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Almost a disaster in Fort Worth, I was at the gun show Saturday at Will Rogers and lo and behold a gun discharged inside the show. I later talked with an exhibitor that had the booth next to the incident. He informed me that the dealer next to him had a 45 pistol on his table he was selling for a friend and he didnt check it. a passerby stopped and picked up the pistol and luckily he was pointing it at the floor when he squeezed the trigger. it was packed with people like a subway car in new york. there was barely enough room to get down the aisles. it could have been a real tragedy. It was amazing that no one got hurt. I couldnt beleive that any exhibitor would not check every weapon he has at the show.

Complacency is the main ingredient when creating a disaster.

I'm glad I didn't go. I figured all the prices were still inflated anyway.

Incidents like that do not promote our RKBA. Quite the contrary, incidents like that prove that firearms should not be in the hands of...oh, well, you know what the 'antis' say.

I was planning on attending this event but decided against it at the last minute. I am glad I didn't attend after hearing about this.

Oldgringo wrote:Incidents like that do not promote our RKBA. Quite the contrary, incidents like that prove that firearms should not be in the hands of...oh, well, you know what the 'antis' say.

I like Jeff Cooper's approach: No gun can be made foolproof. Fools should keep their hands off of machinery.

That happened in Austin around 2000. A dealer messing with a 1911 fired a round into the floor. Luckily no one got hit.

Broncrider wrote:He informed me that the dealer next to him had a 45 pistol on his table he was selling for a friend and he didnt check it. a passerby stopped and picked up the pistol and luckily he was pointing it at the floor when he squeezed the trigger.

How early in the show was it? I can't imagine a gun sitting out for more than a few minutes without some potential buyer checking the chamber.

It was about 1P or so. My wife and I were an aisle over - scared the crap outta me, i heard a distinct beewweeeuuuu go past us, I guess a fragment as one of the other dealers said the round went into a box - Fort Worth's finest were there in nanoseconds. We were at Winchesters a few months back and a guy on the range put a round through his hand, now this at a gun show - my wife is ready to sell everything and never have anything to do with shooting sports again.

Other than the ND - show was good. Handgun prices for the most part were not more than normal. EBR's were prominant. Picked up a NIB S&W 360PD for $710.00. The dealers were definately processing a lot of paper. I have never seen so many Taurus's (Taurii?) being sold.

You'd think someone like that would check it out of sheer reflex when he was handed the firearm in the first place.

Man, it's a miracle no one was injured. I assume the dealer received a hefty fine or some sort of ticket from the LEOs. I thought all the guns for sale were required to be locked open? If I recall correctly, the last show I went to in Pasadena had all the handguns zip-tied with the slides open. The Dallas Morning News is going to be all over this one. I can see the headline now, "Women and Children Shot At During Gun Show".

Every time something is fool proofed, someone comes along and builds a better fool.

I'm a little stunned by this.... I've been to ONE gun show in my life and every handgun I saw was locked open with a loop through the breech. Is that not standard procedure?

I don't know about a fine, but they made the dealer pack up and leave.

Morgan wrote:Every time something is fool proofed, someone comes along and builds a better fool.

I love that saying. I'll be borrowing it from time to time, with your permission.

The Annoyed Man wrote:

Morgan wrote:Every time something is fool proofed, someone comes along and builds a better fool.

I love that saying. I'll be borrowing it from time to time, with your permission.

Here's another one for your amusement and use with my blessings:

"It's not possible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."

They do incredibly stupid things that no rational person would think of in a million years.