One was accidental, one was in the parking lot.
Gun Show Shooting #1
A vendor has accidentally shot a woman in the leg while demonstrating a gun and holster at a US gun show.
The Columbia County district attorney’s office in Pennsylvania will determine whether the vendor, Geoffrey Hawk, will face criminal charges stemming from the weekend shooting at the Bloomsburg Fairgrounds, Officer Brad Sharrow said.
Hawk, 44, of Warminster, hasn’t returned calls to his cellphone and business, In Case of Emergency Enterprises. He was manning a booth for his business at the Eagle Arms Gun show at the time of the shooting.
Hawk told police he thought the gun was unloaded when he demonstrated a concealed-carry wallet holster to the woman, Krista Gearhart, 25, of Orangeville. Gearhart was treated and released for a thigh wound at Geisinger Medical Centre in Danville.
Hawk told police he had done the same demonstration about 20 times without incident before the shooting, “racking” the gun’s slide to clear it of bullets each time, Sharrow said. Somehow, the gun was loaded when Gearhart was shot.
Police said Hawk told them he had left the gun on display when he completed background checks on some customers and believes it’s possible someone loaded the gun when he was busy.
Joel Koehler, the gun show organiser, said Hawk was asked to close his booth and leave the show. The show has an entrance sign that says “No Loaded Weapons” and Koehler said his staff checks all guns to ensure they are unloaded before they are brought in for display.
Koehler said this shooting was the first at any show he has held at the fairgrounds or anywhere else.
Source: http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/10214426/Vendor-shoots-woman-at-gun-show
People need to treat every gun like it’s loaded and point it in a safe direction, always. Joel Koehler might be on to something, could an agent from Moms Demand Action load the gun on purpose to cause a gun accident? I don’t know, it seems like a remote possibility but in days like these we need to be extra vigilant. Remember who we have in the White House, and if Obama can order the IRS to harass conservative groups, maybe he can order the CIA to cause some accidental shootings. But again, that’s conspiracy, and I prefer to debate the known versus the unknown.
Gun Show Shooting #2
CEDAR PARK — Police are investigating a shooting at a gun show that left a man dead in the Cedar Park Center parking lot, according to our partners at the Austin-American Statesman.
It happened outside the Austin Gun Show around 5:30 p.m. on Saturday.
Organizers of the event at Cedar Park Center released this statement on the gun show website:
“All of us here are deeply saddened by this tragic event,” they said in the statement. “Right now, there are more questions than answers, and we and our security department are doing everything possible to assist the Cedar Park Police Department in their investigation. We are prayerful for the immediate family and also for those who witnessed this. Very difficult.”
The show was rescheduled for August 2nd and 3rd. Police have not released the victim’s identity.
Source: http://www.kvue.com/story/news/state/2014/06/29/shooting-at-cedar-park-gun-show-leaves-man-dead/11714475/
I wonder if the Austin Gun Show also had a “No Loaded Weapons” sign that kept the criminals in the parking lot armed while the good guys with an unloaded gun or no gun had nothing.
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