I appreciate that Leslie Combs has an endorsement from the NRA, but what she did was really stupid.
A Kentucky lawmaker said Wednesday that she accidentally fired a gun in her Capitol Annex office on the first day of the legislative session this week, prompting a police investigation. No one was hurt.
Democratic Rep. Leslie Combs of Pikeville issued a statement saying the shot was fired unintentionally
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Combs did not offer details, but a House colleague who said he was in her office at the time described it as an accident.
“She was emptying the weapon and she thought that it was empty and pointed it away and down and pulled the trigger and it went off,” said Rep. Jeff Greer, D-Brandenburg. “Thankfully, no one was hurt. I know she feels terrible about it. … It’s just an unfortunate event.”
Source: http://www.argus-press.com/news/national/article_aef33e34-5379-5989-b1ef-2728ec8742ae.html
Come on, Leslie, this was so dumb.
Gun safety isn’t so hard:
1. Release the magazine.
2. Pull the slide to release the round in the chamber.
I’ll give her credit for pointing her gun in a safe direction, but unless you need to pull the trigger to open the gun so you can clean it, there was no reason to do that.
