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left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 11:36 AM Nov 2021

Woman with toddler accidentally fires gun in Mass. Walmart while digging through purse

A Worcester, Massachusetts, woman is facing a firearm charge after police say she mistakenly fired a handgun as she dug through her purse at the Northborough Walmart Monday night. At roughly 8:40 p.m., Northborough police respond to the superstore on Otis Street for reports of a gun being accidentally fired.

A 31-year-old Worcester woman, who was with her toddler, told the officers she had fired her 9mm handgun while rummaging through her purse at the cash register, the Northborough Police Department said.

No one was injured in the shooting, officials said. The bullet was removed from the store floor.

The woman voluntarily surrendered the gun, ammunition, purse and her license to carry the weapon to police. She will be charged with discharging a firearm within 500 feet of an occupied building, police said.

https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2021/11/woman-with-toddler-accidentally-fires-gun-in-walmart-while-digging-through-purse-police-say.html

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Woman with toddler accidentally fires gun in Mass. Walmart while digging through purse (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 OP
Guns make us safer! PoindexterOglethorpe Nov 2021 #1
She's effing lucky she didn't shoot her kid. 3catwoman3 Nov 2021 #2
A warning to purse diggers everywhere. Sneederbunk Nov 2021 #3
Just how does one Deuxcents Nov 2021 #4
Too cheap to buy a holster is how. brush Nov 2021 #5
Rummaging around left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 #6
Figure she will get off........ Charged with discharge within 500 ft of an occupied building. 3Hotdogs Nov 2021 #7

Deuxcents

(19,722 posts)
4. Just how does one
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 11:44 AM
Nov 2021

Accidentally discharge a firearm in a purse? I hope she does not get her license n gun back.ever.

3Hotdogs

(13,402 posts)
7. Figure she will get off........ Charged with discharge within 500 ft of an occupied building.
Wed Nov 17, 2021, 12:10 PM
Nov 2021

She wasn't within 500 ft. She was IN the building.


















Yes, Agnes. Its sarcasm.

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