Irresponsible Gun Owner of The Day: Detective Bradley Walker

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Glancing at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette to see if Roethlisberger is still on the team, I find this: Off-duty Pittsburgh detective charged in road rage: State police said he was involved in a "minor sideswipe collision"...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unnamed Hooper, Utah Show Off [Not Shown]

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxB2KapXFZ4 Showing a new gun to people is an inherently risky business (which is why I don't do it). Do you REALLY know how to make the weapon safe and make 100 percent sure it's...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Paul Gross

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Drxb5_kPZ8 Paul Gross, star of the non-gunless movie Gunless, told the Edmonton Journal he'd swing his Colt 45 around on his finger---when he wasn’t pointing it at unsuspecting cast members whilst practicing his quick draw. “'Usually there’s a code...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Imperial Bay (CA) Somnambulist

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Happiness may be a warm gun, but snuggling up to one at night is a decidedly dicey proposition. Even if it's unloaded? I'll go with the old expression, if you don't understand it, it's not for...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Suzette Hinds-Mohammed

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I understand how a woman can get so fed-up with her man that she grabs a gun and shoots him. It's not right. It's not recommended. It's illegal. But "crimes of passion" are out...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Sheriff’s Deputy Richard Charles Heverly

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Regular readers of this website will both know that we don't hold the police to any higher gun safety standard than anyone else who owns a firearm. Not pointing your gun at people you...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Ricky Brunelle [Not Shown]

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In terms of gun safety, hunting is a dangerous business. IGOTD has cited numerous examples of hunters who accidentally discharged their firearm, forgetting to keep their gun unloaded and/or their barrel pointed in a...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: DeWayne Williams

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There are two views of what happened the night that DeWayne Williams shot and killed a man. According to Assistant Oakland County prosecutor Jason Pernick, Williams is a cold-blooded murder, "a man with...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Placer County Sheriff’s Deputy Ken Skogen

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Placer County Sheriff's Deputy Ken Skogen's three-year-old daughter is dead after accidentally shooting herself with her father's gun. Investigators declined to provide specifics, save the fact that the gun involved was not Skogen's...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of 2004

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This is going back a ways, but the Barnes story reminded me of a case from 2004. I somehow read or heard a report that an off-duty officer had shot someone in a road-rage...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Baltimore Policeman Jamar Lloyd Barnes

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A lot of people assume cops are gun people. Wrong. I once met a police officer who couldn't tell me what kind of bullet fed his firearm. No really. He tried to fob me...

Irresponsible Gun Owner of the Day: Unidentified Gun Sex Guy

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NP? The man, 25, told police at the scene that he rubbed the loaded handgun all over his girlfriend's body before getting intimate after he consumed a six-pack of beer at a party...