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PA boy, 7, killed at gun store #7159612 12/08/12
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 29,348 Ken Howell OP Campfire Ranger
OP Ken Howell Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 29,348	Quote Police: Boy, 7, shot to death at Pa. gun store 5 hr ago A 7-year-old boy was shot and killed at a Pennsylvania gun store when his father's weapon accidentally went off. MERCER, Pa. � Authorities say a 7-year-old boy was shot to death when a gun accidentally went off as his father was getting into his truck outside a western Pennsylvania gun store. The boy was shot Saturday morning at Twigs Reloading Den in East Lackawannock Township, 60 miles north of Pittsburgh. Store owner Leonard Mohney says it happened in the parking lot. The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that the boy was shot when his father's handgun went off as the man got into the truck while holding the gun. Police say 44-year-old Joseph V. Loughrey told them he had emptied the magazine but didn't realize a bullet was still in the chamber. Seven-year-old Craig Allen Loughrey was shot in the chest and died at the scene. State police are investigating the shooting as an accident. It happened in the parking lot. If it'd happened outside Safeway or Walmart, we'd've never heard about it on network news, of course. "Good enough" isn't. Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Ken Howell #7159633 12/08/12
Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger
OrangeOkie Campfire Ranger Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 23,319 Oklahoma	The cost of personal freedom and liberty. "All that the South has ever desired was that the Union, as established by our forefathers, should be preserved, and that the government, as originally organized, should be administered in purity and truth." – Robert E. Lee

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Ken Howell #7159634 12/08/12
Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming eh76 Campfire Kahuna
eh76 Campfire Kahuna Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 52,680 North of Liberalism in Wyoming	Tragic...I cannot imagine the pain that father is going through. Liberalism is a mental disorder that leads to social disease.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store OrangeOkie #7159654 12/08/12
Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,371 West Slope, CO S Steven_CO Campfire Tracker
Steven_CO Campfire Tracker S Joined: Jan 2007 Posts: 3,371 West Slope, CO	Originally Posted by OrangeOkie The cost of personal freedom and liberty. I don't understand that statement. I see it more as the tragic price of failure to practice safe gun handling practices. Steve

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store eh76 #7159657 12/08/12
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48,411 New Orleans Steve_NO Campfire 'Bwana
Steve_NO Campfire 'Bwana Joined: May 2003 Posts: 48,411 New Orleans	about as awful as it gets Proudly representing oil companies, defense contractors, and firearms manufacturers since 1980. Because merchants of death need lawyers, too.

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Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store OrangeOkie #7159678 12/08/12
Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count... derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana
derby_dude Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Nov 2006 Posts: 34,261 Montana, Lewis and Clark Count...	Originally Posted by OrangeOkie The cost of personal freedom and liberty. Please explain that statement. Not be argumentative just curious. Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous "Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups." Anonymous "Self-reliance, free thinking, and wealth is anathema to both the power of the State and the Church." Derby Dude

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Steve_NO #7159689 12/08/12
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 53,303 Southeastern AZ crossfireoops Campfire Kahuna
crossfireoops Campfire Kahuna Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 53,303 Southeastern AZ	Very, very sad,..... hard to know what to say,...... GTC Member, Clan of the Border Rats -- “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”- Mark Twain

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Ken Howell #7159700 12/08/12
Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 17,119 Likes: 2 George_De_Vries_3rd Campfire Ranger
George_De_Vries_3rd Campfire Ranger Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 17,119 Likes: 2	It is as tragic as it gets and I don't mean to sound insensitive but how can one carry or handle a firearm and not be aware that it's hot?

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store derby_dude #7159704 12/08/12
Joined: May 2002 Posts: 10,005 Likes: 1 J Jericho Campfire Outfitter
Jericho Campfire Outfitter J Joined: May 2002 Posts: 10,005 Likes: 1	A tragedy indeed, the father is probably going through hell.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store George_De_Vries_3rd #7159711 12/08/12
Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121 S Steelhead Campfire Oracle
Steelhead Campfire Oracle S Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 96,121	Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd It is as tragic as it gets and I don't mean to sound insensitive but how can one carry or handle a firearm and not be aware that it's hot? Because the father is an idiot, shame the boy had to die because of it. "Dear Lord, save me from Your followers"

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Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Steelhead #7159728 12/08/12
Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 4,831 Sierra Nevadas, Ca. pira114 Campfire Tracker
pira114 Campfire Tracker Joined: Jan 2011 Posts: 4,831 Sierra Nevadas, Ca.	The father's story is BS too. There's no way a gun goes off without pulling the trigger and it won't hit your son if you're not pointing it at him. I'm not saying it's a homicide, but he ain't tellin the whole truth. It didn't "just accidentally" go off. That just doesn't happen.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Jericho #7159741 12/08/12
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MontanaMarine Campfire Ranger M Joined: Sep 2001 Posts: 19,077 Canyon Ferry, Montana	"...Loughrey told them he had emptied the magazine but didn't realize a bullet was still in the chamber...." Brain-dead MF. Another senseless tragedy.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store OrangeOkie #7159749 12/08/12
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 32,044 Kpt.,TN , Montgomery, Co, VA bea175 Campfire 'Bwana
bea175 Campfire 'Bwana Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 32,044 Kpt.,TN , Montgomery, Co, VA	Originally Posted by OrangeOkie The cost of personal freedom and liberty. You are wrong , it is a case of not following basic gun safety , not keeping track of the muzzle and you finger off the trigger. The father learned the hard way A Doe walks out of the woods today and says, that is the last time I'm going to do that for Two Bucks.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Steelhead #7159777 12/08/12
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,216 Boise, ID tominboise Campfire Tracker
tominboise Campfire Tracker Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 4,216 Boise, ID	Originally Posted by Steelhead Originally Posted by George_De_Vries_3rd It is as tragic as it gets and I don't mean to sound insensitive but how can one carry or handle a firearm and not be aware that it's hot? Because the father is an idiot, shame the boy had to die because of it. This, over and over again.....should have his hands cut off.... Regards, Tom

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Steelhead #7159779 12/08/12
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paulfish4570 Campfire Member P Joined: Jul 2011 Posts: 133 alabama, on the warrior river	mercy ... paul foreman

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store paulfish4570 #7159886 12/08/12
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348srfun Campfire Regular 3 Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 808 South East Georgia	Muzzle control . Nothing else matters. The father is looking at a rough life, I'm thinking. Don't think I could ever get over it, or at ease with it.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store pira114 #7159922 12/08/12
Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 29,348 Ken Howell OP Campfire Ranger
OP Ken Howell Campfire Ranger Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 29,348	MLYA, one of my friends at Browning told me of this murder trial that Browning had just cost the prosecution. Woman had killed her husband with a Browning 9mm and was on trial for murder. Claimed that she'd just been threatening him, with no intent to shoot, and had dropped the magazine out and was relying on the magazine safety to render the gun unable to fire. Her lawyers' experts had found that the gun would fire if, before dropping the magazine out, the "shooter" first took-up the slack in the trigger pull. The defense attorney was cross-examining Browning's man, who'd just testified that the pistol was in proper working condition and could not be fired with the magazine out. The lawyer dropped the magazine out. "It can't be fired now?" "No, sir, it can't." click The judge dismissed the case, and the defense immediately filed a liability suit against Browning. Browning then put a team to work examining all the available pistols that had magazine safeties. The team found that with the slack taken out of the trigger pull, all known pistols thus had the magazine safety disabled. The very next month, a well known and highly respected Smith & Wesson big shot (whose name I can't think-of right now) assured me that S&W magazine safeties were 100% percent reliable. Boy! Was he mad when I showed 'im � thought that he oughta be alerted � that they weren't! Glared at me and was always gruff and grumpy whenever we met, for years afterward. That was about 35 years ago. I wonder whether any of today's magazine safeties are now completely safe. "Good enough" isn't. Always take your responsibilities seriously but never yourself.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store paulfish4570 #7159961 12/08/12
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,859 Alberta,Canada X xxclaro Campfire Tracker
xxclaro Campfire Tracker X Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 3,859 Alberta,Canada	Man,situations like this..don't even know what to think.On one hand,if it happened like the father said, then carelessness and stupidity just cost a 7 year old boy his life. No excuses for it. On the other hand,what must that feel like,to accidently cause the death of your child through a moment of careless stupidity? Is there any punishment you could give that would equal what a normal person would already feel at that time? Would there be any point? I don't know, but what a horrible situation.

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store xxclaro #7159987 12/08/12
Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 19,722 A wash in the west. 1 17ACKLEYBEE Campfire Ranger
17ACKLEYBEE Campfire Ranger 1 Joined: Nov 2007 Posts: 19,722 A wash in the west.	Very, very negligent. Last edited by 17ACKLEYBEE; 12/08/12. NRA Lifetime Member

Re: PA boy, 7, killed at gun store Steelhead #7159994 12/08/12
Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 21,810 CO D djs Campfire Ranger
djs Campfire Ranger D Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 21,810 CO	A tragedy, of course. But, it doesn't help our cause. Things like this lead to more legislation or restrictions.

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