Woman accidentally discharges pistol - GIF

[BuffaloJohn]

She finally figured out how to insert the magazine, then racked the slide, the weapon is not fully live.

I'm not challenging your safety concerns Frank, but as soon as she racked the slide, the gun was loaded. I have a gun like that which has the hammer block safety on the back of the slide. That position she had the safety in, on my gun, is the Fire position. So, with a round chambered, my gun is fully live.

She is a billboard of what not to do...

[Frank S]

I'm not challenging your safety concerns Frank, but as soon as she racked the slide, the gun was loaded. I have a gun like that which has the hammer block safety on the back of the slide. That position she had the safety in, on my gun, is the Fire position. So, with a round chambered, my gun is fully live.

She is a billboard of what not to do...

That was a typo and not proof reading should have been now fully live
Yes she could make poster child of the month of what not to.
I have 1 small frame pocket 9mm made by Diamond firearms. It was in a batch of non-ops or wall hangers that I bought from a pawn shop I probably paid 25.00 for it which IMO was way over priced LOL. It was brand new never fired still in the box, but the guy told me his boss said it could only be sold as non-op because it was not made with a mechanical safety. SO I slid the slide off and tweaked as couple of bits with a plier. Now it truly was nonoperational. put it back in the box bought it and half a dozen rifles and shot guns. Sent the 9mm to the manufacture, they either repaired or replaced whatever was wrong with it, sent it back under full warranty No charge. had paperwork showing it was test fired 20 rounds. I loaded the magazine fired 9 rounds cleaned the little POS and put it back in the box in my closet Never to be fired by me again. The frame is too small for me to hold onto comfortably and it still does not have a mechanical safety, I won't sell it or give it away because I feel the only safe way to carry it is with a zip tie through the chamber and barrel