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Lil Pun
09-25-2009, 01:35 PM
http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=185501

KSDK -- An Imperial man is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the head while teaching his girlfriend firearms safety.

Sheriff Glenn Boyer said that on Friday, deputies responded to 4307 Rock Valley Court in Imperial for a shooting. Investigators found 40-year-old James Looney with a gunshot wound to the head.

According to witnesses, Looney was demonstrating how to use the different safety mechanisms on several guns to his girlfriend. The witnesses said Looney would put the guns to his head, and before pulling the trigger, would ask her if she thought the gun would go off. With the first two guns, the safety mechanisms worked. The third gun fired.

Looney was transported to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead the next morning.

According to witnesses, Looney was going to take his girlfriend to the shooting range the next day, but insisted on the lesson on firearm safety the day before.

Deputies believe alcohol was involved.

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=11169536

IMPERIAL, Mo. (AP) - An eastern Missouri man is dead after accidentally shooting himself while teaching firearms safety to his girlfriend.

KSDK-TV reports that 40-year-old James Looney of Imperial died of a gunshot wound to the head.

The shooting happened Friday. Jefferson County Sheriff Glenn Boyer told the station that according to witnesses, Looney was demonstrating how to use the different safety mechanisms on several guns. Witnesses told authorities that Looney would put the guns to his head, ask his girlfriend if she thought the gun would go off, then pull the trigger.

The safety mechanisms worked for the first two guns. But the third gun fired. Looney died Saturday at a hospital.
deadlybulb
09-25-2009, 01:43 PM
reminds me of this:

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leroy
09-25-2009, 01:50 PM
His last name was Looney.
ima_drummer2k
09-25-2009, 01:52 PM
Deputies believe alcohol was involved.
Bandwagoner
09-25-2009, 01:54 PM
So what is more at fault for this death? Alcohol or firearms?

Answer? Ban Both! :D
moestavern19
09-25-2009, 01:57 PM
Thoughts and prayers go out to the gun's family for this terrible injustice.

FREE THE GUN.
professorjay
09-25-2009, 01:57 PM
So what is more at fault for this death? Alcohol or firearms?

Answer? Ban Both! :D

A shot of tequila is far less dangerous. ;)
CrazyDave
09-25-2009, 02:01 PM
That DEA movie of him shooting himself always amazes me. Idiot? to be sure, but it's incredible how he tries to continue the lesson after shooting himself.

As for Looney, that guy may be dead, but Looney is alive and well throughout the world.
DCkid
09-25-2009, 02:05 PM
That DEA movie of him shooting himself always amazes me. Idiot? to be sure, but it's incredible how he tries to continue the lesson after shooting himself.

As for Looney, that guy may be dead, but Looney is alive and well throughout the world.
The best part is when he continues to give the lesson with another gun and the parents yell at him to put it down.
RocketsPimp
09-25-2009, 02:05 PM
Multiple firearms and alcohol....

I must bring balance back to the force......

...caucasian?
ima_drummer2k
09-25-2009, 03:00 PM
"50 Cent and Too Short can't carry a gun like this, only I'm professional enough to carry...[BANG!!!]...."

LOL.

The best part is when he continues to give the lesson with another gun and the parents yell at him to put it down.
That one guy picks up his daughter and is like "ok, I'm gettin' the eff outta here..."
droxford
09-25-2009, 03:07 PM
DEA vid: Interesting how the recoil of the pistol threw out his back. Doesn't surprise me, though. I haven't shot a .40, but I've shot a .357 and I can't imagine it firing unexpectedly like that.
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moestavern19
09-25-2009, 03:23 PM
"50 Cent and Too Short can't carry a gun like this, only I'm professional enough to carry...[BANG!!!]...."

LOL.


That one guy picks up his daughter and is like "ok, I'm gettin' the eff outta here..."

50 Cent and Too Short?
DonkeyMagic
09-25-2009, 03:29 PM
An Imperial man

was it this guy?

http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/thumb/9/9c/ForcePike.jpeg/250px-ForcePike.jpeg
Rocket River
09-25-2009, 03:38 PM
So . . the safety Mechanizism didn't work?

Rocket River
. . . nothing like the smell of Lawsuit in the morning . . .
SwoLy-D
09-25-2009, 03:39 PM
:D LOL! ^^ Damn you, seņor MagiaDeBurro, you beat me to it. :p

I was thinking more like:

Imperial manhttp://magicalscreencaps.com/images/mulan/gall/mulan_007.JPG
FIXED. DAMN YOU, joto. :mad:
MoBalls
09-25-2009, 03:41 PM
:D LOL! ^^ Damn you, seņor MagiaDeBurro, you beat me to it. :p

I was thinking more like:

[img]http://magicalscreencaps.com/images/mulan/gall/mulan_007.JPG[/img

FAIL FAIL FAIL
DonkeyMagic
09-25-2009, 03:44 PM
:D LOL! ^^ Damn you, seņor MagiaDeBurro, you beat me to it. :p

I was thinking more like:

[img]http://magicalscreencaps.com/images/mulan/gall/mulan_007.JPG[/img


http://www.icanhasforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/star-wars-jango-fett-fail.jpg
DonkeyMagic
09-25-2009, 03:45 PM
http://www.icanhasforce.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/star-wars-jango-fett-fail.jpg

http://www.lovehkfilm.com/blog/roninonempty/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/no-darth_vader.jpg
MoonDogg
09-25-2009, 03:47 PM
http://i711.photobucket.com/albums/ww119/cerberus714/nfl_plaxico-giants-shot-nightclub_b.jpg