theonlyski 8 #1 July 25, 2011 http://www.click2houston.com/news/28653647/detail.html Someone want to tell me how the fuck you can throw a t-shirt on a gun and have it go off?"I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #2 July 25, 2011 Quotehttp://www.click2houston.com/news/28653647/detail.html Someone want to tell me how the fuck you can throw a t-shirt on a gun and have it go off? Come on ! All the gun control nuts KNOW guns kill people! This is the first one I have heard of that works they way they say they (the gun grabbers) they do."America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #3 July 25, 2011 I mean, really... what kind of fucking idiot does this guy think the police are? They carry guns too, if a t-shirt being tossed on one causes it to fire... I don't see how we don't have a cop shooting himself in the leg every few mins from walking, running, sitting down..."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rushmc 23 #4 July 25, 2011 Quote I mean, really... what kind of fucking idiot does this guy think the police are? They carry guns too, if a t-shirt being tossed on one causes it to fire... I don't see how we don't have a cop shooting himself in the leg every few mins from walking, running, sitting down... The guy must be desperate. But you just wait and see where the gun-o-phobes go with this one It will be just as stupid"America will never be destroyed from the outside, if we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." Abraham Lincoln Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GeorgiaDon 380 #5 July 25, 2011 More likely just an example of poor journalism and lazy editors. The article states: "Investigators said the neighbor threw a T-shirt on top of the gun and it accidentally went off...". I suspect a more accurate statement would have been: "Investigators said the neighbor said he threw a T-shirt on top of the gun and it accidentally went off...". Now if the police could repeat the experiment, i.e. throw a T-shirt on the gun and have it go off, that would indeed be disconcerting, but I'd be very skeptical of that ever happening. Don_____________________________________ Tolerance is the cost we must pay for our adventure in liberty. (Dworkin, 1996) “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.” (Yeats) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
devildog 0 #6 July 25, 2011 Quotehttp://www.click2houston.com/news/28653647/detail.html Someone want to tell me how the fuck you can throw a t-shirt on a gun and have it go off?Taking hair triggers to their literal end.You stop breathing for a few minutes and everyone jumps to conclusions. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JohnRich 4 #7 July 25, 2011 QuoteSomeone want to tell me how the fuck you can throw a t-shirt on a gun and have it go off? The only way I could see that happening is if you threw the t-shirt on top of the gun, and a fold of the shirt fell around the trigger. Then, subsequently, he picked up the shirt which then put pressure on the trigger from that fold wrapped around it. But that would require two actions, not just the first. He may have conveniently omitted that second part. And that would also mean that the safety was off, which was not good either. I keep my home defense pistol with the safety on, and in a holster that covers the trigger. It also has a grip safety as a secondary safety backup. So there's no way that throwing a shirt on it and then pulling on the shirt is going to cause it to go off. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
champu 1 #8 July 25, 2011 Quotehttp://www.click2houston.com/news/28653647/detail.html Someone want to tell me how the fuck you can throw a t-shirt on a gun and have it go off? http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/miscellaneous/9080/ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
theonlyski 8 #9 July 25, 2011 Not to mention the gun would need a backstop to push against, I don't know of many unmodified handguns where the trigger pull is less than the weight of the gun itself, so it would need to be squeezed for it to fire, or it would just push itself backwards."I may be a dirty pirate hooker...but I'm not about to go stand on the corner." iluvtofly DPH -7, TDS 578, Muff 5153, SCR 14890 I'm an asshole, and I approve this message Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RonD1120 62 #10 July 26, 2011 I'd like to know what kind of firearm it was. He was charged with moving the gun. Well, yea, if one of my guns went off accidently I think the first thing I would do is pick it up and unload it.Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
