Gun Safety Again

Apparently the folks at a recent Idaho gun show don't listen to my Sportsman’s Spotlight segment. Listen to a segment I recently did after calling gun expert, gun enthusiast Al Strup. “I think the first thing you want to do is follow the gun safety rules. You always treat a gun as though it is loaded, you want to watch where you point it and keep your finger off the trigger until you are ready to shoot. Those are just standard rules. You can go through the gun safety course. The state offers that to anybody before they go hunting. Everybody has to go through that now, that's required by law. I don’t know what the circumstances were. Was he just standing there unloading his gun and shot him. Then obviously he wasn’t paying attention to what he was doing. He was not pointing his gun in a safe direction. This first thing you always do. You always want to keep the barrel of your gun pointed in a safe direction. In the case of fog, it sounds to me like he may have mistook him for a deer and shot him. So be sure of your target and what is behind it. Some people get quite excited when they are out hunting and they throw that factor out the window and that’s what gets them in trouble. It all comes down to basic firearms rules which you can find online.”

Well unbelievable as it seems for the second time in three years, an accidental gun discharge injured someone at a gun show at Expo Idaho in Garden City. A 74-year-old gun vendor from the state of Washington told investigators he was securing a Savage Arms B Mag :17 caliber bolt action rifle when the weapon discharged Striking two men. The injuries were not believed to be life-threatening.