I'm actually glad that you guys educated me on that term. I see people mention NDs all the time on this and other firearm forums. I knew what they were referring to but for some reason never put two and two together to figure out what the N stood for.flintknapper wrote:The reason for that is because many folks casually dismiss the event... and apply the all encompassing definition of "accidental" : An unintended event!ScottDLS wrote:The terminology police here will soon be berating you for not titling your post "negligent" discharge. Whatever... Tomato, tom-ah-to...(For fans of my current Avatar.... TOE-MAY-TOE). Clip, magazine... Verbal, oral...Chrispy wrote:I just saw this on the local news.
http://www.khou.com/news/local/HPD-Woma ... 43634.html
Interestingly the story says the woman was shot in the "bu--". Not the most professional reference to the posterior. What's with people carrying these junk guns that go off when you drop 'em? My Raven and Jennings .25's, just have the CLIP fall out of them when I drop them. They never go off (so far).
The purpose of CORRECTLY calling an avoidable incident like this one a "Negligent Discharge" is to assign responsibility to the person(s) involved. It is an important distinction!
Any weapon not secured in such fashion that it will not drop from clothing/concealment is clearly negligence. It is THIS kind of nonsense that really gains traction with the anti's, and rightfully so.
Negligent is definitely a better term for it. Guns don't just accidentally fire (or at least very very rarely). If you are in possession of a firearm and it goes off after it was dropped, in your pocket, or however it happened, you are the one that is responsible, or negligent.