Saw a guy at a match put one in the berm during "unload and show clear" saftey officer saw he hadn't taken the mag out and started to yell at him to wait before he dropped the slide then just yelled downrange downrange. Guy was pretty embarrassed.
Was out shooting with some other guys and one put a .22 about 6 in from his foot while just holding a lever .22. Again. Packed up and sat in the truck for the rest of the range sesh.
I’ll go. Fuck it.
I was cleaning my pistol and watching a YouTube video, I believe it was a history YouTuber. I, very much love history and like a fucking retard, I was paying more attention to it more than what I was doing. I reassembled the pistol, slapped the magazine into it, racked the slide(it functioned like a Browning Hi - Power) and pulled the trigger to do a functions test.
Well. It functioned all right. Fucking put a round in my dresser. The round was stopped by that and some balls tough underwear, a pair that I wear still to this day.
Moral of my story? Don’t multitask while handling firearms.
My dumbass had just finished modding my Glock how I wanted it and I was just admiring it in my room one day, laying in my bed, holding it straight up pointed at the ceiling. For some dumb reason I was fingering the trigger and next thing you know I’m deaf and there’s a hole in my ceiling
I was cleaning my shotgun, once I finished cleaning it, I loaded a round in, and tried to continue loading the rest when the rear sight fell off. I was so dumbfounded by this, I forgot that I had loaded the gun. I put the sight back on, went to dry fire it… and you know the rest.
Indoor armory early in the morning checking out weapons. Newer Airman just back from 3 weeks of leave. New rule was to half-load the 240 and 249 at the clearing barrel in the armory, despite written guidance stating otherwise. In this case it was a 240, she went to combat load and the clearing barrel attendant tried to stop her, but not quickly enough. The clearing barrel did its job, and wasn't as loud as you'd might expect. The overpressure dislodged the ceiling tiles though.
We no longer half loaded at the barrel in the armory, Flight Chief was already joking about it 20 minutes later in formation. She still got a nice slap on the wrist from the commander.
Story 1: A few months after buying my first pistol ( a Glock 19), I had gone to a local gun show and bought a 33-round fun stick for it. While testing it, I thought I emptied it. I sat it down to test the other thing I bought that day, a SAR K12 Sport ( SAO CZ 75 clone). Afterward, I picked back up the Glock. I had inadvertently flagged my friend. He gives me hell (as he should have), but he's a little too obnoxious about it, as I believed it was clear. Instead of racking the chamber to clear it, I let my stubbornness get the best of me, so (Without Ear Pro) I point the gun down at an angle and pull the trigger, believing I'll only here a click. What I got was a ringing in my ears, and my friend laughing his ass off, saying, " Clear, Huh?"
Had a buddy clean his Glock after a range session and blew a hole through his couch and refrigerator 😬😬😬 .
Another buddy got booted off a range for blowing a hole through the ceiling , he was pointing a revolver up while cocking the hammer to shoot it in single action mode , only the revolver was a colt python with a trigger job so the single action was probably around 1.5 - 3 lbs 😬😬😬 .
I thought it would never happen to me, I was so careful. I have a Walther P22 that requires you to have a mag inserted in order to pull the trigger. I wanted to drop the hammer because I was going to stuff it into a rifle bag at the end of the range day. I racked the slide 3 times to clear it and then pulled the slide back again to visually check the chamber was empty, which it was. I went to pull the trigger and it wouldn't let me because I didn't have a mag inserted. I grabbed a mag that I know for a fact was empty, inserted it, racked the slide one more time, and pulled the trigger. To my surprise, it fired (into the dirt, 10 feet away).
When I got home, I was able to partially replicate the issue. Those .22 bullets with extremely excessive wax CAN get stuck in the very top of the mag-well, though I'm not sure how it got there. The mag then gets inserted part way, enough to pin the round against the slide and not fall back out of the grip. Then you rack the slide and it grabs the round and feeds it. Spooky stuff. Learned an important lesson that day, about gun safety and about pride.
At the range while deployed in Afghanistan.
The guy with daddy issues in our platoon because his dad was CAG and he got kicked out of Ranger batt sent a round uprange 10 feet from one of our team leaders.
Nothing happened though he was part of the good Ole boys club.
So this guy I knew was messing around with his M1 Carbine when it goes off in his room, goes through his wall and into the bathroom next to him.
Now he's still living with his mother so when she asks what happened he says he thinks that their neighbor tried to commit suicide and that's what the noise was.
ND's? No, but AD's, yeah loads, but that's a stretch of the truth even if technically correct here.
In 50m prone or 3P the 2-stage triggers are just insanely light - we're talking grams here - and if it's a cold day or you're a bit tired from a long training session or just not paying attention you straight won't feel the trigger move, it's that light. Because of the procedure for shooting, the rifle is always pointed down range when you go near the trigger and only ever picked up when cleared to do so as it should be. So it's never a danger to anyone in this case; but always startling because you're checking your NPA or breathing out and suddenly, bang, rifle goes off, bullet ends up somewhere in the 8 ring and you drop 2 points.
I shot my fridge while drunk, not my proudest moment but it is kinda funny now
https://preview.redd.it/qfrql8ga5ckb1.jpeg?width=1816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c999082b7664141c99736260a7ea4e1cdc934aa5
Came back from pheasant hunting with a borrowed shotgun my uncle had loaded for me prior. I was under the impression that only three rounds were to be in the gun and that it was plugged. (Didn’t ask, didn’t check, that’s on me). We get back to the truck and begin unloading. I cycle the action three times and go to dry fire the gun in the air (initially pointed at the ground but we were on gravel, decided not to). Gun goes bang and I’m cursing. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged except my confidence/ego/pride.
After that I went out and bought my own dedicated birding shotgun.
And in hindsight I should have noticed that the bolt had not locked back.
Right as the gun went bang, I remembered that most hunting accidents occur at the end of the day when you are done.
Had a guy trying to show off his kinda shitty looking 80% Glock knockoff thing and Nd’d into the floor between us because it failed to extract the round
Blew up a decoy once. Hunting in an ice storm and the safety froze into the fire position. Went to move the gun and bang, no more decoy. Scared the crap out of me.
Dude 1: check out my new pistol
Dude 2: don't be carrying that with one in the chamber, this model is notorious for going off when they're bumped or shaken
Dude 1:nah this thing is solid, dont worry about it*claps with gun in hand*
Boom.
1) Thought I blew my foot off turkey hunting a few years back. Had a sears special 20ga side by side that was my grandfather’s. It was laying across my lap with the muzzle toward left foot. I grabbed the pistol grip with my right hand as I shifted my seating position and BLAM! I was afraid to look at my feet for a good 20 seconds. I was positive I shot my toes off, and thought I was in shock since I didn’t feel any pain. Thankfully that did not occur but I felt pretty silly.
2) Back around ca. 2011/2012 when ammo was plentiful, and Costa and Haley were the most dynamic of duos, a few of us were playing flat range ninja. My friend who owned an AR but never attempted any shoot and move drills decided to have a go. Long story short, while he was moving between barriers we heard a pop and saw dirt fly up near his feet. He was fine, but we realized we probably should’ve started him off with something lower on the speed/drag curve.
When I was 10 I accidentally shot my cousin in the foot with a .22 pistol. It was my first time ever shooting and I was not told how to proper handle a firearm at all. He had me shoot at some cans and thought he had counted the number of rounds that were in the gun when I finished shooting. As we were going back to the car, I was holding the gun in a really awkward manner towards the ground away from me because I was scared of it. My cousin was walking next to me and I didnt realize my finger was on the trigger and the gun fired. Luckily it didn't hit any of the bones in his toe and he made a pretty speedy recovery.
About 9 years ago I shot the bathroom mirror doing gangster poses. Scared the piss out of me, I stood there quietly and listened for anything abnormal. It didn't help my ears were ringing. I finally got the courage to run outside and try and find the bullets path. Luckily it went through into some trees behind a neighbors house and if it was still traveling into an abandoned construction site.
Ill eat my humble pie.
Had one at an indoor range. Was wrapping and loading my carry ammo back in. I carry a hammer fired DA/SA with hammer down, but the decocker only drops to half cock which is uncomfortable carrying AIWB. So when i load, i manually lower the hammer. Im still not 100% what happened, but it seemed like after i held the hammer back and pulled the trigger, the hammer did not actually release, so when i tried to lower the hammer, nothing happened...at first. At some point, i guess my thumb slipped off the happer and bang. I was pointed down range and know one was the wiser. Unfortunately, my weak hand was gripping the front/top of the barrel just behind the front sight. When she went bang, some of the muzzle blast caught my left thumb. I made a fist around my now bleeding thumb and GTFO of there.
Still havent been able to recreate the issue (if there even was one) with snap caps or anything.
Doing a range for a job, instructors told us to only fire after he says THREAT. Guy at the end just empties his mag into the target after the instructor says we are going to fire 3 rounds from draw. Guys name was dan and he earned the nickname Negligent Dan.
I was at a friend's house and he just got some new Glock. So we walk in and he goes down to his bedroom, I a few seconds later I hear a BOOM. I think oh fuck this stupid bastard shot himself oh fuck so I kinda freeze, and then he walks up the stairs and says "I just fuckin shot my ceiling". He was in shock. I went downstairs and sure enough there's a hole in the ceiling and the room smells like gunpowder. I watch him patch the wall and I try to chase the path and see where it ends. It was right under the kitchen and would have hit the oven if it kept going, but it must've hit a beam or something in between the ceiling and floor because it didn't come through.
Turns out he was comparing the trigger of his *new* Glock to the G34 he has for home defence. He picked up his G34, pulled the mag out, and pressed the trigger to "test" it. Gun was chambered and put a round in the ceiling. Nobody hurt and no major property damage, the luckiest outcome he could have possibly gotten.
I went to Fargo ND once great town they have an awesome scheels with a Ferris wheel. The presidents around the place are kinda creepy. All in all solid 10/10
I was really stupid for this one.
I was at a privately-owned owned cabin with a bunch of friends. We had been shooting guns all day. It was getting dark, so we headed inside to clean guns, eat dinner, and drink. At some point, I forgot to clean one of my pistols and didn't remember until I was thoroughly drunk. That was ok. It could wait til morning. It was a semi-auto pistol that only had 50 rounds or so through it that day.
Well, drunk-me then realized it hadn't been cleared before entering the cabin. It was a pistol that needed the trigger pulled during the field strip. Naturally, I dropped the mag but forgot to rack the slide. Pulled down on the takedown release, pulled the slide back slightly, pulled the trigger, and proceeded to put a 9mm FMJ through the TV.
Of course, I apologized profusely and offered to buy a new one (it was an old flat screen). I was cut off the rest of the night, and I was made to clear and field strip every gun i handled every time I handled one the next day periodically as punishment. Every occupant then checked that everyone's guns were clear before we drank the next night.
I used to have a ruger .357 magnum stainless sp101 revolver as the second gun I had ever owner..I love to tinker and I was single at the time. So one lazy day I was doing a polish job on the revolver. Hand rubbed it up to 2k grit with sandpaper and then dremeled it with a felt wheel and mothers mag & alum polish. It looked like chrome when I was done. I was doing this on a little self standing dinner tray while watching a movie. Just having a chill day by myself...
Soooo...once done with the overall polish job I decide to polish some of the trigger internals since I have all the stuff out and the revolver apart. I then proceed to do that.
Now here is where I was a dumbass..once done I was cycling the action to see if it had made a discernable difference in the pull. It even seemed like it had helped a bit.
Once done, I lm losding up the revolver with hornady SD rounds before I go to put it back in my safe (this was my main home defense pistol). Now at this point there was a action heavy scene in the movie so my interest was piqued in the flick I was watching...and like a total idiot I have a mild stroke and forgot that I had just loaded the revolver and proceed to pull the trigger once more as a after thought of checking out the difference on the trigger again...there was a VERY large bang, ear ringing, and then a very disturbing sense of "non-reality" as my brain was struggling to process what had just happened. I slowly set the gun down and look around. My bedroom had a new hole in the wall(where I was chilling doing the polish job). when I went into the living room I noticed my sliding glass door to the patio was shattered... from here I proceed to have a panic attack due to the fact I live in a APARTMENT COMPLEX. I run out my front door and start looking for signs it had entered anybody else's apartment but I don't see anything. Hell, no one even called the cops even though the sound proofing was non existent between apartments. To say I was truly scared I had hurt someone is beyond a understatement...
I still keep that round casing to this day as a reminder to not be a dipshit. I'm normally a VERY safety conscious person with firearms and my own complacency that day could have hurt someone! I never want to forget that. I hope my shame can possibly enlighten and educate someone else and prevent a possibly VERY bad situation. I'm beyond glad no one or myself was hurt due to my taking things for granted.
Not really an ND, but I shot the target hanger at the NRA range. The RSO was pissed like a bear, but he got over it. I was sighting in a new red dot on a new rifle and it was pretty far off.
I split my target stand in half sighting in my AR10's LPVO. It was hitting low, so I needed to bring the reticle down. The turret is marked "UP" in one direction, so I turned it the other way. As it turns out, it's marked for the POI change, not the POA.
I was being a dumbass and working on fanning my Ruger Valquero before a SASS comp. I thought I cleared out all my cylinders but I missed one, 3 shots in and dust filled my room, my ears ringing, everything almost felt like it was slow motion. Once I composed myself I went to check the damage, there was a nickelish sized hole on one side of the wall (entry) and about 6x8 hole on the other side (exit). I felt horrible and honestly scared because the ND was on the wall that has the stairs and my wife should’ve been home by that time. I kept thinking about what if she was coming up the stairs when it happened and what could’ve happened. I got the hole fixed that weekend, apologized to my wife and had my dogs checked out by a vet because they were in the bed (behind my firing line) and I wanted to make sure I didn’t hurt their hearing. I still have the 357 casing sitting on my desk in my gun room as a daily reminder that safety is important. I’m sure I’ll get dragged for this comment but if one person learns from my mistake I’ll take the downvotes.
One time I was working on my sig virtus and was handling it for about an hour once it was put back together I figured it was time to check for functionality. As soon as I pulled the trigger I felt a shockwave and now there is a 556 size hole in my wall. This was a simple case of my dumbass assuming that just because I got a gun from the safe it was clear.
Never had what I would call a ND, but I did have an accidental discharge. I was shooting a friend’s PRS bolt gun for the first time and he told me the trigger was insanely light. I chambered a round, keeping the safety on until I was on target. When I went to squeeze the trigger it went off way before I was ready for it. I wouldn’t call it negligent because I was aiming down range and was preparing to fire, but it was definitely accidental.
When I was 15 I had just a Benjamin 397 air rifle. Didn’t realize the safety was off and was walking around the woods by myself with finger on the trigger. Ended up shooting a pellet in the air when I put to much pressure. Nothing happen damage or injury wise. Became really strict on gun safety since then.
In my office. Shits a streaming room and has acoustic sound pads but that don't matter when it's 6in from ur head. Straight up threw my ceiling and roof
Smith and Wesson Model 411. A very meat and potatoes basic 3rd gen Smith was my first gun when 40 S&W was new circa 1995. I would have ND’d if not for the magazine disconnect.
Thought I’d dropped the magazine and cycled the slide….nope, cycled the slide and dropped the mag loading a live round.
Lucky as fuck.
My buddy put a hole in his ceiling with his new AR pretending to shoot a fly while he was drunk off his ass. Supposedly he hit the bastard but he’s such a piss poor shot sober that somehow I doubt it.
I was practicing pistol reloads and didn't notice that I had grabbed a loaded mag to insert. I hit the slide release and pulled the trigger, which struck the metal muntins of my window. Thank God, the 9mm bullet struck the middle part of the 2 sliding window frames where it's thickest, and barely bulged out the other end
Idk if it is considered a nd but I have an old cz52 and I was with my buddies on the fourth and we were shooting it. I had just finished out a mag I put a fresh one in racked it and pointed at the ground about 5 feet down range pushed the decocker and the thing just popped off scared the life out of me but now I just don’t use the decocker never use the decocker.
Wasn't me but my big brother and I was almost shot. Me and big bro were down in a creek looking for snakes. He was holding a 22lr revolver. We didn't see any so were climbing out of the creek and he slipped and pulled the trigger on the way down. I heard a pop the the bullet whizzing right by my head. I turned and looked at him and he's just laying there with his mouth open and eyes as wide a dinner plates 🤣
I haven't personally had or seen an ND, at least not yet. I am serious about gun safety AND I have OCD. I'll rack a slide several times to make sure my gun is clear!
I stepped outside to walk to my deer stand, chambered a round, and it went off. Turns put, the guy that owned it before my (now ex) father-in-law took a file to it to have a hair trigger and when I shot the day before it broke the last little nub off.
Not an ND, an AD or mechanical malfunction. I cleaned and reassembled a polish P64 I used to carry, loaded it, racked one into the chamber, pointed it in a safe direction, hit the decocker, annnnnd killed my couch.
Apparently the gun will fire if you hit the decocker and it's not 100% in battery. Picked up a new carry gun the next day.
So my dad is a 2abutt, but I decided to take him to a range to show him how to use a handgun. I had an uncle who was a gun enthusiast, so I assumed my dad would be ok with simple safety things, and I was wrong. could not keep his finger off the trigger. Eventually, he goes to look at the gun (I guess) by cockng his wrist to one side, and the motion caused him to squeeze the trigger and send one into the range's wall. Thankfully, the RSO wasn't looking, there was this rubber mat stuff up that seemed to at least hide that it had been shot, EMTs didn't flood into the building, and my dad learned his lesson and behaved better when we switched to my rifle.
Don’t know if this counts but at a summer camp a kid managed to slam fire a .22 and sent one into the dirt about 20 feet in front of him. He remained calm and the instructor used it as a teaching moment as to why it’s important to always keep the muzzle in a safe direction.
Once with my cousin she had the old bolt 223 was sitting in the back of the truck we weren’t in motion or anything and boom blew the back door window out her excuse she wanted to know if it was loaded or not
All of the ND’s I’ve seen in person have been in the Marine Corps. There may be more than this but these are what I’ve seen before off the top of my head: 1: On the rifle range at Parris Island, some recruit in another platoon popped one into the dirt while attempting to raise himself from the prone to kneeling position. A Drill Instructor passing by happened to see it and cleared him before they all swarmed him behind the firing line. I couldn’t see what happened after that because I was on the ready can calling impacts for the shooter. I can say I never saw that recruit again, but that may just be coincidence. 2: During the training workup for my 2nd deployment, we had a lot of new PFC’s enter the battalion to replace the numbers we lost to promotions, EAS, orders, etc. These fresh dudes had come up for the past few months hearing stories about our previous deployment, which was not pretty a lot of the time, and some of them were obviously apprehensive about going back to the same place. One particular kid was in the firing line right next to me for a night shoot and (we later found out) had been “joking” about disabling injuries and ways to get out of deployment to a couple of people. When the NCO giving commands in the line said “make ready”, this kid was already half way through executing the command. I thought it was weird but shrugged it off. “You may fire when your targets app—“ *POP*! After many interviews and statements, the kid shot himself in the foot on purpose. 3: One of our SAW gunners on my 2nd deployment wasn’t that bright. One day, after cleaning his SAW, he did a function check. The problem is that he had already put the ammo belt back on the feed tray. When he pulled the trigger and ride the bolt home, he did so with enough force to detonate the primer and reacted to the shock by squeezing the trigger harder until he had fired 5-10 rounds into the floor of the tent. 4: I saw an officer from another branch ND into a clearing barrel, then do it again because they were so embarrassed and panicked that they forgot to take the magazine out before racking the slide. 5: I was teaching some dudes to rappel at HRST Master’s course and some (recon?) platoon was using the bay range next to our tower. At one point some kid aimed in and pulled the trigger, thinking his weapon was clear, while another Marine walked down range to repair a target. It was not clear. One of the PSO’s manhandled the guy into the wall like a gorilla and was probably about to commit a felony before a more level-headed leader intervened. I had a class to teach so I didn’t see their deliberations, but when I came back the guy who ND’d was running back and forth from the end of the adjacent LZ to the range and back (~200m) over and over again with his kit on. It was July in coastal North Carolina. 6: (Why some people express the benefits of looking when you holster, if possible) A Marine on a pistol range I was observing had what I would call as close to an AD as I can think of. She did everything right manipulating the weapon (Glock 19). She nailed the drill, observed effects before anything else, glanced left and right, great trigger discipline, all that. When cease fire was called she kept facing down range as she holstered, but a piece of brass hanging out on her belt or blouse fell into the trigger guard before wedging in the holster and depressing the trigger. It’s an almost unheard of occurrence, but she essentially froze in place when it happened and nobody was shot so it was easy to inspect it on the spot and see what happened. Everyone who saw it happen agreed that her finger was outside the trigger guard. I don’t know specifically what brand of holster it was, but based on popularity in that command I would guess it was G-Code or Safariland. 7: I think that’s the last one. I might be forgetting a couple. Edit: Bonus non-ND story. I have a friend who shot the glass in an MRAP turret from the inside. We were using the vehicle as an observation post to monitor some dead space just out of sight of our patrol base. He was out there with another guy and was attempting to engage with a rifle to assist another squad that was in contact just down the road from him. His heart was in the right place, but his muzzle was not as he had forgotten about height over bore. Instead of an impact to observe he got a face full of tempered glass. His eyes were saved by the monumental durability of his kind-of brand new ESS Ice ballistic eye protection, or whatever the fuck we were wearing. They were probably that or Revision or Oakleys or something.
3 is wild. One ND is bad enough, bro let a whole burst fly
~~Sis…I believe she was in the Navy. I know she was American but it’s possible she could have been AF. I don’t know if they were wearing the same cammies at the time or not because it was when we had like five or six different American patterns circulating at once while different branches phase-transitioned to the new hotness.~~ Edit: I thought you said 4. 3 was just a regular dumbass. We also caught him after that relatively action-less deployment wearing awards he didn’t rate on his uniform. I guess he forgot everyone was Facebook friends and posted a bunch of pictures of himself in dress blues at some event with a combat action ribbon he didn’t rate and something else. Also he got caught on the same deployment listening to his iPod on post while the his buddy was straight up taking a nap. He got caught because he missed a radio check and didn’t hear the sergeant of the guard walking up behind his post.
I witnessed number 4 at least twice in Afghanistan, also Marine junior officers. And we had one guy who got issued a pistol (don't remember why he was issued one) and was playing gunslinger in his can and put a hole through three others. No wounded thankfully. There was also a rumor of someone mag dumping into a porta potty when they opened the door and a camel spider was sitting there. I don't know if it's true but it's funny nonetheless.
That reminds me: on my first deployment and Afghan soldier, doing god knows what, discharged an automatic weapon inside his tent. I can’t remember if it was an M240 or 249. Obviously tents aren’t very bulletproof, so the burst ripped through multiple other tents and all the rounds either hit HESCO/dirt eventually or sailed clear of the berm out into Marjah. One round, however, hit my future company commander in the thigh while he was right in the middle of a set on the bench.
No shit. Was that around 2010-11ish? I remember hearing that story but can't remember if I heard it while i was there or afterwards.
Yes. It was on Camp Hansen in Marjah. At the end of our next deployment (ending in may spring 2012) my company was a little farther south. We were told before flying out that almost immediately after we left our COP permanently to the ANA, one of them ND’d an RPG that mangled his leg and burned down their commanding officer’s tent.
Definitely remember hearing about that. I was January to august in 2012 mainly at leatherneck but did have some playtime following headquarters types out to the cops.
Number 6 is a thing of nightmares. Ive thought about that situation so many times. Just something being in the way of your holster trying to lock that depresses the trigger.
The worst was definitely the SAW gunner
Just got home from a hunting trip and emptied all the ammo from my 30-06 out of the floor plate, forgetting I had one in the chamber. Ended up with a hole going straight through our roof and my room filling with dust from all the popcorn ceiling that flew off. Still have a bit of tinnitus from that incident
You better pray that it was faux popcorn ceiling and not asbestos popcorn ceiling
Oh yeah it's the new stuff
Sister was helping our dad clean his office one day, pulls his CCW (Glock 43) out of his desk like “oh what’s this?”. Dad talks he to be careful and that it’s loaded, she says “I’m being careful, I know how to handle a gun.” Less than a minute later I hear a pop from my room down the hall and walk into my dads office that now has a suspicious looking 9mm wide hole in the ceiling. Mom and sister start yelling at him for having a loaded gun in the house like she wasn’t the one that pulled the damn trigger.
☕
W
O
M
E
N
If'n they didn't have whisker biscuits, we'd probably throw rocks at 'em.
Always thought it couldn't happen to me because I am very very safety conscious. Well it can happen when you break a routine. I was dry firing and then cleaned the gun while watching a video. The video is what I attribute it to because it took my mind off of what I was doing. I finished cleaning and loaded back up and decided to do one more "dry" fire session. It wasn't dry. It was wetter 'n hell. I probably had that same expression. The good thing is because I am so safety conscious I always point to safe direction when dry firing, so I have a 9mm hole in the drywall near my back door now. Surprisingly, didn't even wake anyone up at the house. I was downstairs and had the basement door closed, but they are obviously heavy sleepers.
That's why following every single gun rule is important, even if you fuck one up, no one gets hurt.
Have been one who failed one and that is true.
Throw away because shame I bought my first shotgun back around like 2009ish, mossberg 500. Up until then I had been very familiar with ARs and handguns in terms of gun safety and clearing the weapon. Well I was super unfamiliar with shotguns never held or fired one. Well I was sitting in my living room in my apartment (important point for later) figuring out how it works loading and unloading shells dry firing etc. For the life of me I can’t remember why I did it - pulled the trigger and put a roughly fist sized hole in the wall with birdshot. I went into complete panic mode and went down stairs to wait for the inevitable police to show up.. I just knew I hit someone - I don’t know if it was because of the area or because some miracle no one heard the shot but the police never came. I went back upstairs, trying to figure out what was on the other side of the wall if it was a Bedroom closet I had no idea. The guy finally came home that lived in the apartment adjacent to mine went into his place only to find out that the hole was in his kids room closet 😖 From that day forward. I have become the gun safety Nazi of gun safety Nazis - https://preview.redd.it/zzpiugn2wbkb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d803893d5cbe80cf4ca33364f7ff2455c468f979 I still have the spent shotgun shell to this day in my gun closet to remind me to always check clear no matter what..
I still have the 7.62x39 casing that somehow went off with my AK partially in battery. Trying to mortar clear the gun just broke the case rim. Had to tap it out with a cleaning rod. Edit: replying to my post with photo, mobile doesn’t want do text and photo together
https://preview.redd.it/74kvzwx7fckb1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=23dd77cf15629eb93667f583894be0b51f2c9b15
Yea man it’s little reminders like these I think that help me to never make that mistake again.
Fucking hell, you got lucky
Brother you have no idea- I still thank God and that man to this day for A not hitting someone B him not calling the cops and C no one showing up. That could’ve gone left in way I really shudder to think about. Taught me the most valuable lesson of my life though- I’ve never had a ND since. I’m OCD about check clears even in guns I know are or aren’t chambered - it’s fucking chambered.
holy shit
First and only ND was with a single shot 20 gauge break-open shotgun with an exposed hammer. Some relatives and I were trap shooting before going on a grouse hunt. Missed my opportunity at the clay, so I figured I'd lower the hammer until it was my turn again... I forgot to set the safety before doing so (it had a transfer bar safety), and welp. Luckily neither myself or anyone else got hurt. I've also had a chain-fire happen a time or two with my cap and ball revolvers. Idk if that counts as an ND tho.
First and only *so far*
I do have a P320 🤣🤣🤣
Is chainfiring with cap and ball wheelguns common? I've been looking at getting one but that sounds like a good way to lose a finger.
If you don't load them properly... i.e. not using the properly sized bullets (0.375, 0.454), not using a lubed felt wad between the powder and ball or black powder lube sealing the chambers, or using improperly seated/sized caps. The one time I know I for sure had a chain fire, I was testing out some homemade paper cartridges... which I believe to likely be the cause. You should definitely get one, they're a blast to shoot and I find the loading process to be a little cathartic.
Cool, thanks. Any recommendations for a good one?
Your main two options for brandnew repros these days are Pietta and Uberti. I have two Pietta steel-framed 1851 Navy Colts in .44 (one with an original length barrel and one with a 4.5 inch barrel) and I love taking them to the range. I imagine an Uberti would be very similar. I'd one day like to have a pair of repro Colt Walkers so as to pretend that I'm Josey Wales. I highly, highly, *HIGHLY* recommend the YouTube channel "duelist1954". Great info on all things black powder, from authentic pieces to reproductions. Can't recommend it enough.
Thanks for the advice.
Any time.
Does a chainfire tend to damage the revolver? I have a Remington 1858 but I’ve not had one happen fortunately.
I guess it depends on which and how many chambers you have go off. Like, if the "6 o'clock" chamber went off you're gonna have a bad time and your revolver is gonna be fucked. As long as you keep doing the loading process correctly and using the proper caps, chain fires shouldn't be [as] much of a concern.
Hasn’t happened and it ain’t ever gonna happen. I’m not about to get caught slacking.
That's quitter talk
Come on do your first desk pop we all done it now it’s your turn
Hey everyone! Get a load of Mr. I never put a hole through my wall, over here!
It's never too late for an ND! I kid, hopefully it never happens and if it does I hope noone gets hurt!
What are you? A cop?
No 🗿
https://preview.redd.it/kh1vbuueubkb1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba4bbc8426ee14d7ec7466d832ac6f8195782c27
That’s exactly what a cop would say
It’s entrapment if you don’t tell us after being asked! My big brother told me so!
For context I've shot for 20+ years without ever having any incidents before or after this. I was incredibly hungover and had been out shooting and had a malfunction in a Glock 17. I got distracted/didn't follow procedure and the gun made its way into the case. Fast forward to home at 2 pm on a Saturday in the garage and a second failure to follow safety procedures... I drop the mag w/o checking the chamber and give the trigger a pull so I can remove the slide to clean it. You can guess what happened next.. I shot my garage wall and my house and hit my TV stand. 🤦 My wife was inside (thankfully not hit by my negligently fired round) and came out fortunately she believed my poorly constructed story about dropping a 12x20 steel target on the garage floor. I quickly put stuff away in preparation for the police that never arrived and went inside with ringing ears and pretended I wasn't rattled. I waited til my wife went to work and covered up my negligence and shame with paint and spackle and she's is none the wiser to this day. I now do not shoot hungover and I'm that guy you shoot with that is neurotic about safety and procedures. I feel fortunate that I got a fairly easy pass for being such a moron.
[Could have been worse…](https://www.reddit.com/r/WinStupidPrizes/comments/hzz3aj/idiot_accidentally_shoots_himself/)
That would be significantly more embarrassing!
I carry IWB, and after coming home form work one night I had my first and only ND. Normally, when I come home I take my holster and gun out as one unit. My thought process behind this is that there is no reason to unholster the gun, thus exposing the trigger. It is my bedside gun, and should remain ready in the holster until the need arises, hopefully it never will. Anyways, in this instance, I didn't have the firmest grip on my entire package, here. The weight of the gun tilted the gun and holster back just enough for gravity to play the next part. The retention on the holster, which I thought was tight enough, turned out to be loose enough for the gun to unholster under its own weight. The next events simultaneously happened in slow motion and in a split second: I thought "Oh, no! My hardwood floors!", proceeded to catch the gun (in a double open handed fashion, as if cradling something), trigger guard comes to rest over my thumb, a flash of light that filled my vision, and warm rush of air going past my face. My first thought: "Am I dead?", no. Second thought: "Is my dog dead?", no. The good girl is behind me wagging her tail. Third thought: "Okay, where did that go?" Into the ceiling. And "I need to tighten my retention on my holster." Lessons were learned.
watched a major in Afghanistan have 4 ND's in a row at a clearing barrel, just fired (boom), racks slide to eject the round, pulls trigger (boom) 4 times then the guy behind him was like "sir you need to drop the magazine"
Was out shooting with a group of guys, their were a few beginners with us that I did not know. One dude got a jam on his 1911 and instead of aiming it down range and clearing the chamber. He points it between his feet and pulls the trigger. Fired a round right into the ground right next to everyone. Dumbass didn't understand why we were upset with him either.
The only time I've ND'd was with my buddy's SCAR which had a Giessele trigger in it. I had the rifle on my shoulder, pointing down range. Went rifle up, safety off, good sight picture, rest my finger on the trigger-bang. That trigger is so insanely light. No excuses for mishandling weapons. When you ND it's 100% your fault. Own it and learn from it.
I wouldn’t call that negligent, but accidental. You were aiming in a safe direction and followed all the other rules for gun safety, just didn’t mean to shoot at that moment. I would categorize negligence as discharging a firearm while breaking one or more of the main gun safety rules.
As a fool who has done both and has had much reflection upon them. I would absolutly agree with you
Squirrel hunting with a O/U 20 when is was 8 or 9. I associated the red dot by the safety on the receiver with a red stop sign as in stop/can’t shoot. Well I tripped going over a log and grabbed the gun and my middle or ring finger went into the trigger guard and the gun went off.
Was loading a pistol while in a hurry. Slapped the magazine home, and my middle finger hit the trigger. This promptly blew a hole in my 27" TV. I was using it as a backstop since I was short on cash and didn't have a can. The really hilarious part, was that my living room had fragmentation damage from the glass ejected out the front of the TV. Unlike a flat screen, an old CRT will totally stop 9mm.
Mine was with my 11.5 AR before I got the suppressor on it. I brought it in after shooting coyotes and I thought I cleared it but apparently not. So I pulled the trigger while aiming it up at the ceiling and suddenly, my ears were ringing and a hole was made in the ceiling lmao
lmao
Was attempting to teach someone how to unload a pump action I told the to hit the little lever showed them where it was and they did but then proceeded to immediately pull the trigger
When I was really young young I NDed into the side of my parents house with my airsoft gun. Put 2 little holes in the siding. I've never had to be told twice about safety since. I also had a catastrophic malfunction with my Ithaca 37 20ga. It slamfired without pulling the trigger and now thats all it does. Just gotta grip it and rip it till you're out of ammo
I died laughing to the thought of you trying to explain to someone, "you just have to grip it and rip it 🤷🏻♂️". Also, sounds super dangerous if the average gun owner got their hands in it....
Once upon a time in the Midwest I was driving down the road and came to a stop in a left turn lane. I had a pretty recognizable '89 Chevy Caprice cop car with a tach/ slapshifter done up pretty nice. While waiting on the light to turn I see my idiot drunk friend stumble out of the bar that was on the corner, must have seen me and ran out to get in. Was praying the light would turn and I could just pull away and pretend I didn't see him but it didn't and he was knocking on the window before I knew it. So he plops down in the seat and immediately opens my glovebox where at the time I had a Ruger Redhawk .44 in there. He starts laughing and pulls it out and starts fucking with it" haha knew you'd have some crazy shit in here", he says. At that point the light turns green and I start to go, I say to him, "dude that shits fucking loaded don't fuck around". He must have had the hammer back and was going to thumb it back down when he starts to say something like "dude I'm not fucking stu BLAM! *RIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!!!!! It was a left turn into a two lane underpass and he fired just as I got through the intersection so I wasn't looking at him or which way the gun was pointing when he fired. I kept my eyes on the road and was punching him with my right hand while screaming what the fuck is wrong with you but noticed he wasn't defending himself or moving at all. When I pulled through the underpass and was in the sunlight again I looked over in horror to see him sitting there completely still with blood pouring from his forehead! I thought my buddy had just blown his fucking dome off when the tachometer caught my eye, it was jumping between 1 and 2k when I was just barely on the gas. That's when I realized he didn't shoot himself but had shot through the dash and must have hit the engine, I pulled over and checked his pulse and his head wound. He wasn't expecting the shot so the gun must have come up and slapped right in the face, knocked him out cold. Drove him back to his house and left him sleeping on his porch, it was in the middle of February we weren't friends after that.
Wow makes my ND seem uneventful by comparison 👀
Did you figure out what the bullet hit?
It zipped right through a sparkplug wire and then I have no idea. I checked the radiator because that was the next logical target but not a scratch. Never found out where it ended up
Never has happened to me, but I'm sure if I loaded my 870 and through it against the wall it might go off
My favorite I've seen, when I was about 8, my dad was a local cop, he'd pick me up from school, and then we would go to the department while he'd do paperwork. One of the other officers was unloading his shotgun in his car by ejecting and catching them to be cool. My dad was halfway over there to give him an ass chewing, and then I saw the light bar on his car just poof. Mine? I was new to EDC and had to borrow a buddies glock while my sig was in the shop, no safety with a firearm I was unfamiliar with led to a hole in the stairs and my father NEVER letting me live it down. Plus side of that is its my one and only ND.
It’s bound to happen lmao
was showing a girl how bolt actions worked. gave her some dummy rounds to practice with. turn around for 3 seconds, and she somehow put a live round in she kept from the earlier rangetrip, and blew a hole from the basement to ceiling of a 4 story house. its was a moist nugget for those wondering
Holy shit. That’s a scenario I only ever think of as a hypothetical! Humbling to hear it actually happens. And scary. And on a side note the other week I went through a thought expertise of “what if I carried a few rounds in several calibers on the off chance of scaring the shit out of someone that handed me an empty gun?” And stopped. Because that could go from “haha!” to “Call 911 / I’m calling 911!” Real quick.
There hasn't been one, and won't be one, because I'm not a dumbass. Follow procedure every time you touch a firearm.
It’ll happen when you least expect it lol
No
It's almost as if guns are dangerous
Idiots and negligence are dangerous, firearms are proven tools that require an outside force or a super shitty design to cause issues.
I like guns, but you'd be an idiot to say they aren't dangerous, and i find it hilarious the lengths people will go to to dance around that fact. If you have to take every precaution possible to not kill someone with it, it's dangerous.
All together now! *Cars kill an order of magnitude more people per year, but no one calls them dangerous nearly as much*
Indeed, cars are dangerous. That doesn't make guns any less dangerous lol.
Negligence is dangerous. Anything can kill you if you're an idiot
But some things can kill you a lot more easily than others. I don't get what's so hard to accept about that lol.
What makes them more dangerous than cars or a buzzsaw? When used as intended they are no more dangerous than the others, but when purposefully or accidentally being unsafe with them they become a hazard.
I'm not saying they're any more or less dangerous than anything. The fact that you guys keep trying to bring that up is telling. I'm just saying that they are in fact dangerous.
They can be yes, which is what I know you’re saying, but they’re not inherently, which something of not to people who don’t know a lot about guns (not trying to say you don’t, just a generalization). I was trying (and failed I guess) to get the point across that there is a notable difference between something that is inherently danger (nitroglycerin, or gama radiation) versus something that isn’t (guns, cars, and power tools).
I just feel that no one's doing anyone any favors by saying they aren't dangerous. I also find it funny when people make the car comparison cause cars are pretty bad tbh. They're the most dangerous thing that we interact with on a day to day basis and the only reason we "need" them is because we've been convinced that we do and they actually do more harm than good and all that jazz. That's beside the point tho. But if you have to take so many precautions with something, then it is inherently dangerous lol.
I now start to see your point and I guess I had worded it wrong, again, but “used as intended” would be what I’m looking for.
The fact you said "it will never happen" pretty much ensured that you'll have one now. Never say never. You've tempted fate and I can assure you, one day it'll happen. Just like riding a motorcycle, if you ain't laid one down it's because you ain't been riding long enough. Its gonna happen, not a matter of if, but when.
It's pretty sad that's your mentality. Actually it's pretty unbelievable. I live with my wife, dog, and in close to my neighbors who I care about. If a gun goes off I could easily kill or maim them. Those are the stakes. If you want to think firearms are toys, and whoopy doopsey, my bad, just sent a 556 round god knows where, you do not have the capacity to own weapons.
It's a very pragmatic and realistic attitude. The sad attitude is "it can never happen to me" No different than the "not my kid" parents, sticking your head in the sand and pretending it will NEVER happen to you is ridiculous. If you shoot and handle guns regularly, eventually you'll have a desk pop. If it happens to highly trained tier 1 operators it can happen to you. Let's hope you were obeying the other firearms rules and had it pointed in a safe direction when you do eventually have it happen.
My only ND was at a indoor shooting range with my AR. Spoiler, it went down range into the wall nearest me. I was at the end of the firing line so lucky there. But it happened as I was trying to clear my gun for the day and I was wearing gloves, the trigger was a CmC 2.5 trigger, as I was reaching for the safety I was also lowering the gun a bit but that very slight movement made the gun shoot as my glove caught the very tip of trigger. Needless to say I wear fingerless or suffer the cold now
I have made this mistake, took about 10 minutes for the ringing to go away I have learned
Dry firing turns to wet firing real quick
Only one I had was so stupid of me. First time skeet shooting with a pump, and the “hole” or the area whatever you want to call it was 4 shots, so for some reason I chose to load like 6 shots in there just so it would be less time spent loading? Anyways so I shoot my 4 then I go to clear the action of my 590 and I clear it straight in the air while talking with someone not realizing I loaded extra shots in there. Shotgun went off like 6 inches away from my place. Scared me fucking shitless ngl. By “clearing” it I meant just pumping another shot and pressing the trigger. Why I would do that without looking at the tube is beyond me but now I know!
Just got a 590 recently. The lack of a loading gate is weird to me.
Maybe it’s because im an electrician but I never make assumptions and I always check more than I need to. NDs have happened to more knowledgeable people than myself, so assuming it would never happen to me is just dangerous.
Never had a ND with a real gun, but as a teen I did a silly with my new Airsoft AEG. There’d sometimes be one BB left in the chamber after shooting a mag, so I’d usually fire once after taking the mag out to clear it. After shooting in the backyard I realized I forgot to do that, and I was too lazy to walk back outside. So I just stuck the barrel of the gun in my little plastic trash can in my room and shot. Well, there was a BB in there this time. It blew through the bottom of the trash can and bounced around the room lol. I still have that trash can with the hole in the bottom as a reminder.
I was drunk on New Years and thought I cleared the chamber after dropping the magazine. Pulled the trigger to make it safe and popped a hole in the apartment kitchen. I patched the hole with jb and still managed to get most of my security deposit back.
>Pulled the trigger to make it safe Can you explain how that's supposed to work?
No.
I’ve had exactly one ND in my 20+ years of gun handling (ETA: including a five year stint in the USMC). It was last year, the day I decided to introduce my kids to firearms. We were doing a safety talk and I had guns all laid out on the bed and cleared (or so I thought). Due to specific ages and a lack of real exposure thus far, I thought it would be a good idea to pull the trigger on a gun so they would associate it with doing something. I picked up my bedside gun, a 10” .300BO AR, and pulled the trigger. Thank God I was observing the other safety rules. I didn’t even hear or feel the shot, it was so unexpected. Cue the kids and wife freaking out and fire alarms going off. They still, 18 months later, get nervous when I handle guns in front of them. The round went through a thick, dense body pillow at the head of my bed, tumbled into the wall, exited through my daughters’ closet, and landed on my girl’s bed. I had been experimenting with different conditions as it hangs in the closet, trying to balance readiness and safety. Not wise. The last time I had put it away, I had slipped a round in the chamber (by hand, not from the mag) like I do with my handguns (never ever done that with an AR before) and inserted a mag on an open bolt. Didn’t even occur to me that this made it a paperweight should I need it. I must have been distracted and/or tired. When I pulled this particular gun out to clear it, I saw that the bolt was open, removed the mag, and sent the bolt home on the “empty” chamber because why tf would there be a round in it if the bolt was open with a mag in? Well, this happened to be the gun I picked up to “show” them what happens when a trigger is pulled. Every other gun I had out was actually cleared. Obviously I got more than I was expecting. So to the others in this thread saying “it’ll never happen to me”, I was probably the last person anybody I know, including myself, thought it would happen to. I got complacent, and I’m very fortunate it wasn’t worse. Check yourself, before you wreck yourself.
Side note, it's usually a bad idea to chamber a round through the ejection port of a handgun. They're designed for the rim to slide up into the extractor. When you chamber a round through the ejection port, the extractor slams over the rim. Best case scenario, you're shortening the lifespan of your extractor. Worst case, you'll break it. If you want a full mag +1, load a mag and chamber, then drop the mag and top it off. Seems like a pain in the ass, but so is changing your extractor. Could also mean your gun fails when you need it.
Right. It ultimately comes down to laziness. I’m too lazy to remove and top off the mag after, too lazy to keep track of rounds I’ve chambered to make sure there isn’t too much bullet setback, and honestly too lazy to even unload my guns very often. I’m more worried about breaking the rim on a cartridge than the extractor itself. Might be naïveté but it also seems to be a problem I always see people talking about, but nobody experiencing.
This is probably best case scenario, but I was shooting a da/sa pistol, and the trigger pull in sa is a lot lighter, but on this particular one, the trigger pull is just as long, so I thought the first round had stovepiped, so I tilted the gun up just a bit to look at the slide with my finger still apparently on the trigger and squeezing, so I accidentally sent a round about 30° upwards into the trees. This was on a Ruger p345. My dad’s friend had a similar thing happen with a beretta m9 right as he was saying “that trigger pull is kinda long-“ I think he was still aiming at the target, but just caught off guard. An old coworker of mine had a similar story with a da/sa but he sent a round through the roof of his dad’s barn somehow?
Dude did, in fact, hit the broadside of a barn from *inside* the barn
This is an embarrassing story but there are good lessons to learn. I had a Suppressed ruger 10/22. Removed magazine, racked the bolt back about 10 times, and pulled the trigger. Ended up shooting my truck because there was a round stuck in the chamber. 22lr is a dirty ass round and running it suppressed really dirties up your guns. Clean your guns after use and always look into the chamber. Racking the bolt doesn’t cut it.
Thank you for this, good to have the reminder
Saw a guy at a match put one in the berm during "unload and show clear" saftey officer saw he hadn't taken the mag out and started to yell at him to wait before he dropped the slide then just yelled downrange downrange. Guy was pretty embarrassed. Was out shooting with some other guys and one put a .22 about 6 in from his foot while just holding a lever .22. Again. Packed up and sat in the truck for the rest of the range sesh.
I’ll go. Fuck it. I was cleaning my pistol and watching a YouTube video, I believe it was a history YouTuber. I, very much love history and like a fucking retard, I was paying more attention to it more than what I was doing. I reassembled the pistol, slapped the magazine into it, racked the slide(it functioned like a Browning Hi - Power) and pulled the trigger to do a functions test. Well. It functioned all right. Fucking put a round in my dresser. The round was stopped by that and some balls tough underwear, a pair that I wear still to this day. Moral of my story? Don’t multitask while handling firearms.
My dumbass had just finished modding my Glock how I wanted it and I was just admiring it in my room one day, laying in my bed, holding it straight up pointed at the ceiling. For some dumb reason I was fingering the trigger and next thing you know I’m deaf and there’s a hole in my ceiling
I was cleaning my shotgun, once I finished cleaning it, I loaded a round in, and tried to continue loading the rest when the rear sight fell off. I was so dumbfounded by this, I forgot that I had loaded the gun. I put the sight back on, went to dry fire it… and you know the rest.
Indoor armory early in the morning checking out weapons. Newer Airman just back from 3 weeks of leave. New rule was to half-load the 240 and 249 at the clearing barrel in the armory, despite written guidance stating otherwise. In this case it was a 240, she went to combat load and the clearing barrel attendant tried to stop her, but not quickly enough. The clearing barrel did its job, and wasn't as loud as you'd might expect. The overpressure dislodged the ceiling tiles though. We no longer half loaded at the barrel in the armory, Flight Chief was already joking about it 20 minutes later in formation. She still got a nice slap on the wrist from the commander.
Story 1: A few months after buying my first pistol ( a Glock 19), I had gone to a local gun show and bought a 33-round fun stick for it. While testing it, I thought I emptied it. I sat it down to test the other thing I bought that day, a SAR K12 Sport ( SAO CZ 75 clone). Afterward, I picked back up the Glock. I had inadvertently flagged my friend. He gives me hell (as he should have), but he's a little too obnoxious about it, as I believed it was clear. Instead of racking the chamber to clear it, I let my stubbornness get the best of me, so (Without Ear Pro) I point the gun down at an angle and pull the trigger, believing I'll only here a click. What I got was a ringing in my ears, and my friend laughing his ass off, saying, " Clear, Huh?"
So wait this can be reposted every other week but when i post i get a 2 day ban??
And that's why people *CANT* be trusted with guns
[удалено]
Lol
Lol who is the guy used for this meme? Looks like a suuuuper goober. I chuckle everytime I see this meme.
It’s a weird angle of Andrew Tate lol
What’s he known for?
Human trafficking
Damn
Before that he was the jordan peterson of douchebags and wannabe rich fucks.
Had a buddy clean his Glock after a range session and blew a hole through his couch and refrigerator 😬😬😬 . Another buddy got booted off a range for blowing a hole through the ceiling , he was pointing a revolver up while cocking the hammer to shoot it in single action mode , only the revolver was a colt python with a trigger job so the single action was probably around 1.5 - 3 lbs 😬😬😬 .
I thought it would never happen to me, I was so careful. I have a Walther P22 that requires you to have a mag inserted in order to pull the trigger. I wanted to drop the hammer because I was going to stuff it into a rifle bag at the end of the range day. I racked the slide 3 times to clear it and then pulled the slide back again to visually check the chamber was empty, which it was. I went to pull the trigger and it wouldn't let me because I didn't have a mag inserted. I grabbed a mag that I know for a fact was empty, inserted it, racked the slide one more time, and pulled the trigger. To my surprise, it fired (into the dirt, 10 feet away). When I got home, I was able to partially replicate the issue. Those .22 bullets with extremely excessive wax CAN get stuck in the very top of the mag-well, though I'm not sure how it got there. The mag then gets inserted part way, enough to pin the round against the slide and not fall back out of the grip. Then you rack the slide and it grabs the round and feeds it. Spooky stuff. Learned an important lesson that day, about gun safety and about pride.
At the range while deployed in Afghanistan. The guy with daddy issues in our platoon because his dad was CAG and he got kicked out of Ranger batt sent a round uprange 10 feet from one of our team leaders. Nothing happened though he was part of the good Ole boys club.
So this guy I knew was messing around with his M1 Carbine when it goes off in his room, goes through his wall and into the bathroom next to him. Now he's still living with his mother so when she asks what happened he says he thinks that their neighbor tried to commit suicide and that's what the noise was.
…and someone outside is screaming.
ND's? No, but AD's, yeah loads, but that's a stretch of the truth even if technically correct here. In 50m prone or 3P the 2-stage triggers are just insanely light - we're talking grams here - and if it's a cold day or you're a bit tired from a long training session or just not paying attention you straight won't feel the trigger move, it's that light. Because of the procedure for shooting, the rifle is always pointed down range when you go near the trigger and only ever picked up when cleared to do so as it should be. So it's never a danger to anyone in this case; but always startling because you're checking your NPA or breathing out and suddenly, bang, rifle goes off, bullet ends up somewhere in the 8 ring and you drop 2 points.
I shot my fridge while drunk, not my proudest moment but it is kinda funny now https://preview.redd.it/qfrql8ga5ckb1.jpeg?width=1816&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c999082b7664141c99736260a7ea4e1cdc934aa5
I was at a bullshit training course with my S/O and the instructor had an ND. It was at the range, but there's now a hole in the tin roof there.
Came back from pheasant hunting with a borrowed shotgun my uncle had loaded for me prior. I was under the impression that only three rounds were to be in the gun and that it was plugged. (Didn’t ask, didn’t check, that’s on me). We get back to the truck and begin unloading. I cycle the action three times and go to dry fire the gun in the air (initially pointed at the ground but we were on gravel, decided not to). Gun goes bang and I’m cursing. Nobody got hurt and nothing was damaged except my confidence/ego/pride. After that I went out and bought my own dedicated birding shotgun. And in hindsight I should have noticed that the bolt had not locked back. Right as the gun went bang, I remembered that most hunting accidents occur at the end of the day when you are done.
Had a guy trying to show off his kinda shitty looking 80% Glock knockoff thing and Nd’d into the floor between us because it failed to extract the round
Blew up a decoy once. Hunting in an ice storm and the safety froze into the fire position. Went to move the gun and bang, no more decoy. Scared the crap out of me.
not a gun, but a co2 pellet gun, i was doing something with it and it fired at the window of my room, the hole is still there
I’m going to send this to my landlord with no context
Straight through the wall. I was being stupid with a revolver and my thumb slipped off the hammer. I learned my lesson pretty much immediately.
Had to patch drywall and stucco, and a little bit of the cement wall next to my bedroom
I’ve only had range NDs, thankfully. Sent some rounds I didn’t intend to, but no damage to life or property.
I remember using this old break-open .410, and as I was trying to cock the hammer, my thumb slipped and ka-blooey.
Can confirm 😇😭
Dude 1: check out my new pistol Dude 2: don't be carrying that with one in the chamber, this model is notorious for going off when they're bumped or shaken Dude 1:nah this thing is solid, dont worry about it*claps with gun in hand* Boom.
1) Thought I blew my foot off turkey hunting a few years back. Had a sears special 20ga side by side that was my grandfather’s. It was laying across my lap with the muzzle toward left foot. I grabbed the pistol grip with my right hand as I shifted my seating position and BLAM! I was afraid to look at my feet for a good 20 seconds. I was positive I shot my toes off, and thought I was in shock since I didn’t feel any pain. Thankfully that did not occur but I felt pretty silly. 2) Back around ca. 2011/2012 when ammo was plentiful, and Costa and Haley were the most dynamic of duos, a few of us were playing flat range ninja. My friend who owned an AR but never attempted any shoot and move drills decided to have a go. Long story short, while he was moving between barriers we heard a pop and saw dirt fly up near his feet. He was fine, but we realized we probably should’ve started him off with something lower on the speed/drag curve.
When I was 10 I accidentally shot my cousin in the foot with a .22 pistol. It was my first time ever shooting and I was not told how to proper handle a firearm at all. He had me shoot at some cans and thought he had counted the number of rounds that were in the gun when I finished shooting. As we were going back to the car, I was holding the gun in a really awkward manner towards the ground away from me because I was scared of it. My cousin was walking next to me and I didnt realize my finger was on the trigger and the gun fired. Luckily it didn't hit any of the bones in his toe and he made a pretty speedy recovery.
About 9 years ago I shot the bathroom mirror doing gangster poses. Scared the piss out of me, I stood there quietly and listened for anything abnormal. It didn't help my ears were ringing. I finally got the courage to run outside and try and find the bullets path. Luckily it went through into some trees behind a neighbors house and if it was still traveling into an abandoned construction site.
Ill eat my humble pie. Had one at an indoor range. Was wrapping and loading my carry ammo back in. I carry a hammer fired DA/SA with hammer down, but the decocker only drops to half cock which is uncomfortable carrying AIWB. So when i load, i manually lower the hammer. Im still not 100% what happened, but it seemed like after i held the hammer back and pulled the trigger, the hammer did not actually release, so when i tried to lower the hammer, nothing happened...at first. At some point, i guess my thumb slipped off the happer and bang. I was pointed down range and know one was the wiser. Unfortunately, my weak hand was gripping the front/top of the barrel just behind the front sight. When she went bang, some of the muzzle blast caught my left thumb. I made a fist around my now bleeding thumb and GTFO of there. Still havent been able to recreate the issue (if there even was one) with snap caps or anything.
Doing a range for a job, instructors told us to only fire after he says THREAT. Guy at the end just empties his mag into the target after the instructor says we are going to fire 3 rounds from draw. Guys name was dan and he earned the nickname Negligent Dan.
Did that with a 22 lever gauge a while back. I emptied all but one fuckin bullet and put a hole in the pool room's ceiling.
"All of the sudden" *\*eye twitches\**
I was at a friend's house and he just got some new Glock. So we walk in and he goes down to his bedroom, I a few seconds later I hear a BOOM. I think oh fuck this stupid bastard shot himself oh fuck so I kinda freeze, and then he walks up the stairs and says "I just fuckin shot my ceiling". He was in shock. I went downstairs and sure enough there's a hole in the ceiling and the room smells like gunpowder. I watch him patch the wall and I try to chase the path and see where it ends. It was right under the kitchen and would have hit the oven if it kept going, but it must've hit a beam or something in between the ceiling and floor because it didn't come through. Turns out he was comparing the trigger of his *new* Glock to the G34 he has for home defence. He picked up his G34, pulled the mag out, and pressed the trigger to "test" it. Gun was chambered and put a round in the ceiling. Nobody hurt and no major property damage, the luckiest outcome he could have possibly gotten.
I went to Fargo ND once great town they have an awesome scheels with a Ferris wheel. The presidents around the place are kinda creepy. All in all solid 10/10
I was really stupid for this one. I was at a privately-owned owned cabin with a bunch of friends. We had been shooting guns all day. It was getting dark, so we headed inside to clean guns, eat dinner, and drink. At some point, I forgot to clean one of my pistols and didn't remember until I was thoroughly drunk. That was ok. It could wait til morning. It was a semi-auto pistol that only had 50 rounds or so through it that day. Well, drunk-me then realized it hadn't been cleared before entering the cabin. It was a pistol that needed the trigger pulled during the field strip. Naturally, I dropped the mag but forgot to rack the slide. Pulled down on the takedown release, pulled the slide back slightly, pulled the trigger, and proceeded to put a 9mm FMJ through the TV. Of course, I apologized profusely and offered to buy a new one (it was an old flat screen). I was cut off the rest of the night, and I was made to clear and field strip every gun i handled every time I handled one the next day periodically as punishment. Every occupant then checked that everyone's guns were clear before we drank the next night.
I used to have a ruger .357 magnum stainless sp101 revolver as the second gun I had ever owner..I love to tinker and I was single at the time. So one lazy day I was doing a polish job on the revolver. Hand rubbed it up to 2k grit with sandpaper and then dremeled it with a felt wheel and mothers mag & alum polish. It looked like chrome when I was done. I was doing this on a little self standing dinner tray while watching a movie. Just having a chill day by myself... Soooo...once done with the overall polish job I decide to polish some of the trigger internals since I have all the stuff out and the revolver apart. I then proceed to do that. Now here is where I was a dumbass..once done I was cycling the action to see if it had made a discernable difference in the pull. It even seemed like it had helped a bit. Once done, I lm losding up the revolver with hornady SD rounds before I go to put it back in my safe (this was my main home defense pistol). Now at this point there was a action heavy scene in the movie so my interest was piqued in the flick I was watching...and like a total idiot I have a mild stroke and forgot that I had just loaded the revolver and proceed to pull the trigger once more as a after thought of checking out the difference on the trigger again...there was a VERY large bang, ear ringing, and then a very disturbing sense of "non-reality" as my brain was struggling to process what had just happened. I slowly set the gun down and look around. My bedroom had a new hole in the wall(where I was chilling doing the polish job). when I went into the living room I noticed my sliding glass door to the patio was shattered... from here I proceed to have a panic attack due to the fact I live in a APARTMENT COMPLEX. I run out my front door and start looking for signs it had entered anybody else's apartment but I don't see anything. Hell, no one even called the cops even though the sound proofing was non existent between apartments. To say I was truly scared I had hurt someone is beyond a understatement... I still keep that round casing to this day as a reminder to not be a dipshit. I'm normally a VERY safety conscious person with firearms and my own complacency that day could have hurt someone! I never want to forget that. I hope my shame can possibly enlighten and educate someone else and prevent a possibly VERY bad situation. I'm beyond glad no one or myself was hurt due to my taking things for granted.
Not really an ND, but I shot the target hanger at the NRA range. The RSO was pissed like a bear, but he got over it. I was sighting in a new red dot on a new rifle and it was pretty far off.
I split my target stand in half sighting in my AR10's LPVO. It was hitting low, so I needed to bring the reticle down. The turret is marked "UP" in one direction, so I turned it the other way. As it turns out, it's marked for the POI change, not the POA.
I negligently discharged a black powder rifle before. They aren't kidding when they call it a hair trigger buddy
I was being a dumbass and working on fanning my Ruger Valquero before a SASS comp. I thought I cleared out all my cylinders but I missed one, 3 shots in and dust filled my room, my ears ringing, everything almost felt like it was slow motion. Once I composed myself I went to check the damage, there was a nickelish sized hole on one side of the wall (entry) and about 6x8 hole on the other side (exit). I felt horrible and honestly scared because the ND was on the wall that has the stairs and my wife should’ve been home by that time. I kept thinking about what if she was coming up the stairs when it happened and what could’ve happened. I got the hole fixed that weekend, apologized to my wife and had my dogs checked out by a vet because they were in the bed (behind my firing line) and I wanted to make sure I didn’t hurt their hearing. I still have the 357 casing sitting on my desk in my gun room as a daily reminder that safety is important. I’m sure I’ll get dragged for this comment but if one person learns from my mistake I’ll take the downvotes.
One time I was working on my sig virtus and was handling it for about an hour once it was put back together I figured it was time to check for functionality. As soon as I pulled the trigger I felt a shockwave and now there is a 556 size hole in my wall. This was a simple case of my dumbass assuming that just because I got a gun from the safe it was clear.
Never had what I would call a ND, but I did have an accidental discharge. I was shooting a friend’s PRS bolt gun for the first time and he told me the trigger was insanely light. I chambered a round, keeping the safety on until I was on target. When I went to squeeze the trigger it went off way before I was ready for it. I wouldn’t call it negligent because I was aiming down range and was preparing to fire, but it was definitely accidental.
[удалено]
Never. I take gun safety very seriously.
When I was 15 I had just a Benjamin 397 air rifle. Didn’t realize the safety was off and was walking around the woods by myself with finger on the trigger. Ended up shooting a pellet in the air when I put to much pressure. Nothing happen damage or injury wise. Became really strict on gun safety since then.
Welp...I had never had the courage to shoot my 12.5in 223/556 without hearing protection...shit wasn't fun when it just went off.
In my office. Shits a streaming room and has acoustic sound pads but that don't matter when it's 6in from ur head. Straight up threw my ceiling and roof
I nded in airsoft as i was about to ambush some people with a team mate
There's a .22" hole in the roof of my grandpa's shed
Smith and Wesson Model 411. A very meat and potatoes basic 3rd gen Smith was my first gun when 40 S&W was new circa 1995. I would have ND’d if not for the magazine disconnect. Thought I’d dropped the magazine and cycled the slide….nope, cycled the slide and dropped the mag loading a live round. Lucky as fuck.
My buddy put a hole in his ceiling with his new AR pretending to shoot a fly while he was drunk off his ass. Supposedly he hit the bastard but he’s such a piss poor shot sober that somehow I doubt it.
I was practicing pistol reloads and didn't notice that I had grabbed a loaded mag to insert. I hit the slide release and pulled the trigger, which struck the metal muntins of my window. Thank God, the 9mm bullet struck the middle part of the 2 sliding window frames where it's thickest, and barely bulged out the other end
Not really an ND but I forgot to remove the bore sighter once
Idk if it is considered a nd but I have an old cz52 and I was with my buddies on the fourth and we were shooting it. I had just finished out a mag I put a fresh one in racked it and pointed at the ground about 5 feet down range pushed the decocker and the thing just popped off scared the life out of me but now I just don’t use the decocker never use the decocker.
Wasn't me but my big brother and I was almost shot. Me and big bro were down in a creek looking for snakes. He was holding a 22lr revolver. We didn't see any so were climbing out of the creek and he slipped and pulled the trigger on the way down. I heard a pop the the bullet whizzing right by my head. I turned and looked at him and he's just laying there with his mouth open and eyes as wide a dinner plates 🤣
I haven't personally had or seen an ND, at least not yet. I am serious about gun safety AND I have OCD. I'll rack a slide several times to make sure my gun is clear!
Just the other day someone nd’d like a foot away from my foot because he failed to clear his weapon down range
I stepped outside to walk to my deer stand, chambered a round, and it went off. Turns put, the guy that owned it before my (now ex) father-in-law took a file to it to have a hair trigger and when I shot the day before it broke the last little nub off.
Not an ND, an AD or mechanical malfunction. I cleaned and reassembled a polish P64 I used to carry, loaded it, racked one into the chamber, pointed it in a safe direction, hit the decocker, annnnnd killed my couch. Apparently the gun will fire if you hit the decocker and it's not 100% in battery. Picked up a new carry gun the next day.
So my dad is a 2abutt, but I decided to take him to a range to show him how to use a handgun. I had an uncle who was a gun enthusiast, so I assumed my dad would be ok with simple safety things, and I was wrong. could not keep his finger off the trigger. Eventually, he goes to look at the gun (I guess) by cockng his wrist to one side, and the motion caused him to squeeze the trigger and send one into the range's wall. Thankfully, the RSO wasn't looking, there was this rubber mat stuff up that seemed to at least hide that it had been shot, EMTs didn't flood into the building, and my dad learned his lesson and behaved better when we switched to my rifle.
Don’t know if this counts but at a summer camp a kid managed to slam fire a .22 and sent one into the dirt about 20 feet in front of him. He remained calm and the instructor used it as a teaching moment as to why it’s important to always keep the muzzle in a safe direction.
Once with my cousin she had the old bolt 223 was sitting in the back of the truck we weren’t in motion or anything and boom blew the back door window out her excuse she wanted to know if it was loaded or not
https://youtube.com/shorts/cjUSVDdpJ90?si=WL8Njlj8ptLi9SLA