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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '23

ND = bad day

https://www.yrp.ca/en/Modules/News/index.aspx?feedId=eec058e4-5b49-437f-89cd-d222d7465de7&newsId=3db908d4-cf5e-4780-b3d4-f6fbd4737063

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u/throwa37 Feb 12 '23 edited Feb 12 '23

As somebody who lives in an apartment building, this story terrifies me. I had my Marlin 336 on my table for cleaning after a range trip last year, and when I opened the action to remove the bolt, it sent an empty casing flying across the apartment. My blood ran fucking cold realizing that after a decade-plus of civilian gun ownership, after all these years of clearing guns being muscle memory, I had a lapse and failed to clear the weapon at the range. It could just as easily have been a live round, and I could have done the same thing as this guy with just an ounce of carelessness.

I think people are too quick to jump to calling people idiots for this kind of thing. Just like you can have someone with a thirty-year spotless driving record who rear-ends somebody one day, all it takes is a moment of inattention or complacency to have an accident like this. It doesn't make the person stupid, but it should serve as a wake-up call that they might be getting too comfortable.

I wonder if they charged him for the ND just to dump charges on him for the prohib mags/weapons and illegal storage, or if they would have charged him even if everything else was squared away.