Bend man shot by wife's gun improving
A Bend woman was cited on assault and reckless endangering charges Thursday after a loaded .22-caliber Derringer pistol fell out of her pocket during a visit to McDonald’s and it fired, striking her husband in the abdomen police said. He remained hospitalized Friday, but had improved to fair condition.
And the answer is...MORE GUNS!!!
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I can hear the chorus now: "It was just an accident. Could happen to anyone. This only happens to idiots."
Problem is, when idiots can carry accident-prone guns anywhere, anyone can be the victim of the carnage. Not just the idiot or the idiot's spouse.
Hundreds of people die every year from "accidents" like this, and "accidental tragedies" like kids finding loaded guns and shooting themselves. Gun manufacturers should be held accountable for producing inferior products that kill people accidentally, just as automobile manufacturers are liable for producing cars that have defects that kill people accidentally.
Guns should not go off if you drop them. Kids shouldn't be able to fire guns they find in their house, just as kids can't start just any car they find on the street.
But the NRA was instrumental in writing legislation that protects gun manufacturers from product liability lawsuits. Just who is the NRA representing? NRA members and their children who are killed by their own poorly designed weapons? Or gun manufacturers?
But the NRA was instrumental in writing legislation that protects gun manufacturers from product liability lawsuits
Relishing in your ignorance again N?
The purpose of the act is to prevent firearms manufacturers and dealers from being held liable for negligence when crimes have been committed with their products. However, both manufacturers and dealers can still be held liable for damages resulting from defective products, breach of contract, criminal misconduct, and other actions for which they are directly responsible.
Specifically, from the text of the law:
shall not include--
...(v) an action for death, physical injuries or property damage resulting directly from a defect in design or manufacture of the product, when used as intended or in a reasonably foreseeable manner, ...
Safety (firearms)
Almost all modern semi-automatic handguns, except some exact replicas of antique models, have some form of safety mechanism including a "drop safety" that requires a trigger pull to discharge a cartridge.
That stupid little derringer was one of the rare exceptions. Note that the Wikipedia page doesn't mention it, but the trigger guard is also considered a safety device because it makes it harder to depress the trigger by accident. Most derringers do not have a trigger guard.
Derringers are not generally well liked.
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