dumbest thing youve ever done with a firearm

[Visionz]

My kid, when he was 8 years old, put the tip of his finger at the end of the barrel of a bb gun rifle and pulled the trigger, thinking it was unloaded because he wanted to feel the air pressure.

BB went straight through his fingernail. Not one of my more prouder moments of him, but he learned a couple of important lessons and at least he took it like a man.

[bobbyjones]

I let a friend borrow my awesome Ruger sp101. He loves it so much I wonder if I'll ever see it again...

[Hudson974]

Back in the early days of firearm handling, I was trying to clear a jam in my .22 and there is now a nice small hole in the ceiling of my friends farmhouse.

[roOism]

I won't name names or relationships to protect the dumb, but an LEO was at home early one morning cleaning his gun and had a ND. Went through his window, across the street, and into the headboard of the neighbors who were asleep in bed. Cops were called, got written up as a drive by shooting. The truth didn't come out for a year or so, firings ensued.

Luckily I've never had a ND, a few of my not so fine moments:

First time firing a BP rifle, maybe 10 years old, set the stock ON my shoulder to look down the barrel. Luckily just a black eye.

Pointed an empty (single shot, had just fired) pellet gun at my mom about the same age, gun was destroyed as a lesson.

Trusted my ex-wife to fire a rifle. Despite a lengthy safety talk right before she swept me and a group of people to our left with a loaded SKS, finger on the trigger. Luckily she didn't fire.

Shot a 2 liter with a BB gun, came back and hit me in the leg.


My dad is a former LEO ( no not the one mentioned above), and drilled gun safety into me at a very early age. I don't trust a gun til I've fingered the chamber.

[Tetra Grammaton Cleric]

Shot a 2 liter with a BB gun, came back and hit me in the leg.

Ditto (I think I've mentioned it here before).

Except another body part was involved other than someone's leg.

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[roOism]

Oh I forgot one. Used to work at a YMCA summer camp, had a group of kids (12 year olds) at the skeet range. We would load one round into the kid's shotgun as it was pointed down range. Had a little self proclaimed gangster say he could shoot better "gangster style". I should have pulled him right then, but I loaded him and told him to shoot normally. He said, " Don't f*ck with me b*tch I'm the one carrying the gun." I ordered him to stop and lay the shotgun down pointed down range. Instead he started to turn the barrel towards me and the other kids in the lanes with his finger on the trigger. I was standing close and managed to grab the barrel and point it downrange. He let go of the shotgun, and was sent straight home. Funnily enough, one of his friends went home in cuffs a few days later after attacking me with brass knuckles. Good times.

[Dawgboy]

This isn't a gun but...

Accidentally took 50 rounds of .40 jhp into Mexico. I did not realize it was in the spare tire well until I was unloading back at home

Probably could have done time for that...

[Rebel Pariah]

This isn't a gun but...

Accidentally took 50 rounds of .40 jhp into Mexico. I did not realize it was in the spare tire well until I was unloading back at home

Probably could have done time for that...

for AMMO?

[LowKey]

This isn't a gun but...

Accidentally took 50 rounds of .40 jhp into Mexico. I did not realize it was in the spare tire well until I was unloading back at home

Probably could have done time for that...

for AMMO?

Yup.
One person did time in Mexico after Mexican LE found empty .22lr brass....not hundreds of empties mind you, but about half a dozen.

[Rebel Pariah]

One person did time in Mexico after Mexican LE found empty .22lr brass....not hundreds of empties mind you, but about half a dozen.

I think I see where the issue might be

[VinnieD]

Dumbest thing isn't so bad. Just forgot to put my earplugs back in after asking "all clear down range?" and announcing "Range going hot." before firing off a 12 gauge slug.

For a moment I just thought. "Huh, that was louder than usual." Then came the ringing and tremendous pain.

[Maverick299]

Not me or anyone I know first hand but many years ago in a small rural town two cops (ever notice when you get two cops together trouble usually ensues) were cleaning their guns in the police station. One of them thinks he's going to be cute and drop a live round into the revolver and pull the trigger to scare his buddy. He always shot S&W's but his buddies service revolver he picks up is a Colt. He drops a round in, thinking if he closed it quick his buddy wouldn't see that it was not the next in the rotation of the cylinder to be shot. Points it out the window at his friends cruiser, pulls the trigger and BANG! Shoots the window out and shoots a hole into the cruisers door panel. I don't think he got fired but the Chief came down on both of them pretty hard.

He was used to S&W's that rotate the cylinder in a counter clockwise direction, Colts rotate the cylinder clockwise and he had no idea. He dropped the live round in what he thought would be two shots past the hammer, but instead he put it next in line. This is why you don't use guns to play practical jokes.

[Concray]

Not firearms, but a foolish boyhood attempt at making a firearm...
Twelve year old Concray has a bunch of firecrackers. The bigger ones, big as two fingers.
The ones that are said to take such fingers off if they go off in your hand.
Twelve year old concray, with his mental issues and his hatered and childish curiosity decides to harness that power.
He has a bow, the kind of bow that a child has.
He has arrows, made from plastic and fiberglass with no tip. The kind of arrows a child has.
He also have pop-corkfrom an angeldon (Don't know the english name, but here is a wikipedia article with pictures: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeldon)
Basicly, it's a cork with a little gunpowder in it that blows up with a little bang and some smoke when struck.

So the little shit has all these, by themselves harmless things. using a cut open beer-can to wrap three of the firecracker swith the pop-cork to the arrow in a way I won't go furter into, he has, in his own mind, made a weapon. The little asshole is feeling manly as fuck, and goes out to try it. His little sister tags along, because, well, why do little sisters tag along for anything?
Long story short, little Concray shoots the arrow into a tree, there is a bang, the aluminium splinters, and his sister gets a piece the size of a thumb stuck in her throa and starts bleeding profusely.

Parents are ran after, first aid administred, an ambulance is called, a girl survives, and one stupid boy never plays with anything explosive again. He also learns what shame is, and why big brothers are not allowed to be idiots.
Off topic, maybe, but I feel that it was stupid enough.

[12_Gauge_Chimp]

When I was 21, I fired my SKS without any ear protection and I now have hearing damage to my left ear thanks to that moment of stupidity.

Prior to that, I got nailed with BB ricochets too many times to keep count of over the years and eventually decided to put the BB gun away before I ended up with a BB lodged in my trachea.

[Ramen]

I was at the range with my dad and his friend and practicing my hand positioning on my glock to improve my accuracy. I was using a more aggressive grip with the thumbs lined up pointing forward and more of my hand on my weapon.

Well my dad's friend asked if I'd like to shoot his new 44 Magnum. O said yes and he hands me the weapon and I loaded a couple cartridges in the cylinder, closed the cylinder, got a good grip and fired.

What I forgot was to change my grip for the revolver, so I ended up with a swollen thumb and a trail of gun powder and lead in my thumb and index finger. Could have been worse but luckily it was just a bit of lost dignity, comfort, and a bit of lesson learned.

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