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Old Stony · July 7, 2013, 05:13 AM

I had a lady parole officer wander into my store once and wanted me to check out her issue firearm and advise her about cleaning it better, as she had evidently been taking flak from someone in her dept.
She proceeded to pull a 3" model 64 S&W from her purse with her finger on the trigger and fired a silvertip into the floor. I reached over the counter and took the gun from her and escorted her to a bathroom where we washed the powder residue from her other hand that had been holding the purse, and bandaged her finger that had been creased by the bullet (luckily the finger was still there). This was early in the morning and there were luckily no other customers in the store.
She called her supervisors and they came in with cameras and everything to investigate the incident, and later called to thank me for handling the situation as tastefully as possible. They said she would be scheduled for further training.
No....I don't necessarily even trust all trained "professionals" to keep their wits about them as far as the finger on the trigger business.

July 7, 2013, 05:13 AM	#28
Old Stony Senior Member Join Date: May 31, 2013 Location: East Texas Posts: 1,705	I had a lady parole officer wander into my store once and wanted me to check out her issue firearm and advise her about cleaning it better, as she had evidently been taking flak from someone in her dept. She proceeded to pull a 3" model 64 S&W from her purse with her finger on the trigger and fired a silvertip into the floor. I reached over the counter and took the gun from her and escorted her to a bathroom where we washed the powder residue from her other hand that had been holding the purse, and bandaged her finger that had been creased by the bullet (luckily the finger was still there). This was early in the morning and there were luckily no other customers in the store. She called her supervisors and they came in with cameras and everything to investigate the incident, and later called to thank me for handling the situation as tastefully as possible. They said she would be scheduled for further training. No....I don't necessarily even trust all trained "professionals" to keep their wits about them as far as the finger on the trigger business.