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02-20-12, 06:10 PM
Mesa police: Man's gun goes off in Walmart bathroom stall (http://www.azcentral.com/community/mesa/articles/2012/02/20/20120220mesa-police-mans-gun-goes-off-walmart-bathroom-brk.html)
Umm, don't drop it if the hammer is resting on the primer? That's old school wheel gun. I'm presuming "western style" in the article means single action? Weird caliber for "western style" I thought.
Do modern revolvers still have the hammer resting on primer or do they have transfer bars and other safeties to stop that? Is dropping modern revolvers still a safety issue?
yes, I realize that it's probably never good to drop a loaded gun but latest pistols I'm familiar with have things like firing pin blocking cylinders so that even if dropped from a height great enough that the mass of the firing pin can overcome the spring, it still can't fire.
A 24-year-old Phoenix man could be prosecuted for endangerment after police say he dropped his gun and fired a shot in the bathroom of a Mesa Walmart on Sunday, Mesa police said.
Andrew Seals entered a bathroom stall about 1 p.m., at a Walmart at McKellips and Greenfield roads, and began to sit down when his Ruger .357-caliber Western-style revolver fell out of its holster and fired a round, Mesa police Sgt. Ed Wessing said.
The bullet went through the stall door, hit a wall, ricocheted into a light on the ceiling, then back onto the floor toward a man standing at a urinal, Wessing said. The bullet struck the floor about 5 feet from the other man, he said.
Police did not arrest Seals, but they will ask prosecutors to charge him with one count of endangerment, Wessing said.
Umm, don't drop it if the hammer is resting on the primer? That's old school wheel gun. I'm presuming "western style" in the article means single action? Weird caliber for "western style" I thought.
Do modern revolvers still have the hammer resting on primer or do they have transfer bars and other safeties to stop that? Is dropping modern revolvers still a safety issue?
yes, I realize that it's probably never good to drop a loaded gun but latest pistols I'm familiar with have things like firing pin blocking cylinders so that even if dropped from a height great enough that the mass of the firing pin can overcome the spring, it still can't fire.
A 24-year-old Phoenix man could be prosecuted for endangerment after police say he dropped his gun and fired a shot in the bathroom of a Mesa Walmart on Sunday, Mesa police said.
Andrew Seals entered a bathroom stall about 1 p.m., at a Walmart at McKellips and Greenfield roads, and began to sit down when his Ruger .357-caliber Western-style revolver fell out of its holster and fired a round, Mesa police Sgt. Ed Wessing said.
The bullet went through the stall door, hit a wall, ricocheted into a light on the ceiling, then back onto the floor toward a man standing at a urinal, Wessing said. The bullet struck the floor about 5 feet from the other man, he said.
Police did not arrest Seals, but they will ask prosecutors to charge him with one count of endangerment, Wessing said.